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Only The Mind That Has Emptied Itself Of The Known Is Creative. That Is Creation. What It Creates Has Nothing To Do With It. Freedom From The Known Is The State Of A Mind That Is In Creation.

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Only The Mind That

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Only The Mind That Has Emptied Itself Of The Known Is Creative. That Is Creation. What It Creates Has Nothing To Do With It. Freedom From The Known Is The State Of A Mind That Is In Creation.

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Our Relationship

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The Authority Of A Belief Imposed By Religion Surely Destroys The Discovery Of Reality.one Relies On Authority Because One Is Afraid To Stand Alone.

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

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

That Is The First Thing To Learn - Not To Seek. When You Seek You Are Really Only Window-shopping. The Question Of Whether Or Not There Is A God Or Truth Or Reality, Or Whatever You Like To Call It, Can Never Be Answered By Books, By Priests, Philosophers Or Saviours. Nobody And Nothing Can Answer The Question But You Yourself And That Is Why You Must Know Yourself. Immaturity Lies Only In Total Ignorance Of Self. To Understand Yourself Is The Beginning Of Wisdom.

Most Of Us Waste Our Energy Through Chattering - Endlessly Chattering, Gossiping, Criticising, Backbiting.

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We Want The Children To Conform; We Want To Control Their Minds, To Shape Their Conduct, Their Way Of Living, So That They Will Fit Into The Pattern Of Society, That Is What Every Parent Wants, Is It Not? And That Is Exactly What Is Happening, Whether It Be In America Or In Europe, In Russia Or In India. The Pattern May Vary Slightly, But They All Want The Child To Conform.

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

How Can One Be Compassionate If You Belong To Any Religion, Follow Any Guru, Believe In Something, Believe In Your Scriptures, And So On, Attached To A Conclusion? When You Accept Your Guru, You Have Come To A Conclusion, Or When You Strongly Believe In God Or In A Saviour, This Or That, Can There Be Compassion? You May Do Social Work, Help The Poor Out Of Pity, Out Of Sympathy, Out Of Charity, But Is All That Love And Compassion?

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

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

The Intellect Is Not The Means Of Creation, And Creation Does Not Take Place Through The Functioning Of The Intellect; On The Contrary, There Is Creation When The Intellect Is Silent.

Intelligence Comes Into Being When The Mind, The Heart And The Body Are Really Harmonious.

There Is No Ideal In Observation. When You Have An Ideal, You Cease To Observe, You Are Then Merely Approximating The Present To The Idea, And Therefore There Is Duality, Conflict, And All The Rest Of It. The Mind Has To Be In The State When It Can See, Observe. The Experience Of The Observation Is Really An Astonishing State. In That There Is No Duality. The Mind Is Simply - Aware.

You May Be Reborn A Thousand Times, But You Can Never Know The Real, For Only That Which Dies, That Which Comes To An End, Can Renew Itself.

Psychological Knowledge Has Made Us Dull.

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You Are Christians; Find Out What Is True And False In Christianity - And You Will Then Find Out What Is True. Find Out What Is True And False In Your Environment With All Its Oppressions And Cruelties, And Then You Will Find Out What Is True. Why Do You Want Philosophies?

Religion, It Seems To Me, Has Nothing Whatsoever To Do With Any Belief, With Any Priest, With Any Church Or So-called Sacred Book. The State Of The Religious Mind Can Be Understood Only When We Begin To Understand What Beauty Is; And The Understanding Of Beauty Must Be Approached Through Total Aloneness.

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.

The Unknown Is Not Measurable By The Known. Time Cannot Measure The Timeless, The Eternal, That Immensity Which Has No Beginning And No End... When We Try To Measure Something Which Is Not Measurable, We Only Get Caught In Words.

Training The Intellect Does Not Result In Intelligence. Intelligence Comes Into Being When One Acts In Perfect Harmony, Both Intellectually And Emotionally.

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Truth Is More In The Process Than In The Result.

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Energy Functioning In A Pattern Becomes Matter. That Is All Life Is... Matter And Energy Are Interrelated.

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.

As Long As The Mind Is Seeking To Fill Itself, It Will Always Be Empty. When The Mind Is No Longer Concerned With Filling Its Own Emptiness, Then Only Does That Emptiness Cease To Be.

