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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.

-Jiddu Krishnamurti

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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.

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To Concentrate Is Not To Meditate, Even Though That Is What Most Of You Do, Calling It Meditation. And If Concentration Is Not Meditation, Then What Is? Surely, Meditation Is To Understand Every Thought That Comes Into Being, And Not To Dwell Upon One Particular Thought; It Is To Invite All Thoughts So That You Understand The Whole Process Of Thinking.

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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.

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The Moment You Have In Your Heart This Extraordinary Thing Called Love And Feel The Depth, The Delight, The Ecstasy Of It, You Will Discover That For You The World Is Transformed.

I Do Not Know If You Have Ever Noticed That The More You Struggle To Understand, The Less You Understand Any Problem. But, The Moment You Cease To Struggle And Let The Problem Tell You The Whole Story, Give All Its Significance - Then There Is Understanding, Which Means, Obviously, That To Understand, The Mind Must Be Quiet.

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

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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.

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.

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If You Have The Desire, If You Establish The Goal - Which Is Harmony, Which Is Happiness Through Liberation- Then These Stages Of Revolt, Of War, Of Struggle, Can Be Avoided - Should Be Avoided. You Are Not Going To Wallow In The Gutter If You Can Jump Over It.

To Be Absolutely Nothing Is To Be Beyond Measure.

Absolutely Nothing

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Is Insight Dependent On A Material Process? Has Insight A Cause?

Fear Begins And Ends With The Desire To Be Secure; Inward And Outward Security, With The Desire To Be Certain, To Have Permanency. The Continuity Of Permanence Is Sought In Every Direction, In Virtue, In Relationship, In Action, In Experience, In Knowledge, In Outward And Inward Things. To Find Security And Be Secure Is The Everlasting Cry. It Is This Insistent Demand That Breeds Fear.

It Is Only In A Very Quiet Mind That Great Things Are Born; And A Quiet Mind Does Not Come About Through Effort, Through Control, Through Discipline.

Achieve Order Within Yourself...an Inward Tranquility Which Knows No Disturbance At Any Moment...in The Daily Life Of The Home And The Office.

To Go Far You Must Begin Near, And The Nearest Step Is The Most Important One.

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Can Another Help Bring About A Transformation In You? If He Can, You Are Not Transformed; You Are Merely Dominated, Influenced.

We Are To Learn About Fear, Not How To Escape From It.

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.

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.

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Merely To Stuff The Child With A Lot Of Information, Making Him Pass Examinations, Is The Most Unintelligent Form Of Education.

Life Is A Joyous Thing Essentially, But When You Bind Life By All These Rigid Moralities And Traditions, And Dogmas And Creeds, Then There Is Misery.

Happiness Is Strange; It Comes When You Are Not Seeking It. When You Are Not Making An Effort To Be Happy, Then Unexpectedly, Mysteriously, Happiness Is There, Born Of Purity, Of A Loveliness Of Being.

Look What Is Happening In The World - We Are Being Conditioned By Society, By The Culture We Live In, And That Culture Is The Product Of Man. There Is Nothing Holy, Or Divine, Or Eternal About Culture.

Nothing Can Disturb The Calm Peace Of My Soul.

The Fact Is One Thing And The Idea About The Fact Is Another.

If You Leave The Pool You Have Dug For Yourself And Go Out Into The River Of Life Then Life Has An Astonishing Way Of Taking Care Of You, Because Then There Is No Taking Care On Your Part.

Awareness Is That State Of Mind Which Takes In Everything-the Crows Flying Across The Sky, The Flowers On The Trees, The People Sitting In Front, The Colors They Are Wearing - Being Extensively Aware, Which Needs Watching, Observing, Taking In The Shape Of The Leaf, The Shape Of The Trunk, The Shape Of The Head Of Another, What He Is Doing.

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

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.

It Is Good To Have Organizations But Not To Exaggerate Their Importance Out Of Due Proportion.

To Be Whole, Nonfragmented In Action, In Life, In Every Kind Of Relationship, That Is The Very Essence Of Sanity. Sanity Means To Be Whole, Healthy And Holy.

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.

Do It Or Don't Do It But Get On With It.

Awareness Is Observation Without Choice, Condemnation, Or Justification. Awareness Is Silent Observation From Which There Arises Understanding Without The Experiencer And The Experienced. In This Awareness, Which Is Passive, The Problem Or The Cause Is Given An Opportunity To Unfold Itself And So Give Its Full Significance. In Awareness There Is No End In View To Be Gained, And There Is No Becoming, The 'me' And The 'mine' Not Being Given The Continuity.

Perception Without The Perceiver In Meditation Is To Commune With The Height And Depth Of The Immense. This Perception Is Entirely Different From Seeing An Object Without An Observer, Because In The Perception Of Meditation There Is No Object And Therefore No Experience. Can, However, Take Place When The Eyes Are Open And One Is Surrounded By Objects Of Every Kind. But Then These Objects Have No Importance At All. One Sees Them But There Is No Process Of Recognition, Which Means There Is No Experiencing.

