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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.

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Meditation Is Not The

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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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.

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Extraordinary Beauty

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

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Our Relationship

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

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?

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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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Those Who Play A Safe Game Die Very Safely.

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

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

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

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

Meditation Is Not A Withdrawal From Life. Meditation Is A Process Of Understanding Oneself.

What Meaning Has Such Meditation? There Is No Meaning; There Is No Utility. But In That Meditation There Is A Movement Of Great Ecstasy Which Is Not To Be Confounded With Pleasure. It Is This Ecstasy Which Gives To The Eye, To The Brain And To The Heart, The Quality Of Innocency. Without Seeing Life As Something Totally New, It Is A Routine, A Boredom, A Meaningless Affair. So Meditation Is Of The Greatest Importance. It Opens The Door To The Incalculable, To The Measureless.

If You Find Out What It Is You Love To Do And Give Your Whole Life To It, Then There Is No Contradiction, And In That State Your Being Is Your Doing.

What Brings Understanding Is Love. When Your Heart Is Full, Then You Will Listen To The Teacher, To The Beggar, To The Laughter Of Children, To The Rainbow, And To The Sorrow Of Man. Under Every Stone And Leaf, That Which Is Eternal Exists.

The World Is Me And I Am The World.

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

Not To Know Is The Beginning Of Wisdom.

Be A Light Unto Oneself

In Oneself Lies The Whole World And If You Know How To Look And Learn, The Door Is There And The Key Is In Your Hand. Nobody On Earth Can Give You Either The Key Or The Door To Open, Except Yourself.

In The Search For Reality, Energy Creates Its Own Discipline. But Mere Discipline, Without Full Comprehension Of All This, Has No Meaning, It Is A Most Destructive Thing.

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.

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.

Is It Possible To Observe Without The Observer?

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

Heredity And Environment

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.

Compassion Being Action Without Motive, Without Self-interest, Without Any Sense Of Fear, Without Any Sense Of Pleasure.

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.

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.

Intuition Is The Whisper Of The Soul.

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

There Is No Partial Sensitivity; Either It Is The State Of One's Whole Being, Total Consciousness Or It Is Not There At All

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

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.

Meditation Is The Process Of Understanding Your Own Mind.

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?

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

Meditation Practice

Love May Be The Ultimate Solution To All Man's Difficulties, Problems And Travails.

Truth Is A Pathless Land, And You Cannot Approach It By Any Path Whatsoever, By Any Religion, By Any Sect ... Your Have To Be Your Own Teacher And Your Own Disciple. You Have To Question Everything That Man Has Accepted As Valuable, As Necessary.

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 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.

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

Relationship Is Action, Is It Not? Action Has Meaning Only In Relationship; Without Understanding Relationship, Action On Any Level Will Only Breed Conflict. The Understanding Of Relationship Is Infinitely More Important Than The Search For Any Plan Of Action. The Ideology, The Pattern For Action, Prevents Action. Action Based On Ideology Hinders The Understanding Of Relationship Between Man And Man.

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

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

You Know, In The Case Of Most Of Us, The Mind Is Noisy, Everlastingly Chattering To Itself, Soliloquizing Or Chattering About Something, Or Trying To Talk To Itself, To Convince Itself Of Something; It Is Always Moving, Noisy.

Without Knowing Yourself, There Is No Peace.

Tell Your Friend That In His Death, A Part Of You Dies And Goes With Him. Wherever He Goes, You Also Go. He Will Not Be Alone.

It Is Important To Understand, Not Intellectually But Actually In Your Daily Life, How You Have Built Images About Your Wife, Your Husband, Your Neighbor, Your Child, Your Country, Your Leaders, Your Politicians, Your Gods-you Have Nothing But Images. The Images Create The Space Between You And What You Observe And In That Space There Is Conflict, So What We Are Going To Find Out Now Together Is Whether It Is Possible To Be Free Of The Space We Create, Not Only Outside Ourselves But In Ourselves, The Space Which Divides People In All Their Relationships.

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.

Am I Caught In A Self-centred, Narrow Little Cell Which Refuses To Look Beyond? Do I See It When You Come Along And Tell Me That My Brain Is The Brain Of All Mankind?

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.

The Mind Gives Meaning To Anything But The Meaning It Gives Is Meaningless.

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

You Cannot Prevent A Man Getting Drunk If He Wishes To Do So, But When He Becomes A Nuisance, Then You Interfere.

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.

A Mind That Is Disciplined, Controlled, Is Free Within Its Own Pattern; But That Is Not Freedom. The End Of Discipline Is Conformity; Its Path Leads To The Known, And The Known Is Never The Free.

To Be Is To Be Related.

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

We Demand To Be Coaxed And Comforted, To Be Encouraged And Gratified, So We Choose A Teacher Who Will Give Us What We Crave For. We Do Not Search Out Reality, But Go After Gratification And Sensation.

There Is An Art Of Seeing Things As They Are: Without Naming, Without Being Caught In A Network Of Words, Without Thinking Interfering With Perception.

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

When You Are Free, You Have No Choice.

When An Artist Paints A Picture He Does Not Want You To Consider His Personality As Represented In That Picture - He Wants You To Look At The Beauty Of That Picture. No One Cares Who Has Painted The Picture As Long As It Is Beautiful.

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.

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

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

To Understand What Is Right Meditation There Must Be An Awareness Of The Operation Of One's Own Consciousness, And Then There Is Complete Attention.

Any Acceptance Of Authority Is The Very Denial Of Truth.

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.

The Guru Cannot Awaken You; All That He Can Do Is To Point Out What Is.

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.

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

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

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

Can You Look At A Flower Without Thinking?

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

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

Fear Is Nonacceptance Of What Is.

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