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Freedom Is Entirely Different From Revolt. There Is No Such Thing As Doing Right Or Wrong When There Is Freedom. You Are Free And From That Centre You Act.

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Freedom Is Entirely Different From Revolt. There Is No Such Thing As Doing Right Or Wrong When There Is Freedom. You Are Free And From That Centre You Act.

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You Want To Be Loved Because You Do Not Love; But The Moment You Love, It Is Finished, You Are No Longer Inquiring Whether Or Not Somebody Loves You.

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

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Being Discontented, We Either Seek A Different Job Or Merely Succumb To Environment...instead Of Causing Us To Question Life, The Whole Process Of Existence.

When I Said That I Am The Buddha, The Christ, The Lord Maitreya, And More, It Was Not A Question Of Superiority Or Inferiority. I Added That Phrase 'and More' Very Carefully, Because I Knew That People Had A Very Limited Understanding Of The Buddha And The Christ, And Hence If I Said: 'i Am The Christ, The Buddha', They Would Limit That Reality To Their Own Conceptions Of The Buddha Or The Christ, And Life Has No Limit.

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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.

After All, Without Understanding Yourself, What Basis Have You For Right Thinking?

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.

To Understand The Present With Its Full, Rich Significance, The Mind Must Free Itself From The Habit Of Self-protecting Acquisition; When It Is Utterly Naked, Then There Is Immortality.

Freedom Is Now Or Never.

The Significance Of Life Is Living.

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Perception Without The Word, Which Is Without Thought, Is One Of The Strangest Phenomena. Then The Perception Is Much More Acute, Not Only With The Brain, But Also With All The Senses. Such Perception Is Not The Fragmentary Perception Of The Intellect Nor The Affair Of The Emotions. It Can Be Called A Total Perception, And It Is Part Of Meditation.

Knowledge Is An Addiction, As Drink; Knowledge Does Not Bring Understanding. Knowledge Can Be Taught, But Not Wisdom; There Must Be Freedom From Knowledge For The Coming Of Wisdom.

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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.

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.

Psychological Knowledge Has Made Us Dull.

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

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.

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.

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.

This Is No Magnificent Deed, Because I Do Not Want Followers, And I Mean This. The Moment You Follow Someone You Cease To Follow Truth. I Am Not Concerned Whether You Pay Attention To What I Say Or Not. I Want To Do A Certain Thing In The World And I Am Going To Do It With Unwavering Concentration. I Am Concerning Myself With Only One Essential Thing: To Set Man Free. I Desire To Free Him From All Cages, From All Fears, And Not To Found Religions, New Sects, Nor To Establish New Theories And New Philosophies.

Without An Integrated Understanding Of Life, Our Individual And Collective Problems Will Only Deepen And Extend. The Purpose Of Education Isn't To Produce Mere Scholars, Technicians And Job Hunters, But Integrated Men And Women Who Are Free Of Fear; For Only Between Such Human Beings Can There Be Enduring Peace.

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

Did You Ever Sit Quietly With Your Back Straight, Not Moving, Just Only Cherishing The Beauty Of Silence?

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.

To Understand The Totality Of This Extraordinary Thing Called Life, One Must Obviously Not Be Too Definite About These Things. One Cannot Be Definite With Something Which Is So Immense, Which Is Not Measurable By Words. We Cannot Understand The Immeasurable So Long As We Approach It Through Time.

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If You Realize That The Ultimate Happiness For All Depends Not On Disorder Of The Emotions For Either Sex, But In Harmonizing The Emotions, All The Problems Will Vanish.

Thought Is So Cunning, So Clever, That It Distorts Everything For Its Own Convenience.

Seeing, Observing, Listening, These Are The Greatest Acts

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

It Is More Important To Find Out What You Are Giving To Society Than To Ask What Is The Right Means Of Livelihood.

Ugliness Is A Lack Of Harmony, Assuredly. And Evil Is The Same Thing Of Course.

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

Religion Is The Frozen Thought Of Man Out Of Which They Build Temples.

