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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.

-Jiddu Krishnamurti

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The Creative Knows The

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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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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Surely Love Has Nothing To Do With The Mind, It Is Not The Product Of The Mind; Love Is Entirely Independent Of Calculation, Of Thought.

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.

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.

What You Believe You Experience.

Why Are We Such Tortured Human Beings, With Tears In Our Eyes And False Laughter On Our Lips? If You Could Walk Alone Among Those Hills Or In The Woods Or Along The Long, White, Bleached Sands, In That Solitude You Would Know What Meditation Is. The Ecstasy Of Solitude Comes When You Are Not Frightened To Be Alone No Longer Belonging To The World Or Attached To Anything. Then, Like That Dawn That Came Up This Morning, It Comes Silently, And Makes A Golden Path In The Very Stillness, Which Was At The Beginning, Which Is Now, And Which Will Be Always There.

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

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.

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.

Understanding Knowledge

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

Whether We Call Ourselves Communists Or Capitalists, Hindus Or Buddhists, Moslems Or Christians, Whether We Are Blind, Lame, Well Or Happy, This Earth Is Ours...not Somebody Else's...it Is Not Only The Rich Man's Earth, But Our Earth...yours And Mine.

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

The End Is The Beginning Of All Things, Suppressed And Hidden, Awaiting To Be Released Through The Rhythm Of Pain And Pleasure.

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

Begin Where You Are. Read Every Word, Every Phrase, Every Paragraph Of The Mind, As It Operates Through Thought.

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

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.

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

I Maintain That Truth Is A Pathless Land, And You Cannot Approach It By Any Path Whatsoever, By Any Religion, By Any Sect.

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.'

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

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

Each Breath Is Transforming Me Into Thine Image.

Can The Mind Resolve A Psychological Problem Immediately?

One Does Not Concern Oneself With The Expressions, But Rather With Life. You Are Looking At Life Through The Wrong End Of The Telescope When You Look At The Expressions Of Life.

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

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.

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

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

Governments Want Efficient Technicians, Not Human Beings, Because Human Beings Become Dangerous To Governments – And To Organized Religions As Well. That Is Why Governments And Religious Organizations Seek To Control Education.

Without Knowing Myself, I Have No Real Basis For Thinking.

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

Learning Implies A Mind That Doesn't Know.

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.

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.

Meditation Is One Of The Greatest Arts In Life - Perhaps The Greatest, And One Cannot Possibly Learn It From Anybody, That Is The Beauty Of It.

You Would Never Hear Any Song Played Twice In The Same Way. The Words Were Retained, But Within A Certain Frame There Was Great Latitude, And The Musician Could Improvise To His Heart's Content; And The More The Variations And Combinations, The Greater The Musician.

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

Are You Aware Of The Significance Of Every Thought, Of Every Reaction That You Happen To Have?

There Is No Such Thing As Living Alone, For All Living Is Relationship; But To Live Without Direct Relationship Demands High Intelligence, A Swifter And Greater Awareness For Self-discovery.

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.

Meditation Is Not The Pursuit Of Pleasure And The Search For Happiness. Meditation, On The Contrary, Is A State Of Mind In Which There Is No Concept Or Formula, And Therefore Total Freedom. It Is Only To Such A Mind That This Bliss Comes Unsought And Uninvited. Once It Is There, Though You May Live In The World With All Its Noise, Pleasure And Brutality, They Will Not Touch That Mind.

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.

It Is A Great Art To Have An Abundance Of Knowledge And Experience - To Know The Richness Of Life, The Beauty Of Existence, The Struggles, The Miseries, The Laughter, The Tears - And Yet Keep Your Mind Very Simple; And You Can Have A Simple Mind Only When You Know How To Love.

Until A Radical Change Takes Place And We Wipe Out All Nationalities, All Ideologies, All Religious Divisions, And Establish A Global Relationship - Psychologically First, Inwardly Before Organizing The Outer - We Shall Go On With Wars.

When We Stop Fighting With Ourselves, We Aren't Creating Anymore Conflict In Our Mind. Then Our Mind Can For The First Time Relax And Be Still. Then For The First Time Our Consciousness Can Become Whole And Unfragmented. Then Total Attention Can Be Given To All Of Our Thoughts And Feelings. And Then There Will Be Found A Gentleness And A Goodness In Us That Can Embrace All That Is Been Given In The World. Then A Deep Love For Everything Will Be The Result Of This Deep Attention. For This Total Attention, This Soft And Pure Consciousness That We Are, Is Nothing But Love Itself.

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When One Has An Image About Oneself One Is Surely Insane, One Lives In A World Of Illusion.

