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Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti QUOTES

Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti QUOTES

41 " To know the mind, must you not be aware of its activities? The mind is only experience, not just the immediate, but also the accumulated. The mind is the past in response to the present, which makes for the future. The total process of the mind has to be understood. "

― J. Krishnamurti , Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti

42 " The mind that has learned to meditate, which is to concentrate, the mind that has learned the technique of shutting out everything and narrowing down to a particular point—such a mind is incapable of meditation. That is what most of us want. We want to learn to concentrate, to be occupied with one thought to the exclusion of every other thought, and we call that meditation. But it is not meditation. Meditation is something entirely different, which we are going to find out. "

― J. Krishnamurti , Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti

43 " Have you ever tried living with yourself? If so, you will begin to see that your self is not a static state, it is a fresh living thing. And to live with a living thing your mind must also be alive. And it cannot be alive if it is caught in opinions, judgments, and values. "

― J. Krishnamurti , Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti

44 " So long as there is a desire for self-continuance in any form, there must be fear, which creates authority, and from this there come the subtle cruelty and stupidity of submitting oneself to exploitation. This exploitation is so subtle, so refined, that one becomes enamored of it, calling it spiritual progress and advancement toward perfection. "

― J. Krishnamurti , Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti

45 " Thought as knowledge has its right place, but it has no place in the psyche. "

― J. Krishnamurti , Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti

46 " See what we have done. I am struggling, struggling, struggling to end struggling sometime in the future. See what tricks I have played on myself. I am caught in time. I don’t say, “Why should I struggle at all?” If I can end this struggle that is enlightenment. "

― J. Krishnamurti , Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti

47 " If you do not allow time, or never think in terms of time, then the fact is not. Because we allow time the fact becomes important. If there is no time it is resolved. "

― J. Krishnamurti , Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti

48 " You see, as long as we try to overcome, the very overcoming has to be overcome. But if you say, “Yes, it is a fact and I won’t move from that,” then the thing dissolves—completely, not relatively, not gone one day and then the next day is full of fears. It is gone when you have given complete attention to "

― J. Krishnamurti , Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti

49 " Krishnamurti admonishes us that “Meditation is not something different from daily life … it is the seeing of what is and going beyond it.” If one has not seen what is, how can one go beyond it? "

― J. Krishnamurti , Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti

50 " Before you try to change and alter thought and feeling, find out the manner of their working, and you will see that they are continually adjusting themselves within the limitations established by that point fixed by desire and the fulfillment of that desire. In awareness there is no discipline. "

― J. Krishnamurti , Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti

51 " If you know how to love, then you can do what you like because it will solve all other problems. "

― J. Krishnamurti , Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti

52 " I am just saying that when the mind is tethered to any particular conclusion, whether temporary or permanent, it is incapable of discovering something new. "

― J. Krishnamurti , Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti

53 " If I may suggest, never under any circumstances ask ‘how.’ When you use the word how you really want someone to tell you what to do, some guide, some system, somebody to lead you by the hand so that you lose your freedom, your capacity to observe, your own activities, your own thoughts, your own way of life. When you ask ‘how’ you really become a secondhand human being; you lose integrity and also the innate honesty to look at yourself, to be what you are and to go beyond and above what you are. Never, never ask the question ‘how.’ We are talking psychologically, of course. "

― J. Krishnamurti , Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti

54 " significance of pleasure. Then you will have tremendous joy in life. You cannot think about joy. Joy is an immediate thing and by thinking about it, you turn it into pleasure. Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it. "

― J. Krishnamurti , Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti

55 " You can form other organizations and expect someone else. With that I am not concerned, nor with creating new cages, new decorations for those cages. My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free. "

― J. Krishnamurti , Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti

56 " So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in—at a face, a bird, the color of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives delight—if you can look at it without wanting the experience to be repeated, then there will be no pain, no fear and, therefore, tremendous joy. "

― J. Krishnamurti , Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti

57 " Learning implies the love of understanding and the love of doing a thing for itself. Learning is possible only when there is no coercion of any kind. And coercion takes many forms, does it not? There is coercion through influence, through attachment or threat, through persuasive encouragement or subtle forms of reward. "

― J. Krishnamurti , Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti

58 " so long as there is loneliness, shallowness, emptiness, insufficiency, which in its outer expression is dependence, there must be pain. "

― J. Krishnamurti , Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti

59 " Functional or technical capacity is now recognized through having a degree after one’s name; but if we are truly concerned with the total development of the human being, our approach is entirely different. An individual who has the capacity may take a degree and add letters after his name, or he may not, as he pleases. But he will know for himself his own deep capabilities, which will not be framed by a degree, and their expression will not bring about that self-centered confidence which mere technical capacity usually breeds. Such confidence is comparative and, therefore, antisocial. Comparison may exist for utilitarian purpose; but it is not for the educator to compare the capacities of his students and give greater or lesser evaluation. "

― J. Krishnamurti , Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti

60 " There can be fundamental and lasting change in the world, there can be love and intelligent fulfillment, only when you wake up and begin to free yourself from the net of illusions, the many illusions which you have created about yourself through fear. "

― J. Krishnamurti , Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti