Í guðana bænum ekki fara að fara eftir einhverjum Arestelískum dyggðum, dyggðirnar eru allt of einfaldar, markhyggjan er aðlatriðið fyrir okkur í dag! Hófsemi og ekki ófsemi?! huh..
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Bara svona að láta inn hugleiðingu eftir indverska heimspekinginn Jiddu Krishnamurti(1895-1986) sem ég les stundum. En Ég myndi segja í stuttu máli að kjarninn í hans heimspeki sé: Fuck the system, think for yourself. Þó að hann hefði ekki kannski orðað það þannig sjálfur. Ekkert vera að lesa þetta ef þið nennið því ekki. So here goes:
I wonder if we have ever asked ourselves what education means. Why do we go to school, why do we learn various subjects, why do we pass examinations and compete with each other for better grades? What does this socalled education mean, and what is it all about? This is really a very important question. Why do we go through the struggle to being educated? Is it merely in order to pass some examinations and get a job? Or is it the function of education to prepare us to understand the whole process of life? Having a job and earning one´s livelihood is necessary - but is that all? are we being educated only for that? Surely life is not merely a job, an occupation; life is something extraordinarily wide and profound, it is a great mystery, a vast realm in which we function as human beings. If we merely prepare ourselves to earn a livelihood, we shall miss the whole point of life; and to understand life is much more important than merely to prepare for examinations and become very proficiant in mathematics, physics, or what you will.
Is it not important to ask ourselves why we are educating or being educated? And what does life mean? Is not life an extraordinary thing? The birds, the flowers, the flourishing trees, the heavens, the stars, the rivers and the fish therein- all this is life. Life is the poor and the rich; life is a constant battle between groups, races and nations; life is meditation; life is what we call religion, and it is also the subtle hidden things of the mind- the envies, the ambitions, the passions, the fears, fulfilments and anxieties. All this and much more is life. But we generally prepare ourselves to understand only one small corner of it. We pass certain examinations, find a job, get married, have children and then become more and more like machines. We remain fearful, anxious, frightened of life. So is it the function of education to help us understand the whole process of life, or is it merely to prepare us for a vocation, for the best job we can get?
What is going to happen to all of us when we grow to be men and women? Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are you will be mothers and fathers; and you will be tied to a job, or to the kitchen or whatever, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all your life is going to be? Have you ever asked yourselves this question? Should you not ask it? If your family is wealthy you may have a fairly good position already assured, your father may give you a comfortable job, or you may get richly married: but there also you will decay, deteriorate. Do you see?
Surely, education has no meaning unless it helps you to understand the vast expanse of life with all its subtleties, with its extraordinary beauty, its sorrows and joys. You may earn degrees, you may have a series of things after your name and land a very good job; but then what? What is the point of it all if in the process your mind becomes dull, weary, stupid? So, while you are young must you not seek to find out what life is all about? And is it not the true function of education to cultivate in you the intelligence which will try to find the answers to all these problems? Do you know what intelligence is? It is the capacity, surely, to think freely, without fear, without a formula, so that you begin to discover for yourself what is real, what is true; but if you are frightened you will never be intelligent.
You know it is really very important to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living; afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death. Most of us have fear in one form or another; and where there is fear there is no intelligence. And is it not possible for all of us, to be in an environment where there is no fear but rather an atmosphere of freedom- freedom not just to do what we like, but to understand the whole process of living?
Life is really very beautiful, it is not this ugly thing that we have made of it; and you can appreciate its richness, its depth, its extraordinary loveliness only when you revolt against everything- against organized religion, against tradition, against the present rotten society- so that you as a human being find out for yourself what is true. Not to imitate but to discover- that is education, is it not? It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and easy way of existing; but that is not living, because in it there is fear, decay, death. To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuos revolution inwardly, within yourself.
But you are not encouraged to do this; no one tells you to question, to find out for yourself what truth is, what life is, what God is; because if you were to rebel you would become a danger to all that is false. Your parents and society want you to live safely. Living safely generally means living in imitation and therefore in fear. Surely, the function of education is to help each one of us to live freely and without fear, is it not? And to create an atmosphere in which there is no fear requires a great deal of thinking on your part.
Do you know what this means- what an extraordinary thing it would be to create an atmosphere in which there is no fear? And we must create it, because we see that the world is caught up in endless wars; it is guided by politicians who are always seeking power; it is a world of lawyers, policemen and soldiers, of ambitious men and women all wanting position and all fighting each other to get it. Then there are the so-called saints, the religious gurus with their followers; they also want power, position. It is a mad world, completely confused, in which the communist is fighting the capitalist, the socialist is resisting both, and everybody is against somebody, struggling to arrive at a safe place, a position of power or comfort. the world is torn by conflicting beliefs, by caste and class distinctions, be separative nationalities, by every form of stupidity and cruelty- and this is the world you are being educated to fit into. You are encouraged to fit in the framework of this disastrous society; your parents want you to do that, and you also want to fit in,
Now is the function of education merely to help you conform to the pattern of this rotten social order, or is it to give you freedom- complete freedom to grow and create a different society, a new world? We want to have this freedom not in the future, but now, otherwise we may all be destroyed. We must create immedietly an atmosphere of freedom so that you can live and find out for yourselves what is true, so that you become intelligent, so that you are able to face the world and understand it, not just conform tio it, so that inwardly, deeply, psychologically you are in constant revolt; because it is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth and you cannot inquire, observe, learn, you cannot be deeply aware, if you are afraid. so the function of education, surely, is to eradicate, inwardly as well as outwardly, this fear that destroys human thought, human relationship and love.
Húrra fyrir þeim sem nenntu að lesa þetta(sem enginn nennir sennilega að gera eheheh)
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