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

-Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

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To Concentrate Implies Bringing All Your Energy To Focus On A Certain Point; But Thought Wanders Away... Whereas Attention Has No Control, No Concentration. It Is Complete Attention, Which Means Giving All Your Energy, The Energy Of The Brain, Your Heart, Everything, To Attending.

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Yoga Exercises Are Excellent; The Speaker Does Them Every Day, For An Hour Or More; But That Is Merely Physical Exercise, To Keep The Body Healthy, And So On.

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There Is No Such Thing As Living Alone, For All Living Is Relationship; But To Live Without Direct Relationship Demands High Intelligence, A Swifter And Greater Awareness For Self-discovery.

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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.

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

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And For This You Must Have Quiet And Solitude. But Society Does Not Allow You To Have Them. You Must Be With People, Outwardly Active At All Costs. If You Are Alone You Are Considered Antisocial Or Peculiar, Or You Are Afraid Of Your Own Loneliness.

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What Is Of Great Importance Is That Everyone Should Concern Himself With What I Am Saying, Rather Than With The Personality Of The Teacher, The Body Of The Teacher, Where He Dwells, And So On. That Will Lead To Confusion.

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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.

Only When Your Hearts Are Empty Of The Things Of The Mind, Is There Love. Then You Will Know What It Is To Love Without Separation, Without Distance, Without Time, Without Fear.

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We Choose Our Leaders, Political Or Spiritual, Out Of Our Own Confusion, And So They Also Are Confused.

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Joy Is Something Entirely Different From Pleasure.

Sir, When Two People Have The Extraordinary Quality Of This State, Words Are Not Necessary. Where That Quality Of Love Exists, Words Become Unnecessary. There Is Instant Communication.

In The Space Which Thought Creates Around Itself There Is No Love. This Space Divides Man From Man, And In It Is All The Becoming, The Battle Of Life, The Agony And Fear. Meditation Is The Ending Of This Space, The Ending Of The Me.

True Education Is To Learn How To Think, Not What To Think. If You Know How To Think, If You Really Have That Capacity, Then You Are A Free Human Being-free Of Dogmas, Superstitions, Ceremonies-and Therefore You Can Find Out What Religion Is.

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

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

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.

To Die Every Day To Every Problem, Every Pleasure, And Not Carry Over Any Problem At All; So The Mind Remains Tremendously Attentive, Active, Clear.

All Paths Do Not Lead To Truth. There Is No Path To Truth, It Must Come To You.

Intelligence Is Not Discernment And Judgment Or Critical Evaluation.

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.

As Long As You Ask Questions You Are Breaking Through, But The Moment You Begin To Accept, You Are Psychologically Dead. So Right Through Life Don't Accept A Thing, But Inquire, Investigate. Then You Will Find That Your Mind Is Something Really Extraordinary, It Has No End, And To Such A Mind There Is No Death.

The Moment You Follow Someone You Cease To Follow Truth.

You Are This, Which Does Not Satisfy, So You Want To Be That. If There Were An Understanding Of This, Would That Come Into Being? Because You Do Not Understand This, You Create That, Hoping Through That To Understand Or To Escape From This.

My Chief Concern Is To Make Clear The Truth Which I Have Attained, To Give An Understanding Of The Truth, Which Is The Truth For All. And Hence, If There Is Understanding Rather Than Blind Following, People Will Not Create A Religion.

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

Happiness Is A State Of Which You Are Unconscious. The Moment You Are Aware That You Are Happy, You Cease To Be Happy.

You Only Learn When You Give Your Whole Being To Something. When You Give Your Whole Being To Mathematics,you Learn; But When You Are In A State Of Contradiction, When You Do Not Want To Learn But Are Forced To Learn, Then It Becomes Merely A Process Of Accumulation. To Learn Is Like Reading A Novel With Innumerable Characters; It Requires Your Full Attention, Not Contradictory Attention.

Sentimentality And Emotionalism Have Nothing Whatsoever To Do With Love.

My Contention Is That It Is Impossible To Limit Truth, For That Would Mean That You Were Stepping Down The Truth To The Individual, Who Is Limited. It Would Be Useless To Lay Down A Crystallized Method For Everyone To Follow.

Tradition Becomes Our Security, And When The Mind Is Secure It Is In Decay.

I Am Life. I Have No Name. I Am As The Fresh Breeze Of The Mountains.

A Man Who Is Really Earnest Must Begin With Himself, He Must Be Passively Aware Of All His Thoughts, Feelings And Actions.

I Do Not Think That You Can Try And Systematize Education For The Whole World. I Would Try Experiments In Small Communities And In Schools To See How They Work Out, Instead Of Taking The Children Of An Entire Nation And Trying To Bring Them Up On The Same System.

To Keep Always In The Same Place Means To Stagnate.

All Life Is A Movement In Relationship. There Is No Living Thing On Earth Which Is Not Related To Something Or Other.

Freedom From Something Is Not Freedom.

If You Do Not Give Your Children Freedom, When They Grow Up, They Will Break Away From The Family, And Then Your Hearts Will Be Broken.

