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A Dialogue Is Very Important. It Is A Form Of Communication In Which Question And Answer Continue Till A Question Is Left Without An Answer. Thus The Question Is Suspended Between The Two Persons Involved In This Answer And Question. It Is Like A Bud With Untouched Blossoms . . . If The Question Is Left Totally Untouched By Thought, It Then Has Its Own Answer Because The Questioner And Answerer, As Persons, Have Disappeared. This Is A Form Of Dialogue In Which Investigation Reaches A Certain Point Of Intensity And Depth, Which Then Has A Quality That Thought Can Never Reach.

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A Dialogue Is Very Important. It Is A Form Of Communication In Which Question And Answer Continue Till A Question Is Left Without An Answer. Thus The Question Is Suspended Between The Two Persons Involved In This Answer And Question. It Is Like A Bud With Untouched Blossoms . . . If The Question Is Left Totally Untouched By Thought, It Then Has Its Own Answer Because The Questioner And Answerer, As Persons, Have Disappeared. This Is A Form Of Dialogue In Which Investigation Reaches A Certain Point Of Intensity And Depth, Which Then Has A Quality That Thought Can Never Reach.

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There Is Hope In People, Not In Society, Not In Systems, But In You And Me.

As The Beauty Of The Picture Depends Not On The Painter But On The Picture Itself, What I Say Must Depend On Its Own Intrinsic Value And Not On The Authority Of My Attainment, Nor On The Authority Of Others.

Intrinsic Value

All Outward Forms Of Change Brought About By Wars, Revolutions, Reformations, Laws And Ideologies Have Failed Completely To Change The Basic Nature Of Man And Therefore Of Society.

If People Are Foolish, They Are Bound To Mix The Personality And The Truth, And To Build A Temple Around The Personality And Form A Religion.

Nothing Can Disturb The Calm Peace Of My Soul.

You Must Understand The Whole Of Life, Not Just One Little Part Of It.

The Ability To Observe Without Evaluating Is The Highest Form Of Intelligence.

We Demand To Be Coaxed And Comforted, To Be Encouraged And Gratified, So We Choose A Teacher Who Will Give Us What We Crave For. We Do Not Search Out Reality, But Go After Gratification And Sensation.

A Lily Or A Rose Never Pretends, And Its Beauty Is That It Is What It Is.

It Is What It Is

Belief Creates Its Own Experience; Therefore, Such An Experience Is Not True.

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To Live Humanly, Sanely, One Has To Change.

All Ideologies Are Idiotic, Whether Religious Or Political, For It Is Conceptual Thinking, The Conceptual Word, Which Has So Unfortunately Divided Man.

The End Is The Beginning Of All Things, Suppressed And Hidden, Awaiting To Be Released Through The Rhythm Of Pain And Pleasure.

Knowledge Is An Addiction, As Drink; Knowledge Does Not Bring Understanding. Knowledge Can Be Taught, But Not Wisdom; There Must Be Freedom From Knowledge For The Coming Of Wisdom.

Understanding Knowledge

Fear Is Not Of The Unknown, But Of Loss Of The Known.

The Moment I Am Aware That I Am Aware, I Am Not Aware. Awareness Means The Observer Is Not.

There Are Laws In Some Countries, I Believe, Which Prohibit Anyone From Following You In The Street, And If Someone Does, He Can Be Arrested And Put Into Prison. So, Spiritually, I Wish There Were A Police System Which Would Put People Into A Spiritual Prison For Following Others. In Fact, It Does Happen Automatically.

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The Beauty Of Meditation Is That You Never Know Where You Are, Where You Are Going, What The End Is.

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The Primary Cause Of Disorder In Ourselves Is The Seeking Of Reality Promised By Another.

Does Choice Exist When I See Something Very Clearly?

The Description Is Not The Described.

...choice In Every Form Is Conflict. Contradiction Is Inevitable In Choice; This Contradiction, Inner And Outer Breeds Confusion And Misery.

