=== JKrishnamurti.org - Daily Quote === Behind the screen of words It is important to see, is it not?, that no one can give us freedom from the conflict of relationship. We can hide behind the screen of words, or follow a teacher, or run to a church, or lose ourselves in a cinema or a book, or keep on attending talks; but it is only when the fundamental process of thinking is uncovered through awareness in relationship that it is possible to understand and be free of that friction which we instinctively seek to avoid. Most of us use relationship as a means of escape from ourselves, from our own loneliness, from our own inward uncertainty and poverty, and so we cling to the outer things of relationship, which become very important to us. But if, instead of escaping through relationship, we can look into relationship as a mirror and see very clearly, without any prejudice, exactly what is, then that very perception brings about a transformation of what is, without any effort to transform it. There is nothing to transform about a fact; it is wh at it is. But we approach the fact with hesitation, with fear, with a sense of prejudice, and so we are always acting upon the fact and therefore never perceiving the fact as it is. When we see the fact as it is, then that very fact is the truth which resolves the problem. The Collected Works, Vol. VI - 207 _______________________________________________ DailyQuote mailing list To subscribe: go to http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/rss/ To unsubscribe: go to http://www.kfa.org/dq-remove.php sekhar --- On Thu, 17/9/09, brendan downs <downs_brendan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: brendan downs <downs_brendan@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [Wittrs] Re: How Wittgenstein Ended Philosophy To: wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Thursday, 17 September, 2009, 9:28 PM Does language show we are irrational? we can and do talk about things other then words, i.e. the world. To do this we must use language in an ilogical way(across different categories) does this show that we are irrational or ilogical in someway? I will elaborate. linguistic entities can only directly refer to other linguisic entities because they belong to the same category of entities and indirectly to other entities i.e linguistic entities and not physical entities. now we signify what we are talking about by putting things in quotation marks e.g. when talking about the word cat I signify this by writing the word cat as "cat". without the quotation marks this indicates that we are talking about an actual physical cat. Now when we use words sometimes we are talking about things other then words as in above. but we seem to have it back to front. we indicate with quotation marks that we are talking about words, but we are still in the same category of entities. when talking about the world we are step into a different category but we don't indicate that we are making a cross category distinction. The use of quotation marks is back to front and that is why I question 2 things, whether we use language in an ilogical or irrational way and the convention of using quotation marks in the way we do. It seems if the trailer is pulling the truck. WEB VIEW: http://tinyurl.com/ku7ga4 TODAY: http://alturl.com/whcf 3 DAYS: http://alturl.com/d9vz 1 WEEK: http://alturl.com/yeza GOOGLE: http://groups.google.com/group/Wittrs YAHOO: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wittrs/ FREELIST: //www.freelists.org/archive/wittrs/09-2009 Yahoo! India has a new look. Take a sneak peek http://in.yahoo.com/trynew