The Very Urge To Get Rid Of Desire Is Still Desire, Is It Not?

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.'

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

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.

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.

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.

When You Say That I Have Followers, Let Me Assure You That I Do Not Want Followers, Nor Would I Ever Encourage The Idea Of Following.

The More You Know Yourself, The More Clarity There Is. Self-knowledge Has No End - You Don't Come To An Achievement, You Don't Come To A Conclusion. It Is An Endless River.

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?

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

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.

We Are Empty Shells If We Do Not Possess, If We Do Not Fill Our Life With Furniture, With Music, With Knowledge, With This Or That. And That Shell Makes A Lot Of Noise, And That Noise We Call Living, And With That We Are Satisfied.

The First Thing To Realize In Meditation Is That There Is No Authority, That The Mind Must Be Completely Free To Examine, To Observe, To Learn. And So There Is No Following, No Accepting, No Obedience.

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

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

While Expressing Your Desires, You Would Need To Exercise Control In Order To Prevent Them From Doing Harm To You Or To Others.

You Have Been Overcome; And Whether You Are Overcome By Envy Or By A So-called Noble Influence, You Are Still A Slave, You Are Not Free.

To Be Free Comes Not From Changing Or Fixing This World, But From Seeing This World As It Is And Opening The Heart In The Midst Of It.

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Can I Live A Life, Daily Life, Without Sense Of Self-concern?

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After All, Conflict Arises, Does It Not, Through The Desire To Be Something, To Be Other Than What Is.

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.

It's No Measure Of Health To Be Well Adjusted To A Profoundly Sick Society.

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'.

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

The Word 'innocence' Means A Mind That Is Incapable Of Being Hurt.

Meditation Practice

It Is Necessary For All Of Us To Awaken In Ourselves This Spirit Of Cooperation, For Then It Will Not Be A Mere Plan Or Agreement Which Causes Us To Work Together, But An Extraordinary Feeling Of Togetherness, The Sense Of Joy In Being And Doing Together Without Any Thought Of Reward Or Punishment.

Intelligence Is Not Discernment And Judgment Or Critical Evaluation.

Fear Is The Destructive Energy In Man. It Withers The Mind, It Distorts Thought, It Leads To All Kinds Of Extraordinarily Clever And Subtle Theories, Absurd Superstitions, Dogmas, And Beliefs.

To Know Oneself Is To Study Oneself In Action, Which Is Relationship.

You Must Understand The Whole Of Life, Not Just One Little Part Of It.

If I Do Not Know Reality, The Unknown, How Can I Search For It? Surely It Must Come But I Cannot Go After It. If I Go After It I Am Going After Something Which Is The Known, Projected By Me; By My Own Mind.

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

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

Analysis Does Not Transform Consciousness.

It Is Intelligence That Brings Order, Not Discipline.

The Fundamental Factor Of Self-deception Is This Constant Desire To Be Something In This World And In The World Hereafter.

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

Till The False Is Seen As The False, Truth Is Not.

When One Has An Image About Oneself One Is Surely Insane, One Lives In A World Of Illusion.

There Is Hope In People, Not In Society, Not In Systems, But In You And Me.

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

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.

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

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.

To Meditate Is To Observe Yourself, For You Are Totally Responsible For Your Body, Mind, Thought.

When The Mind Goes Beyond The Thought Of 'the Me,' The Experiencer, The Observer, The Thinker, Then There Is A Possibility Of A Happiness That Is Incorruptible.

Inspirational Life

If There Is No Meditation, Then You Are Like A Blind Man In A World Of Great Beauty, Light And Colour.

Follow The Wandering, The Distraction, Find Out Why The Mind Has Wandered; Pursue It, Go Into It Fully. When The Distraction Is Completely Understood, Then That Particular Distraction Is Gone. When Another Comes, Pursue It Also.

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.

To Be Religious Is To Be Sensitive To Reality.

Those Who Play A Safe Game Die Very Safely.

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

It Is What It Is

Self-knowledge Is Only From Moment To Moment, And Therefore There Is A Creative Happiness From Moment To Moment.

Live With It. You Live With Pleasure, Don't You? Why Don't You Live With Suffering Completely? Can You Live With It In The Sense Of Not Escaping From It? What Takes Place? Watch. The Mind Is Very Clear, Sharp. It Is Faced With The Fact. The Very Suffering Transformed Into Passion Is Enormous. From That Arises A Mind That Can Never Be Hurt. Full Stop. That Is The Secret.

There Can Only Be A Relationship Between Human Beings When We Accept What Is, Not What Should Be.

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.

Have You Ever Sat Very Quietly With Closed Eyes And Watched The Movement Of Your Own Thinking? Have You Watched Your Mind Working?or Rather, Has Your Mind Watched Itself In Operation, Just To See What Your Thoughts Are, What Your Feelings Are, How You Look At The Trees, At The Flowers, At The Birds, At People, How You Respond To A Suggestion Or React To A New Idea? Have You Ever Done This?

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