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Attachment is Escape

 Jiddu Krishnamurti

Book of Life, pg. 71

Just try to be aware of your conditioning -

Conflict arises when there is no Integration between Challenge and Response

Conflict is result of our conditioning -

Conditioning is attachment : 

To work, To tradition ,To People , To Ideas; 

if there is no attachment : 

Would there be conditioning? Of Course not! 

So why are we attached? 

Because through identification with it. I become Somebody! 

The object of attachment offers me the means of escape from my own emptiness! 

Attachment is escape, and it is escape that strengthens conditioning! 

My Note:

in this post, JK discusses the conflict by drilling down to its Root-cause! 

Conflict? Why => Conditioning

Conditioning? Why => Attachment

Attachment? Why => Escape from Emptiness! 

So you can see Where JK is going with this ? 

the root-cause : the feeling of emptiness; 

the inability of man to sit idle! 

Like Ramana Maharishi says : 

“Summa Iru” (Tamil) is a phrase attributed to Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi that means "be still and quiet" or "just be"It is considered to be his highest verbal teaching, and is often used to describe a state of being where one is free from mental or bodily activity.

JK deconstructs the problem and dissolves it! 

there is no problem solving : only  Problem dissolving !