| The simplicity of love |
[30 Mar 2008|05:29pm] |
J. Krishnamurti/Think on these things/chap 2
Do you know what it means to be sensitive? It means, surely, to have a tender feeling for things:to see an animal suffering and do something about it, to remove a piece of glas from a beach because so many bare feet walk there, to pick up a nail on the road because somebody's car might get a puncture. To be sensitive is to feel for people, for birds, for flowers, for trees - not because they are yours, but just because you are awake to the extraodinary beauty of things. And how is this sensitivity to be brought about?
The moment you are deeply sensitive there is a spontaneous desire not to destroy things, not to hurt people, which means having respect,love.
To love is the most important thing in life.
But what do we mean by love? When you love someone because that person loves you in return, surely tahtis not love. To love is to have that extraordinary feeling of affection without asking anything in return.You may be clever, you may pass all your examinations, get a doctorate and achieve a high position, but if you have not this sensitivity,this feeling of simple love,your heart will be empty and you will be miserable for the rest of your life.
So it is very important for the heart to be filled with this sense of affection, for then you won't destroy, you won't be ruthless, and there won't be wars any more. Then you will be happy human beings; and because you are happy you won't pray, you wont' seek god, for that happiness itself is god.
Now, how is this love to come into being? Surely, lovle must begin with the educator. If he spontaneously removes the piece of glas from the path and does not allow the servant to do all the dirty jobs; if in his conversation, in his work, in his play, when he eats, when he is with you or by himslef, he feels this strange thing an points it out to you often, then you will also know what it is to love.
You may have a clear skin,a nice face,you may wear a lovely shirt or be a great athlete, but without love in your heart you are an ugly human being, ugly beyond measure,and when you love, whether your face is homely or beautiful,it has a radiance. To love is the greatest thing in life; and it is very important to talk about love, to feel it,to nourish it,to treasure it,otherwise it is soon dissipated, for the world is very brutal.
If while you are young you don't feel love,if you dont look with love at people, at animals, at flowers,when you grow up you will find that your life is empty; you will be very lonely, and the dark shadows of fear will follow you always. But the momemt you have in you 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.
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| Dying |
[17 Mar 2008|07:03pm] |
The religious man is one who dies every day and is reborn every day.
That is, his mind is young, innocent, fresh.
To die to your sorrow, die to your pleasure, die to the things that you hold secretly in your heart - do it; thus you will see you will not waste your life; then you will find something that is incredible, that no man has ever percieved.This is not a reward.There is no reward either. You die willingly, or you die inevitably.
J.Krishnamurti:Talks by Krishnamurti in India 1965
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| Happiness |
[04 Mar 2008|03:31pm] |
Happiness is not something that is gained by position, prestige, it is not arrived at through any means. We say we are happy because we have money, a position, or some means of sensation; but surely, that is not happiness.Happiness is a state of being in which there is no dependence; for where there is dependence there is fear, and a man who is fearful can never be happy, however much he may cover up his fear
J. Krishnamurti's Talks 1949 -1950
If you want to do something pleasurable, you think you will be happy when you do it. You may want to marry the richest man, or the most beautiful girl, or pass some examination, or be praised by someboedy, and you think by getting what you want you will be happy. But is that happiness. Does it not soon fade away, like the flower that blossoms in the morning and withers in the evening?.......
But happiness is not something taht you can seak; it is a result, a by-product. If you pursue happiness for itself, it will have no meaning. Happiness comes uninvited; and the moment you are concious that you are happy, you are no longer happy. I wonder if you have noticed this?
When you are suddenly joyous about nothing in particular,there is just the freedom of smiling, of being happy; but the moment you are concious of it, you have lost it, have you not? Being self-conciuos happy, or pursuing happiness, is the very ending of happiness. There is happiness only when the self and its demands are put aside.
J. Krishnamurti:Think on these these things chap.8
As long asthe more is a means to happiness, the end is always dissatisfaction, conflict and misery.
J. Krishnamurti: Commentaires om Living (Second Series)
Real life is doing something which you love to do with your whole being so that there is no inner contradiction, no war between what you are doing and what you think you should do. Life is then a completly integrated process in which there is tremendous joy. But that can happen only when you are not psychologically depending on anybody, or any society, when there is complet detachment inwardly, for only then is there a possibility of really loving what you do.It does not matter whether you garden, or become a prime minister, or do something else; you will love what you do and out of that love comes an extraordinary feeling of creativness.
