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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.

-Jiddu Krishnamurti

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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.

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How Do You Listen? Do You Listen With Your Projections, Through Your Projection, Through Your Ambitions, Desire, Fears, Anxieties, Through Hearing Only What You Want To Hear, Only What Will Be Satisfactory, What Will Gratify, What Will Give Comfort, What Will For The Moment Alleviate Your Suffering? If You Listen Through The Screen Of Your Desires, Then You Obviously Listen To Your Own Voice.

The Man Who Lives Without Conflict, Who Lives With Beauty And Love, Is Not Frightened Of Death Because To Love Is To Die.

If You Have No Love, Do What You Will - Go After All The Gods On Earth, Do All The Social Activities, Try To Reform The Poor, The Politics, Write Books, Write Poems - You Are A Dead Human Being. Without Love Your Problems Will Increase, Multiply Endlessly.

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.

One Does Not Concern Oneself With The Expressions, But Rather With Life. You Are Looking At Life Through The Wrong End Of The Telescope When You Look At The Expressions Of Life.

The Moment You Venture Out, Something Takes Place In You And About You. Life Comes To Your Aid In Various Ways. You May Not Like The Form In Which It Comes To You - It May Be Misery, Struggle, Starvation - But When You Invite Life, Things Begin To Happen.

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.

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.

There Is Only That Inevitable Danger As Long As There Is Lack Of Understanding; But The Moment The Individual Understands, There Will Be No Formation Of Religion.

Do You Know Your Particular Fears? And What Do You Usually Do With Them? You Run Away From Them, Don't You, Or Invent Ideas And Images To Cover Them? But To Run Away From Fear Is Only To Increase It.

Intelligence Is Not Discernment And Judgment Or Critical Evaluation.

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

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

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.

In Nothingness, There Is Everything, Energy. The Ending Is A Beginning.

Identification Prevents And Perverts The Flow Of Thought-feeling.

Without Freedom From The Past, There Is No Freedom To All.

Meditation Is Not A Means To An End. It Is Both The Means And The End.

After All, Without Understanding Yourself, What Basis Have You For Right Thinking?

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.

Is Not Virtue A Negation Of Becoming?

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

It Is What It Is

Understanding Does Not Come Through Analysis;understanding Comes Only When The Mind Is Very Quite,unburdened,no Longer Seeking Success And Therefore Being Thwarted,afraid Of Faluire.

How Very Important It Is To Bring About In The Human Mind The Radical Revolution. The Crisis Is A Crisis In Consciousness, A Crisis That Cannot Anymore Accept The Old Norms, The Old Patterns, The Ancient Traditions. Considering What The World Is Now With All The Misery, Conflict, Destructive Brutality, Aggression And So On... Man Is Still As He Was, Is Still Brutal, Violent, Aggressive, Acquisitive, Competitive And Has Built A Society Along These Lines.

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.

Fear Is What Prevents The Flowering Of The Mind.

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.

To Be Absolutely Nothing Is To Be Beyond Measure.

Absolutely Nothing

The Very Attention Given To Finding Out If The Mind Can Be Completely Quiet Is Quietness.

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

War Is The Spectacular And Bloody Projection Of Our Everyday Living. We Precipitate War Out Of Our Daily Lives; And Without A Transformation In Ourselves, There Are Bound To Be National And Racial Antagonisms, The Childish Quarreling Over Ideologies, The Multiplication Of Soldiers, The Saluting Of Flags, And All The Many Brutalities That Go To Create Organized Murder.

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

Does Life Continue Beyond The Door? The Fulfilment Of Life Is Not Annihilation - On The Contrary - I Am Much More Ambitious, Much More Desirous, Much More Eager Than You Are. It Is Life. Therefore It Cannot Be Annihilation, For You Cannot Annihilate Life!

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