Note: The non-poem is abstracted from the book "The Whole Movement of Life is Learning" by J. Krishnamurti as preview. The book can be had from Krishnamurti Foundation Trust [1]
NON-POEM
True education-
Is freedom from conditioning
Says J. Krishnamutri -
The seer who walked alone
Parental, societal and job demands
Coupled with competitive learning environment
Have created difficult times for students
Caught between their own desire for freedom
To do what they want
And society’s demands for conformity
To its own necessities
Leading to a dreary, narrow and meaningless
Existence for students
The real issue of education
Is the quality of mind
That encounters the dispensed knowledge
For conditioning
So, education is needed to seen as
Unfolding the infinite potential
Infinite energy
Of mind
In tune with
Infinite nature of the cosmos
Education must not condition the mind
To accumulated disciplinary knowledge
Rather create a mind
That is everlastingly free
That understands the essence of learning
As a constant movement
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