J.Krishnamurti:Think on these things chap.8
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| Best Schmusesong now...I can't withdraw..it conquers my heart |
[21 Jan 2008|08:21pm] |
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lyrics (refrain)
Einen Stern, der deinen Namen trägt,... .A star holding your name
hoch am Himmelszelt,..........................high above in the sky
den schenk´ ich dir heut Nacht.............i give you tonight
Einen Stern, der deinen Namen trägt,.....A star holding your name
alle Zeiten überlebt.............................surviving for all times
und über unsre Liebe wacht..................keeping guard to our love
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| Haven't you ever asked |
[20 Jan 2008|05:49pm] |
J. Krishnamurti/ Freedom from the known
Haven't you ever asked yourself why it is that human beings lack this thing?
They beget children, they have sex, tenderness, a quality of sharing something together in companionship, in freindship, in fellowship, but this thing - why is it they haven't got it?
Why is it that you, as human being, who are so capable, so clever, so cunning, so competitive, who have such marvellous technology, who go to the skies and under the earth and beneath the sea, and invent extraordinary electronic brains - why is it that you haven't got this one thing which matters? I don't know whether you have ever seriously faced this issue
of why your heart is empty?....
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| To do the thing that one loves... |
[19 Dec 2007|06:12pm] |
It is strange how most people want recognition and praise - to be
recognized as a great poet, as a philosopher, something that boosts
one's ego. It gives great satisfaction but it has very little meaning.
Recognition feeds one's vanity an perhaps one's pocket, and then what?
It sets one apart and separation breeds its own problems, ever increas-
ing. Though it may give satisfaction, recognition is not an end in itself.
But most people are caught in the craving to be recognized, to fulfill
to achieve. And failure is then inevitable, with its accompanying misery.
To be free of both success and failure is the real thing.
From the beginning not to look for a result, to do the thing that one loves,
and love has no reward or punishment. This is really a simple thing if there
is love.
J Krishnamurti/ Biography chap.23/ Happy is the man who is nothing:Letters to a friend
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| The pain of comparison |
[10 Jun 2004|12:56pm] |
J. Krishnamurti/The impossible Question/chap. 2
We are slaves to the verb "to be", which implies: "I will be somebody sometime in the future". Comparison and conformity go together; they breed nothing but supression, conflict and endless pain: so it is important to find a way of daily living in which there is no comparison. Do it, and you will see what an extraordinary thing it is: it frees you from so many burdens.
A mind that is free sees that dependency on something - on people, on friends, on husband or wife, on ideation, authority and so on - breeds fear; there is the source of fear.
If I depend on you for my comfort, as an escape from my own loneliness and ugliness, from shallowness and pettiness, then that dependence breedes fear.
When you see what it all implies - how there is no freedom when there is dependence inwardly and therefore fear, and how it is only a confused and unclear mind that depends - you say:" How am I to be free from dependency?" Which is again another cause of conflict. Whereas, if you observe that a mind that depends must be confused, if you know the truth, that a mind that depends inwardly on any authority( tradition, propaganda,what people have said, your own accumulated experience and that of the race and the family) only creates confusion - if you see that, without asking how to be free of confusion - then you will cease to depend.
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| Free from the past |
[11 Apr 2004|05:43pm] |
J. Krishnamurti/The book of life/ 5th december
Only in aloneness is there innocence
Most of us are never alone. You may withdraw into the mountains and live as a recluse, but when you are physically by yourself, you will have with you all your ideas, your experiences, your traditions, your knowledge of what has been. the Christian monk in a monastery cell is not alone; he is with his conceptual Jesus, with his theology, with the beliefs and dogmas of his particular conditioning. Similarly, the sannyasi in India who withdraws from the world and lives in isolation is not alone, for he too lives with his memories.
I am talking of an aloneness in which the mind is totally free from the past, and only such a mind is virtuous, for only in this aloneness is there innocence. Perhaps you will say, “That is too much to ask. One cannot live like that in this chaotic world, where one has to go to the office every day, earn a livelihood, bear children, endure the nagging of one’s wife or husband, and all the rest of it.” But I think what is being said is directly related to everyday life and action; otherwise, it has no value at all. You see, out of this aloneness comes a virtue which is virile and which brings an extraordinary sense of purity and gentleness. It doesn’t matter if one makes mistakes; that is of very little importance. What matters is to have this feeling of being completely alone, uncontaminated, for it is only such a mind that can know or be aware of that which is beyond the word, beyond the name, beyond all the projections of imagination.
