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Knowledge About Yourself Binds, Weighs, Ties You Down; There Is No Freedom To Move, And You Act And Move Within The Limits Of Thatknowledge. Learning About Yourself Is Never The Same As Accumulating Knowledge About Yourself. Learning Is Active Present And Knowledge Is The Past; If You Are Learning To Accumulate, It Ceases To Be Learning; Knowledge Is Static, More Can Be Added To It Or Taken Away From It, But Learning Is Active, Nothing Can Be Added Or Taken Away From It For There Is No Accumulation At Any Time.

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Knowledge About Yourself Binds,

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Knowledge About Yourself Binds, Weighs, Ties You Down; There Is No Freedom To Move, And You Act And Move Within The Limits Of Thatknowledge. Learning About Yourself Is Never The Same As Accumulating Knowledge About Yourself. Learning Is Active Present And Knowledge Is The Past; If You Are Learning To Accumulate, It Ceases To Be Learning; Knowledge Is Static, More Can Be Added To It Or Taken Away From It, But Learning Is Active, Nothing Can Be Added Or Taken Away From It For There Is No Accumulation At Any Time.

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Understanding Knowledge

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Meditation Practice

If We Want To Change Existing Conditions, We Must First Transform Ourselves, Which Means That We Must Become Aware Of Our Own Actions, Thoughts And Feelings In Everyday Life.

The Only Thing That Really Matters Is That There Be An Action Of Goodness, Love And Intelligence In Living. Is Goodness Individual Or Collective, Is Love Personal Or Impersonal, Is Intelligence Yours, Mine Or Somebody Else? If It Is Yours Or Mine Then It Is Not Intelligence, Or Love, Or Goodness. If Goodness Is An Affair Of The Individual Or Of The Collective, According To One's Particular Preference Or Decision, Then It Is No Longer Goodness.

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

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.

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.

Nothing Can Disturb The Calm Peace Of My Soul.

When You Are Free, You Have No Choice.

The Individual Problem Is The World Problem. Therefore Let Us Return To The Problem Of Individual Perfection And The Establishing Of Peace In The Heart And In The Mind Of The Individual.

Only When The Mind Is Completely Alone Can It Know What Is Beauty, And Not In Any Other State.

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

Meditation Is The Emptying Of The Mind Of All The Things That The Mind Has Put Together. If You Do That -perhaps You Won't, But It Doesn't Matter, Just Listen To This- You Will Find That There Is An Extraordinary Space In The Mind, And That Space Is Freedom. So You Must Demand Freedom At The Very Beginning, And Not Just Wait, Hoping To Have It At The End. You Must Seek Out The Significance Of Freedom In Your Work, In Your Relationships, In Everything That You Do. Then You Will Find That Meditation Is Creation.

To Be Free Of All Authority, Of Your Own And That Of Another, Is To Die To Everything Of Yesterday, So That Your Mind Is Always Fresh, Always Young, Innocent, Full Of Vigour And Passion. It Is Only In That State That One Learns And Observes. And For This, A Great Deal Of Awareness Is Required, Actual Awareness Of What Is Going On Inside Yourself, Without Correcting It Or Telling It What It Should Or Should Not Be, Because The Moment You Correct It You Have Established Another Authority, A Censor.

When We Talk About Understanding, Surely It Takes Place Only When The Mind Listens Completely - The Mind Being Your Heart, Your Nerves, Your Ears- When You Give Your Whole Attention To It.

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.

Mere Isolation In An Enclosing Idea Is Not A Release From Conflict.

Discipline Does Not Mean Suppression And Control, Nor Is It Adjustment To A Pattern Or Ideology. It Means A Mind That Sees 'what Is' And Learns From 'what Was'.

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

We Shall Quench Our Thirst, For We Shall Drink Deep At The Bubbling Fountain Of Wisdom.

Where There Is Love, Do What You Will, It Will Be Right Action. It Will Never Bring Conflict To One's Life. In The Flame Of Love, All Fear Is Consumed.

The Fundamental Factor Of Self-deception Is This Constant Desire To Be Something In This World And In The World Hereafter.

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?

There Is No End To Education. It Is Not That You Read A Book, Pass An Examination, And Finish With Education. The Whole Of Life, From The Moment You Are Born To The Moment You Die, Is A Process Of Learning.

To Know Yourself You Need Not Go To Any Book, To Any Priest, To Any Psychologist. The Whole Treasure Is Within Yourself.

You May Be Ignorant Of All The Books In The World, And I Hope You Are, Of All The Latest Theories, But That Is Not Ignorance.

There's A Great And Unutterable Beauty In All This.

Does Choice Exist When I See Something Very Clearly?

Analysis Does Not Transform Consciousness.

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