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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.

-Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Do You Know That

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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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.

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Transformation Can Only Take Place Immediately; The Revolution Is Now, Not Tomorrow.

Fear Is Not Of The Unknown, But Of Loss Of The Known.

Good Heredity And Environment Are Necessary. You Cannot Compare The Child Of A Savage With The Child Of A Civilized Person.

Heredity And Environment

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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.

You Yourself Are The Teacher, And The Pupil, You're The Master, You're The Guru, You Are The Leader, You Are Everything! And, To Understand Is To Transform What Is.

All Authority Of Any Kind, Especially In The Field Of Thought And Understanding, Is The Most Destructive, Evil Thing. Leaders Destroy The Followers And Followers Destroy The Leaders. You Have To Be Your Own Teacher And Your Own Disciple. You Have To Question Everything That Man Has Accepted As Valuable, As Necessary.

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

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

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.

Living Is Not This Tawdry, Mediocre, Disciplined Thing Which We Call Our Existence. Living Is Something Entirely Different; It Is Abundantly Rich, Timelessly Changing, And As Long As We Don't Understand That Eternal Movement, Our Lives Are Bound To Have Very Little Meaning.

The Crisis Is Not Out There In The World, It Is Within Our Own Consciousness.

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

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

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

A Dialogue Is Very Important. It Is A Form Of Communication In Which Question And Answer Continue Till A Question Is Left Without An Answer. Thus The Question Is Suspended Between The Two Persons Involved In This Answer And Question. It Is Like A Bud With Untouched Blossoms . . . If The Question Is Left Totally Untouched By Thought, It Then Has Its Own Answer Because The Questioner And Answerer, As Persons, Have Disappeared. This Is A Form Of Dialogue In Which Investigation Reaches A Certain Point Of Intensity And Depth, Which Then Has A Quality That Thought Can Never Reach.

The Difference Between Me And You Is... That I Don't Mind What Happens.

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.

But Inwardly We Are As Corrupt As The Person Who Sits In An Office And Plans War-because, We Want To Be Somebody In The Family, In A Group, In Society, In The Nation.

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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?

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Goodness, Generosity, Or Love Does Not Come Into Being Save Through The Search For Reality.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

What Is Correct Action In A Deteriorating World?

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Your Belief In God Is Merely An Escape From Your Monotonous, Stupid And Cruel Life.

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.

It Is Only Those Who Are In Constant Revolt That Discover What Is True, Not The Man Who Conforms, Who Follows Some Tradition. It Is Only When You Are Constantly Inquiring, Constantly Observing, Constantly Learning, That You Find Truth, God, Or Love.

It Is Love Alone That Leads To Right Action. What Brings Order In The World Is To Love And Let Love Do What It Will.

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

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.

Fear Exists In The Process Of Accumulation And Belief In Something Is Part Of The Accumulative Process.

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

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.

To Learn About Oneself, A Living Thing, You Have To Watch, Learn Anew Each Minute.

A Consistent Thinker Is A Thoughtless Person, Because He Conforms To A Pattern; He Repeats Phrases And Thinks In A Groove.

Meditation Is The Action Of Silence.

So Let Us Decide Whether You Want A Shelter, A Safety Zone, Which Will No Longer Yield Conflict, Whether You Want To Escape From The Present Conflict To Enter A Condition In Which There Shall Be No Conflict; Or Whether You Are Unaware, Unconscious Of This Conflict In Which You Exist. If You Are Unconscious Of The Conflict, That Is, The Battle That Is Taking Place Between That Self And The Environment, If You Are Unconscious Of That Battle, Then Why Do You Seek Further Remedies? Remain Unconscious.

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.

We Should Awaken Feelings Of Respect For Each Other. In Other Words, Awaken The Desire To Kill Selfishness.

True Understanding Is Possible Only When We Are Fully Conscious Of Our Thought, Not As An Operative Observer On This Thought, But Completely And Without The Intervention Of A Choice.

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