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?

Where There Is Fear There Is Aggression.

Do You Decide To Observe? Or Do You Merely Observe?

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'.

There Is No Tranquility In Ideas.

The Significance Of Life Is Living.

Significance Of Life

Silence Is Difficult And Arduous, It Is Not To Be Played With.

Whatever Discipline You Exercise Should Be Based On The Goal Your Child Is Eventually To Reach, Namely, Freedom And Happiness. I Would Show Him Towards What He Is Growing, His Ultimate Fulfilment, And Help Him To Adapt Himself To That. In Everything That You Do, You Should Keep The Goal In View, And Hence Your Discipline Must Aim At Helping The Child To Realize That At A Certain Stage He Will Be Above All Discipline.

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.

You May Wish That Some Parts Of (your Face) Were Different, But The Actual Fact Is Shown In The Mirror. Now, Can You Look At Your Conditioning In A Similar Way?

Love May Be The Ultimate Solution To All Man's Difficulties, Problems And Travails.

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

You Can Only Hear Clearly When You Sit Quietly, When You Give Your Attention. Nor Can You Have Order If You Are Not Free To Watch, If You Are Not Free To Listen, If You Are Not Free To Be Considerate. This Problem Of Freedom And Order Is One Of The Most Difficult And Urgent Problems In Life. It Is A Very Complex Problem. It Needs To Be Thought Over Much More Than Mathematics, Geography, Or History.

As Long As The Mind Clings To Belief, It Is Held In A Prison.

We Never See A Tree Except Through The Image That We Have Of It, The Concept Of That Tree; But The Concept, The Knowledge, The Experience, Is Entirely Different From The Actual Tree. Look At A Tree And You Will Find How Extraordinarily Difficult It Is To See It Completely, So That No Image, No Screen, Comes Between The Seeing And The Actual Fact. By Completely I Mean With The Totality Of Your Mind And Heart, Not A Fragment Of It.

What You Are The World Is. And Without Your Transformation, There Can Be No Transformation Of The World.

I Don't Mind What Happens.

To Ask The 'right' Question Is Far More Important Than To Receive The Answer. The Solution Of A Problem Lies In The Understanding Of The Problem; The Answer Is Not Outside The Problem, It Is In The Problem.

If You Have A Great Many Desires, You Will Gradually Eliminate Them One By One, Until You Allow Certain Desires To Dominate And The Others To Die Away.

War Is A Stage Brought About By The Standardizing Of Thought, Revolt, And Life - Not By The Freedom Of Life, Not By The Revolt Of Life.

When Your Child Is Very Young, You Must Protect Him From Doing Harm To Himself And Others, Then Later By Precept, Explaining To Him What Is Going To Be For His Eventual Happiness.

I Should Say That All Compromise Is A "stepping Down" Of The Truth, Is Trying To Reduce Something Which Cannot Be Reduced, And That For Anyone Who Has Understood Life These Compromises Are Impossible.

We Demand To Be Coaxed And Comforted, To Be Encouraged And Gratified, So We Choose A Teacher Who Will Give Us What We Crave For. We Do Not Search Out Reality, But Go After Gratification And Sensation.

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

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

It Is Only The Religious Mind That Is A Truly Revolutionary Mind.

We Carry About Us The Burden Of What Thousands Of People Have Said And The Memories Of All Our Misfortunes. To Abandon All That Is To Be Alone, And The Mind That Is Alone Is Not Only Innocent But Young -- Not In Time Or Age, But Young, Innocent, Alive At Whatever Age -- And Only Such A Mind Can See That Which Is Truth And That Which Is Not Measurable By Words.

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

If You Come Across Fear, Stare It In Its Eyes. Face It And You Will Notice That Fear Fades Away.

Beyond All Explanations Which A Good Brain Can Give, Why Do We Choose The Worse And Not The Better, Why Hate Rather Than Love, Why Greed And Not Generosity, Why Self-centred Activity And Not Open Total Action? Why Be Mean When There Are Soaring Mountains And Flashing Streams? Why Jealousy And Not Love? Why?

What You Believe You Experience.

Meditation Is Not A Withdrawal From Life. Meditation Is A Process Of Understanding Oneself.

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

To Be Is To Be Related.

When An Artist Paints A Picture He Does Not Want You To Consider His Personality As Represented In That Picture - He Wants You To Look At The Beauty Of That Picture. No One Cares Who Has Painted The Picture As Long As It Is Beautiful.

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 Understand Yourself Is The Beginning Of Wisdom.

[on The Secret To A Happy, Content Life] Do You Want To Know What My Secret Is? I Don’t Mind What Happens.

So, To Meditate Is To Purge The Mind Of Its Self-centered Activity. And If You Have Come This Far In Meditation, You Will Find There Is Silence, A Total Emptiness. The Mind Is Uncontaminated By Society; It Is No Longer Subject To Any Influence, To The Pressure Of Any Desire. It Is Completely Alone, And Being Alone, Untouched It Is Innocent. Therefore There Is A Possibility For That Which Is Timeless, Eternal, To Come Into Being. This Whole Process Is Meditation.

