{"id":4126,"date":"2011-02-21T20:35:20","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T20:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2011\/02\/21\/our-problem-is-not-how-to-make-the-mind-tranquil\/"},"modified":"2011-02-21T20:35:20","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T20:35:20","slug":"our-problem-is-not-how-to-make-the-mind-tranquil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/02\/21\/our-problem-is-not-how-to-make-the-mind-tranquil\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Our problem is not how to make the mind tranquil, still, peaceful, but, to understand, to be free from those problems which agitate the mind. The mind obviously creates the problems. If there is a problem, how do we approach it, with what attitude? How do we experience it? It is that which it is important to understand, and not, how to escape from the problem into tranquility.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><strong>Jiddu Krishnamurti<\/strong> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/illuminatedbeing.tumblr.com\/\">illuminatedbeing<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our problem is not how to make the mind tranquil, still, peaceful, but, to understand, to be free from those problems which agitate the mind. The mind obviously creates the problems. If there is a problem, how do we approach it, with what attitude? How do we experience it? 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