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Tag: Thought
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There is only thinking, and thinking is impermanent July 24, 2009
Now, as long as there is the thinker separate from thought, there must be conflict, the process of duality, there must be this gap between action and idea. But cannot the mind actually experience t...
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There is no such thing as pure thought, or ''free'' thought July 28, 2009
Question: Is the process of cleansing the mind a process of thought? Krishnamurti: Can thought ever be clean? Is not all thought unclean? Because thought is born of memory, it is already contami...
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We must find out - if it is possible or not - whether there is a different dimension, a different approach, to life altogether. August 04, 2009
Thought is born of experience and knowledge, and there is nothing sacred whatsoever about thought. Thinking is materialistic, it is a process of matter. And we have relied on thinking to solve all ...
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Thinking is materialistic, it is a process of matter. August 17, 2009
Thought is born of experience and knowledge, and there is nothing sacred whatsoever about thought. Thinking is materialistic, it is a process of matter. And we have relied on thinking to solve ...
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Please listen quietly: we know that thought creates fear. One of the functions of thought is to be occupied, to be thinking about something all the time. Like a housewife who thinks about the food,...
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What is the relationship of attention to inattention, and to awareness? November 12, 2009
K: ...we are asking now, what is the relationship of attention to inattention, and to awareness? Right? They are all related. Why is the mind inattentive - not, can the mind be continuously attenti...
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Only the mind that has emptied itself of the known is creative. November 22, 2009
If you are hearing for the first time this statement that you must be free of thought, you may say, " Poor chap, he is crazy." But if you have really listened, not only this time but for the many y...
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Thought is the very denial of love, and it cannot enter into that space where the me is not. December 04, 2009
In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love.This space divides man from man, and in it is all the becoming, the battle of life, the agony and fear. Meditation is the ending of...
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Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment. December 18, 2009
So, a man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions. Again, this is not a matter of time. There is no end to self-knowledge...
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You have only one head, care for it, don't destroy it. It's so easy to poison it. January 10, 2010
You have only one head and look after it for it's a marvellous thing. No machinery, no electronic computers can compare with it. It's so vast, so complex, so utterly capable, subtle and productive....
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An intelligent mind acts in the field of thought intelligently, sanely, without resistance; January 12, 2010
One asks: is love attachment? - not that love is detachment. When love is attached or detached then it is painful - which we all know, we go through that ugly state. Power is another form of corrup...
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To walk alone, unimpeded by thought, by the trail of our desires, is to go beyond the reaches of the mind. January 21, 2010
We are never alone; we are surrounded by people and by our own thoughts. Even when the people are distant, we see things through the screen of our thoughts. There is no moment, or it is very rare, ...
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Can thought be aware of its own movement? Can thought see itself, see what it is doing, both in the outer and the inner? February 06, 2010
Can thought be aware of its own movement? Can thought see itself, see what it is doing, both in the outer and the inner? There is really no outer and inner: the inner creates the outer, and the out...
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It is odd what importance we give to the printed word, to so-called sacred books. February 10, 2010
It is odd what importance we give to the printed word, to so-called sacred books. The scholars, as the laymen, are gramophones; they go on repeating, however often the records may be changed. They ...
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To transform, I must look at what is; and I am not looking at it as long as I have an ideal. February 11, 2010
Sir, take violence. Again, let us think that thought through, First, I do not like to acknowledge that I am violent, because socially and morally I am told that to be violent is a very bad thing. B...
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Sir, don't follow any authority. Authority is evil. Authority destroys, authority perverts, authority corrupts; February 16, 2010
Question: We have been told that thought must be controlled to bring about that state of tranquillity necessary to understand reality. Could you please tell us how to control thought? Krishnamur...
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Thought is necessary, time is necessary. To go from here to there time is necessary. And thought is necessary to drive a car, to take a bus or train. Thought is necessary, time is necessary at that...
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In the life we we generally lead there is very little solitude. March 30, 2010
In the life we we generally lead there is very little solitude. Even when we are alone our lives are crowded by so many influences, so much knowledge, so many memories of so many experiences, so mu...
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If you have no thoughts, there is no thinker; so it is thought that creates the thinker. April 20, 2010
Question: What is the relation between the thinker and his thought? Krishnamurti: Now, is there any such relation, or is there only one thing, which is thought, and not the thinker? Because, if...
