http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/rss/rss.php http://www.jkrishnamurti.org The Krishnamurti Online Repository RSS en Wed, 22 May 2013 02:25:27 EDT info@jkrishnamurti.org (Paloma Salvador) info@jkrishnamurti.org (Paloma Salvador)http://www.jkrishnamurti.comhttp://www.jkrishnamurti.com/images/Jko_Feed.jpgJKOnline_DailyQuoteshttp://feedburner.google.comSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesSubscribe with PlusmoSubscribe with The Free DictionarySubscribe with Bitty BrowserSubscribe with Live.comSubscribe with Excite MIXSubscribe with WebwagSubscribe with Podcast ReadySubscribe with WikioSubscribe with Daily Rotationhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JKOnline_DailyQuotes/~3/371f48Tsuwk/20130521.phpA mind that is seeking is not a passionate mind and to come upon love without seeking it, is the only way to find it- to come upon it unknowingly and not as a result of any effort or experience. - Freedom from the Known,86http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-daily-quote/20130521.phphttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JKOnline_DailyQuotes/~3/v2bEfWZcRXE/20130520.phpIt seems to me that one thing is absolutely necessary and that is passion without motive - passion that is not the result of some commitment or attachment, passion that is not lust. A man who does know what passion is will never know love because love come into being only when there is total self-abandonment. - Freedom from the Known,86http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-daily-quote/20130520.phphttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JKOnline_DailyQuotes/~3/Ff-cMAC_eZ0/20130519.phpIf anyone tells you, it is not love. Can you say, 'I wil practice love. I will sit down day after day and think about it. I will practice being kind and gentle and force myself to pay attention to others? Do you mean to say that you can discipline yourself to love, exercise the will to love? When you exercise discipline and will to love, love goes out of the window. - Freedom from the Known,85http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-daily-quote/20130519.phphttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JKOnline_DailyQuotes/~3/v0iJ_5ZZVWU/20130518.phpSeeing everything that goes on in your daily life, your daily activities -when you pick up a pen, when you talk, when you go out for a drive or when you are walking alone in the woods- can you with one breath, with one look, know yourself very simply as you are? - Freedom from the Known,121http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-daily-quote/20130518.phphttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JKOnline_DailyQuotes/~3/CsgsFK6hiJQ/20130517.phpOne of the most curious things in the structure of our psyche is that we all want to be told because we are the result of the propaganda of ten thousand years. We want to have our thinking confirmed and corroborated by another, whereas to ask a question is to ask it of yourself. What I say has very little value. You will forget it the moment you shut this book, or you will remember and repeat certain phrases, or you will compare what you have read here with some other book- but you will not face your own life.And that is all that matters- your life, yourself, your pettiness, your shallowness, your brutality, your violence, your greed, your ambition, your daily agony and endless sorrow- that is what you have to understand and nobody on earth or in heaven is going to save you from it but yourself. - Freedom from the Known,121http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-daily-quote/20130517.phphttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JKOnline_DailyQuotes/~3/4eO27-cQdag/20130516.phpThat state of mind which is no longer capable of striving is the true religious mind, and in that state of mind you may come upon this thing called truth or reality or bliss or God or beauty or love. This thing cannot be invited. Please understand that very simple fact. It cannot be invited, it cannot be sought after, because the mind is too silly, too small, your emotions are too shoddy, your way of life too confused for that enormity, that immense something, to be invited into your little house, your little corner of living which has been trampled and spat upon. You cannot invite it. To invite it you must know it and you cannot know it. It doesn't matter who says it, the moment he says, 'I know', he does not know. The moment you say you have found it you have not found it. If you say you have experienced it, you have never experienced it. - Freedom from the Known,122,http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-daily-quote/20130516.phphttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JKOnline_DailyQuotes/~3/pLOVm_sgOG8/20130515.phpAs long as there is a time interval between the observer and the observed it creates friction and therefore there is a waste of energy. That energy is gathered to its highest point when the observer is the observed, in which there is no time interval at all. Then there will be energy without motive and it will find its own channel of action because then the 'I' does not exist. - Freedom from the Known,120http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-daily-quote/20130515.phphttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JKOnline_DailyQuotes/~3/hmAJztYwFwA/20130514.phpEnergy is action and movement. All action is movement and all action is energy. All desire is energy. All feeling is energy. All thought is energy. All living is energy. All life is energy. If that energy is allowed to flow without any contradiction, without any friction, without any conflict, then that energy is boundless, endless. When there is no friction there are no frontiers to energy. It is friction which gives energy limitations. So, having once seen this, why is it that the human being always brings friction into energy? Why does he create friction in this movement which we call life? Is pure energy, energy without limitation, just an idea to him? Does it have no reality? - Freedom from the Known,120http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-daily-quote/20130514.phphttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JKOnline_DailyQuotes/~3/4noYgKZjaTs/20130513.phpMeditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; meditation is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased. Meditation is not control of thought, for when thought is controlled it breeds conflict in the mind, but when you understand the structure and origin of thought, which we have already been into, then thought will not interfere. That very understanding of the structure of thinking is its own discipline which is meditation. - Freedom from the Known,115http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-daily-quote/20130513.phphttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JKOnline_DailyQuotes/~3/D3grVw9x0Vs/20130512.phpDemand is born out of duality: 'I am unhappy and I must be happy'. In that very demand that I must be happy is unhappiness. When one makes an effort to be good, in that very goodness is its opposite, evil. Everything affirmed contains its own opposite, and effort to overcome strengthens that against which it strives. When you demand an experience of truth or reality, that very demand is born out of your discontent with what is and therefore the demand creates the opposite. And in the opposite