Tag:  Thought

• There is only thinking, and thinking is impermanent July 24, 2009

  Now, as long as there is the thinker separate from thought, there must be conflict, the process of duality, there must be this gap between action and idea. But cannot the mind actually experience t...

• There is no such thing as pure thought, or ''free'' thought July 28, 2009

  Question: Is the process of cleansing the mind a process of thought? Krishnamurti: Can thought ever be clean? Is not all thought unclean? Because thought is born of memory, it is already contami...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• Most of us want to be occupied; otherwise we shall feel lost, otherwise we do not know what to do, we will be lonely, we will be confronted with what we actually are August 20, 2009

  Please listen quietly: we know that thought creates fear. One of the functions of thought is to be occupied, to be thinking about something all the time. Like a housewife who thinks about the food,...

• What is the relationship of attention to inattention, and to awareness? November 12, 2009

  K: ...we are asking now, what is the relationship of attention to inattention, and to awareness? Right? They are all related. Why is the mind inattentive - not, can the mind be continuously attenti...

• 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...

• Thought is the very denial of love, and it cannot enter into that space where the me is not. December 04, 2009

  In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love.This space divides man from man, and in it is all the becoming, the battle of life, the agony and fear. Meditation is the ending of...

• Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment. December 18, 2009

  So, a man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions. Again, this is not a matter of time. There is no end to self-knowledge...

• 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....

• An intelligent mind acts in the field of thought intelligently, sanely, without resistance; January 12, 2010

  One asks: is love attachment? - not that love is detachment. When love is attached or detached then it is painful - which we all know, we go through that ugly state. Power is another form of corrup...

• To walk alone, unimpeded by thought, by the trail of our desires, is to go beyond the reaches of the mind. January 21, 2010

  We are never alone; we are surrounded by people and by our own thoughts. Even when the people are distant, we see things through the screen of our thoughts. There is no moment, or it is very rare, ...

• 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...

• 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 ...

• To transform, I must look at what is; and I am not looking at it as long as I have an ideal. February 11, 2010

  Sir, take violence. Again, let us think that thought through, First, I do not like to acknowledge that I am violent, because socially and morally I am told that to be violent is a very bad thing. B...

• 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...

• As long as you think time and thought are necessary, in the psychological world, in the world of the self, in the world of psyche, in the world of inside the skin, then you will be perpetually in fear. March 05, 2010

  Thought is necessary, time is necessary. To go from here to there time is necessary. And thought is necessary to drive a car, to take a bus or train. Thought is necessary, time is necessary at that...

• In the life we we generally lead there is very little solitude. March 30, 2010

  In the life we we generally lead there is very little solitude. Even when we are alone our lives are crowded by so many influences, so much knowledge, so many memories of so many experiences, so mu...

• If you have no thoughts, there is no thinker; so it is thought that creates the thinker. April 20, 2010

  Question: What is the relation between the thinker and his thought? Krishnamurti: Now, is there any such relation, or is there only one thing, which is thought, and not the thinker? Because, if...

• The thinker is a fictitious entity, an unreal state. There is only thought; and the bundle of thoughts creates the 'I', the thinker. April 22, 2010

  Pursue a thought completely, go through with it to the end, think it out fully, and you will see what happens. You will find that there is no thinker at all, because it is the thought which creates...

• Is there any thought which is not conditioned? June 07, 2010

  Questioner: You said that thought is a product of memory. Now I quite realize that most of my thoughts are very much conditioned, but I'm not quite sure there is no possibility for other thought wh...

• Experiencing without memory is one state, and experiencing with memory is another. June 14, 2010

  Questioner: Memory, you say, is incomplete experience. I have a memory and a vivid impression of your previous talks. In what sense is it an incomplete experience? Please explain this idea in all i...

• The thinker is the thought. They are not separate, they are a joint phenomenon and not separate processes. July 14, 2010

  Thought can be modified, changed; but the thinker remains apart. The thinker is the thought. They are not separate, they are a joint phenomenon and not separate processes. The thinker, by manipulat...

• Thought is the outcome of incomplete experience. July 16, 2010

  Existence is challenge and response. The challenge is always new and the response ever the old. You met me yesterday, but since yesterday I have been modified; you have the picture of me of yesterd...

• A fundamental question cannot be answered by somebody else. July 30, 2010

  When we ask this question, whether thought can have a stop, whether thought which is in time can come to an end, we are asking a most fundamental question. A fundamental question cannot be answere...

• Thought is a very strange thing, is it not? August 18, 2010

  Thought is a very strange thing, is it not? Do you know what thought is? Thought or thinking for most people is something put together by the mind, and they battle over their thoughts. But if you c...

• Thinking and feeling are to me the same, because I have lost the distinction of what you call thought and emotion. November 21, 2010

  Question: When I think of the Christ I feel immense love in my heart. When I am in your presence, I am mentally stimulated. I know this is also the experience of others. Why do we feel this differe...

• Thought is like the waters of a river. It must be in continual movement. Eternity is that movement. June 26, 2011

  You may not accept this. You may not accept what I am saying, but you can experiment. Experiment with these three instances I have given to you, fear, belief, patriotism, and you will see how your ...

• 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. October 18, 2011

  What we call happiness or ecstasy is to me creative thinking. And creative thinking is the infinite movement of thought, emotion and action. That is, when thought, which is emotion, which is action...

• What do I mean by right thinking? November 05, 2012

  What do I mean by right thinking? Thought must be vital, dynamic, not mechanical or imitative.

• Our daily thought and action are controlled by the past, by the concealed motives, memories, and hidden cravings. May 13, 2013

  Our thought is influenced and limited by the past generations of people who in their suffering, in their joys, in their aspirations, in their escapes, in their fear of death in their longing for co...