krishnamurti

Krishnamurti: I wonder if you really are so simple as you think!

Krishnamurti: It is so easy to deceive oneself, so easy to convince oneself of anything at all.

Krishnamurti: Are you trying to understand me or are you seeing the truth of what we are talking about, which is independent of me?

In the beginning he said he was not an interpreter of Krishnamurti's teaching but he became one right after that.

The core of Krishnamurti's teaching is contained in the statement he made in 1929 when he said: 'Truth is a pathless land'.

Krishnamurti: During our waking hours, there is always the observer, different from the observed, the actor, separate from his action.

Krishnamurti: Let us bear in mind that we are discussing awareness. We are talking over together this question of awareness.

Krishnamurti: If these act, then the question of the individual and the collective is academic.

Krishnamurti: To live in this world sanely there must be a radical change of the mind and of the heart.

Krishnamurti: Nobody can push you out of your trap - no guru, no drug, no mantra, nobody, including myself - nobody, especially myself.

Krishnamurti: You seem to be carried away by your own words.

Krishnamurti: Don't you know it, do you want an explanation of that?

Krishnamurti: Let's forget childhood memories and all that nonsense, and come to the present.

Krishnamurti: Do you think happiness is an end in itself? Or does it come as a secondary thing in living intelligently?

Krishnamurti: Then you leave it, as you leave the precipice: step away from it.

There is no formal curriculum for presenting Krishnamurti's work, and no student is required to "be interested" in Krishnamurti.

Krishnamurti: But you, who are the observer, are the past trying to look at itself.

Krishnamurti: We are using the word to describe all this.

Krishnamurti: Without these two things there is no possibility of going further. And there may be no going anywhere at all!

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Krishnamurti: I admit I'm different, but the transformation that has occurred in me can occur in any other human being.

Krishnamurti: You are introducing the word "wicked" , which I never used.

Krishnamurti: In other words, the very first priority is to calm down and lend an ear for connecting that background.

Later, I happened to see a book on Krishnamurti written by him.

Krishnamurti: If there was recognition of the blackbird singing, then the brain was active, was interpreting.

Krishnamurti: If there were no government help, would it be possible for a school of this kind to survive?

Krishnamurti: The observer is always casting its shadow on the thing it observes.

Krishnamurti: How can you ask such a question? Where one is, the other is not. When there is love you can do what you will.

Krishnamurti: A sannyasi came to see me one day and he was sad.

Krishnamurti: It is unconscious, subconscious, it comes of its own accord, involuntarily.

Krishnamurti: (touching my left knee) Ah! I'm glad you don't wear a mask like so many that come to me pretending to be saints.

Krishnamurti: The only thing that really matters is that there be an action of goodness, love and intelligence in living.

I can imagine why Krishnamurti so insisted on the point just quoted.

Krishnamurti: Why don't you know?

Krishnamurti: Consciousness is the whole of man and does not belong to a particular man.

Krishnamurti: So there is fear, which you are beginning to discover for yourself.

Krishnamurti: But if you have understood you have seen that this seeing is intelligence.

Krishnamurti: No, it must be asked - whether one should or should not commit suicide.

Krishnamurti: You can identify yourself with that villager or with that flaming bougainvillaea - which is a mental trick to pretend unity.

Krishnamurti: Really one has to understand this word intelligence.

Krishnamurti: For the first time, quite sir. The word God is not God.

Krishnamurti: Let's be quite sure that we both understand the same thing when we use the word space.

Krishnamurti: Let us go into the question very slowly, patiently, and find out.

Krishnamurti: Of course you have to measure to put a carpet on the floor!

Krishnamurti: Most people who are sensitive need a quiet shelter and a warm friendly atmosphere.

Krishnamurti: We ought to go into this rather deeply. There are several things involved in it, aren't there?

Krishnamurti: Is what you don't want based on your free understanding or on your pleasure and pain?

Krishnamurti: Some time ago, in 1972, I spent a full morning with That without leaving my bed.

