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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.

-Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Have You Ever Noticed

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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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.

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A Mind That Practices Love Cannot Love.

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

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To Understand Yourself Is The Beginning Of Wisdom.

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

You May Be Perfect In Playing The Piano, And Not Be Creative; You May Play The Piano Most Brilliantly, And Not Be A Musician. You May Be Able To Handle Color, To Put Paint On Canvas Most Cleverly, And Not Be A Creative Painter. You May Create A Face, An Image Out Of A Stone, Because You Have Learned The Technique, And Not Be A Master Creator. Creation Comes First, Not Technique.

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

If You Begin To Understand What You Are Without Trying To Change It, Then What You Are Undergoes A Transformation.

In The Space Which Thought Creates Around Itself There Is No Love. This Space Divides Man From Man, And In It Is All The Becoming, The Battle Of Life, The Agony And Fear. Meditation Is The Ending Of This Space, The Ending Of The Me.

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.

National Discord Is, Like Religion, A Standardized Form Of Revolt; And The Moment A Revolt Is Standardized, It Is No Longer A Revolt.

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

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.

Truth Is Not A Matter Of Argumentation And Conviction; It Is Not The Outcome Of Opinion.

Without Freedom, There Is No Creation.

Only When The Mind Is Still, Tranquil, Not Expecting Or Grasping Or Resisting A Single Thing, Is It Possible To See What Is True. It Is The Truth That Liberates, Not Your Effort To Be Free.

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.

So, To Meditate Is To Purge The Mind Of Its Self-centered Activity. And If You Have Come This Far In Meditation, You Will Find There Is Silence, A Total Emptiness. The Mind Is Uncontaminated By Society; It Is No Longer Subject To Any Influence, To The Pressure Of Any Desire. It Is Completely Alone, And Being Alone, Untouched It Is Innocent. Therefore There Is A Possibility For That Which Is Timeless, Eternal, To Come Into Being. This Whole Process Is Meditation.

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Training The Intellect Does Not Result In Intelligence. Intelligence Comes Into Being When One Acts In Perfect Harmony, Both Intellectually And Emotionally.

Without Understanding The Process Of The Self, There Is No Bais For Thought, There Is No Basis For Right Thinking.

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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.

As We Are Concerned With What Others Think Of Us, So We Are Anxious To Know All About Them; And From This Arise The Crude And Subtle Forms Of Snobbishness And The Worship Of Authority. Thus We Become More And More Externalized And Inwardly Empty. The More Externalized We Are, The More Sensations And Distractions There Must Be, And This Gives Rise To A Mind That Is Never Quiet, That Is Not Capable Of Deep Search And Discovery.

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.

There Is No Ideal In Observation. When You Have An Ideal, You Cease To Observe, You Are Then Merely Approximating The Present To The Idea, And Therefore There Is Duality, Conflict, And All The Rest Of It. The Mind Has To Be In The State When It Can See, Observe. The Experience Of The Observation Is Really An Astonishing State. In That There Is No Duality. The Mind Is Simply - Aware.

And As We Are - The World Is. That Is, If We Are Greedy, Envious, Competitive, Our Society Will Be Competitive, Envious, Greedy, Which Brings Misery And War. The State Is What We Are.

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.

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.

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Learning Implies A Mind That Doesn't Know.

It Is Truth That Liberates, Not Your Effort To Be Free.

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

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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.

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

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.

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

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

You Cannot Lay Down A Standard Which All Must Follow.

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.

Control Exists Only When There Is Action Of Will, Positively Or Negatively. Will Is Resistance. When The Mind Is Learning, There Is No Resistance.

Why Do You Want To Read Others' Books When There Is The Book Of Yourself?

Freedom From Something Is Not Freedom.

Silence Is Difficult And Arduous, It Is Not To Be Played With.

A Conditioned Mind May Be Inventive; It May Think Up New Ideas, New Phrases, New Gadgets; It May Build A Dam, Plan A New Society, And All The Rest Of It; But That Is Not Creativity. Creativity Is Something Much More Than The Mere Capacity To Acquire A Technique. It Is Because This Extraordinary Thing Called Creativity Is Not In Most Of Us That We Are So Shallow, Empty, Insufficient. And Only The Mind That Is Free Can Be Creative.

