We live with images. We have images about ourselves and others and these images are related. So can we meet life or others as it is or they are without interference of images. Images is a veil between human beings. Here in this slides we have tried to see the fallacy of images formation in the perspective of J Krishnamurti teachings.

1. IMAGE
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6. Lets Explore
What is IMAGE in the light
of J. Krishnamurti’s teaching?
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7. Whatcomes to our mind when we are
asked what is Image?
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8. Whywe form Image?
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9. Howthe Images are formed?
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10. Can I look at life without the image?
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11. “Is it possible to observe without the thinker? I look at
everything with an image, with a symbol, with memory, with
knowledge. I look at my friend, at my wife, at my neighbour, at
the boss, with the image which thought has built. I look at my
wife with the image I have about her, and she looks at me with
the image she has about me: the relationship is between these
two images. This is a fact, it's not an invention on my part; it's a
fact! Thought has built these symbols, images, ideas. Can I look,
at first, at a tree, at a flower, at the sky, at the cloud, without an
image? The image of the tree is the word I have learnt which
gives a certain name to the tree, tells its species, and recalls its
beauty. Can I look at that tree, at that cloud, at that flower,
without thought, without the image?
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12. That's fairly easy to do, if you have done it. But can I look
without the image, at a human being with whom I am
intimate, whom I consider as wife, husband, child? If I can't,
there is no real relationship: the only relationship is
between the images that we both have. So can I look at life
-the clouds, the stars, the trees, the river, the bird on the
wing, my wife, my child, my neighbour, this whole earth-
can I look at it all without the image? Though you have
insulted me, though you have hurt me, though you have
said nasty things about me or praised me, can I look at you
without the image or the memory of what you have done
and said to me?”
J. Krishnamurti
The Collected Works, Vol. XVI",169,Choiceless Awareness
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. . . DoImages relate us to others or
separates us from others?

14. “Why do we have images about ourselves? Those images
separate people. If you have an image of yourself as Swiss or
British or French and so on, that image not only distorts your
observation of humanity, but it also separates you from others.
And wherever there is separation, division, there must be
conflict—as there is conflict going on all over the world, the Arab
against the Israeli, the Muslim against the Hindu, one Christian
church against another. National division and economic division
all result from images, concepts, ideas, and the brain clings to
these images. Why?”
J. Krishnamurti
The Network of Thought, pp 40-41
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. . .When I say
‘I know you’ what does that mean?

16. “When I say I know you, I mean I knew you
yesterday. I do not know you actually now. All I
know is my image of you. That image is put
together by what you have said in praise of me or
to insult me, what you have done to me- it is put
together by all the memories I have of you- and
your image of me is put together in the same
way, and it is those images which have
relationship and which prevent us from really
communing with each other.”
J. Krishnamurti
Freedom from the Known,92
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. . .What is that is hurt when some
one humiliates me?

18. “What is it that is hurt? One says that it is I who am hurt. What is that
“I”? From childhood one has built up an image of oneself. One has
many, many images, not only the images that people give one, but also
the images that one has built oneself: as an American— that is an
image—or as a Hindu, or as a specialist. So the “I” is the image that one
has built about oneself, as a great or a very good man, and it is that
image that gets hurt. One may have an image of oneself as a great
speaker, writer, spiritual being, leader. These images are the core of
oneself; when one says one is hurt, one means the images are hurt. If
one has an image about oneself and another comes along and says,
“Don’t be an idiot”, one gets hurt. The image which has been built
about oneself as not being an idiot is “me”, and that gets hurt. One
carries that image and that hurt for the rest of one’s life.”
J. Krishnamurti
The Flame of Attention, p 88
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Is it possible not be hurt?

20. “Is it possible not to record that hurt at the moment when I am called an idiot?
Is it possible not to record at all, not only the hurt but flattery? Is it possible
not to record either? The brain has been trained to record, for in that record
there is safety, security, a sense of vitality; in that recording the mind creates
the image about oneself. And that image will constantly get hurt. Is it possible
to live without a single image about yourself, or about your husband, wife,
children, firm, or about the politicians, the priests, or about the ideal—not a
single shadow of an image? It is possible, and if it is not found you will always
be getting hurt, always living in a pattern in which there is no freedom. When
you give complete attention there is no recording. It is only when there is
inattention that you record. That is: you flatter me; I like it; the liking at that
moment is inattention, therefore recording takes place. But if when you flatter
me I listen to it completely without any reaction, then there is no centre which
records.”
J. Krishnamurti
Questions and Answers, pp 54-55
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How to end an image?

22. To end an image we must first find out how it comes
into being; and we see that if we do not respond
adequately to any challenge it must leave an image. If you
call me a fool, immediately you become my enemy, or I do
not like you. When you call me a fool I have to be intensely
aware at that moment, without any choice, without any
condemnation, just listening to what you are saying. If
there is no emotional response to your statement, then you
will see that no image is being formed.
So one has to be aware of the reaction and not give it
time to take root; because the moment that reaction takes
root it has formed an image. Now, can you do it?
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