Tag:  Conditioning

• Truth is in the silent observation of what is, and it is truth that transforms what is. July 22, 2009

  The very desire to take shelter through conditioning breeds more strife, more problems; for conditioning is separating, and the separate, the isolated cannot live. The separate, by joining itself ...

• Breaking through is not a matter of time. October 07, 2009

  ... the religious man is he who, through self-knowledge, begins to discover his conditioning and to break through it; and the breaking through is not a matter of time.

• Freedom is to stand alone, unattached and unafraid, free in the understanding of desire which breeds illusion. November 20, 2009

  Freedom is to stand alone, unattached and unafraid, free in the understanding of desire which breeds illusion. There is a vast strength in being alone. It is the conditioned, programmed brain that ...

• Freedom cannot be given; freedom is something that comes into being when you do not seek it; November 30, 2009

  Freedom cannot be given; freedom is something that comes into being when you do not seek it; it comes into being only when you know you are a prisoner, when you know for yourself completely the sta...

• Your mind is conditioned right through; there is no part of you which is unconditioned. December 13, 2009

  Your mind is conditioned right through; there is no part of you which is unconditioned. That is a fact, whether you like it or not. You may say there is a part of you - the watcher, the super-soul,...

• The shallow are ever afraid of what they are; but what they are is the truth. January 13, 2010

  The very desire to take shelter through conditioning breeds more strife, more problems; for conditioning is separating, and the separate, the isolated cannot live. The separate, by joining itself ...

• Can one see that the whole movement of this illusory memory, which appears so real, can end? February 09, 2010

  You can learn about the limited, but you cannot learn about the unlimited. And we try to learn about the whole field of the psyche, and say that needs time. But time may be an illusion in that area...

• Will you please explain what you mean by awareness? February 15, 2010

  Question: Will you please explain what you mean by awareness? Krishnamurti: Just simple awareness! Awareness of your judgments, your prejudices, your likes and dislikes. When you see something, ...

• You cannot perceive if you do not ask the right question - and a right question has no answer, because it needs no answer. February 17, 2010

  We are not concerned with what you should or should not do; that is not the problem. We are concerned with understanding the mind; and in understanding there is no condemnation, no demand for a pat...

• When the mind is aware that it is conditioned and does not battle against it, only then is the mind free to give its complete attention to this conditioning. March 20, 2010

  Now, can the mind be aware of its own conditioning and not try to battle against it? When the mind is aware that it is conditioned and does not battle against it, only then is the mind free to give...

• Right education is surely finding a different way of life, setting the mind free from its own conditioning. May 19, 2010

  What are you educated for, anyway? You may be a sociologist, an anthropologist or a scientist, with your specialized mind working away at a fragment of the whole field of life. You are filled with ...

• Any movement on my part, any movement, conscious or unconscious is the movement of conditioning August 05, 2010

  Questioner: If I say,`My mind is conditioned', then that `I' is also a conditioning, then I do not know what else is left. Krishnamurti: That is just it. If I say, `I am conditioned', that...

• Whatever movement a conditioned mind makes, whatever movement a conditioned mind follows, it is still conditioned; therefore, one asks, can it remain completely with the fact alone and nothing else? August 24, 2010

  Questioner: If I say,'My mind is conditioned', then that 'I' is also a conditioning, then I do not know what else is left. Krishnamurti: That is just it. If I say, 'I am conditioned', that...

• You will say that I have given you no constructive or positive instruction. February 13, 2011

  You will say that I have given you no constructive or positive instruction. Beware of the man who offers you positive methods, for he is giving you merely his pattern, his mould. If you really live...

• The past is the background of conditioned thought-action which is dominating and controlling the present and thereby creating a predetermined future. October 23, 2012

  Question: Has the idea of predestination any actual validity? Krishnamurti: Action arising each moment from limitation, ignorance, modifies and renews the "I" process, giving to it continuity an...

• Ignorance is the unawareness of the process of conditioning, which consists of the many wants, fears, acquisitive memories, and so on. November 28, 2012

  All strife is one of relationship, an adjustment between two resistances, two individuals Resistance is a conditioning, limiting or conditioning that energy which may be called life, thought, emoti...