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There Can Only Be A Relationship Between Human Beings When We Accept What Is, Not What Should Be.

I Think One Has To Understand, Not As A Theory, Not As A Speculative, Entertaining Concept, But Rather As An Actual Fact - That We Are The World And The World Is Us. The World Is Each One Of Us; To Feel That, To Be Really Committed To It And To Nothing Else, Brings About A Feeling Of Great Responsibility And An Action That Must Not Be Fragmentary, But Whole.

When You Identify Yourself With A Group Of People Or A Set Of Ideas, Aren't You Separating Yourself?

Meditation Is The Most Extraordinary Thing If You Know How To Do It, And You Cannot Possibly Learn From Anybody; And That's The Beauty Of It. It Isn't Something You Learn, A Technique, And Therefore There Is No Authority. Therefore If You Will Learn About Yourself, Watch Yourself, Watch The Way You Walk, The Way You Talk, How You Eat, What You Say, The Gossip, The Hate, The Jealousy. If You Are Aware Of It Without Any Choice, All That Is Part Of Meditation, And As You Go, As You Journey, As That Movement Goes, All That Movement Is Meditation. Then That Movement Is Endless, Timeless.

Freedom Lies Beyond The Field Of Consciousness.

I Was Supremely Happy, For I Had Seen. Nothing Could Ever Be The Same. I Have Drunk At The Clear And Pure Waters And My Thirst Was Appeased. ...i Have Seen The Light. I Have Touched Compassion Which Heals All Sorrow And Suffering; It Is Not For Myself, But For The World. ...love In All Its Glory Has Intoxicated My Heart; My Heart Can Never Be Closed. I Have Drunk At The Fountain Of Joy And Eternal Beauty. I Am God-intoxicated.

The Moment You Follow Someone You Cease To Follow Truth.

We Should Awaken Feelings Of Respect For Each Other. In Other Words, Awaken The Desire To Kill Selfishness.

Beyond All Explanations Which A Good Brain Can Give, Why Do We Choose The Worse And Not The Better, Why Hate Rather Than Love, Why Greed And Not Generosity, Why Self-centred Activity And Not Open Total Action? Why Be Mean When There Are Soaring Mountains And Flashing Streams? Why Jealousy And Not Love? Why?

The Ending Of Sorrow Is The Beginning Of Wisdom. Knowledge Is Always Within The Shadow Of Ignorance. Meditation Is Freedom From Thought And A Movement In The Ecstasy Of Truth. Meditation Is Explosion Of Intelligence.

I Am All For Changing, Even If Mistakes Are Made In The Process. Mistakes Do Not Matter.

If We Could, And We Must, Establish A Deep Long Abiding Relationship With Nature, With The Actual Trees, The Bushes, The Flowers, The Grass And The Fast Moving Clouds, Then We Would Never Slaughter Another Human Being For Any Reason Whatsoever.

I Am Concerning Myself With Only One Essential Thing: To Set Man Free. I Desire To Free Him From All Cages, From All Fears, And Not To Found Religions, New Sects, Nor To Establish New Theories And New Philosophies.

Find Out What It Means To Die - Not Physically, That's Inevitable - But To Die To Everything That Is Known, To Die To Your Family, To Your Attachments, To All The Things That You Have Accumulated, The Known, The Known Pleasures, The Known Fears. Die To That Every Minute And You Will See What It Means To Die So That The Mind Is Made Fresh, Young, And Therefore Innocent, So That There Is Incarnation Not In A Next Life, But The Next Day.

Why Haven't We, With All Our Cunning, Experience, Resolved This Problem Of Fear Completely? Isn't Fear The Cause Of The 'me'?

To Know Oneself Is To Study Oneself In Action, Which Is Relationship.

The World Is Me And I Am The World.