Freedom Of Life Does Not Mean Disorder Of Life, Does Not Mean Chaos, And Just Everyone Doing Anything He Wants. That Is Not The Freedom Of Life. The Tree, When You Give It A Chance, Protect It When It Is Young, Will Grow Straight, Because It Has Developed Its Own Resistance; But The Moment You Make It Delicate, Then It Gets Crooked.

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

Teaching Is Not The Mere Imparting Of Information But The Cultivation Of An Inquiring Mind Which Will Penetrate Into The Question Of What Is Religion And Not Merely Accept The Established Religions, Churches, And Rituals.

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

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.

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

Put Away The Book, The Description, The Tradition, The Authority, And Take The Journey Of Self-discovery.

Despair Exists Only When There Is Hope.

The Ending Of Sorrow Is The Beginning Of Wisdom. Knowledge Is Always Within The Shadow Of Ignorance. Meditation Is Freedom From Thought And A Movement In The Ecstasy Of Truth. Meditation Is Explosion Of Intelligence.

Our Brains Are So Conditioned Through Education, Through Religion, To Think We Are Separate Entities With Separate Souls And So On. We Are Not Individuals At All. We Are The Result Of Thousands Of Years Of Human Experience, Human Endeavor And Struggle.

Is Not Virtue A Negation Of Becoming?

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.

That Is, When The Mind Ceases To Create, Then There 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.

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.

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

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.

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

Relationship Is A Mirror In Which You Can See Yourself, Not As You Would Wish To Be, But As You Are.

If You Seem Something That Is True And Do Not Act Then You Are Wasting Your Life. And Life Is Too Precious. It Is All That We Have.

If People Are Foolish, They Are Bound To Mix The Personality And The Truth, And To Build A Temple Around The Personality And Form A Religion.

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

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.

How Is The Mind Which Functions On Knowledge How Is The Brain Which Is Recording All The Time To End, To See The Importance Of Recording And Not Let It Move In Any Other Direction? Very Simply: You Insult Me, You Hurt Me, By Word, Gesture, By An Actual Act; That Leaves A Mark On The Brain Which Is Memory. That Memory Is Knowledge, That Knowledge Is Going To Interfere In My Meeting You Next Time Obviously.

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

We Never See A Tree Except Through The Image That We Have Of It, The Concept Of That Tree; But The Concept, The Knowledge, The Experience, Is Entirely Different From The Actual Tree. Look At A Tree And You Will Find How Extraordinarily Difficult It Is To See It Completely, So That No Image, No Screen, Comes Between The Seeing And The Actual Fact. By Completely I Mean With The Totality Of Your Mind And Heart, Not A Fragment Of It.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

You Can Look Only When The Mind Is Completely Quiet.

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?

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.

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.

Goodness Has No Opposite. Most Of Us Consider Goodness As The Opposite Of The Bad Or Evil And So Throughout History In Any Culture Goodness Has Been Considered The Other Face Of That Which Is Brutal. So Man Has Always Struggled Against Evil In Order To Be Good; But Goodness Can Never Come Into Being If There Is Any Form Of Violence Or Struggle.

There Is No End To Education. It Is Not That You Read A Book, Pass An Examination, And Finish With Education. The Whole Of Life, From The Moment You Are Born To The Moment You Die, Is A Process Of Learning.

The Very Desire To Be Certain,to Be Secure,is The Beginning Of Bondage.it's Only When The Mind Is Not Caught In The Net Of Certainty,and Is Not Seeking Certainty, That It Is In A State Of Discovery.

To Seek Fulfillment Is To Invite Frustration.

If I Want To Understand Something, I Must Observe, I Must Not Criticize, I Must Not Condemn, I Must Not Pursue It As Pleasure Or Avoid It As Non-pleasure. There Must Merely Be The Silent Observation Of A Fact.

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.'

I Think It Is Absurd To Give Such Tremendous Importance To The Distinctions Between Men And Women. When I Meet Someone I Regard That Person As A Human Being. I Do Not Say "this Is A Man; This Is A Woman."

Without Freedom From The Past, There Is No Freedom To All.

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.

We Carry About Us The Burden Of What Thousands Of People Have Said And The Memories Of All Our Misfortunes. To Abandon All That Is To Be Alone, And The Mind That Is Alone Is Not Only Innocent But Young -- Not In Time Or Age, But Young, Innocent, Alive At Whatever Age -- And Only Such A Mind Can See That Which Is Truth And That Which Is Not Measurable By Words.

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