• Both the religious and the materialistic mind are conditioned by their own prejudices which prevent the integral comprehension of truth and the communion with it. December 13, 2012

  Questioner: What you say leads to a very materialistic form of life. Krishnamurti: What do you mean by a materialistic form of life? That there is only this life, that there is no reality, no G...

• Please do not [at the beginning of these talks] expect an immediate solution for your various problems. January 07, 2013

  Please do not [at the beginning of these talks] expect an immediate solution for your various problems. I know Europe is a perfect madhouse, in which there is talk of peace and at the same time pre...

• Desire can only recondition itself, reshape itself to a new pattern, but it will still be desire, giving birth to fear. February 15, 2013

  What we are trying to do, the majority of us, is to overcome fear either by desire or by what we call "emotion" - which is really another form of desire. You cannot overcome fear by love. To overco...

• Memory, tradition, value imposed by society, religion, and personal experience, influence our discernment. April 03, 2013

  Observe your own process of thinking and you will see that it springs from some fear or other, from craving, affection, hope, from the sensation of what is mine and not mine. In other words, though...

• It is possible to be a true individual in the highest sense, only if one is not identified with any special conditioning. May 05, 2013

  The world is broken up into these different forms of restricting groups, Hindu, English, German, Chinese, and so on, each fighting and killing or coercing the other. It is possible to be a true ind...

• When one has liberated oneself from society, group, race, family, and from all separative conditioning, and has become an undivided, integral being the problems which now torment the citizens of various particularized states will have utterly lost their significance. May 06, 2013

  Relationship is a process of self-revelation and liberation. To inquire within the circle of limitation about the soul, reality, God, immortality, is vain, for these words, images, and ideas, belon...

• Surely there is a difference between right thinking and right or conditioned thought. May 23, 2013

  Amidst so much confusion and sorrow it is essential to find creative understanding of ourselves, for without it no relationship is possible. Only through right thinking can there be understanding. ...

• We translate all experience in terms of our own conditioning, the deeper it is the more alertly aware must we be not to misread it. October 02, 2013

  We translate all experience in terms of our own conditioning, the deeper it is the more alertly aware must we be not to misread it. Deep and spiritual experiences are rare and if we have such exper...

• You think that you are thinking. April 06, 2014

  Question: In a recent article by a famous correspondent it was stated that wisdom and personal example do not solve the world's problem. What do you say? Krishnamurti: As there are many things i...

• [Experience] is always broken down to constitute a particular condition and therefore, there is never a complete action. July 14, 2014

  Continuity is memory. All our life is a challenge and a response. There is the response to a condition and that condition is modified or altered according to circumstances, but it is always conditi...

• You then realise that you are alone and you have to be alone if you seek Truth. November 16, 2014

  Let us consider the truth or the inner significance of falling in love in relation to the understanding of what thinking is in the light of our previous action. When you fall in love with a woma...

• With regard to every subject, you are misinformed, you are badly educated and badly conditioned; and you try to interpret life through this misinformation. November 20, 2014

  So, your difficulty lies in seeing the thing clearly without any prejudice. The prejudice has been created by outside agencies as well as yourself. With regard to every subject, you are misinformed...

• When your neighbour and yourself are each behind his own wall, how can you understand each other? December 05, 2014

  In daily life, we are isolating ourselves by our activities; we are separating ourselves through function - the bank clerk and the manager, the labourer and the executive, the priest and the bishop...

• The problem at the present moment is: Can I, who am conditioned - whether by the left or by the right is irrelevant -, can I step out of that conditioning? March 22, 2015

  Question: I am born with a certain temperament, a certain psychological and physical pattern, whatever may be its reason. This pattern becomes the major single factor in my life. It dominates me ab...

• What is it that conditions you? What is it that limits thought? What is it that creates the pattern in which you are caught? March 23, 2015

  What is it that conditions you? What is it that limits thought? What is it that creates the pattern in which you are caught? If I cease to think, then there is no pattern. That is, I am the thinker...

• My thought, which is the outcome of yesterday, can respond only in terms of yesterday; and when it asks, 'how can I go beyond?', it is asking a wrong question. March 25, 2015

  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 ...

• Can one realize truth immediately, without preparation? I say yes - not out of some fancy of mine, not out of some illusion; April 26, 2015

  So, can one realize truth immediately, without preparation? I say yes - not out of some fancy of mine, not out of some illusion; but psychologically experiment with it, and you will see. Take any c...