National Discord Is, Like Religion, A Standardized Form Of Revolt; And The Moment A Revolt Is Standardized, It Is No Longer A Revolt.

Are You Trying To Grasp The Quality Of Intelligence, Compassion, The Immense Sense Of Beauty, The Perfume Of Love And That Truth Which Has No Path To It?

Isn't The Origin Of Conflict Ego? If There Is No Ego There Is No Becoming.

Live With It. You Live With Pleasure, Don't You? Why Don't You Live With Suffering Completely? Can You Live With It In The Sense Of Not Escaping From It? What Takes Place? Watch. The Mind Is Very Clear, Sharp. It Is Faced With The Fact. The Very Suffering Transformed Into Passion Is Enormous. From That Arises A Mind That Can Never Be Hurt. Full Stop. That Is The Secret.

You May Repeat The Most Marvelous Poems. And That Is Not Worth A Cent If You Don't Live It.

There You Have The Two Extremes: The Man That Is Concerned Mainly With The Hidden Life, And The Man Who Seriously Concerns Himself With The Expression Of That Life. What I Want To Do Is To Bring About Harmony Between The Two Extremes, For Therein Lies The Truth. The Harmony Of Life Is The Understanding Of Truth.

Begin Where You Are. Read Every Word, Every Phrase, Every Paragraph Of The Mind, As It Operates Through Thought.

A Man Who Is Really Earnest Must Begin With Himself, He Must Be Passively Aware Of All His Thoughts, Feelings And Actions.

Whether We Call Ourselves Communists Or Capitalists, Hindus Or Buddhists, Moslems Or Christians, Whether We Are Blind, Lame, Well Or Happy, This Earth Is Ours...not Somebody Else's...it Is Not Only The Rich Man's Earth, But Our Earth...yours And Mine.

Love Is Not Of The Mind, It Is Not In The Net Of Thought, It Cannot Be Sought Out, Cultivated, Cherished; It Is There When The Mind Is Silent And The Heart Is Empty Of The Things Of The Mind.

Follow The Wandering, The Distraction, Find Out Why The Mind Has Wandered; Pursue It, Go Into It Fully. When The Distraction Is Completely Understood, Then That Particular Distraction Is Gone. When Another Comes, Pursue It Also.

When You Are Free, You Have No Choice.

It Is Only In Alert Silence That Truth Can Be.

It Is Astonishingly Beautiful And Interesting, How Thought Is Absent When You Have An Insight. Thought Cannot Have An Insight.

Imagination Builds The Image Of The Self, And Thought Then Functions Within Its Shadows. From This Self-concept Grows The Conflict Between What Is And What Should Be, The Conflict In Duality.

Life Is A Joyous Thing Essentially, But When You Bind Life By All These Rigid Moralities And Traditions, And Dogmas And Creeds, Then There Is Misery.

Compassion Being Action Without Motive, Without Self-interest, Without Any Sense Of Fear, Without Any Sense Of Pleasure.

The Earth Doesn't Belong To Anyone. It Is The Land Upon Which All Of Us Are To Live For Many Years, Ploughing, Reaping And Destroying. You Are Always A Guest On This Earth And Have The Austerity Of A Guest. Austerity Is Far Deeper Than Owning Only A Few Things. The Very Word Austerity Has Been Spoilt By The Monks, By The Sannyasis, By The Hermits. Sitting On That High Hill Alone In The Solitude Of Many Things, Many Rocks And Little Animals And Ants, That Word Has No Meaning.

Meditation Is The Action Of Silence.

You Can Only Hear Clearly When You Sit Quietly, When You Give Your Attention. Nor Can You Have Order If You Are Not Free To Watch, If You Are Not Free To Listen, If You Are Not Free To Be Considerate. This Problem Of Freedom And Order Is One Of The Most Difficult And Urgent Problems In Life. It Is A Very Complex Problem. It Needs To Be Thought Over Much More Than Mathematics, Geography, Or History.