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You Can Look Only When The Mind Is Completely Quiet.

A Mind That Practices Love Cannot Love.

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Knowledge About Yourself Binds, Weighs, Ties You Down; There Is No Freedom To Move, And You Act And Move Within The Limits Of Thatknowledge. Learning About Yourself Is Never The Same As Accumulating Knowledge About Yourself. Learning Is Active Present And Knowledge Is The Past; If You Are Learning To Accumulate, It Ceases To Be Learning; Knowledge Is Static, More Can Be Added To It Or Taken Away From It, But Learning Is Active, Nothing Can Be Added Or Taken Away From It For There Is No Accumulation At Any Time.

Awareness Is That State Of Mind Which Takes In Everything-the Crows Flying Across The Sky, The Flowers On The Trees, The People Sitting In Front, The Colors They Are Wearing - Being Extensively Aware, Which Needs Watching, Observing, Taking In The Shape Of The Leaf, The Shape Of The Trunk, The Shape Of The Head Of Another, What He Is Doing.

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

I Do Not Know If You Have Ever Noticed That The More You Struggle To Understand, The Less You Understand Any Problem. But, The Moment You Cease To Struggle And Let The Problem Tell You The Whole Story, Give All Its Significance - Then There Is Understanding, Which Means, Obviously, That To Understand, The Mind Must Be Quiet.

I Don't Mind What Happens. That Is The Essence Of Inner Freedom. It Is A Timeless Spiritual Truth: Release Attachment To Outcomes, Deep Inside Yourself, You'll Feel Good No Matter What.

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?

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.

True Education Is To Learn How To Think, Not What To Think. If You Know How To Think, If You Really Have That Capacity, Then You Are A Free Human Being-free Of Dogmas, Superstitions, Ceremonies-and Therefore You Can Find Out What Religion Is.

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.

There Can Only Be A Relationship Between Human Beings When We Accept What Is, Not What Should Be.

Does Life Continue Beyond The Door? The Fulfilment Of Life Is Not Annihilation - On The Contrary - I Am Much More Ambitious, Much More Desirous, Much More Eager Than You Are. It Is Life. Therefore It Cannot Be Annihilation, For You Cannot Annihilate Life!

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

Is It Possible To Live In This World Without The Operation Of Will?

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.

The Society In Which We Live Is The Result Of Our Psychological State.

Meditation Is Not A Means To An End. It Is Both The Means And The End.

Without Knowing Yourself, There Is No Peace.

Freedom From Something Is Not Freedom.

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.

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.

After All You Grow By Experience. But While Your Son Is Young, You Should Try To Set Before Him His Ultimate Goal.

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

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.

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."

It Is Only In A Very Quiet Mind That Great Things Are Born; And A Quiet Mind Does Not Come About Through Effort, Through Control, Through Discipline.

You May Be Ignorant Of All The Books In The World, And I Hope You Are, Of All The Latest Theories, But That Is Not Ignorance.

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.

Is There A Meditation That Is Not The Ego Trying To Become? Is Meditation Conscious If Every Effort Implies Time?

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

The Fact Is There Is Nothing That You Can Trust; And That Is A Terrible Fact, Whether You Like It Or Not. Psychologically There Is Nothing In The World, That You Can Put Your Faith, Your Trust, Or Your Belief In. Neither Your Gods, Nor Your Science Can Save You, Can Bring You Psychological Certainty; And You Have To Accept That You Can Trust In Absolutely Nothing.

Take A Journey Into The Things Which You Are Carrying, The Known- Not Into The Unknown-into What You Already Know: Your Pleasures, Your Delights, Your Despairs, Your Sorrows. Take A Journey Into That, That Is All You Have.

In The Space Which Thought Creates Around Itself There Is No Love. This Space Divides Man From Man.

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.

Discipline Is Necessary To Curb The Mind, Otherwise There Is No Peace.

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 More You Know Yourself, The More Clarity There Is.

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.

You Must Know For Yourself, Directly, The Truth Of Yourself And You Cannot Realize It Through Another, However Great. There Is No Authority That Can Reveal It.

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.

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.

Real Freedom Is Not Something To Be Acquired, It Is The Outcome Of Intelligence.

Freedom And Love Go Together. Love Is Not A Reaction. If I Love You Because You Love Me, That Is Mere Trade, A Thing To Be Bought In The Market; It Is Not Love. To Love Is Not To Ask Anything In Return, Not Even To Feel That You Are Giving Something- And It Is Only Such Love That Can Know Freedom.

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.

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.

I Am All For Changing, Even If Mistakes Are Made In The Process. Mistakes Do Not Matter.

