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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."

-Jiddu Krishnamurti

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You May Remember The

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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."

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If You Set Out To Meditate, It Will Not Be Meditation. If You Set Out To Be Good, Goodness Will Never Flower.

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

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Learning Implies A Mind That Doesn't Know.

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Have You Ever Sat Very Quietly With Closed Eyes And Watched The Movement Of Your Own Thinking? Have You Watched Your Mind Working?or Rather, Has Your Mind Watched Itself In Operation, Just To See What Your Thoughts Are, What Your Feelings Are, How You Look At The Trees, At The Flowers, At The Birds, At People, How You Respond To A Suggestion Or React To A New Idea? Have You Ever Done This?

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Not To Know Is The Beginning Of Wisdom.

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

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The Crisis Is Not In The Outward Technological Advancement, But Rather In The Way We Think, And The Way We Live, And The Way We Feel. I Think That Is Where A Revolution Must Take Place.

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

Freedom Lies Outside The Pattern Of Society; But To Be Free Of That Pattern You Have To Understand The Whole Content Of It, Which Is To Understand Your Own Mind.

I Think One Has To Understand, Not As A Theory, Not As A Speculative, Entertaining Concept, But Rather As An Actual Fact - That We Are The World And The World Is Us. The World Is Each One Of Us; To Feel That, To Be Really Committed To It And To Nothing Else, Brings About A Feeling Of Great Responsibility And An Action That Must Not Be Fragmentary, But Whole.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Belief Conditions Experience, And Experience Then Strengthens Belief.

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

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Without Freedom, There Is No Creation.

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

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.

To Live Humanly, Sanely, One Has To Change.

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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In Nothingness, There Is Everything, Energy. The Ending Is A Beginning.

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.

Using Another As A Means Of Satisfaction And Security Is Not Love. Love Is Never Security; Love Is A State In Which There Is No Desire To Be Secure; It Is A State Of Vulnerability.

My Contention Is That It Is Impossible To Limit Truth, For That Would Mean That You Were Stepping Down The Truth To The Individual, Who Is Limited. It Would Be Useless To Lay Down A Crystallized Method For Everyone To Follow.

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.

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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?

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.

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

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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.

We Need Tremendous Energy To Bring About A Psychological Change In Ourselves As Human Beings, Because We Have Lived Far Too Long In A World Of Make-belief, In A World Of Brutality, Violence, Despair, Anxiety. To Live Humanly, Sanely, One Has To Change.

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.

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.

Why Does The Brain Retain The Memory Of The Hurt From Yesterday?

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

It Seems To Me That The Real Problem Is The Mind Itself And Not The Problem Which The Mind Has Created And Tries To Solve.

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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Passion Is A Rather Frightening Thing Because If You Have Passion You Don't Know Where It Will Take You.

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?

To Transform The World, We Must Begin With Ourselves; And What Is Important In Beginning With Ourselves Is The Intention. The Intention Must Be To Understand Ourselves And Not To Leave It To Others To Transform Themselves Or To Bring About A Modified Change Through Revolution, Either Of The Left Or Of The Right. It Is Important To Understand That This Is Our Responsibility, Yours And Mine.

Despair Exists Only When There Is Hope.

The Thought Is Not The Thing.

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

Most People Are Unhappy; And They Are Unhappy Because There Is No Love In Their Hearts.

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.

It Is Astonishingly Beautiful And Interesting, How Thought Is Absent When You Have An Insight. Thought Cannot Have An Insight.

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.

You Have Been Overcome; And Whether You Are Overcome By Envy Or By A So-called Noble Influence, You Are Still A Slave, You Are Not Free.

Relationship Between Human Beings Is Based On The Image-forming, Defensive Mechanism. In Our Relationships Each Of Us Builds An Image About The Other, And These Two Images Have Relationship, Not The Human Beings Themselves.

Our Relationship

What Is Correct Action In A Deteriorating World?

Meditation Is The Movement Of Love. It Isn't The Love Of The One Or Of The Many. It Is Like Water That Anyone Can Drink Out Of Any Jar.

