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When We Stop Learning In Our Relationship, Whether We Are Studying, Playing Or Whatever We Are Doing, And Merely Act From The Knowledge We Have Accumulated, Then Disorder Comes.

-Jiddu Krishnamurti

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When We Stop Learning

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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When We Stop Learning In Our Relationship, Whether We Are Studying, Playing Or Whatever We Are Doing, And Merely Act From The Knowledge We Have Accumulated, Then Disorder Comes.

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Learning Is Not The Accumulation Of Knowledge. Learning Is Movement From Moment To Moment.

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.

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The Fact Is There Is Nothing That You Can Trust; And That Is A Terrible Fact, Whether You Like It Or Not. Psychologically There Is Nothing In The World, That You Can Put Your Faith, Your Trust, Or Your Belief In. Neither Your Gods, Nor Your Science Can Save You, Can Bring You Psychological Certainty; And You Have To Accept That You Can Trust In Absolutely Nothing.

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

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

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.

The World Is Not Something Separate From You And Me; The World, Society, Is The Relationship That We Establish Or Seek To Establish Between Each Other. So You And I Are The Problem, And Not The World, Because The World Is The Projection Of Ourselves, And To Understand The World We Must Understand Ourselves. That World Is Not Separate From Us; We Are The World, And Our Problems Are The World's Problems.

Is There A Thinker Apart From Thought?

My Discord Must Be Different From Yours; My Revolt Must Not Be The Same Thing As Yours. It Will Not Be A Revolt If It Is Moulding Itself Around Your Revolt.

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

Order Cannot Possibly Be Brought About Through Conformity To A Pattern, Under Any Circumstances.

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

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.

But If You Have No Relationship With The Living Things On This Earth, You May Lose Whatever Relationship You Have With Humanity.

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.

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

Constantly To Seek The Purpose Of Life Is One Of The Odd Escapes Of Man. If He Finds What He Seeks It Will Not Be Worth That Pebble On The Path.

You Cannot Explain To Someone Who Comes With No Idea Of What You Are Talking About Without Being Misunderstood.

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?

There Is No Tranquility In Ideas.

It Is Utterly And Irrevocably Possible To Empty All Hurts And Therefore To Love, To Have Compassion. To Have Compassion Means To Have Passion For All Things, Not Just Between Two People, But For All Human Beings, For All Things Of The Earth, The Animals, The Trees - Everything The Earth Contains. When We Have Such Compassion We Will Not Despoil The Earth As We Are Doing Now And We Will Have No Wars.

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

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

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Real Freedom Is Not Something To Be Acquired, It Is The Outcome Of Intelligence.

We Want To Be Famous As A Writer, As A Poet, As A Painter, As A Politician, As A Singer, Or What You Will. Why? Because We Really Don't Love What We Are Doing. If You Loved To Sing, Or To Paint, Or To Write Poems, If You Really Loved It You Would Not Be Concerned With Whether You Are Famous Or Not.

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When The Wind Blows Across The Various Continents, It Does Not Bring With It The Nationalities Of The Countries Through Which It Passes. So Likewise With Life.

Sorrow Is Not In Death But In Loneliness, And Conflict Comes When You Seek Consolation, Forgetfullness, Explanations, And Illusions.

This Is What I Am, And I Am Going To Understand This.

I Have Only One Purpose: To Make People Free, To Urge Them Towards Freedom, To Help Them To Break Away From All Limitations, For That Alone Will Give Them Eternal Happiness, Will Give Them The Unconditional Realization Of Self.

Some Go To Sleep In An Organization And Never Wake Up, And Those Who Do Wake Up Put Them Selves To Sleep Again By Joining Another. This Acquisitive Movement Is Called Expansion Of Thought, Progress.

You Haven't Changed. You May Say: 'i'm Full Of Love, I'm Full Of Truth, I'm Full Of Knowledge, I'm Full Of Wisdom.' I Say: 'that's All Nonsense. Do You Behave? Are You Free Of Fear? Are You Free Of Ambition, Greed, Envy And The Desire To Achieve Success In Every Field? If Not, You Are Just Playing A Game. You Are Not Serious.'

