Tag:  Authority

• your own experience, which has become your authority September 16, 2009

  ...even intellectually, do you have a quick perception of what is the whole nature and structure of authority? Authority of books, authority of professors, authority of scientists, authority of the...

• The worship of authority, whether in big or little things, is evil, the more so in religious matters. October 25, 2009

  Exclusive, private knowledge offers deeply satisfying pleasure. To know something that others do not know is a constant source of satisfaction; it gives one the feeling of being in touch with deepe...

• Instead of addressing heterogeneous crowds in many places and dazzling and confounding them with your brilliance and subtlety, why do you not start a community or colony and create a reference for your way of thinking? December 02, 2009

  Question: Instead of addressing heterogeneous crowds in many places and dazzling and confounding them with your brilliance and subtlety, why do you not start a community or colony and create a refe...

• Philosophy means love of truth, not love of thought. December 17, 2009

  When the mind realizes the limitation, the narrowness, the finiteness of thought, then only it can ask the question: what is truth? Is this clear? I do not accept truth given by philosophers - that...

• What happens to a mind that lives on books - which we are all doing, not only in the schools, colleges and universities, but also religiously? December 23, 2009

  And one wonders why human beings live the way we are living - the battle, the conflict, the confusion, the utter misery, sorrow, pleasure, and joys that soon fade away and we are left empty handed,...

• The negation of all values, of all morality, of all beliefs, having no frontiers, cannot be in opposition to anything. January 19, 2010

  Krishnamurti: Religion is not separate from life; on the contrary it is life itself. It is this division between religion and life which has bred all the misery you are talking about. So we come ba...

• The poison and corruption begin when you look to one person as your authority, your guide, your saviour. January 23, 2010

  If someone has helped you and you make of him your authority, then are you not preventing all further help, not only from him, but from everything about you? Does not help lie about you everywhere?...

• 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...

• 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...

• You cannot find out what is true by assertion. You must sweep the slate completely clean of the known before you can find out. February 22, 2010

  Every experience is conditioned by the past experience. So there is no new experience; it is always colored by the past. In the very process of experiencing, there is the distortion which comes int...

• It is one fact in life, we are all going to die. That is an absolute, irrevocable fact. March 23, 2010

  Question: When you are no longer physically with us among us what are those of us who understand your message, even if only intellectually, to do? Do we continue working on ourselves and forget th...

• Life is a battle of ideas, a battle of influences, and your mind is the field of the battle. March 24, 2010

  Why are we influenced? In politics, as you know, it is the job of the politician to influence us; and every book, every teacher, every guru - the more powerful, the more eloquent the better we lik...

• The man who is bound either by an external or an inner law is confined in a prison; he is held by an illusion. January 16, 2011

  To understand the cause of authority you must follow the mental and emotional process which creates it. First of all, you feel empty, and in order to get rid of that feeling you make an effort; by ...

• You have rejected only the outward picture, and have created in its place an inner picture to which you are a slave. January 18, 2011

  Why do you create inner laws for yourself? Is it not because the struggle in everyday life is so great, so inharmonious, that you want to escape from it and to create an inner law which shall becom...

• I feel that what I have to say is inherently right in itself. It does not depend on titles or degrees, revelation or authority. March 01, 2011

  Question: It has been claimed by some that you are the Christ come again. We should like to know quite definitely what you have to say about this. Do you accept or reject the claim? Krishnamurti...

• We accept thoughtlessly or unconsciously so many conditions imposed by society or by religion, accept them as being true. June 01, 2011

  We accept thoughtlessly or unconsciously so many conditions imposed by society or by religion, accept them as being true. Traditionally, our mind is driven into a mould, and we unconsciously accept...

• Belief is merely an escape from the present conflict. June 16, 2011

  How can you live intelligently, and therefore harmoniously, if you are bound by beliefs? After all, belief is merely an escape from the present conflict. A man that is in immense conflict with life...

• An authority seasoned through the mists of time becomes invulnerable, and then man accepts that authority as being final. September 19, 2011

  Question: If priests are exploiters, why did Christ found the apostolic succession and Buddha his sangha? Krishnamurti: First of all, how do you know? You have been told, you have read of it in ...

• When you begin to perceive that influence or authority in any form, gross or subtle. must pervert thought, then the mind, in freeing itself from its limitations, is capable of true discernment. February 20, 2012

  If the mind would understand reality, it must become wholly unburdened, fresh and uninfluenced. That is, you must become fully conscious, fully aware of the subtle influence of vested interests on ...

• To understand the deep significance of authority and compulsion. you need very delicate and careful thought. March 15, 2012

  Question: What should be the real purpose of education? Krishnamurti: If you think that man is nothing but a machine, clay to be moulded, to be shaped according to a particular pattern, then you...

• To discuss and intellectually discover what is intelligence would be, I feel, a waste of time and energy, for that would not lift the burden of ignorance and illusion. March 27, 2012

  To discuss and intellectually discover what is intelligence would be, I feel, a waste of time and energy, for that would not lift the burden of ignorance and illusion. Instead of inquiring what is ...

• You have to understand your own desire, which is creating authority and to which you are a slave; March 28, 2012

  When there is deep understanding there is no division of authority as the outer and the inner, as applicable to the mass or to the few, as the externally imposed or the inwardly cultivated. But unf...

• You are not going to miss a spiritual opportunity by not coming here. April 05, 2012

  Question: If you have renounced possessions, money, properties, as you say you have, what do you think of the Commission that organized your tour and is selling your books in the very theatre where...

• If you follow anybody, it does not matter who it is, you are creating further compulsion, further limitation, and so destroying intelligence, true fulfilment. April 30, 2012

  Question: What advice can you give to those of us who are eager to understand your teachings? Krishnamurti: If you begin to live and so understand life, then you cannot help grasping the signifi...

• To understand and awaken [this] harmonious intelligence, one must begin, not with assumptions and authoritative assertions, but negatively. June 16, 2012

  Until now it has been said that there is God, that there is truth, that there is something absolute, final, eternal, and on that assertion we have built our thought and emotion, our life, our moral...

• Authority is pernicious, not only the authority imposed by another, but also that which is unconsciously developed through the accumulation of self-protective memories, the authority of the ego. September 05, 2012

  Question: In the book entitled "The Initiate in the Dark Cycle" it is stated that what you are teaching is Advaitism, which is a philosophy only for yogis and chelas, and dangerous for the average ...

• When you reject authority and seek freedom from it, you are but seeking the antithesis; whereas true freedom, the intelligent and awakened state of mind, is beyond opposites. October 18, 2012

  Let us consider the mind caught up in authority. There is the authority of outward compulsion, of groups, leaders, opinions, traditions. You may yield to this authority without fully comprehending ...