Observation

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Where there is effort there must be distortion. 

So can one live a life, a daily life, without a single effort? 

Find out what it means. 

It is possible to live without a single effort. 

That comes only when you understand contradictions in yourself. Observe the contradiction in oneself, not try to change it, not try to alter the contradiction, just to observe. 

The very observation is its own ending of the contradiction. 

You understand? 

When there is a total observation in which is total attention then any contradiction in yourself comes to an end. 

You can test it out actually everyday for yourself. 

So one can live a life in which there is no conflict. 

Then only the real, deeper meditation begins, and then you have that energy of silence, in which there is no illusion, and that is, as we said at the beginning, the first step is the last step, which is freedom.⁠⁠

J. Krishnamurti⁠

Public Talk 4 Brockwood Park, England - 05 September 1976⁠