Quotes from J. Krishnamurthy

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Quotes from J. Krishnamurthy

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"Out of silence look and listen. Silence is not the ending of noise; the

incessant clamor of the mind and heart does not end in silence; it is

not a product, a result of desire, nor is it put together by will. The

whole of consciousness is a restless, noisy movement within the borders

of its own making. Within this border silence or stillness is but the

momentary ending of the chatter; it is the silence touched by time. Time

is memory and to it silence is short or long; it can measure. Give to it

space and continuity, and then it becomes another toy. But this is not

silence. Everything put together by thought is within the area of noise,

and thought in no way can make itself still. It can build an image of

silence and conform to it, worshiping it, as it does with so many other

images it has made, but its formula of silence is the very negation of

it; its symbols are the very denial of reality. Thought itself must be

still for silence to be. Silence is always now, as thought is not.

Thought, always being old, cannot possibly enter into that silence which

is always new. Out of this silence, look and talk. The true anonymity is

out of this silence and there is no other humility. The vain are always

vain, though they put on the garment of humility, which makes them harsh

and brittle. But out of this silence the word 'love' has a wholly

different meaning. This silence is not out there but is where the noise

of the total observer is not. [...]" From "Meeting Life", by J.

Krishnamurti

 

"[...] it is important to understand, not intellectually but *actually*

in your daily life, how you have built images about your wife, your

husband, your neighbor, your child, your country, your leaders, your

politicians, your gods--you have nothing but images. The images create

the space between you and what you observe and in that space there is

conflict, so what we are going to find out now together is whether it is

possible to be free of the space we create, not only outside ourselves

but in ourselves, the space which divides people in all their

relationships. Now the very attention you give to a problem is the

energy that solves that problem. When you give your complete

attention--I mean with everything in you--there is no observer at all.

There is only the state of attention which is total energy, and that

total energy is the highest form of intelligence. Naturally that state

of mind must be completely silent and that silence, that stillness,

comes when there is total attention, not disciplined stillness. That

total silence in which there is neither the observer nor the thing

observed is the highest form of a religious mind. But what takes place

in that state cannot be put into words because what is said in words is

not the fact. To find out for yourself you have to go through it."

J. Krishnamurti, "Freedom from the Known," pp.92-93

 

" When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a

European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is

violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind.

When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it

breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does

not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or

partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of

mankind."

J. Krishnamurti, "Freedom from the Known," pp.51-52

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>" When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a

>European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why

it is

>violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of

mankind.

>When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition,

it

>breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence

does

>not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party

or

>partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of

>mankind."

>J. Krishnamurti, "Freedom from the Known," pp.51-52

 

 

The above quote is truly beautiful. I was close to peace for a

moment. Thanks.

 

Om Shanti

Kathi

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