Tag:  Prejudice

• From the beginning we must be very clear that you are not being told what to do, or what to think. November 03, 2009

  From the beginning we must be very clear that you are not being told what to do, or what to think. We have been programmed enough. But in this talk, and tomorrow's talk, we should think together, l...

• You see man imprisoned by innumerable walls, walls of religion, of social, political and national limitations, walls created by his own ambitions, aspirations, fears, hopes, security, prejudices, hate and love. November 07, 2009

  Let us for a moment, imaginatively at least, look over the world from a point of view which will reveal the inner workings and the outer workings of man, his creations and his battles; and if you c...

• In talking to groups of listeners all over the world, I find that more and more people seem not to understand what I am saying, because they come with fixed ideas; November 10, 2009

  In talking to groups of listeners all over the world, I find that more and more people seem not to understand what I am saying, because they come with fixed ideas; they listen with their biased att...

• In the confusion and turmoil of life, in its continual bustle and conflict, every individual is caught. December 11, 2009

  In the confusion and turmoil of life, in its continual bustle and conflict, every individual is caught. To understand the meaning of it, one must first grapple with it intellectually and afterwards...

• The 'me' is created by thought and the 'me' says: "I am independent of thought". January 18, 2010

  How does one perceive the whole of anything? The whole of fear, not the broken up of fear in different forms or the fear of the unconscious and the conscious - in the conscious and in the unconscio...

• Why do we want an attitude? What does attitude mean? January 22, 2010

  I wonder what we mean by attitude. Why do we want an attitude? What does attitude mean? Taking up a position, coming to a conclusion. I have an attitude about whatever it is, which means I have...

• You never see life as it really is; you look at it only through a screen of prejudice, and therefore, your action must ever be incomplete, it must ever have a motive. May 25, 2010

  Questioner: Exactly what do you mean by action without aim? If it is the immediate response of our whole being in which aim and action are one, how can all the action of our daily life be without a...

• If I have been brought up with strong religious doctrines or with some particular training, my thoughts and emotions are perverted; with this background of prejudice I go forth to meet life, and this prejudice naturally prevents my complete understanding of life. October 30, 2010

  Question: What do you mean by living fully, openly, freely? Please give a practical example. Please also explain, with a practical example, how in the attempt to live fully, openly, and freely one ...

• When man has set up a security he meets every incident of life, every one of the innumerable experiences of life, with the background of that security February 21, 2011

  When man has set up a security - the security of public opinion or of the happiness that he derives from possessions or from the practice of virtue, which is but an escape - he meets every incident...

• Only when you realize that life, that free, eternal movement, cannot be met partially and with prejudice, only then are you free, without effort. February 26, 2011

  Since our minds and hearts have through ages been crippled by false values, we are incapable of meeting experience wholly. If you are a Christian, you meet it in one way, as dictated by all your pr...

• Have [this] intelligent, critical attitude, not only with regard to what I am going to say, but with regard to everything in life. April 29, 2011

  Please bear this in mind, that we are going to discover this evening, consider together, what are the false things and the true in the existing social and religious conditions; and to do that pleas...

• It is fatal to meet life with the burden of certainty, with the conceit of knowledge, because, after all, knowledge is merely a thing of the past August 06, 2011

  Question: Do you consider that karma is the interaction between the false environment and the false "I"? Krishnamurti: You know karma is a Sanskrit word which means to act, to do, to work, and a...

• To understand life, with which, after all, we are concerned, we must not confuse theory with actuality; March 19, 2012

  If I may suggest it, during this evening try to put away your prejudices, try to forget that you are a Christian, a Communist, a Socialist, an Anarchist, or a Capitalist; and examine what I am goin...

• Question: Is it possible to live without some kind of prejudice? April 29, 2012

  Question: Is it possible to live without some kind of prejudice? Are you yourself not prejudiced against religious and spiritual organizations? Krishnamurti: I do not think I am prejudiced again...

• If action is the result of a prejudice, of fear, of some belief, then that action produces further limitation. August 18, 2012

  If you examine deeply, you will perceive that individuality is only a series of limitations, a series of accumulative actions, of hindrances, which give to consciousness the identity called the "I"...

• As you are prejudiced you have to become aware of that fact before you can begin to discern what is actual and what is illusory. August 21, 2012

  There are two kinds of experience, that of wish and that of actuality. But to experience the actual, the real, the experiences of wish must cease. The experience of wish is the mere continuance of ...

• We are concerned, however, with those who are seriously attempting to comprehend life, with its miseries and apparently ceaseless conflict. September 08, 2012

  We are all seeking to live without confusion and sorrow and to free ourselves from the struggle, not only with our neighbours, family and friends, but especially with ourselves, with the conception...

• We are not able to perceive because our opinions about ourselves, our fears, ideals, beliefs, hopes, traditions, all these act as veils. March 21, 2013

  Questioner: In speaking of self-revelation, do you mean revealing oneself to oneself or to others? Krishnamurti: One often does reveal oneself to others but what is important, to see yourself as...