Activity That Perishes, That Is Not Productive Of The Eternal, Of The Lasting, Is Of Very Little Use.

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.

As The Beauty Of The Picture Depends Not On The Painter But On The Picture Itself, What I Say Must Depend On Its Own Intrinsic Value And Not On The Authority Of My Attainment, Nor On The Authority Of Others.

Intrinsic Value

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.

We Are Very Defensive, And Therefore Aggressive, When We Hold On To A Particular Belief, A Dogmas, Or When We Worship Our Particular Nationality, With The Rag That Is Called The Flag.

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

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.

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.

It Is Very Easy To Conform To What Your Society Or Your Parents And Teachers Tell You. That Is A Safe And Easy Way Of Existing; But That Is Not Living...to Live Is To Find Out For Yourself What Is True.

The World Is Me And I Am The World.

Each Breath Is Transforming Me Into Thine Image.

Using Another As A Means Of Satisfaction And Security Is Not Love. Love Is Never Security; Love Is A State In Which There Is No Desire To Be Secure; It Is A State Of Vulnerability.

If We Could, And We Must, Establish A Deep Long Abiding Relationship With Nature, With The Actual Trees, The Bushes, The Flowers, The Grass And The Fast Moving Clouds, Then We Would Never Slaughter Another Human Being For Any Reason Whatsoever.

The Purpose Of Having The Title 'world-teacher' Is To Acknowledge, To Show, The Condition Of Mind And Heart When You Have Achieved. It Is Like Saying: 'i Have Painted A Picture'. It Is Like Saying: 'i Have Written A Poem'. It Is An Assertion Of The Fact Of Attainment, Rather Than The Narrow Understanding That Is Given To Labels And Phrases. What The Phrase Indicates Is Of Importance.

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

You Would Never Hear Any Song Played Twice In The Same Way. The Words Were Retained, But Within A Certain Frame There Was Great Latitude, And The Musician Could Improvise To His Heart's Content; And The More The Variations And Combinations, The Greater The Musician.

No Book Can Teach You About Yourself, No Psychologist, None Of The Professors Or Philosophers. What They Can Teach You Is What They Think You Are Or What They Think You Should Be.

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

Silence Is Difficult And Arduous; It Is Not To Be Played With. It Isn't Something That You Can Experience By Reading A Book, Or By Listening To A Talk, Or By Sitting Together, Or By Retiring Into A Wood Or A Monastery. I Am Afraid None Of These Things Will Bring About This Silence. This Silence Demands Intense Psychological Work. You Have To Be Burningly Aware - Aware Of Your Speech, Aware Of Your Snobbishness, Aware Of Your Fears, Your Anxieties, Your Sense Of Guilt. And When You Die To All That, Then Out Of That Dying Comes The Beauty Of Silence.

A Man Who Is Not Afraid Is Not Aggressive, A Man Who Has No Sense Of Fear Of Any Kind Is Really A Free, A Peaceful Man.

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

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

There Is No End To Relationship. There May Be The End Of A Particular Relationship, But Relationship Can Never End; To Be Is To Be Related.

Understanding Of The Self Only Arises In Relationship, In Watching Yourself In Relationship To People, Ideas, And Things; To Trees, The Earth, And The World Around You And Within You. Relationship Is The Mirror In Which The Self Is Revealed. Without Self-knowledge There Is No Basis For Right Thought And Action.

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

Surely, Life Is Not Merely A Job, An Occupation; Life Is Something Extraordinarily Wide And Profound, It Is A Great Mystery, A Vast Realm In Which We Function As Human Beings.

You Can Be Creative Only When There Is Abandonment-which Means, Really, There Is No Sense Of Compulsion, No Fear Of Not Being, Of Not Gaining, Of Not Arriving. Then There Is Great Austerity, Simplicity, And With It There Is Love.

Freedom Is Always At The Beginning And Not At The End.

The More You Know Yourself, The More Clarity There Is.

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.

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