I Hold That All The Teachers Of The World Have Attained That Life Which Is The Fulfilment Of Life. Hence, Whenever Anyone Enters That Life, Which Is The Culmination Of All Life, Then He Is Ipso Facto The Buddha, The Christ, The Lord Maitreya, Because There Is No Distinction There.

Meditation Is The Process Of Understanding Your Own Mind.

Can You Look At A Flower Without Thinking?

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

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

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?

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.

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

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

If You Have A Great Many Desires, You Will Gradually Eliminate Them One By One, Until You Allow Certain Desires To Dominate And The Others To Die Away.

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.

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.

A Mind That Is Always Comparing, Always Measuring, Will Always Engender Illusion. If I Am Measuring Myself Against You, Who Are Clever, More Intelligent, I Am Struggling To Be Like You And I Am Denying Myself As I Am. I Am Creating An Illusion.

War Is The Spectacular And Bloody Projection Of Our Everyday Living. We Precipitate War Out Of Our Daily Lives; And Without A Transformation In Ourselves, There Are Bound To Be National And Racial Antagonisms, The Childish Quarreling Over Ideologies, The Multiplication Of Soldiers, The Saluting Of Flags, And All The Many Brutalities That Go To Create Organized Murder.

The Ambitious Man Has Never Found His True Vocation.

It Does Not Matter What You Call The Gaoler So Long As He Has The Key That Will Open The Door Of Your Prison! Similarly, As I Have The Key To Release Life From Its Prison, It Does Not Matter In The Least What You Call Either The Key Or Myself. I Am Not Concerned About The Title.

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

A Mind That Practices Love Cannot Love.

To Come Upon Love Without Seeking It Is The Only Way To Find It.

Be A Light Unto Oneself

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.

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.

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.

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

Meditation Is The Most Extraordinary Thing If You Know How To Do It, And You Cannot Possibly Learn From Anybody; And That's The Beauty Of It. It Isn't Something You Learn, A Technique, And Therefore There Is No Authority. Therefore If You Will Learn About Yourself, Watch Yourself, Watch The Way You Walk, The Way You Talk, How You Eat, What You Say, The Gossip, The Hate, The Jealousy. If You Are Aware Of It Without Any Choice, All That Is Part Of Meditation, And As You Go, As You Journey, As That Movement Goes, All That Movement Is Meditation. Then That Movement Is Endless, Timeless.

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.

The Moment You Follow Someone You Cease To Follow Truth.

Do It Or Don't Do It But Get On With It.

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.

You Can Look Only When The Mind Is Completely Quiet.

Intuition Is The Only True Guide In Life.

It Is Only In Alert Silence That Truth Can Be.

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.

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

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 Can Only Hear Clearly When You Sit Quietly, When You Give Your Attention. Nor Can You Have Order If You Are Not Free To Watch, If You Are Not Free To Listen, If You Are Not Free To Be Considerate. This Problem Of Freedom And Order Is One Of The Most Difficult And Urgent Problems In Life. It Is A Very Complex Problem. It Needs To Be Thought Over Much More Than Mathematics, Geography, Or History.

To Revolt Within Society In Order To Make It A Little Better, To Bring About Certain Reforms, Is Like The Revolt Of Prisoners To Improve Their Life Within The Prison Walls; And Such Revolt Is No Revolt At All, It Is Just Mutiny. Do You See The Difference? Revolt Within Society Is Like The Mutiny Of Prisoners Who Want Better Food, Better Treatment Within The Prison; But Revolt Born Of Understanding Is An Individual Breaking Away From Society, And That Is Creative Revolution.

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.

Space And Time Are Real For The Man Who Is Yet Imperfect, And Space Is Divided For Him Into Dimensions; Time, Into Past, Present, And Future.

As Long As The Mind Clings To Belief, It Is Held In A Prison.

A Man Who Is Really Earnest Must Begin With Himself, He Must Be Passively Aware Of All His Thoughts, Feelings And Actions.

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.

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

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

When The Mind Is Relaxed, No Longer Making An Effort, When It Is Quiet For Just A Few Seconds, Then The Problem Reveals Itself And It Is Solved. That Happens When The Mind Is Still, In The Interval Between Two Thoughts, Between Two Responses. In That State Of Mind, Understanding Comes.

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