Thought is the verbalisation of influences.
(Krishnamurti)
Questioner: My mother has been
dead for some years. Quite recently I have lost my father also, and I am full of
remorse. My sorrow is not only remorse, but also the feeling of suddenly being
left alone. What am I to do? How am I to get over it?
Krishnamurti:
If one may ask, do you suffer for your father, or does sorrow arise from having
no longer the relationship to which you had grown accustomed?
Questioner:
I don't quite understand what you mean.
Krishnamurti:
Do you suffer because your father is gone, or because you feel lonely?
You are suffering, surely, not for your father, but because you are lonely, and
your sorrow is that which comes from self-pity.
(Krishnamurti)
We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so
they also are confused. 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.
(Krishnamurti)
Truth is not a matter of argumentation and conviction; it is not the outcome
of opinion.
(Krishnamurti)
Can another help bring about a transformation in you? If he can, you are not
transformed; you are merely dominated, influenced.
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.
(Krishnamurti)
If you are seeking gratification, you will naturally find what you desire,
but do not let us call it truth.
(Krishnamurti)
He was a young man,
but completely the master of the seven strings and of the complex music.
He would improvise before each song;
then would come the song,
in which there would be more improvisation.
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.
(Krishnamurti)
The moment you have in your heart
this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the
ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
(Krishnamurti)
Doesn't becoming imply time?
Don't we introduce time as a means of becoming more
evolved?
The brain has evolved but is there evolution inwardly?
Can the brain dominated by time not be subservient to it?
Isn't the origin of conflict ego?
If there is no ego there is no becoming.
Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to
become?
Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?
In nothingness, there is everything, energy.
The ending is a beginning.
(Krishnamurti)
Is the ground a philosophical concept?
Has mind a relationship to the ground?
Is it an idea to be investigated?
Is the ground put together by thought?
Can I reject everything my brain experienced?
Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all?
Hasn't knowledge only crippled me from seeing truth?
Is knowledge itself illusory?
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?
(Krishnamurti)
Why have we not ended conflict?
Isn't time the root of conflict?
Have religions succeeded in turning man to another direction?
Why has man moved in the wrong direction?
Is there a beginning not enmeshed in time?
Is there something beyond the mind?
Can the something beyond ever be put into words?
Is there anything that has no cause that we could say is absolute?
When division comes to an end the other is.
(Krishnamurti)
How does one find out if life has meaning beyond the physical?
Through investigation of matter scientists hope to come
upon the ground of being.
Have religious people invented something which has a meaning?
Irrationality is the common factor of mankind.
To find the ground mustn't I become very rational? Is listening the beginning of
rationality?
If we are completely rational there is insight and
insight is free of time.
Can I be free of time?
Can you observe that you have beliefs?
Do you need theories about the fact that mankind suffers?
Why should you have a theory about a fact?
If a man is concerned with radical change where is he to
begin?
Can there be a change not superficially but in depth?
What is to be changed?
Is change a matter of faith of finding another pattern?
Does it come about through knowledge or exercise of will?
Can a material process in the brain bring about a change
in itself?
Is insight dependent on a material process?
Has insight a cause?
(Krishnamurti)
Why has thought invented marvellous things and also created wars, destroyed human beings?
Why has thought made god and the image of god?
Who is the observer who is observing the nature of thinking?
Can the fact be observed without an ideal of it?
Is the fact of being violent different from me, my nature, my way of looking?
Can this thing called fear be ended immediately?
Is enquiry argument, opinion or is it observation without analysis?
To meditate is to observe yourself for you are totally
responsible for your body, mind, thought.
(Krishnamurti)
How does desire come into being?
Why does it play such an extraordinary part in life?
Can you observe the movement of desire?
In desire, after sensation, contact what takes place?
Can thought not create images at all?
If you are attached to a belief what is its nature, who
has created it?
By being attached do you feel sufficient in yourself?
Is it an action of will to end attachment or do you have
insight into it, and it ends?
What happens when you end something?
Why haven't we, with all our cunning, experience
resolved this problem of fear completely? Isn't fear the cause of the "me"?
(Krishnamurti)
What is creation?
What place has creativity in its deepest sense,
in its profound activity with respect to knowledge?
In this conflict, struggle, pain, anxiety can there be
creation?
Must creation always be expressed, manifested?
In a science, in biology where there is great activity of thought with its own peculiar intelligence can that thought create, be creative?
We are asking a really fundamental question whether
thought can ever be creative.
If thought is not the ground of creation then what is creation?
Is love the only factor that is creative?
(Krishnamurti)
What is implied in the whole structure and the nature of meditation?
In meditation is implied the meditator and the meditation.
Who is meditating?
Why does one have to meditate?
To become?
What is the difference between attention and
inattention?
What is attention and what is concentration?
What is desire?
That is one part of meditation - to understand the nature of desire.
Why is there violence?
When there is complete attention which means you give your total energy to that
fact of violence that energy dissipates the whole of violence.
Attention has no centre.
(Krishnamurti)
When you do have the
help of another, is there freedom?
Or does freedom only come with self-knowledge?
Is self-knowledge a matter of guidance, of organised help?
Or are the ways of the self to be discovered from moment to moment in our daily
relationships?
Dependence on another, or on an organisation, breeds fear, does it not?
(Krishnamurti)
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