Now, Is It Possible Not To Be Hurt At All? Because The Consequences Of Being Hurt Are The Building Of A Wall Around Oneself, Withdrawing In One's Relationship With Others In Order Not To Be Hurt More. In That There Is Fear And A Gradual Isolation. Now, We Are Asking: Is It Possible Not Only To Be Free Of Past Hurts But Also Never To Be Hurt Again?

When You Call Yourself An Indian Or A Muslim Or A Christian Or A European, Or Anything Else, You Are Being Violent. Do You See Why It Is Violent? Because You Are Separating Yourself From The Rest Of Mankind. When You Separate Yourself By Belief, By Nationality, By Tradition, It Breeds Violence. So A Man Who Is Seeking To Understand Violence Does Not Belong To Any Country, To Any Religion, To Any Political Party Or Partial System; He Is Concerned With The Total Understanding Of Mankind.

The Man-made Laws Have Been Made By Men Who Have Not Perceived The Final Goal Towards Which They Are Making. And That Is Why It Is So Important To Insist Upon The Final Thing First, And Then All The Regulations, All The Disciplines, Will Follow.

Human Beings, Each One, Right Through The World, Go Through Great Agonies, The More Sensitive, The More Alert, The More Observant, The Greater The Suffering, The Anxiety, The Extraordinary Sense Of Insoluble Problems.

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.

Without Freedom, There Is No Creation.

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

In Our Relationship With Children And Young People, We Are Not Dealing With Mechanical Devices That Can Be Quickly Repaired, But With Living Beings Who Are Impressionable, Volatile, Sensitive, Afraid, Affectionate; And To Deal With Them We Have To Have Great Understanding, The Strength Of Patience And Love.

Does A Human Being Know The Responsibility He Has To Himself And To All Of Mankind

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

In Oneself Lies The Whole World And If You Know How To Look And Learn, The Door Is There And The Key Is In Your Hand. Nobody On Earth Can Give You Either The Key Or The Door To Open, Except Yourself.

If You Die To Everything You Know,including Your Family,yourmemory,everything You Have Felt,then Death Is A Purification,a Rejuvenating Process;then Death Brings Innocence And It Is Only The Innocent Who Are Passionate, Not The People Who Believe Or Who Want To Find Out What Happens After Death.

The Idea, The Pattern, Is Self-projected; It Is A Form Of Self-worship, Of Self-perpetuation, And Hence Gratifying.

It Does Not Matter What You Call The Gaoler So Long As He Has The Key That Will Open The Door Of Your Prison! Similarly, As I Have The Key To Release Life From Its Prison, It Does Not Matter In The Least What You Call Either The Key Or Myself. I Am Not Concerned About The Title.

Life Is Both Pleasure And Pain, Is It Not? But Why Should We Cling To Pleasure And Avoid Pain? Why Not Merely Live With Both? If You Cling To Pleasure What Happens? You Get Attached, Do You Not?

Now, When You Are Aware, You See The Whole Process Of Your Thinking And Action, But It Can Happen Only When There Is No Condemnation. That Is. When I Condemn Something, I Do Not Understand It.

The Soil In Which The Meditative Mind Can Begin Is The Soil Of Everyday Life, The Strife, The Pain, And The Fleeting Joy. It Must Begin There, And Bring Order, And From There Move Endlessly. .. You Must Take A Plunge Into The Water, Not Knowing How To Swim. And The Beauty Of Meditation Is That You Never Know Where You Are, Where You Are Going, What The End Is.

Have You Ever Noticed A Tree Standing Naked Against The Sky, How Beautiful It Is? All Its Branches Are Outlined, And In Its Nakedness There Is A Poem, There Is A Song. Every Leaf Is Gone And It Is Waiting For The Spring. When The Spring Comes, It Again Fills The Tree With The Music Of Many Leaves, Which In Due Season Fall And Are Blown Away. And This Is The Way Of Life.

There Is No Tranquility In Ideas.

The Society In Which We Live Is The Result Of Our Psychological State.

It Is More Important To Find Out What You Are Giving To Society Than To Ask What Is The Right Means Of Livelihood.

As We Are - The World Is.

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.

There Is An Art Of Seeing Things As They Are: Without Naming, Without Being Caught In A Network Of Words, Without Thinking Interfering With Perception.

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.

There Are Two Kinds Of Freedom: One Is The Freedom From Something, Which Is A Reaction; And The Other Is Not A Reaction, It Is "being Free."

If Your Eyes Are Blinded With Your Worries, You Cannot See The Beauty Of The Sunset.

