There is only ‘what is’, and because we are not able to solve it, we invent ‘what should be’, and there is duality that way. —Krishnamurti
Context: Start with not knowing the assumptions of others, which are second-hand; wipe them all out. Is there duality? There is woman-man, light-darkness, tall-short, but apart from the factual duality, is there any other duality? I want to find out if there is psychological duality. There is obvious duality outwardly: a tall or short tree, different colours, different materials, and so on. There is only ‘what is’, and because we are not able to solve it, we invent the ‘what should be’, and there is duality that way. From the idea, the fact, the ‘what is’, there is an abstraction: the ideal, the ‘what should be’, the Aristotelian idea of perfection, and so on. But there is only ‘what is’.
Krishnamurti, Tradition and Revolution
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