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.

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.

And The Point Is, Is It Possible For The Mind To Be Totally Free From Suffering And Yet Not Become Indifferent, Callous, Irresponsible, But To Have That Passion, The Intensity, The Energy That Freedom Brings, Freedom From Suffering.

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

To Understand Yourself Is The Beginning Of Wisdom.

Are You Trying To Grasp The Quality Of Intelligence, Compassion, The Immense Sense Of Beauty, The Perfume Of Love And That Truth Which Has No Path To It?

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

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

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The Earth Doesn't Belong To Anyone. It Is The Land Upon Which All Of Us Are To Live For Many Years, Ploughing, Reaping And Destroying. You Are Always A Guest On This Earth And Have The Austerity Of A Guest. Austerity Is Far Deeper Than Owning Only A Few Things. The Very Word Austerity Has Been Spoilt By The Monks, By The Sannyasis, By The Hermits. Sitting On That High Hill Alone In The Solitude Of Many Things, Many Rocks And Little Animals And Ants, That Word Has No Meaning.

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Is The Ground A Philosophical Concept? Has Mind A Relationship To The Ground? Is It An Idea To Be Investigated? Is The Ground Put Together By Thought?

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

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

To Know Yourself You Need Not Go To Any Book, To Any Priest, To Any Psychologist. The Whole Treasure Is Within Yourself.

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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.

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

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

What Is Needed, Rather Than Running Away Or Controlling Or Suppressing Or Any Other Resistance, Is Understanding Fear; That Means, Watch It, Learn About It, Come Directly Into Contact With It. We Are To Learn About Fear, Not How To Escape From It.

Surely Education Has No Meaning Unless It Helps You Understand The Vast Experience Of Life With All Its Subtleties, With Its Extraordinary Beauty, Its Sorrows And Joys. You May Earn Degrees, You May Have A Series Of Letters After Your Name And Land A Good Job, But Then What? What Is The Point Of It All If In The Process Your Mind Becomes Dull, Weary, Stupid?

Extraordinary Beauty

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

The Observer Is The Observed.

The Reality Is That I Am The Teacher.

Nothing Can Disturb The Calm Peace Of My Soul.

Truth Is More In The Process Than In The Result.

Everyone Must Go Through All Experiences But They Need Not Go Through Them All In Reality -they Can Do It Vicariously, By Imagination.

Meditation Is The Emptying Of The Mind Of All The Things That The Mind Has Put Together. If You Do That -perhaps You Won't, But It Doesn't Matter, Just Listen To This- You Will Find That There Is An Extraordinary Space In The Mind, And That Space Is Freedom. So You Must Demand Freedom At The Very Beginning, And Not Just Wait, Hoping To Have It At The End. You Must Seek Out The Significance Of Freedom In Your Work, In Your Relationships, In Everything That You Do. Then You Will Find That Meditation Is Creation.

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.

Can Thought Be Silent?

To Understand Oneself Requires Patience, Tolerant Awareness; The Self Is A Book Of Many Volumes Which You Cannot Read In A Day, But When Once You Begin To Read, You Must Read Every Word, Every Sentence, Every Paragraph For In Them Are The Intimations Of The Whole. The Beginning Of It Is The Ending Of It. If You Know How To Read, Supreme Wisdom Is To Be Found.

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

Conflict Exists Only When There Are Two Opposing Things: Fear And Non-fear, Violence And Non-violence.

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

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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.

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.

Energy Functioning In A Pattern Becomes Matter. That Is All Life Is... Matter And Energy Are Interrelated.

The Description Is Not The Described; I Can Describe The Mountain, But The Description Is Not The Mountain, And If You Are Caught Up In The Description, As Most People Are, Then You Will Never See The Mountain

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

You Cannot Say That All Experience Is Of Equal Value For All People.

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When One Loses The Deep Intimate Relationship With Nature, Then Temples, Mosques And Churches Become Important.

Truth Is A Pathless Land.

You Can Only Be Afraid Of What You Think You Know.

