Tag:  Silence

• For the mind to be silent, all its contradictory corners must come together and be fused in the flame of understanding. September 11, 2009

  The mind is silent only with the abundance of energy, when there is that attention in which all contradiction, the pulling of desire in different directions, has ceased. The struggle of desire to b...

• Thought shattering itself against its own nothingness is the explosion of meditation. October 13, 2009

  Thought shattering itself against its own nothingness is the explosion of meditation. This meditation has its own movement, directionless and so is causeless. And in that room, in that peculiar sil...

• When you realize the truth that it is only the quiet mind that sees, then the mind becomes extraordinarily quiet. October 14, 2009

  When you realize that there is no method, no system, that no mantram, no teacher, nothing in the world that is going to help you to be quiet, when you realize the truth that it is only the quiet mi...

• What is meditation? Why should one meditate? To find that out, stop meditating. November 04, 2009

  What is meditation? Why should one meditate? To find that out, stop meditating. To find out what is real meditation, not yours or mine, your type and my type, or X's type, but what is meditation, t...

• Is silence to be cultivated, carefully nurtured and strengthened? And who is the cultivator? Is he different from the totality of your being? January 26, 2010

  Krishnamurti: Is silence to be cultivated, carefully nurtured and strengthened? And who is the cultivator? Is he different from the totality of your being? Is there silence, a still mind, when on...

• It is only when the mind is silent that we can understand anything April 05, 2010

  The whole of the Orient is mesmerized by the word meditation, and in the Occident, the word prayer is of tremendous importance. It is essential to find out whether the mind - which is so very compl...

• A mind that is merely occupied is a petty mind, whether it is occupied with the highest knowledge, or with the daily activities of the kitchen, or the job. June 05, 2010

  You see, we are so afraid of a mind that is not occupied. A mind that is merely occupied is a petty mind, whether it is occupied with the highest knowledge, or with the daily activities of the kitc...

• Our minds are the result of innumerable and contradictory influences, and any action born of that contradictory state must also be contradictory; June 08, 2010

  Action born of influence is restricted. Our minds are the result of innumerable and contradictory influences, and any action born of that contradictory state must also be contradictory; and a cultu...

• A mind that is seeking, craving, searching for wider, deeper experience, such a mind is shallow because it lives always with its memories, with its recognitions, and what is remembered, recognized, is not the new. September 10, 2010

  Every experience demands recognition, otherwise it is not an experience. If I don't recognize it as an experience involving something, it is not an experience. It is only when I recognize it that I...

• Change or reform merely within the pattern of duality produces only further confusion and pain and hence is retrogression August 07, 2013

  You are faced with the problem of killing your brother in the name of religion, of peace, of country and so on. How shall you find the answer in which further conflicting, further opposing problems...

• Our means of livelihood are dictated, are they not, through tradition or through greed and ambition? August 15, 2013

  Questioner: The problem of earning a decent living is predominant with most of us. Since economic currents of the world are hopelessly interdependent I find that almost anything I do either exploit...

• Question: Is not having a problem a process of thinking? September 28, 2015

  Question: Is not having a problem a process of thinking? Krishnamurti: Silence is when the thinker, the creator of the problem, ceases to think. We do not see things as they are, if we think in ...