Tag:  Prayer

• From my point of view, prayer, as it is commonly understood, has no value. April 01, 2011

  Questioner: Do you believe in the efficacy of prayer, and the value of prayer that is directed out of wholehearted sympathy to the misfortune and suffering of others? Cannot prayer, in the right se...

• You have to become intensely aware of the cause of this prison, of this continual building up of securities, comforts and escapes, in which the mind is engaged. January 10, 2012

  You have to become intensely aware of the cause of this prison, of this continual building up of securities, comforts and escapes, in which the mind is engaged. When you are fully aware of the caus...

• Question: I should like to know if we need to pray, and how to pray. February 11, 2012

  Question: I should like to know if we need to pray, and how to pray. Krishnamurti: Sir, isn't it the fundamental idea of prayer to seek aid and understanding beyond ourselves? If that is so, we ...

• A man who prays can never understand what is meditation, because he is concerned with gain. March 25, 2014

  A man who prays can never understand what is meditation, because he is concerned with gain. Meditation is a process of understanding. Understanding is not a result and it is not something you gain....

• Question: Is not the longing expressed in prayer a way to God? May 20, 2015

  Question: Is not the longing expressed in prayer a way to God? Krishnamurti: First of all we are going to examine the problems contained in this question. In it are implied prayer, concentration...

• Can the immeasurable, the unutterable, be concerned with our petty little worries, miseries, confusions, which we ourselves have created? May 21, 2015

  Question: Is not the longing expressed in prayer a way to God? Krishnamurti: .... Now, when you pray, when you beg, petition for something, it generally comes into being. When you ask, you recei...

• When the mind is supplicating, petitioning, it is comparatively still; and when you hear the inner voice, it is your own voice projecting itself into that comparatively still mind. May 22, 2015

  Question: Is not the longing expressed in prayer a way to God? Krishnamurti: ... in this problem of prayer, there is another factor involved: the response of that which we call the inner voice. ...

• Concentration is brought about through effort, compulsion, direction, imitation, and so concentration is a process of exclusion. May 23, 2015

  Question: Is not the longing expressed in prayer a way to God? Krishnamurti: ... in this problem of prayer, there is also the question of concentration. With most of us, concentration is a proce...