Krishnamurti & the Art of Awakening

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Ojai, California | 6th Public Talk 1945

It is essential to be aware of your conditioning rather than to try to "do something" about the experience itself, but mind-heart clings to the experiences of yesterday and so becomes incapable of understanding the living present.

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We are not concerned with individual salvation or individual liberation, or whatever the individual is trying to seek but rather with the whole movement of life, the understanding of the whole current of existence;
Action according to memory, is total inaction, and therefore there is no revolution at all.
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.
I can give you paint, brushes, and canvas, but you yourself have to become the artist, the painter.
As long as there is a guiding principle in our lives to which we are trying to be true, there must be duality in action, and therefore a problem.
listening to my talks, or reading what I have said, is not going to awaken intelligence or lead you to truth, to that ecstasy of life which is in continual movement.
Individually, we feel we have but to wait, let things take their natural course, and by some extraordinary means a new world will come into being.
We must begin to create intelligent opinion, and thereby we shall have a world where individuality is not crushed out, beaten to a particular pattern, but becomes a means of expression of life;
Intelligence itself is so supreme that it is continually in movement and therefore there is never a static point which can create conflict.
If you don't understand something and merely try to modify it, your action must increase the barriers, must build up new sets of barriers;
Without understanding the significance of environment, man struggles to alter, modify that environment, and thereby but heightens the walls of his prison, though he thinks he has removed them.
Memory, is caught up in the struggle of changing values, and this battle is called progress, the evolutionary path of choice leading to truth.
As long as the mind, clouded by memory, imparts values, action must create further walls of prison;
when thought, which is emotion, which is action itself, is unimpeded in its movement, is not compelled or influenced or bound by an idea, and does not proceed from the background of tradition or habit, then that movement is creative.
Question: Cannot man be liberated through science?
If we can understand the fundamental cause of our action and free it from its limitations, then action will inevitably bring about intelligence and co-operation in the world.
Action born of a reaction, of a symptom, without understanding the cause, must lead to greater conflict and suffering.
Truth, the beauty of reality, can be discerned only when the mind is fearless; not with the fearlessness of intellectuality, but of utter insecurity.
To bring this "I" process to an end, there must be the consciousness of suffering, not the mere conception of suffering.
You must discern for yourself the process of your own thought-action
The problem of starvation is not solved by merely discovering its causes - the bad economic system, over-production, maldistribution, and so on.
if thought is limited by memories, traditions, prejudices, by the past, then any action springing from it can only create further ignorance and sorrow.
Love transcends the friend and the enemy.
To experience the immeasurable, the unknowable, mind must go beyond and above itself.
Will your hunger be satisfied through watching another eat?
... a man who really seeks reality must have devotion, knowledge and action.
The desire to listen and the action of listening are two quite different states.
As it is, our existence is pretty awful and merely to understand verbally what is being said and use it as a pattern to translate everyday existence will not bring about understanding.
We do not know how to look at a tree, we merely talk about it.
The moment you are interested, the moment you recognize your responsibility in relationship then that very process begins to unwrap the ways of your own thoughts and actions.
Outward action, when accomplished, is over, is static; and if the relationship between individuals, which is society, is not the outcome of inward revolution, then the social structure, being static, absorbs the individual, and therefore makes him equally static, repetitive.
We live by action; and without action, there is no life, there is no experience, there is no thinking.
Consciousness is action; and without challenge, response, without experiencing, naming or terming, and recording, which is memory, there is no action
It is a fallacy to think that there can be no radical transformation in the world unless there is mass action.