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| A mind rich with innocence |
[13 Mar 2004|04:26pm] |
J. Krishnamurti/The book of life
May 1
Truth, the real God—the real God, not the God that man has made—does not want a mind that has been destroyed, petty, shallow, narrow, limited. It needs a healthy mind to appreciate it; it needs a rich mind—rich, not with knowledge but with innocence—a mind upon which there has never been a scratch of experience, a mind that is free from time. The gods that you have invented for your own comforts accept torture; they accept a mind that is being made dull. But the real thing does not want it; it wants a total, complete human being whose heart is full, rich, clear, capable of intense feeling, capable of seeing the beauty of a tree, the smile of a child, and the agony of a woman who has never had a full meal.
You have to have this extraordinary feeling, this sensitivity to everything—to the animal, to the cat that walks across the wall, to the squalor, the dirt, the filth of human beings in poverty, in despair. You have to be sensitive—which is to feel intensely, not in any particular direction, which is not an emotion which comes and goes, but which is to be sensitive with your nerves, with your eyes, with your body, with your ears, with your voice. You have to be sensitive completely all the time. Unless you are so completely sensitive, there is no intelligence. Intelligence comes with sensitivity and observation.
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| Life is like a river |
[14 Feb 2004|06:07pm] |
this cutting reminds me always at the "free sex versus being faithful disput"
J. Krishnamurti/ Think on these things chap. 17
The fact is that life is like the river: endlessly moving on, ever seeking, exploring, pushing, overflowing its banks, penetrating every crevice with its water. But you see, the mind won't allow that to happen to itself. The mind sees that it is dangerous, risky to live in a state of impermanency, insecurity, so it builds a wall around itself; the wall of tradition, of organized religion, of political and social theories. Family, name,property,the littel virtues that we have cultivated - these are all within the walls, away from life. Life is moving, impermanent, and it ceaselessly tries to penetrate, to break down these walls, behind which there is a confusion an misery. The gods within the walls are false gods, and their writings and philosophies have no meaning because lif is beyond them.
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| Love has no motive |
[12 Feb 2004|09:57pm] |
J. Krishnamurti/Krishnamurti's Notebook 9th december 1961
Every kind of motive drives us, every action has a motive and so we have no love. Nor do we love what we are doing. We think we cannot act, be, live without a motive and so make our existence a dull trivial thing. We use function to acquire status; function is only a means to something else. Love for the thing itself doesn't exist and so everything becomes shoddy and relationship a dreaded affair.
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| watching oneself choicelessly, watching all what happens |
[03 Feb 2004|12:32pm] |
Cutting from : J. Krishnamurti Talks in Europe 1967 1st Public Talk London
16th September 1967
I do not know if you have ever looked at anything - looked at a
cloud or a tree, looked at a flower or looked at your neighbour, or
at yourself - looked, watched. I think that watching, looking, is
immensely important. We look through the image which we have about
the thing which we are watching. You look at me and you have an
image about me and according to that image you are looking. Is it
possible to look without the image? - to watch, to look, without any
evaluation, but merely to observe what actually is? Because we are a
mass of contradictions, we are conditioned in various ways, by the
climate, the food, the literature, the pressures of society, the
propaganda and so on. There is the propaganda of the church as well
as the propaganda in the newspapers, of politics or sports, or
whatever it is. We are conditioned. And with that conditioning we
look at ourselves - that is, if we
want to look at ourselves! And so we never observe `what is', we
are looking at the projection which we have formed about ourselves.
So if one is serious, the first thing to discover for oneself is how
one observes anything; how one observes the neighbour, the cloud, and
oneself. Can I look at myself actually as I am, psychologically?
That watching in itself is an extraordinary discipline, isn't it? To
look in itself is a discipline, isn't it? But we have disciplined
ourselves to look - which is an entirely different thing. We have
spent our energy in disciplining ourselves - to be, to look, to
listen, to strive, to adjust and so on and so on. So the discipline
has conditioned us; whereas the very act of listening, looking, at
anything, demands in itself a form of discipline.
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| Inward beauty and our mind which is thinking in terms of "the more" |
[30 Jan 2004|01:40pm] |
J. Krishnamurti/Think on these things
I AM SURE we all have sometime or other experienced a great sense of tranquillity and beauty coming to us from the green fields, the setting sun, the still waters, or the snowcapped peaks. But what is beauty? Is it merely the appreciation that we feel, or is beauty a thing apart from perception? If you have good taste in clothes, if you use colours that harmonize, if you have dignified manners, if you speak quietly and hold yourself erect, all that makes for beauty, does it not? But that is merely the outward expression of an inward state, like a poem you write or a picture you paint. You can look at the green field reflected in the river and experience no sense of beauty, just pass it by. If, like the fisherman, you see every day the swallows flying low over the water, it probably means very little to you; but if you are aware of the extraordinary beauty of something like that, what is it that happens within you and makes you say, "How very beautiful"? What goes to make up this inward sense of beauty? There is the beauty of outward form: tasteful clothes, nice pictures, attractive furniture, or no furniture at all with bare, well-proportioned walls, windows that are perfect in shape, and so on. I am not talking merely of that, but of what goes to make up this inward beauty.
