What is intelligence .............?
To find out is not to come to a conclusion. .
The moment you come to a conclusion as to what intelligence is, you cease to be
intelligent. That is what most of the older people have done: they have come to
conclusions. Therefore they have ceased to be intelligent. An intelligent mind is always learning , inquiring ,never concluding.
What is intelligence? Most people are satisfied with a definition of what
intelligence is. Either they say, "That is a good explanation", or they prefer their
own explanation; and a mind that is satisfied with an explanation is very
superficial, therefore it is not intelligent.
One can see that an intelligent mind is a mind which is not satisfied
with explanations, with conclusions; nor is it a mind that believes, because belief
is another form of conclusion. An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind, a
mind that is watching, learning, studying. Which means that there is
intelligence only when there is no fear, when one is willing to rebel, to go
against the whole social structure in order to find out what God is, or to discover
the truth of anything.
Intelligence is not knowledge. If you could read all the books in the world it
would not give you intelligence. Intelligence is something very subtle; it comes into being when you understand the total process of the mind - not the mind according to some philosopher or teacher, but your own mind.
Your mind is the result of all humanity, and when you understand it you
don't have to study a single book, because the mind contains the whole
knowledge of the past. So intelligence comes into being with the understanding of
yourself; and you can understand yourself only in relation to the world of people,
things and ideas. Intelligence is not something that you can acquire, like learning;
it arises with great revolt, that is, when there is no fear - which means, really,
when there is a sense of love. For when there is no fear, there is love.
To ask what is intelligence is like asking what is life.
Life is study, play, sex, work, quarrel, envy, ambition, love, beauty, truth - life is
everything, right ? But most of us have not the patience earnestly and
consistently to pursue this inquiry.
JK
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What's your conclusion .....?
To find out is not to come to a conclusion. .
The moment you come to a conclusion as to what intelligence is, you cease to be
intelligent. That is what most of the older people have done: they have come to
conclusions. Therefore they have ceased to be intelligent. An intelligent mind is always learning , inquiring ,never concluding.
What is intelligence? Most people are satisfied with a definition of what
intelligence is. Either they say, "That is a good explanation", or they prefer their
own explanation; and a mind that is satisfied with an explanation is very
superficial, therefore it is not intelligent.
One can see that an intelligent mind is a mind which is not satisfied
with explanations, with conclusions; nor is it a mind that believes, because belief
is another form of conclusion. An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind, a
mind that is watching, learning, studying. Which means that there is
intelligence only when there is no fear, when one is willing to rebel, to go
against the whole social structure in order to find out what God is, or to discover
the truth of anything.
Intelligence is not knowledge. If you could read all the books in the world it
would not give you intelligence. Intelligence is something very subtle; it comes into being when you understand the total process of the mind - not the mind according to some philosopher or teacher, but your own mind.
Your mind is the result of all humanity, and when you understand it you
don't have to study a single book, because the mind contains the whole
knowledge of the past. So intelligence comes into being with the understanding of
yourself; and you can understand yourself only in relation to the world of people,
things and ideas. Intelligence is not something that you can acquire, like learning;
it arises with great revolt, that is, when there is no fear - which means, really,
when there is a sense of love. For when there is no fear, there is love.
To ask what is intelligence is like asking what is life.
Life is study, play, sex, work, quarrel, envy, ambition, love, beauty, truth - life is
everything, right ? But most of us have not the patience earnestly and
consistently to pursue this inquiry.
JK
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What's your conclusion .....?