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Have You Ever Sat Very Quietly With Closed Eyes And Watched The Movement Of Your Own Thinking? Have You Watched Your Mind Working?or Rather, Has Your Mind Watched Itself In Operation, Just To See What Your Thoughts Are, What Your Feelings Are, How You Look At The Trees, At The Flowers, At The Birds, At People, How You Respond To A Suggestion Or React To A New Idea? Have You Ever Done This?

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Have You Ever Sat

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Have You Ever Sat Very Quietly With Closed Eyes And Watched The Movement Of Your Own Thinking? Have You Watched Your Mind Working?or Rather, Has Your Mind Watched Itself In Operation, Just To See What Your Thoughts Are, What Your Feelings Are, How You Look At The Trees, At The Flowers, At The Birds, At People, How You Respond To A Suggestion Or React To A New Idea? Have You Ever Done This?

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In Awareness There Is No Becoming, There Is No End To Be Gained. There Is Silent Observation Without Choice And Condemnation, From Which There Comes Understanding.

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When I Said That I Am The Buddha, The Christ, The Lord Maitreya, And More, It Was Not A Question Of Superiority Or Inferiority. I Added That Phrase 'and More' Very Carefully, Because I Knew That People Had A Very Limited Understanding Of The Buddha And The Christ, And Hence If I Said: 'i Am The Christ, The Buddha', They Would Limit That Reality To Their Own Conceptions Of The Buddha Or The Christ, And Life Has No Limit.

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.

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

Analysis Does Not Transform Consciousness.

When The Mind Sees Itself In The Mirror Of Relationship, From That Perception There Is Self-knowledge.

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.

Seeing, Observing, Listening, These Are The Greatest Acts

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

A Mind That Is Disciplined, Controlled, Is Free Within Its Own Pattern; But That Is Not Freedom. The End Of Discipline Is Conformity; Its Path Leads To The Known, And The Known Is Never The Free.

Space And Time Are Real For The Man Who Is Yet Imperfect, And Space Is Divided For Him Into Dimensions; Time, Into Past, Present, And Future.

It Is Important To Understand, Not Intellectually But Actually In Your Daily Life, How You Have Built Images About Your Wife, Your Husband, Your Neighbor, Your Child, Your Country, Your Leaders, Your Politicians, Your Gods-you Have Nothing But Images. The Images Create The Space Between You And What You Observe And In That Space There Is Conflict, So What We Are Going To Find Out Now Together Is Whether It Is Possible To Be Free Of The Space We Create, Not Only Outside Ourselves But In Ourselves, The Space Which Divides People In All Their Relationships.

The Significance Of Life Is Living.

Significance Of Life

As Long As The Mind Is In Conflict-blaming, Resisting, Condemning-there Can Be No Understanding. If I Want To Understand You, I Must Not Condemn You, Obviously.

I Can Only Insist That Understanding, Not Blind Belief, Should Be The Goal.

Is The Ground A Philosophical Concept? Has Mind A Relationship To The Ground? Is It An Idea To Be Investigated? Is The Ground Put Together By Thought?

The Mind Has To Be Empty To See Clearly.

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.

Most People Like To Live In Illusions.

It's No Measure Of Health To Be Well Adjusted To A Profoundly Sick Society.

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Conflict Is Not In The Feeling Of Being In Love. The Feeling Of Being In Love Is Utterly Without Conflict. There Is No Loss Of Energy In Being In Love.

Teaching Is Not The Mere Imparting Of Information But The Cultivation Of An Inquiring Mind Which Will Penetrate Into The Question Of What Is Religion And Not Merely Accept The Established Religions, Churches, And Rituals.

To Come Upon Love Without Seeking It Is The Only Way To Find It.

Take A Journey Into The Things Which You Are Carrying, The Known- Not Into The Unknown-into What You Already Know: Your Pleasures, Your Delights, Your Despairs, Your Sorrows. Take A Journey Into That, That Is All You Have.

Without Discontentment, Without Revolt, You Can Never Attain Harmony. It Is A Necessary Stage, Which Must Be Gone Through By Everyone.