We All Place Ourselves At Various Levels, And We Are Constantly Falling From These Heights. It Is The Falls We Are Ashamed Of. Self-esteem Is The Cause Of Our Shame, Of Our Fall. It Is This Self-esteem That Must Be Understood, And Not The Fall.

It Is Only The Religious Mind That Is A Truly Revolutionary Mind.

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

Freedom Is Now Or Never.

It Does Not In The Least Concern Me Whether I Shall Have At The End Of My Life Thirty People Who Understand Or Three Hundred. I Am Like An Artist Who Paints A Picture Because He Must, Otherwise He Is Unhappy - Not Unhappy, But He Must Obey That Creative Impulse.

Belief Creates Its Own Experience; Therefore, Such An Experience Is Not True.

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

Only The Free Mind Knows What Love Is.

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.

It Is Man's Pretence That Because He Has Choice He Is Free. Freedom Is Pure Observation Without Direction, Without Fear Of Punishment And Reward. Freedom Is Without Motive; Freedom Is Not At The End Of The Evolution Of Man But Lies In The First Step Of His Existence.

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

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

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

You Are This, Which Does Not Satisfy, So You Want To Be That. If There Were An Understanding Of This, Would That Come Into Being? Because You Do Not Understand This, You Create That, Hoping Through That To Understand Or To Escape From This.

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.

Hitler And Mussolini Were Only The Primary Spokesmen For The Attitude Of Domination And Craving For Power That Are In The Heart Of Almost Everyone. Until The Source Is Cleared, There Will Always Be Confusion And Hate, Wars And Class Antagonisms.

As Long As The Mind Is In Conflict-blaming, Resisting, Condemning-there Can Be No Understanding. If I Want To Understand You, I Must Not Condemn You, Obviously.

Truth Is A Pathless Land.

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

All Tradition Is Merely The Past.

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.

Activity That Perishes, That Is Not Productive Of The Eternal, Of The Lasting, Is Of Very Little Use.

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

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.

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.

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.

Find Out What It Means To Die - Not Physically, That's Inevitable - But To Die To Everything That Is Known, To Die To Your Family, To Your Attachments, To All The Things That You Have Accumulated, The Known, The Known Pleasures, The Known Fears. Die To That Every Minute And You Will See What It Means To Die So That The Mind Is Made Fresh, Young, And Therefore Innocent, So That There Is Incarnation Not In A Next Life, But The Next Day.

To Be Religious Is To Be Sensitive To Reality.

It Is No Measure Of Health To Be Well Adjusted To A Profoundly Sick Society. We Have Lost It, Or We Have Never Had It; And, Because We Do Not Know How To Judge Anything, We Have Been Led Here And Pushed There, Beaten Up, Driven, Politically, Religiously And Socially. We Don't Know, But It Is Difficult To Say We Don't Know.

If You Die To Everything You Know,including Your Family,yourmemory,everything You Have Felt,then Death Is A Purification,a Rejuvenating Process;then Death Brings Innocence And It Is Only The Innocent Who Are Passionate, Not The People Who Believe Or Who Want To Find Out What Happens After Death.

Is Not Virtue A Negation Of Becoming?

Does Choice Exist When I See Something Very Clearly?

Religion, Politics, Society Are Exploiting You, And You Are Being Conditioned By Them; You Are Being Forced In A Particular Direction. You Are Not Human Beings; You Are Mere Cogs In A Machine.

Intelligence Is The Capacity To Perceive The Essential, The What Is; And To Awaken This Capacity, In Oneself And In Others, Is Education.

I Would Teach My Child To Respect What Is Right - The Word Right Is A Difficult Word To Use - I Would Teach Him To Respect The Intrinsic Value Of Things. Do You See What I Mean? The True Proportion Of Things.

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

Identification With The Rag Called The National Flag Is An Emotional And Sentimental Factor And For That Factor You Are Willing To Kill Another - And That Is Called, The Love Of Your Country, Love Of The Neighbor . . .? One Can See That Where Sentiment And Emotion Come In, Love Is Not.

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

You Are Christians; Find Out What Is True And False In Christianity - And You Will Then Find Out What Is True. Find Out What Is True And False In Your Environment With All Its Oppressions And Cruelties, And Then You Will Find Out What Is True. Why Do You Want Philosophies?

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.

It's No Measure Of Health To Be Well Adjusted To A Profoundly Sick Society.

What Is Important In Meditation Is The Quality Of The Mind And The Heart.it Is Not What You Achieve, Or What You Say You Attain, But Rather The Quality Of A Mind That Is Innocent And Vulnerable.