To Seek Fulfillment Is To Invite Frustration.

Can The Mind Become Completely Still Without Coercion, Without Compulsion, Without Discipline?

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

The Ability To Observe Without Evaluating Is The Highest Form Of Intelligence.

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

The Primary Cause Of Disorder In Ourselves Is The Seeking Of Reality Promised By Another... It Is A Most Extraordinary Thing That Although Most Of Us Are Opposed To Political Tyranny And Dictatorship, We Inwardly Accept The Authority, The Tyranny, Of Another To Twist Our Minds And Our Way Of Life.

When We Stop Fighting With Ourselves, We Aren't Creating Anymore Conflict In Our Mind. Then Our Mind Can For The First Time Relax And Be Still. Then For The First Time Our Consciousness Can Become Whole And Unfragmented. Then Total Attention Can Be Given To All Of Our Thoughts And Feelings. And Then There Will Be Found A Gentleness And A Goodness In Us That Can Embrace All That Is Been Given In The World. Then A Deep Love For Everything Will Be The Result Of This Deep Attention. For This Total Attention, This Soft And Pure Consciousness That We Are, Is Nothing But Love Itself.

The Real Is Near, You Do Not Have To Seek It; And A Man Who Seeks Truth Will Never Find It. Truth Is In What Is - And That Is The Beauty Of It. But The Moment You Conceive It, The Moment You Seek It, You Begin To Struggle; And A Man Who Struggles Cannot Understand. That Is Why We Have To Be Still, Observant, Passively Aware.

You May Remember The Story Of How The Devil And A Friend Of His Were Walking Down The Street, When They Saw Ahead Of Them A Man Stoop Down And Pick Up Something From The Ground, Look At It, And Put It Away In His Pocket. The Friend Said To The Devil, "what Did That Man Pick Up?" "he Picked Up A Piece Of The Truth," Said The Devil. "that Is A Very Bad Business For You, Then," Said His Friend. "oh, Not At All," The Devil Replied, "i Am Going To Help Him Organize It."

The Government That Is Wise Will Consider What Is Best For All Its People.

Is There A Meditation That Is Not The Ego Trying To Become? Is Meditation Conscious If Every Effort Implies Time?

So When You Are Listening To Somebody, Completely, Attentively, Then You Are Listening Not Only To The Words, But Also To The Feeling Of What Is Being Conveyed, To The Whole Of It, Not Part Of It.

Intuition Is The Only True Guide In Life.

The Function Of Education Is To Help You From Childhood Not To Imitate Anybody, But Be Yourself All The Time.

We Need Tremendous Energy To Bring About A Psychological Change In Ourselves As Human Beings, Because We Have Lived Far Too Long In A World Of Make-belief, In A World Of Brutality, Violence, Despair, Anxiety. To Live Humanly, Sanely, One Has To Change.

You Are The World And The World Is You.

The Origin Is Nameless; The Origin Is Absolutely Quiet, It Is Not Whirring About Making Noise. Creation Is Something That Is Most Holy, That Is The Most Sacred Thing In Life, And If You Have Made A Mess Of Your Life, Change It. Change It Today, Not Tomorrow. If You Are Uncertain, Find Out Why And Be Certain. If Your Thinking Is Not Straight, Think Straight, Logically, Unless All That Is Prepared, All That Is Settled, You Cannot Enter Into This World, Into The World Of Creation.

But Our Minds Are Bound To The Yardstick Of Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow, And With That Yardstick We Try To Inquire Into The Unknown, To Measure That Which Is Not Measurable.

I Admire And Respect The Tenacity, Courage, And Patience Of The Unenlightened In The Face Of So Much Overwhelming Evidence

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.

So Through Identification You Have Pleasure And Pain.

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.

What Sex Gives You Momentarily Is The Total Abandonment Of Yourself, Then You Are Back Again With Your Turmoil, So You Want A Repetition Over And Over Again Of That State In Which There Is No Worry, No Problem, No Self.

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.

If You Lose Touch With Nature You Lose Touch With Humanity.

Truth Is Not A Matter Of Argumentation And Conviction; It Is Not The Outcome Of Opinion.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

By Our Pontifical Assertions, Our Superior Impatience, And Our Casual Brushing Aside Of Their Curiosity, We Do Not Encourage Their Inquiry, For We Are Rather Apprehensive Of What May Be Asked Of Us; We Do Not Foster Their Discontent, For We Ourselves Have Ceased To Question.

Our Conflict Is In Relationship, At All Levels Of Our Existence; And The Understanding Of This Relationship, Completely And Extensively, Is The Only Real Problem That Each One Has.

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

The Observer Is The Observed.

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

You Cannot Prevent A Man Getting Drunk If He Wishes To Do So, But When He Becomes A Nuisance, Then You Interfere.

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.

The Transformation Of The World Is Brought About By The Transformation Of Oneself.

Its Beautiful To Be Alone. To Be Alone Does Not Mean To Be Lonely. It Means The Mind Is Not Influenced And Contaminated By Society.

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.

Most People Like To Live In Illusions.

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