I believe that our group is seeking deep understanding before turning our focus towards actions. A longtime source of wisdom for me has been the Indian spiritual philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti, and I was drawn to look into what he said over the years on the theme of “partial action”. The following was compiled by doing a search on Google for “krishnamurti on partial action”.
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Jiddu Krishnamurti believed that partial action is caused by a lack of self-knowledge and can lead to conflict and misery. He believed that complete action requires understanding oneself and others, and that action is a relationship with the world.
Explanation
Partial action Krishnamurti believed that most people live in a series of disjointed actions that lead to frustration. He believed that this is due to a lack of self-knowledge.
Self-knowledge
Krishnamurti believed that without self-knowledge, it is not possible to think or act rightly. He believed that understanding oneself is action, not a withdrawal from action.
Relationship
Krishnamurti believed that action is a relationship with people, ideas, things, nature, and property. He believed that without understanding this relationship, life is contradictory, painful, and full of conflict.
Intelligence
Krishnamurti believed that seeing the falseness of analysis, the nature of fear, and the nature of pleasure is the action of intelligence. He believed that intelligence is the beginning of a longer road.
Krishnamurti emphasized topics such as choiceless awareness, psychological inquiry, and freedom from religious, spiritual, and cultural conditioning.
Selections from Krishnamurti Publications
The three-volume collection Commentaries on Living are transcripts of conversations Krishnamurti had over the years with a wide variety of people. Chapter 68 of the first series is ‘Action without Purpose‘
Videos
An action not born of will
Extract from the third talk in Saanen, 1976
What is action?
Extract from the second talk in Washington DC, 1985