Krishnamurti Information Network
Tag: Knowledge
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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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the explanation is never that thing which is explained, that is the word is never the thing. October 09, 2009
The eagle in its flight does not leave a mark, only the scientist does. And in enquiring into this question of freedom there must be not only the scientific observation, but also the flight of the ...
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Your experiences, your inclinations and motives, all that is the movement of the past, which is knowledge. October 15, 2009
Your experiences, your inclinations and motives, all that is the movement of the past, which is knowledge. Movement of the past can only take place through knowledge, which is the past. So the past...
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...when knowledge interferes in the discovery of the new, there is no discovery of the new. October 16, 2009
...when knowledge interferes in the discovery of the new, there is no discovery of the new. There must be an interval between knowledge and the new, otherwise you are just carrying on the old.
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All one's education, all one's past experience and knowledge is a movement in becoming, both inwardly, psychologically as well as outwardly. October 21, 2009
So I would like to come back to the question: all one's education, all one's past experience and knowledge is a movement in becoming, both inwardly, psychologically as well as outwardly. Becoming i...
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Why do you condemn the acquisition of knowledge? November 01, 2009
Question: Listening to you, one feels that you have read a great deal, and are also directly aware of reality. If this is so, then why do you condemn the acquisition of knowledge? Krishnamurti: ...
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Love does not compare, and so the envy and torture of 'becoming' cease. November 11, 2009
Learning in the true sense of the word is possible only in that state of attention, in which there is no outer or inner compulsion. Right thinking can come about only when the mind is not enslaved ...
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From the known you cannot possibly see the unknown; November 19, 2009
Now, freedom from all that, is freedom from the known; it is the state of a mind which says, "I do not know", and which is not looking for an answer. Such a mind is completely not seeking not expec...
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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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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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Without innocence, it is impossible to be happy. January 15, 2010
Without innocence, it is impossible to be happy. The pleasure of sensations is not the happiness of innocence. Innocence is freedom from the burden of experience. It is the memory of experience t...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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Time is merely the outcome of our not meeting the fact without knowledge. June 30, 2010
We say that we need time to free the mind from all accumulative, self-protective knowledge, to unburden ourselves of all sorrow, misery, strife. But I do not think time is necessary at all. On the ...
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Knowledge is never complete, can never be complete. October 23, 2010
Knowledge is never complete, can never be complete. That is a fact, the scientists can explore not only the atom but also the universe, the stars, what is beyond the stars, but their knowledge is l...
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The brain needs protection, order, it must be completely secure, to function properly. October 27, 2010
The brain needs protection, order, it must be completely secure, to function properly. It thinks it will function properly if it has a conclusion, because it sees round itself great disorder, and i...
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The centre from which you think, the `me', the self, the ego, is a bundle of memories, and you are nothing else but that. November 22, 2010
Knowledge is, after all, experience, and this experience dictates future experience. So you will find that experience does not liberate at all; on the contrary, experience strengthens the past. A m...
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What is known is not reality. April 02, 2013
Last Sunday we saw how dependence upon ideas creates beliefs, dogmas, creeds, and cults, which divide man against man. Can thought ever be free from all dependence, either of the past or the future...
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Questioner: Do you believe in karma and reincarnation? Krishnamurti: I hear some of you groaning. Why? Do you understand the problem of karma and reincarnation so well or are you bored with it, ...
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To be capable of an original experience we must slough off the many bondages, the limiting influences, on our thoughts and feelings. April 27, 2013
Opinions, ideologies, and theories, are dividing the world; no agreement is possible as long as we cling to them in any form whatsoever, for they breed thoughtlessness and obstinacy. Agreement is o...
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Intelligence is the discovery, by each one, of what is of primary importance and the capacity to pursue it. April 28, 2013
We must have knowledge about the material before we can transform it. The material is the intellectual, emotional state of our being, also the religious, artistic, scientific, physical. Any form of...
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If one pursues the path of knowledge - what must I know - one has to submit to authority, which must engender fear and various forms of idolatry; then masters, guides, intermediaries, priests, in d...
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Search to understand, not to know; for in understanding, the dual process of the knower and the known ceases. November 25, 2013
The desire to believe should be understood and put away for it does not bring enlightenment. He who is seeking Truth does not believe; he who is approaching Truth has no dogma or creed; he who is s...
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he eternal is ever the unknown for a mind that accumulates; what is accumulated is memory, and memory is ever the past, the time-binder. January 04, 2014
Questioner: Must we always face the unknown? Krishnamurti: The eternal is ever the unknown for a mind that accumulates; what is accumulated is memory, and memory is ever the past, the time-binde...
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Constant alertness is arduous because we are lazy; we would rather gain through others, through much reading, but information is not self-knowledge. January 08, 2014
Questioner: Is not self-knowledge a difficult pursuit? Krishnamurti: It is and yet it is not. It demands effortless discernment, sensitive receptivity. Constant alertness is arduous because we a...
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... a man who really seeks reality must have devotion, knowledge and action. May 17, 2014
.... a man who really seeks reality must have devotion, knowledge and action. They are not three separate paths leading to some extraordinary thing called reality. Yet, devotion to something is onl...
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Is not knowledge different from understanding and does the mere accumulation of knowledge yield understanding? August 11, 2014
I have talked a little about right relationship between yourself and myself, but I would like to go further into that matter. It seems to me that the attitude as between a teacher and a pupil is a ...
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Surely through knowledge you cannot find the Real. November 09, 2014
Exploitation begins fundamentally, deeply, profoundly, only when you, the individual, the society, have that painful, psychological emptiness of which we are aware sometimes, but which generally is...
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When you do not understand fully "the now" in which you are, how can you know about tomorrow? March 02, 2015
When you do not understand fully "the now" in which you are, how can you know about tomorrow? When you do not know anything about living, how can you understand death? Knowledge gathered from books...
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If you care to analyse the question seriously, you will find definitely that you can understand and face 'what is' without reading a single book. You have got your own prejudice which translates th...
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The new cannot be the outcome of the old. March 05, 2015
Using knowledge to further thinking really amounts to treating knowledge as memory. Thinking is the response of memory to a challenge. How can understanding which is new be the outcome of memory, o...
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Question: You never mention God, Has he no place in your teachings? Krishnamurti: You talk a great deal about God, don't you? Your books are full of it. You build churches, temples, you make sac...
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