Systems, philosophical or political, are all about the denial of being. Systems are the rules to which a ‘becoming’ person must conform in order to achieve the wisdom that the system promises. It is the achievement of the adherent’s future, an ideal that he can attain by mastering the system’s directives.
‘Being,’ on the other hand, cannot be systemized; it has no form or structure. In order to experience being, man must face time stripped of things from the past, including the recipes and algorithms that make up a system of thought.
Systems, like all things that enclose, are barriers to which things are confined – boxes within which we must confine our thinking. Philosophical systems that we create in our minds are barriers for our minds, confining that great organ of adaptation that needs openness to exercise its full potential. Systems are replaced in time by new systems because all systems are barriers that put the mind in conflict with its experience. See p. 168, Being and the End of History.
“We think that we will be able to live happily, creatively, if we learn a method, a technique, a style, but creative happiness comes only when there is inward richness, it can never be attained through any system.”
J. Krishnamurti
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