The Significance Of Life Is Living.

Significance Of Life

Can You Look At A Flower Without Thinking?

It Is No Measure Of Health To Be Well Adjusted To A Profoundly Sick Society. We Have Lost It, Or We Have Never Had It; And, Because We Do Not Know How To Judge Anything, We Have Been Led Here And Pushed There, Beaten Up, Driven, Politically, Religiously And Socially. We Don't Know, But It Is Difficult To Say We Don't Know.

The Word 'innocence' Means A Mind That Is Incapable Of Being Hurt.

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The Becoming Still Can Never Be The Being Still; Only With The Death Of Becoming Is There Being.

Meditation Is Not The Pursuit Of An Invisible Path Leading To Some Imaginal Bliss. The Meditative Mind Is Seeing, Watching, Listening, Without The Word, Without Comment, Without Opinion, Attentive To The Movement Of Life In All Its Relationships Throughout The Day.

Tradition Becomes Our Security, And When The Mind Is Secure It Is In Decay.

Love May Be The Ultimate Solution To All Man's Difficulties, Problems And Travails.

Student: Sir, You Said You Must Change The World. How Can You Change It, Sir? Krishnamurti: What Is The World? The World Is Where You Live - Your Family, Your Friends, Your Neighbours. And Your Family, Your Friends, Your Neighbours Can Be Extended And That Is The World. Now, You Are The Centre Of That World. That Is The World You Live In. Now How Will You Change The World? By Changing Yourself?

One Must Know Oneself As One Is, Not As One Wishes To Be, Which Is Merely An Ideal And Therefore Fictitious, Unreal; It Is Only That Which Is That Can Be Transformed, Not That Which You Wish To Be.

Do You Know That Even When You Look At A Tree And Say, `that Is An Oak Tree', Or `that Is A Banyan Tree', The Naming Of The Tree, Which Is Botanical Knowledge, Has So Conditioned Your Mind That The Word Comes Between You And Actually Seeing The Tree? To Come In Contact With The Tree You Have To Put Your Hand On It And The Word Will Not Help You To Touch It.

Insight Is Not A Matter Of Memory, Of Knowledge And Time, Which Are All Thought.

A Dialogue Is Very Important. It Is A Form Of Communication In Which Question And Answer Continue Till A Question Is Left Without An Answer. Thus The Question Is Suspended Between The Two Persons Involved In This Answer And Question. It Is Like A Bud With Untouched Blossoms . . . If The Question Is Left Totally Untouched By Thought, It Then Has Its Own Answer Because The Questioner And Answerer, As Persons, Have Disappeared. This Is A Form Of Dialogue In Which Investigation Reaches A Certain Point Of Intensity And Depth, Which Then Has A Quality That Thought Can Never Reach.

But If One Observes, One Will See That The Body Has Its Own Intelligence; It Requires A Great Deal Of Intelligence To Observe The Intelligence Of The Body.

Freedom Lies Outside The Pattern Of Society; But To Be Free Of That Pattern You Have To Understand The Whole Content Of It, Which Is To Understand Your Own Mind.

If You Find Out What It Is You Love To Do And Give Your Whole Life To It, Then There Is No Contradiction, And In That State Your Being Is Your Doing.

To Learn About Oneself, A Living Thing, You Have To Watch, Learn Anew Each Minute.

Perception Without The Word, Which Is Without Thought, Is One Of The Strangest Phenomena. Then The Perception Is Much More Acute, Not Only With The Brain, But Also With All The Senses. Such Perception Is Not The Fragmentary Perception Of The Intellect Nor The Affair Of The Emotions. It Can Be Called A Total Perception, And It Is Part Of Meditation.

It Is Very Difficult To Be Like The Other Guy, To Be Ordinary. Mediocrity Takes A Great Deal Of Energy. But To Be Ourselves Is Very Easy. You Don't Have To Do A Thing.