It Is Much Easier To Condemn A Child Than To Understand A Child.

Learning Implies A Mind That Doesn't Know.

No Book Can Teach You About Yourself, No Psychologist, None Of The Professors Or Philosophers. What They Can Teach You Is What They Think You Are Or What They Think You Should Be.

Without Freedom, There Is No Creation.

If You Set Out To Meditate, It Will Not Be Meditation. If You Set Out To Be Good, Goodness Will Never Flower.

While One Is Young Is The Time To Investigate, To Experiment With Everything. The School Should Help Its Young People To Discover Their Vocations And Responsibilities, And Not Merely Cram Their Minds With Facts And Technical Knowledge; It Should Be The Soil In Which They Can Grow Without Fear, Happily And Integrally.

The Moment You Have In Your Heart This Extraordinary Thing Called Love And Feel The Depth, The Delight, The Ecstasy Of It, You Will Discover That For You The World Is Transformed.

Without Love There Is No Art. When The Artist Is Playing Beautifully There Is No 'me; There Is Love And Beauty, And This Is Art. This Is Skill In Action.

It Is Only The Dull, Sleepy Mind That Creates And Clings To Habit. A Mind That Is Attentive From Moment To Moment - Attentive To What It Is Saying, Attentive To The Movement Of Its Hands, Of Its Thoughts, Of Its Feelings - Will Discover That The Formation Of Further Habits Has Come To An End.

Am I Caught In A Self-centred, Narrow Little Cell Which Refuses To Look Beyond? Do I See It When You Come Along And Tell Me That My Brain Is The Brain Of All Mankind?

This Is No Magnificent Deed, Because I Do Not Want Followers, And I Mean This. The Moment You Follow Someone You Cease To Follow Truth. I Am Not Concerned Whether You Pay Attention To What I Say Or Not. I Want To Do A Certain Thing In The World And I Am Going To Do It With Unwavering Concentration. 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.

Enlightenment Is An Accident, But Some Activities Make You Accident-prone.

The Description Is Not The Described.

Surely Love Has Nothing To Do With The Mind, It Is Not The Product Of The Mind; Love Is Entirely Independent Of Calculation, Of Thought.

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

Meditation Practice

Be A Light Unto Oneself

Ugliness Is A Lack Of Harmony, Assuredly. And Evil Is The Same Thing Of Course.

If I Do Not Know Reality, The Unknown, How Can I Search For It? Surely It Must Come But I Cannot Go After It. If I Go After It I Am Going After Something Which Is The Known, Projected By Me; By My Own Mind.

If We Try To Listen We Find It Extraordinarily Difficult, Because We Are Always Projecting Our Opinions And Ideas, Our Prejudices, Our Background, Our Inclinations, Our Impulses; When They Dominate, We Hardly Listen At All To What Is Being Said...one Listens And Therefore Learns, Only In A State Of Silence, In Which This Whole Background Is In Abeyance, Is Quite; Then, It Seems To Me, It Is Possible To Communicate

Life In The Savage Appears Different From The Life That Dwells In You, Different In Its Expression, But It Is All One Life. Anyone Who Has Not Fulfilled That Life Must Step Down The Truth, And When He Does That, He Is Unconsciously Betraying The Truth.

So Through Identification You Have Pleasure And Pain.

Thought Nourishes, Sustains And Gives Continuity To Fear And Pleasure.

When The Mind Goes Beyond The Thought Of 'the Me,' The Experiencer, The Observer, The Thinker, Then There Is A Possibility Of A Happiness That Is Incorruptible.

Inspirational Life

Surely, It Is Only When The Mind Is Creatively Empty That It Is Capable Of Finding Out Whether There Is An Ultimate Reality Or Not. But, The Mind Is Never Creatively Empty; It Is Always Acquiring, Always Gathering, Living On The Past Or In The Future, Or Trying To Be Focused In The Immediate Present: It Is Never In That State Of Creativeness In Which A New Thing Can Take Place. As The Mind Is A Result Of Time, It Cannot Possibly Understand That Which Is Timeless, Eternal.

Why Do You Want To Read Others' Books When There Is The Book Of Yourself?

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