You Think You Know

Goodness Is Not In The Backyard Of The Individual Nor In The Open Field Of The Collective; Goodness Flowers Only In Freedom From Both.

When I Analyse Myself And My Reactions Or Behaviour, There Is The Act And The Actor. There Is A Division Between The Two And That Creates Conflict Between "what Is" And "what Should Be".

Buddha Called Himself 'the Enlightened One' And Jesus Called Himself 'the Son Of God'. To Me The Term 'world-teacher' Is Of As Little Importance As 'the Son Of God' Or 'the Enlightened One'.

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

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.

Analysis Does Not Transform Consciousness.

To Live Humanly, Sanely, One Has To Change.

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

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

As Long As You Are Held Within A Pattern You Must Create Disorder In The World.

As Long As The Mind Is Seeking To Fill Itself, It Will Always Be Empty. When The Mind Is No Longer Concerned With Filling Its Own Emptiness, Then Only Does That Emptiness Cease To Be.

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.

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.

We Are Asking A Really Fundamental Question Whether Thought Can Ever Be Creative. If Thought Is Not The Ground Of Creation Then What Is Creation? Is Love The Only Factor That Is Creative?

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

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

Thought Is Matter As Much As The Floor, The Wall, The Telephone, Are Matter.

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."

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.

We Have So Committed Ourselves In Different Ways That We Have Hardly Any Time For Self-reflection, To Observe, To Study.

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.

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.

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

Tradition, Long Conditioned Thinking, Can Bring About A Fixation, A Concept That One Readily Accepts, Perhaps Not With A Great Deal Of Thought.

Can You Look At A Flower Without Thinking?

Right Education Should Help The Student, Not Only To Develop His Capacities, But To Understand His Own Highest Interest.

A Cup Is Useful Only When It Is Empty; And A Mind That Is Filled With Beliefs, With Dogmas, With Assertions, With Quotations Is Really An Uncreative Mind.

There Is Not First Understanding And Then Action. When You Understand, That Very Understanding Is Action.

Meditation Is Not The Pursuit Of An Invisible Path Leading To Some Imaginal Bliss. The Meditative Mind Is Seeing, Watching, Listening, Without The Word, Without Comment, Without Opinion, Attentive To The Movement Of Life In All Its Relationships Throughout The Day.

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.

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

Without Total Freedom, Every Perception, Every Objective Regard, Is Twisted. It Is Only The Man Who Is Totally Free That Can Look And Understand Immediately. Freedom Implies Really, Doesn't It, The Total Emptying Of The Mind. To Completely Empty The Whole Content Of The Mind — That Is Real Freedom.

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

Truth Does Not Belong To An Individual.

One Of The Functions Of Thought Is To Be Occupied All The Time With Something. Most Of Us Want To Have Our Minds Continually Occupied So That We Are Prevented From Seeing Ourselves As We Actually Are. We Are Afraid To Be Empty. We Are Afraid To Look At Our Fears.

Put Away The Book, The Description, The Tradition, The Authority, And Take The Journey Of Self-discovery. Love, And Don't Be Caught In Opinions And Ideas About What Love Is Or Should Be. When You Love, Everything Will Come Right. Love Has Its Own Action.

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.

Insight Is Not A Matter Of Memory, Of Knowledge And Time, Which Are All Thought.

What Is Correct Action In A Deteriorating World?

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.

Our Relationship

Aloneness Is Obviously Not Isolation, And It Is Not Uniqueness. To Be Unique Is Merely To Be Exceptional In Some Way, Whereas To Be Completely Alone Demands Extraordinary Sensitivity, Intelligence, Understanding.

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

You Can Look Only When The Mind Is Completely Quiet.

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.

Joy Is Something Entirely Different From Pleasure.

The Word 'innocence' Means 'incapable Of Being Hurt'. To Have A Mind That Is Not Capable Of Being Hurt, Does Not Mean That It Has Built Up A Lot Of Resistance - On The Contrary, Such A Mind Is Dying To Everything That It Has Known In Which There Has Been Conflict, Pleasure And Pain. Only Then Is The Mind Innocent; That Means It Can Love. You Cannot Love With Memory, Love Is Not A Matter Of Remembrance, Of Time.