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The thinker is a fictitious entity, an unreal state. There is only thought; and the bundle of thoughts creates the 'I', the thinker. April 22, 2010
Pursue a thought completely, go through with it to the end, think it out fully, and you will see what happens. You will find that there is no thinker at all, because it is the thought which creates...
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Is there any thought which is not conditioned? June 07, 2010
Questioner: You said that thought is a product of memory. Now I quite realize that most of my thoughts are very much conditioned, but I'm not quite sure there is no possibility for other thought wh...
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Experiencing without memory is one state, and experiencing with memory is another. June 14, 2010
Questioner: Memory, you say, is incomplete experience. I have a memory and a vivid impression of your previous talks. In what sense is it an incomplete experience? Please explain this idea in all i...
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The thinker is the thought. They are not separate, they are a joint phenomenon and not separate processes. July 14, 2010
Thought can be modified, changed; but the thinker remains apart. The thinker is the thought. They are not separate, they are a joint phenomenon and not separate processes. The thinker, by manipulat...
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Thought is the outcome of incomplete experience. July 16, 2010
Existence is challenge and response. The challenge is always new and the response ever the old. You met me yesterday, but since yesterday I have been modified; you have the picture of me of yesterd...
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A fundamental question cannot be answered by somebody else. July 30, 2010
When we ask this question, whether thought can have a stop, whether thought which is in time can come to an end, we are asking a most fundamental question. A fundamental question cannot be answere...
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Thought is a very strange thing, is it not? August 18, 2010
Thought is a very strange thing, is it not? Do you know what thought is? Thought or thinking for most people is something put together by the mind, and they battle over their thoughts. But if you c...
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Thinking and feeling are to me the same, because I have lost the distinction of what you call thought and emotion. November 21, 2010
Question: When I think of the Christ I feel immense love in my heart. When I am in your presence, I am mentally stimulated. I know this is also the experience of others. Why do we feel this differe...
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Thought is like the waters of a river. It must be in continual movement. Eternity is that movement. June 26, 2011
You may not accept this. You may not accept what I am saying, but you can experiment. Experiment with these three instances I have given to you, fear, belief, patriotism, and you will see how your ...
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What we call happiness or ecstasy is to me creative thinking. And creative thinking is the infinite movement of thought, emotion and action. That is, when thought, which is emotion, which is action...
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What do I mean by right thinking? November 05, 2012
What do I mean by right thinking? Thought must be vital, dynamic, not mechanical or imitative.
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Our daily thought and action are controlled by the past, by the concealed motives, memories, and hidden cravings. May 13, 2013
Our thought is influenced and limited by the past generations of people who in their suffering, in their joys, in their aspirations, in their escapes, in their fear of death in their longing for co...
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Love transcends the friend and the enemy. June 07, 2013
Questioner: You said a man who meets anger with anger becomes anger. Do you mean that when we fight cruelty with the weapons of cruelty we too become the enemy; yet if we do not protect ourselves t...
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If you would understand something do you compare it with something else or do you study it for itself? August 04, 2013
Without self-knowledge understanding is not possible. Self-knowledge is extremely arduous and difficult, for you are a complex entity. You must approach the understanding of the self simply, withou...
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The complete integration of the thinker with his thought cannot be experienced if there is no understanding of the process of becoming and the conflict of opposites. September 22, 2013
Questioner: What is a lasting way to solve a psychological problem? Krishnamurti: There are three stages of awareness, are there not, in any human problem? First, being aware of the cause and ef...
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Is not the maker of the problem more important than the problem itself? October 31, 2013
So long as the thinker is concerned with his thought there must be dualism; as long as he struggles with his thoughts dualistic conflict will continue. Is there a solution for a problem in the conf...
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Is the thinker different from his thought? November 01, 2013
Is the thinker different from his thought? Are they not a joint phenomenon? Why does the thinker separate himself from his thought? Is it not for his own continuity? He is ever seeking security, pe...
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If the thinker separates his thought from himself and tries to modify it without radically transforming himself conflict and delusion inevitably will follow. There is no way out of this conflict an...
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Our thought is conditioned by the past; the I, the me and the mine, is the result of stored up experience, ever incomplete. November 05, 2013
Our thought is conditioned by the past; the I, the me and the mine, is the result of stored up experience, ever incomplete. The memory of the past is always absorbing the present; the self which is...
