Jiddu Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurtiwas a speaker and writer on matters that concerned humankind. In his early life he was groomed to be the new World Teacher but later rejected this mantle and withdrew from the organization behind it. His subject matter included psychological revolution, the nature of mind, meditation, inquiry, human relationships, and bringing about radical change in society. He constantly stressed the need for a revolution in the psyche of every human being and emphasised that such revolution cannot be brought...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth12 May 1895
CountryIndia
Most of us are frightened of dying because we don't know what it meant to live.We don't know how to live,therefore we don't know how to die
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.
. . . Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.
Isn't the origin of conflict ego? If there is no ego there is no becoming.
Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order.
Contentment is never the outcome of fulfillment, of achievement, or of the possession of things; it is not born of action or inaction. It comes with the fullness of what is, not in the alteration of it.
Human beings, each one, right through the world, go through great agonies, the more sensitive, the more alert, the more observant, the greater the suffering, the anxiety, the extraordinary sense of insoluble problems.
Does choice exist when I see something very clearly?
Thought comes to an end. Then there is that sense of absolute silence in the brain. All the movement of thought has ended.
Is there an observation which is not the instrument of thought?
What is correct action in a deteriorating world?
The world is me and I am the world.
Can the mind resolve a psychological problem immediately?
Awareness is that state of mind which takes in everything-the crows flying across the sky, the flowers on the trees, the people sitting in front, the colors they are wearing - being extensively aware, which needs watching, observing, taking in the shape of the leaf, the shape of the trunk, the shape of the head of another, what he is doing.