The Real Student Is Studying, Learning, Inquiring, Exploring, Not Just Until He Is Twenty Or Twenty-five, But Throughout Life.

A Mind That Is Always Comparing, Always Measuring, Will Always Engender Illusion. If I Am Measuring Myself Against You, Who Are Clever, More Intelligent, I Am Struggling To Be Like You And I Am Denying Myself As I Am. I Am Creating An Illusion.

Passion Is A Rather Frightening Thing Because If You Have Passion You Don't Know Where It Will Take You.

Observe, And In That Observation There Is Neither The "observer" Nor The "observed" - There Is Only Observation Taking Place.

That Is, Sir, There Can Only Be Communication, Communion, When You And I Are On The Same Level, And With The Same Intensity, At The Same Time.

The Ambitious Man Has Never Found His True Vocation.

If You Lose Touch With Nature You Lose Touch With Humanity. If There's No Relationship With Nature Then You Become A Killer; Then You Kill Baby Seals, Whales, Dolphins, And Man Either For Gain, For "sport," For Food, Or For Knowledge. Then Nature Is Frightened Of You, Withdrawing Its Beauty. You May Take Long Walks In The Woods Or Camp In Lovely Places But You Are A Killer And So Lose Their Friendship. You Probably Are Not Related To Anything To Your Wife Or Your Husband.

If We Can Really Understand The Problem, The Answer Will Come Out Of It, Because The Answer Is Not Separate From The Problem.

You Must Understand The Whole Of Life, Not Just One Little Part Of It. That Is Why You Must Read, That Is Why You Must Look At The Skies, That Is Why You Must Sing And Dance, And Write Poems And Suffer And Understand, For All That Is Life.

You May Wish That Some Parts Of (your Face) Were Different, But The Actual Fact Is Shown In The Mirror. Now, Can You Look At Your Conditioning In A Similar Way?

There Is An Efficiency Inspired By Love Which Goes Far Beyond And Is Much Greater Than The Efficiency Of Ambition; And Without Love, Which Brings An Integrated Understanding Of Life, Efficiency Breeds Ruthlessness.

If You Seem Something That Is True And Do Not Act Then You Are Wasting Your Life. And Life Is Too Precious. It Is All That We Have.

In The Space Which Thought Creates Around Itself There Is No Love. This Space Divides Man From Man, And In It Is All The Becoming, The Battle Of Life, The Agony And Fear. Meditation Is The Ending Of This Space, The Ending Of The Me.

Freedom From The Desire For An Answer Is Essential To The Understanding Of A Problem.

It Is Intelligence That Brings Order, Not Discipline.

Truth Does Not Belong To An Individual.

Without Knowing Myself, I Have No Real Basis For Thinking.

As We Are Concerned With What Others Think Of Us, So We Are Anxious To Know All About Them; And From This Arise The Crude And Subtle Forms Of Snobbishness And The Worship Of Authority. Thus We Become More And More Externalized And Inwardly Empty. The More Externalized We Are, The More Sensations And Distractions There Must Be, And This Gives Rise To A Mind That Is Never Quiet, That Is Not Capable Of Deep Search And Discovery.

A Cup Is Useful Only When It Is Empty; And A Mind That Is Filled With Beliefs, With Dogmas, With Assertions, With Quotations Is Really An Uncreative Mind.

Religion Becomes A Matter Of Belief, And Belief Acts As A Limitation On The Mind; And The Mind Then Is Never Free.

To Be Religious Is To Be Sensitive To Reality.

Control Exists Only When There Is Action Of Will, Positively Or Negatively. Will Is Resistance. When The Mind Is Learning, There Is No Resistance.

The Reality Of Truth Is Not To Be Bought, To Be Sold, To Be Repeated; It Cannot Be Caught In Books. It Has To Be Found From Moment To Moment, In The Smile, In The Tear, Under The Dead Leaf, In The Vagrant Thought, In The Fullness Of Love.

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