Surely, to have this inward beauty, there must be complete abandonment; the sense of not being held, of no restraint, no defence, no resistance; but abandonment becomes chaotic if there is no austerity with it.
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| Creative Discontent |
[07 Jan 2004|09:53am] |
J. Krishnamurti/Think on these things/chap 5
Do you know what it means to be discontented? It is very difficult to understand discontent, because most of us canalize discontent in a certain direction and thereby smother it. That is, our only concern is to establish ourselves in a secure position with well-established interests and prestige, so as not to be disturbed. It happens in homes and in schools too. The teachers don't want to be disturbed, and that is why they follow the old routine; because the moment one is really discontented and begins to inquire, to question, there is bound to be disturbance. But it is only through real discontent that one has initiative.
Do you know what initiative is? You have initiative when you initiate or start something without being prompted. It need not be anything very great or extraordinary - that may come later; but there is the spark of initiative when you plant a tree on your own, when you are spontaneously kind, when you smile at a man who is carrying a heavy load, when you remove a stone from the path, or pat an animal along the way. That is a small beginning of the tremendous initiative you must have if you are to know this extraordinary thing called creativeness. Creativeness has its roots in the initiative which comes into being only when there is deep discontent.
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| having an image |
[23 Dec 2003|10:38am] |
J. Krishnamurti Saanen 7th Public Talk 20th July 1980
If you have observed yourself, the activity of your own thought
and mind, and heart and brain, in your relationship you have an image
about her or him - why? Please, as we said, put this question to
yourself. I am not putting the question to you. You, who are living
in this world, with all the divisions and mess, and utter misery and
depression, degeneration, why you have an image? Having an image
about anything, does that give security? You understand my question?
One feels safe when you have an image about another, you feel safe.
Because the other is moving, living, striving, pushing, and if you
don't have an image about the person, then your mind and heart,
everything has to be tremendously active. And most of our minds are
lazy, befogged, clouded, without any subtlety, movement, quickness.
So having an image about another gives one great security.
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| using each other |
[20 Dec 2003|06:56pm] |
J. Krishnamurti/Think on these things
If I use you for my fulfilment for my happiness, you become very unimportant, because it is my happiness I am concerned with. So when the mind is concerned with the idea that it can have happiness through somebody, through a thing or through an idea, do I not make all these means transitory? Because my concern is then something else, to go further, to catch something beyond.
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| ...it's one of the most dificult things to be sane in this abnormal, insane world... |
[19 Dec 2003|09:53am] |
J. Krishnamurti / Flight of the Eagle Chapter 4
Questioner: Sir, are you crazy?
Krishnamurti: Are you asking the speaker if is he crazy? Good.
I wonder what you mean by that word `crazy; do you mean unbalanced,
mentally ill, with peculiar ideas, neuro-
tic? All these are implied in that word `crazy.' Who is the
judge - you or I or somebody else? Seriously, who is the judge?
Will the crazy person judge who is crazy and who is not crazy? If
you judge whether the speaker is balanced or unbalanced, is not
judgment part of the craziness of this world? To judge somebody, not
knowing a thing about him except his reputation, the image that you
have about him. If you judge according to the reputation and the
propaganda which you have swallowed, then are you capable of judging?
judgment implies vanity; whether the judge be neurotic or sane, there
is always vanity. Can vanity perceive what is true? - or do you not
need great humility to look, to understand, to love. Sir,it's one of
the most difficult things to be sane in this abnormal, insane world.
Sanity implies having no illusion, no image at all about oneself or
about another. You say, `I am this, I am that, I am great, I am
small, I am good, I am noble; all those epithets are images about
oneself. When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane,
one lives in a world of illusion. And I am afraid most of us do.
When you call yourself a Dutchman - forgive me for saying so - you
are not quite balanced. You separate yourself, isolate yourself - as
others do when they call themselves Hindus. These nationalistic,
religious divisions, with their armies, with their priests, indicate
a state of mental insanity.
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| love |
[25 Nov 2003|10:39am] |
When you love there is neither respect nor disrespect.
J. Krishnamurti/Freedom from the known
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