Identification With The Rag Called The National Flag Is An Emotional And Sentimental Factor And For That Factor You Are Willing To Kill Another - And That Is Called, The Love Of Your Country, Love Of The Neighbor . . .? One Can See That Where Sentiment And Emotion Come In, Love Is Not.

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.

Thought Comes To An End. Then There Is That Sense Of Absolute Silence In The Brain. All The Movement Of Thought Has Ended.

One Is Never Afraid Of The Unknown; One Is Afraid Of The Known Coming To An End.

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.

If You Have This Extraordinary Thing Going In Your Life, Then It Is Everything; Then You Become The Teacher, The Disciple, The Neighbour, The Beauty Of The Cloud - You Are All That, And That Is Love.

After All You Grow By Experience. But While Your Son Is Young, You Should Try To Set Before Him His Ultimate Goal.

Goodness Is Not In The Backyard Of The Individual Nor In The Open Field Of The Collective; Goodness Flowers Only In Freedom From Both.

A Man Who Says, 'i Want To Change, Tell Me How To', Seems Very Earnest, Very Serious, But He Is Not. He Wants An Authority Whom He Hopes Will Bring About Order In Himself. But Can Authority Ever Bring About Inward Order? Order Imposed From Without Must Always Breed Disorder.

People Must Work Things Out For Themselves. It Is No Good Saying, "i Have Found A House Which Suits Me And Therefore Everybody Must Adopt The Same Kind Of House."

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.

It Is Only When The Mind Is Free From The Old That It Meets Everything Anew, And In That There Is Joy.

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

Each Breath Is Transforming Me Into Thine Image.

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

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

Does Choice Exist When I See Something Very Clearly?

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.

If You Are Lucky And Work Very Hard, You May Someday Get To Experience Freedom From The Known.

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

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.

Hitler And Mussolini Were Only The Primary Spokesmen For The Attitude Of Domination And Craving For Power That Are In The Heart Of Almost Everyone. Until The Source Is Cleared, There Will Always Be Confusion And Hate, Wars And Class Antagonisms.

When I Understand Myself, I Understand You, And Out Of That Understanding Comes Love. Love Is The Missing Factor; There Is A Lack Of Affection, Of Warmth In Relationship; And Because We Lack That Love, That Tenderness, That Generosity, That Mercy In Relationship, We Escape Into Mass Action Which Produces Further Confusion, Further Misery. We Fill Our Hearts With Blueprints For World Reform And Do Not Look To That One Resolving Factor Which Is Love.

Happiness Comes Uninvited: And The Moment That You Are Conscious That You Are Happy, You Are No Longer Happy.

The Only Freedom Is The Freedom From The Known.

Only When The Mind Is Tranquil-through Self-knowledge And Not Through Imposed Self-discipline-only Then, In That Tranquillity, In That Silence, Can Reality Come Into Being. It Is Only Then That There Can Be Bliss, That There Can Be Creative Action.

As The World Has To Attain The Fulfilment Of Eternal Life, To Me It Does Not In The Least Matter What I Am Called -'enlightened One', 'son Of God', Or Something Else. To Me, It Has No Purpose - As Little As When The Buddha Said, 'i Am The Enlightened One'.

To Me, Then, True Criticism Consists In Trying To Find Out The Intrinsic Worth Of The Thing Itself, And Not In Attributing A Quality To That Thing. You Attribute A Quality To An Environment, To An Experience, Only When You Want To Derive Something From It, When You Want To Gain Or To Have Power Or Happiness. Now This Destroys True Criticism. Your Desire Is Perverted Through Attributing Values, And Therefore You Cannot See Clearly. Instead Of Trying To See The Flower In Its Original And Entire Beauty, You Look At It Through Coloured Glasses, And Therefore You Can Never See It As It Is.

The Very Word "sorrow" Colours The Fact Of Sorrow, The Pain Of It.

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.

You Are The World And The World Is You.

Can Thought Be Silent?

As The River Enters The Sea And Loses Itself In The Sea, So Krishnamurti Has Entered Into That Life Which Is Represented By Some As The Christ, By Others As The Buddha, By Others Still, As The Lord Maitreya. Hence Krishnamurti As An Entity Fully Developed Has Entered Into The Sea Of Life And Is The Teacher, Because The Moment You Enter Into That Life -which Is The Fulfilment Of All Teachers, Which Is Life Of All The Teachers - The Individual As Such Ceases.

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.

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