Krishnamurti: You don't see the truth that only a quiet mind sees.

Krishnamurti: Nothing will ensure it except the attention of learning, which is action, which is now.

Krishnamurti: You can see That in action, but you can't talk about it.

Krishnamurti has in mind a definite and clear notion when he uses this word.

Krishnamurti: So happiness to you is the opposite of unhappiness.

Krishnamurti: Is there in life an occurrence, a relationship, an incident from which you cannot step aside?

Krishnamurti: The effort to become something is the response, the action, of conditioning.

Krishnamurti: When you use the words 'intelligence' and "untenable condition" it is a contradiction. The two are in contradiction.

Krishnamurti: You cannot possibly be the new just by wishing for it.

Krishnamurti: Sirs, to have a good government, you must first understand what you mean by government.

Krishnamurti: We ought to go into this rather deeply.

Krishnamurti: Listen to the question first, because it is very important to understand the question and not just wait for an answer.

Krishnamurti: Attempt without effort to live with death in future less silence.

Krishnamurti: No, the suicide is an act of unintelligence.

Krishnamurti: You take it for granted that there is a superior entity, and the object it sees.

Krishnamurti: Any movement away from this emptiness is an escape.

Krishnamurti: Listen to the question, to the meaning behind the words.

Krishnamurti constantly emphasizes that he is in no sense an authority.

Krishnamurti: Again Dr. speaking (Long pause) I prepared tea for you the other day. You found it bitter and left it.

Krishnamurti: In other words, is the rememberer different from memory?

Krishnamurti: You said you do not want to live in the confusion, the dishonesty and ugliness of this world.

Krishnamurti: Can energy be divided at all?

Krishnamurti: That's an excuse. Take care of yourself. You need exercise. You look like a bull.

KRISHNAMURTI: Certainly, you do become egotistic.

Krishnamurti: Is it clear to you that these things cannot be overcome by their opposites?

Krishnamurti: Which predominates, your own anxiety or the actual seeing of what is around you?

Krishnamurti: The whole of life is in each moment.

Krishnamurti: Is there in life an occurrence, a relationship, anincident from which you cannot step aside?

Krishnamurti: Let us take the first question first.

Krishnamurti: You're making difficulties for yourself, blocking yourself, when you say you must become superhuman.

Krishnamurti: Perhaps this may help us to understand it: total negation is that freedom.

Krishnamurti: You say so. You take it for granted that there is. why?

Krishnamurti: It is the only way.

Krishnamurti, in public talks and in informal conversation.

Krishnamurti: What do we mean by acting religiously?

It was revised by Krishnamurti and the school staff in 1984 to its present form.

Krishnamurti: No! Don't ask for a loan. You'llmeet him soon anyway.

Krishnamurti: Don't they go on because you have not looked at them with sensitivity, choice less awareness, intelligence?

Krishnamurti: Thought is divisive because in itself it is limited.

Krishnamurti: Certainly not. Organized religion is based on belief and authority.

Krishnamurti: The son of humanity is today the son of a degraded mankind. Then. . . what do you do?

Krishnamurti: I am not all the time measuring myself or others.

Krishnamurti: The son of humanity is today the son of a degraded mankind. Then. . . what do you do?

Krishnamurti: I am not all the time measuring myself or others.

The original Intent was written by J. Krishnamurti in 1975 when Oak Grove School was founded.

Krishnamurti: Because the tree is not created by the centre, by the mind of the "me" .

Krishnamurti: What is it you are asking for - a different life, or for a new life which comes about with the understanding of the old life?

My first acquaintance with Krishnamurti's work was in 1959 when I read his book, 'First and Last Freedom'.

Krishnamurti: It is living without conflict.

Krishnamurti: You cannot, Sir.

Krishnamurti: But we do. All the tyrannies do. And tradition does; tradition says you must live this way, you must n't live that way.

Krishnamurti: Very simply put, thought is the response of memory, the past.

Krishnamurti: Very simply put, thought is the response of memory, the past.

