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Question: Do you not think that the desire to free oneself from conditioning might be a consequence of conditioning?

Question: Do you not think that the desire to free oneself from conditioning might be a consequence of conditioning?

From Public Talk 8 in Saanen, 23 July 1963

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Question: Do you not think that the desire to free oneself from conditioning might be a consequence of conditioning? Krishnamurti: Of course. Desire to free oneself from conditioning only furthers conditioning. But if one understands the whole process of desire – not destroy desire but to understand desire – in the understanding of desire, the freedom from conditioning comes. If I set about deliberately to free myself from my conditioning, that desire creates its own conditioning. I may destroy this conditioning, but I am caught in another conditioning. But if there is an understanding of desire then that very understanding destroys conditioning. Unconditioning is a by-product; it is not important. But it is important to understand what creates conditioning.

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