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How is thought which has become the means of self-expansion to act without giving sustenance to the ego, the cause of conflict and sorrow? December 08, 2013
Our social and religious structure is based on the urge to become something, positively or negatively. Such a process is the very nourishment of the ego, through name, family, achievement, through ...
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How can thought which is the outcome of time, of self-protective activity, comprehend that which is not of time? January 09, 2014
In the last three talks we have been considering that intelligence which is developed through the activities and habits of the self - that desire which is constantly accumulating and with which tho...
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If you have the capacity to allow thought to unroll itself fully then you will perceive that one thought contains, or is related to, all thought. February 09, 2014
This morning we shall consider meditation. In understanding it we can perhaps comprehend the full and deep significance of passive awareness. Awareness is right meditation and without meditation th...
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What is known is not the Real. February 13, 2014
Questioner: You said the Real should not be an incentive. It seems to me that if I try to think of the Real I am better able to understand myself and my difficulties. Krishnamurti: Is it possibl...
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How can the mind which is restless and going swiftly backwards and forwards, be aware of its activities? April 19, 2014
How can the mind which is restless and going swiftly backwards and forwards, be aware of its activities? Finding itself restless, the mind, without becoming aware of the causes of this restlessness...
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Because thought is the result of the past, it can only think in terms of time, today, yesterday and tomorrow, in terms of the known; and the known it wants to continue. If that continuance is denie...
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Ordinarily, in the physical sense, we desire to continue through property, through our job and through our routine. Psychologically, we continue through our memory. All our systems are based on con...
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When we are thinking about something beyond, it is also the process of the mind and therefore it is unreal. June 05, 2014
Some say that the mind is the instrument of the spirit. But the spirit is also the process of the mind. The moment we say there is spirit, it is a process of thought. There is perception, sensation...
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We have been discussing the question of death and fear and we said that any form of continuity is death because continuity implies a constant movement of thought in the fortress of the known. Thoug...
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.... The other point in this question is whether problems can be solved all at once, in one stroke cut off at the root. But first we must discover who is the creator of problems. If the creator ...
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So, as long as the thinker is separate from his thought, there will be problems, one after the other, innumerable problems; January 31, 2015
Now, how does the thinker come into being? Obviously through desire. Desire is the outcome of perception, contact, sensation, identification and 'me'. Perception of a car, contact, sensation, desir...
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So, the problem is this: my thought is conditioned, it is fixed in a pattern; and to any challenge, which is always new, my thought can respond only according to its conditioning, transforming the ...
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Question: When I listen to you, all seems clear and new. At home, the old, dull restlessness asserts itself. What is wrong with me? Krishnamurti: What is actually taking place in our lives? Ther...
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If the thinker can understand himself, then the whole problem is solved. May 30, 2015
Question: Why is your teaching so purely psychological? There is no cosmology, no theology, no ethics, no aesthetics, no sociology, no political science, not even hygiene. Why do you concentrate on...
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Thoughts themselves are the thinker, they are not separate. May 31, 2015
Now, is the thinker different from his thoughts? If thought ceases, is there the thinker? Can the quality be removed from the thinker? When the qualities of the thinker are removed, is there the th...
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Question: Why is your teaching so purely psychological? June 01, 2015
Question: Why is your teaching so purely psychological? There is no cosmology, no theology, no ethics, no aesthetics, no sociology, no political science, not even hygiene. Why do you concentrate on...
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If you have no thoughts, there is no thinker. July 05, 2015
Question: My mind is restless and distressed. Without getting it under control, I can do nothing about myself. How am I to control thought? Krishnamurti: ... Does the thinker exist when he ce...
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Understanding the thought process is the beginning of meditation, which is self-knowledge. July 06, 2015
Aren't you under the belief that your thoughts are separate from yourself? This very question implies that, doesn't it? - that there is the controller and the controlled, the observer and the obser...
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What is the necessary impetus to bring about a revolution leading to individual action? October 02, 2015
What then will bring about the immediate transformation of the individual? What is it that is going to bring about an inner revolution, an immediate change in values and directions? Will emotion, f...
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Are emotions the instruments of transformation? October 03, 2015
Krishnamurti: Let us discover it together by going into it slowly and deeply. When do you have emotions? Question: From the mind, from external stimulants. Do we get this instantaneously? Kri...
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