Freedom Is Entirely Different From Revolt. There Is No Such Thing As Doing Right Or Wrong When There Is Freedom. You Are Free And From That Centre You Act.

If We Want To Change Existing Conditions, We Must First Transform Ourselves, Which Means That We Must Become Aware Of Our Own Actions, Thoughts And Feelings In Everyday Life.

Meditation Is The Action Of Silence.

The Authority Of A Belief Imposed By Religion Surely Destroys The Discovery Of Reality.one Relies On Authority Because One Is Afraid To Stand Alone.

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

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.

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

There Is Always Great Beauty, Not Of Images, Feeling Or Thought. Beauty Is Neither Thought Nor Feeling; It Has Nothing Whatsoever To Do With Emotion Or Sentiment. There Is Fear. Fear Is Never An Actuality; It Is Either Before Or After The Active Present. When There Is Fear In The Active Present, Is It Fear? It Is There And There Is No Escape From It, No Evasion Possible. There, At That Actual Moment, There Is Total Attention At The Moment Of Danger, Physical Or Psychological.

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.

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?

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

Imagination Builds The Image Of The Self, And Thought Then Functions Within Its Shadows. From This Self-concept Grows The Conflict Between What Is And What Should Be, The Conflict In Duality.

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

When We Suffer We Have Made It Into A Personal Affair. We Shut Out All The Suffering Of Mankind.

In Awareness There Is No Becoming, There Is No End To Be Gained. There Is Silent Observation Without Choice And Condemnation, From Which There Comes Understanding.

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.

Meditation Is The Process Of Understanding Your Own Mind.

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.

Pain Itself Destroys Pain. Suffering Itself Frees Man From Suffering.

If You Would Listen, Sir, In The Sense Of Being Aware Of Your Conflicts And Contradictions Without Forcing Them Into Any Particular Pattern Of Thought, Perhaps They Might Altogether Cease.

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.

And It Is Impossible To Treat Human Beings As Human Beings If You Label Them, If You Term Them, If You Give Them A Name As Hindus, Russians, Or What You Will. It Is So Much Easier To Label People, For Then You Can Pass By And Kick Them, Drop A Bomb On India Or Japan.

If You Lose Touch With Nature You Lose Touch With Humanity. If There's No Relationship With Nature Then You Become A Killer; Then You Kill Baby Seals, Whales, Dolphins, And Man Either For Gain, For "sport," For Food, Or For Knowledge. Then Nature Is Frightened Of You, Withdrawing Its Beauty. You May Take Long Walks In The Woods Or Camp In Lovely Places But You Are A Killer And So Lose Their Friendship. You Probably Are Not Related To Anything To Your Wife Or Your Husband.

Student: Sir, You Said You Must Change The World. How Can You Change It, Sir? Krishnamurti: What Is The World? The World Is Where You Live - Your Family, Your Friends, Your Neighbours. And Your Family, Your Friends, Your Neighbours Can Be Extended And That Is The World. Now, You Are The Centre Of That World. That Is The World You Live In. Now How Will You Change The World? By Changing Yourself?

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?

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

The Mind Has To Be Empty To See Clearly.

If You Wish To Produce A Perfect Rose, You Must Cut Off The Other Buds Which Are Spoiling The Growth Of The Perfect Flower.

Meditation, Then, Is A State Of Mind In Which The 'me' Is Absent. And Therefore That Very Absence Brings Order.

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.

Here Is My Secret: I Don't Mind What Happens.

Learning Is The Very Essence Of Humility . . .

Does A Human Being Know The Responsibility He Has To Himself And To All Of Mankind

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

Fear Is The Process Of The Mind In The Struggle Of Becoming. In Becoming Good There Is The Fear Of Evil; In Becoming Complete, There Is The Fear Of Loneliness.

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.

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.

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