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Meditation Is Not The Pursuit Of Pleasure And The Search For Happiness. Meditation, On The Contrary, Is A State Of Mind In Which There Is No Concept Or Formula, And Therefore Total Freedom. It Is Only To Such A Mind That This Bliss Comes Unsought And Uninvited. Once It Is There, Though You May Live In The World With All Its Noise, Pleasure And Brutality, They Will Not Touch That Mind.

-Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Meditation Is Not The

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Meditation Is Not The Pursuit Of Pleasure And The Search For Happiness. Meditation, On The Contrary, Is A State Of Mind In Which There Is No Concept Or Formula, And Therefore Total Freedom. It Is Only To Such A Mind That This Bliss Comes Unsought And Uninvited. Once It Is There, Though You May Live In The World With All Its Noise, Pleasure And Brutality, They Will Not Touch That Mind.

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Can The Mind Resolve A Psychological Problem Immediately?

Through Self-knowledge You Begin To Find Out What Is God, What Is Truth, What Is That State Which Is Timeless. In Self-knowledge Is The Whole Universe; It Embraces All The Struggles Of Humanity.

In The Space Which Thought Creates Around Itself There Is No Love. This Space Divides Man From Man.

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

Most Of Us Are Frightened Of Dying Because We Don't Know What It Meant To Live.we Don't Know How To Live,therefore We Don't Know How To Die

Why Is One A Slave To Thought ? Why Has Thought Become So Important In All Our Lives -thought Being Ideas, Being The Response To The Accumulated Memories In The Brain Cells? Perhaps Many Of You Have Not Even Asked Such A Question Before, Or If You Have You May Have Said, "it's Of Very Little Importance- What Is Important Is Emotion." But I Don't See How You Can Separate The Two. If Thought Does Not Give Continuity To Feeling, Feeling Dies Very Quickly. So Why In Our Daily Lives, In Our Grinding, Boring, Frightened Lives, Has Thought Taken On Such Inordinate Importance?

Thought Is So Cunning, So Clever, That It Distorts Everything For Its Own Convenience.

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I Maintain That Truth Is A Pathless Land, And You Cannot Approach It By Any Path Whatsoever, By Any Religion, By Any Sect.

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But The Healing Of The Mind Is Something Totally Different. That Healing Gradually Takes Place If You Are With Nature, With That Orange On The Tree, And The Blade Of Grass That Pushes Through The Cement, And The Hills Covered, Hidden, By The Clouds.

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Clever People, People Who Are Cunning, Do Not Know What Love Is Because Their Minds Are So Sharp, Because They Are So Clever, Because They Are So Superficial - Which Means To Be On The Surface, And Love Is Not A Thing That Exists On The Surface.

Can You Look At A Flower Without Thinking?

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.

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.

If The Mind Could Cease Measuring Itself Against The Hero, The Perfect, The Glorious And All That, It Would Be What It Is.

Tradition, Long Conditioned Thinking, Can Bring About A Fixation, A Concept That One Readily Accepts, Perhaps Not With A Great Deal Of Thought.

If People Who Say They Love Their Children Meant It, Would There Be War? And Would There Be Division Of Nationalities - Would There Be These Separations?

Nothing Can Disturb The Calm Peace Of My Soul.

Ugliness And Evil Are Necessary For Growth But They May Be Experienced Vicariously.

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.

If You Begin To Understand What You Are Without Trying To Change It, Then What You Are Undergoes A Transformation.

If You Would Listen, Sir, In The Sense Of Being Aware Of Your Conflicts And Contradictions Without Forcing Them Into Any Particular Pattern Of Thought, Perhaps They Might Altogether Cease.

To Understand Life Is To Understand Ourselves, And That Is Both The Beginning And The End Of Education.

What Meaning Has Such Meditation? There Is No Meaning; There Is No Utility. But In That Meditation There Is A Movement Of Great Ecstasy Which Is Not To Be Confounded With Pleasure. It Is This Ecstasy Which Gives To The Eye, To The Brain And To The Heart, The Quality Of Innocency. Without Seeing Life As Something Totally New, It Is A Routine, A Boredom, A Meaningless Affair. So Meditation Is Of The Greatest Importance. It Opens The Door To The Incalculable, To The Measureless.

And The Idea Of Ourselves Is Our Escape From The Fact What We Really Are.

Adhere To The Truth Rather Than To The Personality, And Take To Heart The Truth Rather Than The Authority Of Another.

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.

Acquiring Knowledge Is A Form Of Imitation.

Acquiring Knowledge

And The Fear Of Not Being Is Born In That Space. But In Meditation, When This Is Understood, The Mind Can Enter Into A Dimension Of Space Where Action Is Inaction. We Do Not Know What Love Is, For In The Space Made By Thought Around Itself As The Me, Love Is The Conflict Of The Me And The Not-me. This Conflict, This Torture, Is Not Love. Thought Is The Very Denial Of Love, And It Cannot Enter Into That Space Where The Me Is Not. In That Space Is The Benediction Which Man Seeks And Cannot Find. He Seeks It Within The Frontiers Of Thought, And Thought Destroys The Ecstasy Of This Benediction.

It Is Truth That Liberates, Not Your Effort To Be Free.

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

Freedom Is Entirely Different From Revolt. There Is No Such Thing As Doing Right Or Wrong When There Is Freedom. You Are Free And From That Centre You Act.

In Obedience There Is Always Fear, And Fear Darkens The Mind.

You Must Look Most Intimately And Discover For Yourself; Then It Is Your Own, Not Somebody Else’s, Not Something That You Have Been Told, Because There Is No Teacher And No Follower.

It Is A Great Art To Have An Abundance Of Knowledge And Experience - To Know The Richness Of Life, The Beauty Of Existence, The Struggles, The Miseries, The Laughter, The Tears - And Yet Keep Your Mind Very Simple; And You Can Have A Simple Mind Only When You Know How To Love.

Contentment Is Never The Outcome Of Fulfillment, Of Achievement, Or Of The Possession Of Things; It Is Not Born Of Action Or Inaction. It Comes With The Fullness Of What Is, Not In The Alteration Of It.

To Be Is To Be Related.

Each Breath Is Transforming Me Into Thine Image.

Learning In The True Sense Of The Word Is Possible Only In That State Of Attention, In Which There Is No Outer Or Inner Compulsion. Right Thinking Can Come About Only When The Mind Is Not Enslaved By Tradition And Memory.

The Craving To Become Causes Fears; To Be, To Achieve, And So To Depend Engenders Fear.

Not To Know Is The Beginning Of Wisdom.

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