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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.

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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.

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

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

Is There An Observation Which Is Not The Instrument Of Thought?

Those Who Play A Safe Game Die Very Safely.

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.

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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.

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To Follow Implies Not Only The Denying Of One's Own Clarity, Investigation, Integrity And Honesty, But It Also Implies That Your Motive In Following Is Reward.

It Is Necessary That One Be A Light To Oneself In A World That Is Becoming Utterly Dark.

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.

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 Creative Knows The Great Beginnings. The Receptive Completes The Finished Things. The Creative Is Decided And Therefore Shows To Men The Easy. The Receptive Is Yielding And Therefore Shows To Men The Simple. Learning Is Movement From Moment To Moment.

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What Has Validity Is Your Living, Not What Happens Tomorrow.

Without Love There Is No Art. When The Artist Is Playing Beautifully There Is No 'me; There Is Love And Beauty, And This Is Art. This Is Skill In Action.

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

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Violence Is Not Merely Killing Another. It Is Violence When We Use A Sharp Word, When We Make A Gesture To Brush Away A Person, When We Obey Because There Is Fear. So Violence Isn't Merely Organized Butchery In The Name Of God, In The Name Of Society Or Country. Violence Is Much More Subtle, Much Deeper, And We Are Inquiring Into The Very Depths Of Violence.

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.

Can't You Fall In Love And Not Have A Possessive Relationship? I Love Someone And She Loves Me And We Get Married - That Is All Perfectly Straightforward And Simple, In That There Is No Conflict At All.

Falling In Love

You Say You Love Your Wife. You Depend On Her; She Has Given You Her Body, Her Emotions, Her Encouragement, A Certain Feeling Of Security And Well-being. Then She Turns Away From You; She Gets Bored Or Goes Off With Someone Else, And Your Whole Emotional Balance Is Destroyed, And This Disturbance, Which You Don't Like, Is Called Jealousy. There Is Pain In It, Anxiety, Hate And Violence. So What You Are Really Saying Is, 'as Long As You Belong To Me I Love You But The Moment You Don't I Begin To Hate You.

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.

Let The Mind Be Empty, And Not Filled With The Things Of The Mind. Then There Is Only Meditation, And Not A Meditor Who Is Meditating . . . The Mind Must Be Clear, Without Movement, And In The Light Of That Clarity The Timeless Will Be Revealed.

If We Can Really Understand The Problem, The Answer Will Come Out Of It, Because The Answer Is Not Separate From The Problem.

When You Practice Meditation, The Meditator Becomes All-important And Not The Movement Of Meditation.

The Moment I Am Aware That I Am Aware, I Am Not Aware. Awareness Means The Observer Is Not.

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.

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.

I Say That When You Have Perceived Or Attained The Goal, Compromises, Renunciations, Do Not Exist. If You Have Seen The Goal, Compromise Ceases To Exist. It Is Then A Question Of A Different Attitude.

Only When The Mind Is Completely Alone Can It Know What Is Beauty, And Not In Any Other State.

Discipline Does Not Mean Suppression And Control, Nor Is It Adjustment To A Pattern Or Ideology. It Means A Mind That Sees 'what Is' And Learns From 'what Was'.

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.

So You Have To Be Your Own Teacher And Your Own Disciple, And There Is No Teacher Outside, No Saviour, No Master; You Yourself Have To Change, And Therefore You Have To Learn To Observe, To Know Yourself. This Learning About Yourself Is A Fascinating And Joyous Business.

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.

Meditation Is The Process Of Understanding Your Own Mind.

The Constant Assertion Of Belief Is An Indication Of Fear.

Truth Is A Pathless Land, And You Cannot Approach It By Any Path Whatsoever, By Any Religion, By Any Sect. Truth, Being Limitless, Unconditioned, Unapproachable By Any Path Whatsoever, Cannot Be Organized; Nor Should Any Organisation Be Formed To Lead Or To Coerce People Along Any Particular Path.

Fear Is Nonacceptance Of What Is.

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.

Though We Are All Human Beings, We Have Built Walls Between Ourselves And Our Neighbors Through Nationalism, Through Race, Caste, And Class - Which Again Breeds Isolation, Loneliness.

Most People Are Unhappy; And They Are Unhappy Because There Is No Love In Their Hearts.

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.

The Individual Problem Is The World Problem. Therefore Let Us Return To The Problem Of Individual Perfection And The Establishing Of Peace In The Heart And In The Mind Of The Individual.

When You Once See Something As False Which You Have Accepted As True, As Natural, As Human, Then You Can Never Go Back To It.

Disillusionment

Look At That Battle You Are Involved In; You Are Caught In It: You Are It.

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

As We Are - The World Is.

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