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.

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.

Meditation Practice

How Can One Be Compassionate If You Belong To Any Religion, Follow Any Guru, Believe In Something, Believe In Your Scriptures, And So On, Attached To A Conclusion? When You Accept Your Guru, You Have Come To A Conclusion, Or When You Strongly Believe In God Or In A Saviour, This Or That, Can There Be Compassion? You May Do Social Work, Help The Poor Out Of Pity, Out Of Sympathy, Out Of Charity, But Is All That Love And Compassion?

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

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.

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

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.

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.

If Your Eyes Are Blinded With Your Worries, You Cannot See The Beauty Of The Sunset.

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.

Nothing Can Disturb The Calm Peace Of My Soul.

Can The Mind Become Completely Still Without Coercion, Without Compulsion, Without Discipline?

The Only Thing That Really Matters Is That There Be An Action Of Goodness, Love And Intelligence In Living. Is Goodness Individual Or Collective, Is Love Personal Or Impersonal, Is Intelligence Yours, Mine Or Somebody Else? If It Is Yours Or Mine Then It Is Not Intelligence, Or Love, Or Goodness. If Goodness Is An Affair Of The Individual Or Of The Collective, According To One's Particular Preference Or Decision, Then It Is No Longer Goodness.

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.

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

If You Do Not Give Your Children Freedom, When They Grow Up, They Will Break Away From The Family, And Then Your Hearts Will Be Broken.

You Cannot Lay Down A Standard Which All Must Follow.

When The Mind Sees Itself In The Mirror Of Relationship, From That Perception There Is Self-knowledge.

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

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

The World Is Me And I Am The World.

Religion, It Seems To Me, Has Nothing Whatsoever To Do With Any Belief, With Any Priest, With Any Church Or So-called Sacred Book. The State Of The Religious Mind Can Be Understood Only When We Begin To Understand What Beauty Is; And The Understanding Of Beauty Must Be Approached Through Total Aloneness.

Life Behind All Form Is One, The Expressions Of That Life Are Not Of Very Great Importance.

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.

To Seek Fulfillment Is To Invite Frustration.

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

Can I Reject Everything My Brain Experienced? Is Intellectual Understanding Any Understanding At All?

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.

To Me, Then, True Criticism Consists In Trying To Find Out The Intrinsic Worth Of The Thing Itself, And Not In Attributing A Quality To That Thing. You Attribute A Quality To An Environment, To An Experience, Only When You Want To Derive Something From It, When You Want To Gain Or To Have Power Or Happiness. Now This Destroys True Criticism. Your Desire Is Perverted Through Attributing Values, And Therefore You Cannot See Clearly. Instead Of Trying To See The Flower In Its Original And Entire Beauty, You Look At It Through Coloured Glasses, And Therefore You Can Never See It As It Is.

The Significance Of Life Is Living.

Significance Of Life

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

Heredity And Environment

My Discord Must Be Different From Yours; My Revolt Must Not Be The Same Thing As Yours. It Will Not Be A Revolt If It Is Moulding Itself Around Your Revolt.

To Bring About A Fundamental, Radical Revolution, We Must Begin With Ourselves.

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

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.

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

Happy Is The Man Who Is Nothing.

My Only Concern Is To Set Men Absolutely, Unconditionally Free.

We Want To Be Famous As A Writer, As A Poet, As A Painter, As A Politician, As A Singer, Or What You Will. Why? Because We Really Don't Love What We Are Doing. If You Loved To Sing, Or To Paint, Or To Write Poems, If You Really Loved It You Would Not Be Concerned With Whether You Are Famous Or Not.

As The World Has To Attain The Fulfilment Of Eternal Life, To Me It Does Not In The Least Matter What I Am Called -'enlightened One', 'son Of God', Or Something Else. To Me, It Has No Purpose - As Little As When The Buddha Said, 'i Am The Enlightened One'.

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.

The Man-made Laws Have Been Made By Men Who Have Not Perceived The Final Goal Towards Which They Are Making. And That Is Why It Is So Important To Insist Upon The Final Thing First, And Then All The Regulations, All The Disciplines, Will Follow.

Do Not Repeat After Me Words That You Do Not Understand. Do Not Merely Put On A Mask Of My Ideas, For It Will Be An Illusion And You Will Thereby Deceive Yourself.

Ugliness And Evil Are Necessary For Growth But They May Be Experienced Vicariously.

Observe, And In That Observation There Is Neither The "observer" Nor The "observed" - There Is Only Observation Taking Place.

To Understand Yourself Is The Beginning Of Wisdom.

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

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