Krishnamurti was asked the following question: "Our mind knows only the known.  What is it in us that drives us to find the unknown, reality, God?

Here is how i answered the same question:

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Great question.  I don't know, but i will answer it like i did the question from yesterday.  After all, all i think Krishnamurti did was replace yesterday's "old" with today's "known" and yesterday's "new" with today's "unknown".

When i first saw the questions at hand, it made me think of a question that i asked myself when writing my first novel, called The Sower's Seeds.  In that novel i asked the question: "Why do we study mathematics?".  Here is how i responded:

"Why do we study math?  I like to think about it this way.  Why do we study language?  Why do we study music, religion, and other such things?  Are we genetically wired or is it simply an engrained nature for us to seek understanding and to improve the communication with each other?  I don't know, but i bet it is a little of both."

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But the real question is this: who cares or what does it matter?

Whether it is engrained, or you are searching for the Truth all on your own initiative, it doesn't really matter, does it?  Krishnamurti essentially is saying the same thing.  Regardless of the searching mechanism, the requirement is to "slow, then essentially empty your mind".

Now, here is about all i can tell you about "emptying your mind" if it helps.

One, you cannot empty your mind by thinking about emptying your mind.  An empty mind comes to you instead of you coming to it.  I do believe it helps to take steps towards cosmos consciousness, such as meditating, fasting, relaxing, quiet, peacefulness, etc., but cosmos consciousness must come to you--you cannot just want it.

It will come, however, if you simply put the effort in.  It came to me during what you might call an "unintended vision quest" on my part.  One day i found myself so upset with world events, i said that i was essentially going to "drop out for a while".  I planned a ten-day fast, where i ate minimally, and blanked out essentially the rest of the world by turning off all outside sources of information (e.g., television, internet, radio, etc. etc. etc).

I must admit that i enjoyed the entire ten-day period in which i did this, but it wasn't until the eighth day of that so-called retreat from "the universe of all things" that i cosmos consciousness officially came to my palace.  I was not thinking about anything especially; however, i had been reading the Bhagavad Gita when it hit me.  And that is all that i can tell you about my own experience.

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Just the same, if searching for the unknown is an engrained feature within our soul, then why isn't the "el trumpo" searching for the unknown, instead of wanting to go back to the old again?  Could it be that "el trumpo's" self-consciousness is so strong, that cosmos consciousness cannot make a breakthrough in his "empty head"?  Or maybe not everyone has a soul, but that would throw the "entire scheme of my religion" out the window.  

It's fringe items like this that give me pause and consideration.