Why had he become a "Krishnamurti-ite" ?

Krishnamurti: Let us first of all clear up this last point.

Jiddu Krishnamurti: There is a particular philosophy, especially in India, called Tantra, part of which encourages sex.

Krishnamurti: Can we discard the morality of society which is really quite immoral?

Krishnamurti: Then do you see how far we have come?

Krishnamurti: Don't let us ask too many questions, but consider what we began with.

Krishnamurti: You don't go anywhere from there!

Krishnamurti: Don't answer so quickly!

Krishnamurti: That's quite right, it is impossible.

Krishnamurti: There is no how.

Krishnamurti: The whole field of life: the mind, love, everything which is in life.

Krishnamurti: Education is to make you sensitive not only to your own particular desires, fancies and troubles but also to those of others.

Krishnamurti: If you take a train in San Francisco to go to Los Angeles. . . would you get off in SantaBarabara?

Krishnamurti: Is it not necessary to lay right foundation for right experience?

Krishnamurti: Now again, let us find out what we mean by death and what we mean by love.

Krishnamurti: Yes, more or less.

Krishnamurti: If there is no illusion, what is left?

Krishnamurti: Is it not very evident that each one of us is responsible for war?

Krishnamurti: Sorry, I made you wait. I was doing some Hatha Yoga.

Krishnamurti: There is the personal sorrow and the sorrow of the world.

Krishnamurti: All we know is action with a cause, a motive, action which is a result.

Krishnamurti: You speak. "That" is not only for you.

Krishnamurti: If you understand that killing is terrible do you have to have an ideal in order not to kill?

Krishnamurti: As we said, there is no "how" but only seeing the danger, that is the whole point.

Krishnamurti: Sir, why do you want to know whether God is masculine or feminine?

Krishnamurti: Now, what do you mean by "your scheme of things" ?

Krishnamurti's death was in some ways as mysterious as his life.

Krishnamurti: That's just it, that is just what I am saying.

Krishnamurti: That is the passion of learning.

Krishnamurti: Let's examine them both because they are interrelated as we shall see.

Krishnamurti: That is the right question. Die! Die to the past, to tradition.

Krishnamurti: That is it ! You must remember that we once discussed and knew that background has nothing to do with knowledge.

Krishnamurti: You take it for granted that he is there. Why do you say so?

Krishnamurti: Can you look at yourself, who are the past, without any movement of thought, which is the past?

Krishnamurti: Is it an action of avoidance or an act of intelligence?

Krishnamurti: A man who is seeking God will not be in a fox-hole.

Krishnamurti: Does it matter very much?

Krishnamurti: Are you not the very envelope itself?

Krishnamurti: I guess you have some questions, right?

Krishnamurti: Your basic question is, isn't it, how are you to live in this world?

Krishnamurti: Surely the artist is one who is skilled in action?

Krishnamurti: Why do we do this? Is it not because we want collective security, we want to feel safe?

Jiddu Krishnamurti: Now why do you ask this question?

Krishnamurti: Why am I or why are you callous to another man's suffering?

Krishnamurti: Then, what are you waiting for?

Krishnamurti: That's right. But you are too sad. What a waste! Then, what are you waiting for?

Krishnamurti: So there is this issue: being sensitive, demanding a certain shelter, and depending on others to give you that shelter.

Krishnamurti: For the very simple reason that if we did not identify ourselves with something we would be confused, we would be lost;

Krishnamurti: Again, are you asking this question from this side of the river, or is it from the other bank?

Krishnamurti: Resistance to thinking, putting down all thinking, is still a form of thinking;

Krishnamurti: Let us leave the scriptures out of this discussion;

Krishnamurti: Do you know what it means to commune with what we have just said about love and the mind?

Krishnamurti: There is no way to maintain it, there is no way to nourish it, there is no practising of it;

Krishnamurti: This abandonment of the self is not an act of will;

Krishnamurti: When you ask how to get around it, you are still holding on to the symbol of the "me" , which is fictitious;