Tag:  Conformity

• The essence of control is suppression. November 06, 2009

  The essence of control is suppression. The pure seeing puts an end to every form of suppression; seeing is infinitely more subtle than mere control. Control is comparatively easy, it doesn't need m...

• 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...

• A mind that is enquiring into the nature of truth must be free totally from all organized pursuit, all organized practice, all organized enquiry. May 18, 2010

  One day a man was walking along the street and instead of looking at the beautiful sky he was watching the pavement as he went along. Then he saw in the distance something very brilliant. He went r...

• What I am saying is not in any way philosophical, nor is it Western or Oriental thought expressed to suit modern minds; November 29, 2010

  What I am saying is not in any way philosophical, nor is it Western or Oriental thought expressed to suit modern minds; because to me philosophy, a system of thought, merely limits the freedom of f...

• Wisdom is not acquired but is in the very action of living itself. December 23, 2010

  Question: It seems to us that your statements are tinged with extremism. Is it not folly to throw away the true experience of humanity acquired through the ages and embodied in the divine wisdom of...

• All conformity to the pattern or ideas of another destroys completely your own creative energy, and hence the innumerable transient miseries in which you are caught. December 25, 2010

  Conformity is encouraged by what you call civilization. Sociology, religion, systems of ethics, spiritual organizations and the idea of gurus - all these help to create fear in you, and force you t...

• I shall have to say this so often that it will become almost a formula for you. February 03, 2011

  Question: You have enumerated the successive steps of the process of creating authorities. Will you enumerate the steps of the inverse process, the process of liberating oneself from all authority....

• That you are awakened to suffering is but the indication that mind is trying to free itself from all standards; March 25, 2011

  Why do you go through the process of self-discipline? You do it because of fear. Why are you afraid? Because you want surety, the surety that a social standard, a religious belief, or the idea of a...

• When there is fear there must be conformity. May 02, 2011

  Let us find out the false and the true in the existing systems - the systems of religion and sociology. To find out what is false and true, we must see what the religions are based on. Now, I am ta...

• Reforms are made only because of the need for adjustment between the mind and the environment, not because the mind pierces through the environment, and therefore understands it. September 25, 2011

  All reforms in religion, in moral standards, in social life and political organizations are merely the dictates of desire for adjustment to ever changing environment. That is what you call reform. ...

• A man who says, "I am free of tradition", has probably another mould of his own to which he is a slave. September 27, 2011

  To me life cannot be divided [that] way at all. You can't think you are going to change your soul and yet be a nationalist; you can't be class conscious and yet talk about brotherhood, or create ta...

• Life is in continual movement, and a mind that is incapable of adjustment must inevitably suffer. March 18, 2012

  I am not offering a new mould into which you can fit yourself; but if you are able to discover and understand profoundly the cause of suffering, then you will find for yourself the true method of a...

• The constant conformity to a particular mould is the basis of our religious thought and moral action; March 26, 2012

  Each one must discover intelligence for himself, whose expression will then be true fulfillment. If he does not, if he merely follows a plan laid down, then it will not be a fulfillment, but only a...

• Is [this] state of patterns, of ideals, of conformity, conducive to fulfilment, to creative and intelligent life and action? December 22, 2012

  Is [this] state of patterns, of ideals, of conformity, conducive to fulfilment, to creative and intelligent life and action? Before we can answer this question, do we realize or are we aware of thi...

• It is difficult to with stand the constant pressure of modern civilization unless one is constantly aware and so is discovering the treasures that are imperishable. June 30, 2013

  Questioner: You, like so many Orientals, seem to be against industrialization. Why are you? Krishnamurti: I do not know if many Orientals are against industrialization and if they are I do not k...

• Must not thought-feeling transcend all conditioning to discover the Real? October 24, 2013

  If certain ideas, beliefs, doctrines appeal to you, you join with others to spread effectively what you believe and for this you create an organization. But is the understanding of Reality the resu...

• Your tendency is to accept authority; you desire to be led; you look to others to direct your conduct. October 25, 2013

  Regimentation of thought-feeling in the name of religion, peace and freedom is made attractive and acceptable; your tendency is to accept authority; you desire to be led; you look to others to dire...

• We try to enclose the living Truth in gratifying patterns of thought-feeling and thereby destroy it. October 26, 2013

  Creativeness comes into being when thought-feeling is not held within any pattern, within any formulation. The self is the result of conformity, of conditioning, of accumulated memory; so the self ...

• The desire to copy is complex and subtle. January 03, 2014

  Questioner: If I am just pliable can't I go wrong, and therefore must I not be anchored in truth? Krishnamurti: Truth is discovered in the uncharted sea of self-knowledge. But why do you ask thi...