there is what has been. So one must be free of this incessant demand, otherwise there will be no end to the corridor of duality. This means knowing yourself so completely that the mind is no longer seeking. - Freedom from the Known,113http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-daily-quote/20130512.phphttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JKOnline_DailyQuotes/~3/xKFBzPrg0Yg/20130511.phpWhat do we mean by experience? Is there anything new or original in experience? Experience is a bundle of memories responding to a challenge and it can respond only according to its background, and the cleverer you are at interpreting the experience the more it responds. So you have to question not only the experience of another but your own experience. If you don't recognize an experience it isn't an experience at all. Every experience has already been experienced or you wouldn't recognize it. You recognize an experience as being good, bad, beautiful, holy and so on according to your conditioning, and therefore the recognition of an experience must inevitably be old. - Freedom from the Known,112http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-daily-quote/20130511.phphttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JKOnline_DailyQuotes/~3/zHCF3OiJdok/20130510.phpA living mind is a still mind, a living mind is a mind that has no centre and therefore no space and time. Such a mind is limitless and that is the only truth, that is the only reality. - Freedom from the Known,109http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-daily-quote/20130510.phphttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JKOnline_DailyQuotes/~3/T0BIi4Rq_Mc/20130509.phpThat silence which is not the silence of the ending of noise is only a small beginning. It is like going through a small hole to an enormous, wide, expansive ocean, to an immeasurable, timeless state. But this you cannot understand verbally unless you have understood the whole structure of consciousness and the meaning of pleasure, sorrow and despair, and the brain cells themselves have become quiet. Then perhaps you may come upon that mystery which nobody can reveal to you and nothing can destroy. - Freedom from the Known,109http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-daily-quote/20130509.phphttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JKOnline_DailyQuotes/~3/TwslSsFwZfM/20130508.phpSpace and silence are necessary to go beyond the limitations of consciousness, but how can a mind which is so endlessly active in its self-interest be quiet? One can discipline it, control it, shape it, but such torture does not make the mind quiet; it merely makes it dull. Obviously the mere pursuit of the ideal of having a quiet mind is valueless because the more you force it the more narrow and stagnant it becomes. Control in any form, like suppression, produces only conflict. - Freedom from the Known,107http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-daily-quote/20130508.phphttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JKOnline_DailyQuotes/~3/koM2rVMlCho/20130507.phpTo have inward solitude and space is very important because it implies freedom to be, to go, to function, to fly. After all, goodness can only flower in space just as virtue can flower only when there is freedom. We may have political freedom but inwardly we are not free and therefore there is no space. No virtue, no quality that is worth while, can function or grow without this vast space within oneself. And space and silence are necessary because it is only when the mind is alone, uninfluenced, untrained, not held by infinite varieties of experience, that it can come upon something totally new. - Freedom from the Known,106http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-daily-quote/20130507.phphttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JKOnline_DailyQuotes/~3/0Yz30xAAkT8/20130506.phpIn the life we generally lead there is very little solitude. Even when we are alone our lives are crowded by so many influences, so much knowledge, so many memories of so many experiences, so much anxiety, misery and conflict that our mind become duller and duller, more and more insensitive, functioning in a monotonous routine. Are we ever alone? Or are we carrying with us all the burdens of yesterday?" - Freedom from the Known,105http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-daily-quote/20130506.phphttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JKOnline_DailyQuotes/~3/ai-Mj7KBMFc/20130505.phpA new fact cannot be seen by thought. It can be understood later by thought, verbally, but the understanding of a new fact is not reality to thought. Thought can never solve any psychological problem. However clever, however cunning, however erudite, whatever the structure thought creates through science, through an electronic brain, through compulsion or necessity, thought is never new and therefore it can never answer any tremendous question. The old brain cannot solve the enormous problem of living. - Freedom from the Known,102http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-daily-quote/20130505.phphttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JKOnline_DailyQuotes/~3/M5kk-mbTuYk/20130504.phpThose who think a great deal are very materialistic because thought is matter. Thought is matter as much as the floor, the wall, the telephone, are matter. Energy functioning in a pattern becomes matter. There is energy and there is matter. That is all life is. We may think thought is not matter but it is. Thought is matter as an ideology. Where there is energy it becomes matter. Matter and energy are interrelated. The one cannot exist without the other, and the more harmony there is between the two, the more balance, the more active the brain cells are. Thought has set up this pattern of pleasure, pain, fear, and has been functioning inside it for thousands of years and cannot break the pattern because it has created it. - Freedom from the Known,101http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-daily-quote/20130504.phphttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JKOnline_DailyQuotes/~3/Khy22LpKzfk/20130503.phpThought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience. Thought in its demand for pleasure brings its own bondage. Thought is the breeder of duality in all our relationships: there is violence in us which gives us pleasure but there is also the desire for peace, the desire to be kind and gentle. This is what is going on all the time in all our lives. Thought not only breeds this duality in us, this contradiction, but it also accumulates the innumerable memories we have had of pleasure and pain, and from these memories it is reborn. - Freedom from the Known,101http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-daily-quote/20130503.phphttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JKOnline_DailyQuotes/~3/4MJzKrjAaGI/20130502.phpWhen there is space between you and the object you are observing you will know there is no love, and without love, however hard you try to reform the world or bring about a new social order or however much you talk about improvements, you will only create agony. So it is up to you. There is no leader, there is no teacher, there is nobody to tell you what to do. You are alone in this mad brutal world. - Freedom from the Known,94http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-daily-quote/20130502.php