Tag:  Consciousness

• Our life is a process of becoming, to become at different levels of consciousness. This becoming is strife and pain. Is there an action without this becoming, with its conflict and misery? April 23, 2010

  Existence is action - action at different levels of consciousness. Without action, life is not possible. Action is relationship. In isolation, action is not possible; and nothing can exist in isola...

• As long as the mind has not discovered true, living values for itself, there is limitation of consciousness, limitation of understanding, which creates the idea of "I". February 24, 2011

  As long as mind and heart are caught up in the false values that religions and philosophies have set about us, as long as the mind has not discovered true, living values for itself, there is limita...

• You are only conscious of yourself when there is a conflict. June 10, 2011

  Question: Do you believe in reincarnation? Krishnamurti: First of all, I do not know how many of you are conversant with the idea of reincarnation, I will very briefly explain to you what it mea...

• Through friction, through continual conflict, memory is being created, memory as the "I" and the "mine", which becomes possessive. June 12, 2011

  Whether reincarnation exists or does not exist is, to me, immaterial. What matters is to fulfil, which is perfection. You cannot fulfil in a future. Fulfillment is not of time. Fulfillment is in th...

• Most people are forced into work, activities, vocations for which they are not at all suited. August 31, 2011

  What is individuality? When you say, "I am an individual", what do you mean by it? I think you mean by that - without giving subtle philosophical or metaphysical explanations - you mean by individu...

• What is important is to know oneself, and not what is beyond oneself. August 17, 2012

  What is this consciousness? It cannot have any location, nor can it divide itself as high and low. Consciousness is composed of many layers of memories, ignorance, limitations, tendencies, cravings...

• Do not seek the bliss of reality, for the mere search for reality only leads to illusion, but comprehend that process of thought, consciousness, focussed in yourself. September 27, 2012

  Question: Many persons find it very hard to be fully concentrated in their actions. In order to train the capacity for concentration, cannot certain exercises be of great help or do you regard them...

• Where there is want, there must also be accumulative memories, self-protective calculations, which give to consciousness, continuity and identification. September 29, 2012

  All craving with its fears must cease before there can be [this ] creative intuition. The cessation of want is not the result of denial, nor through careful analysis can want be rationalized away. ...

• Consciousness is the conflict of innumerable wants. September 30, 2012

  Limited consciousness is the conflict of innumerable wants. Become aware of this conflict, this ceaseless battle of division, but do not try to dominate one part of consciousness with its wants, by...

• Profound change of will can come about only when there is the deep comprehension of the "I" process. October 28, 2012

  Question: Some of us have listened to you for ten years, and while, as you encouragingly remark, we may have changed a little, we have not changed radically. Why is this? Must we wait for the urge ...

• What do I mean by "being conscious"? November 02, 2012

  What do I mean by "being conscious"? I mean not only the objective perception of the interrelated complexity of life, but also the complete awareness of the hidden, subtle, psychological processes ...

• Instead of belonging to either of the opposite systems of thought - faith and science - we must go above and beyond them, and then only shall we discern that which is true. December 17, 2012

  Instead of belonging to either of the opposite systems of thought - faith and science - we must go above and beyond them, and then only shall we discern that which is true. Then we shall see that t...

• Don't you see that you are merely intoning certain phrases that you have learnt? December 28, 2012

  Questioner: You may intellectually see that hate is poison, but still you feel hate. Krishnamurti: Why does this happen? Is it not because intellectually you are overdeveloped and still primitiv...

• Is there, in consciousness, any part that is not contaminated by the past? May 14, 2013

  Is there, in consciousness, any part that is not contaminated by the past? Is there anything original, uncorrupted, in our consciousness? Have we not to free thought from the past, from instincts, ...

• To understand any problem we must give our undivided attention to it. June 01, 2013

  To understand any problem we must give our undivided attention to it. Both the conscious and the unconscious or the inner mind must take part in solving it, but most of us unfortunately try to diss...

• Be aware of your conflict, of how you deny, justify, compare or identify; of how you try to become; be aware of the deep, full significance of the pain of the opposites. September 17, 2013

  Our effort is spent in denying or accepting and thus thought-feeling is made blunt in this endless conflict. This surely is wrong effort for it is not productive of creative understanding. Right en...

• Awareness is the process of freeing the conscious mind from the bondages which cause conflict and pain and thus making it open and receptive to the hidden. October 16, 2013

  Awareness is the process of freeing the conscious mind from the bondages which cause conflict and pain and thus making it open and receptive to the hidden. The hidden layers of consciousness convey...

• Questioner: How can I become integrated? October 23, 2013

  Questioner: How can I become integrated? Krishnamurti: What do we mean by integration? Does it not mean to be made whole, to be without conflict and sorrow? Most of us try to be integrated wi...

• Consciousness is the product of the mind and the mind is the result of conditioning, of craving, and so it is the seat of the self. December 18, 2013

  Questioner: You have said that illumination could never come through self-expansion but does it not come through the expansion of consciousness? Krishnamurti: Illumination, understanding of the ...

• Consciousness comes into being when there is friction, when I meet a response, when there is disharmony. August 05, 2014

  Consciousness comes into being when there is friction, when I meet a response, when there is disharmony. Consciousness begins when there is interruption. When I am awake and look at the trees there...

• The pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain is consciousness. August 06, 2014

  The pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain is consciousness. I am conscious when I want or do not want something. Previous to want and non-want, am I conscious? Are you conscious when there is n...

• When you yourself interpret the dream, who is the interpreter? November 27, 2014

  Question: I dream a great deal. Have dreams any significance? ...... When you yourself interpret the dream, who is the interpreter? You have had a dream during the night, it has some signific...

• Is it possible for the conscious mind to be so alert, so passively aware during the day that all the intimations are translated as they arise? November 28, 2014

  Question: I dream a great deal. Have dreams any significance? ...... So, the problem is then, how to transcend, how to understand fully, deeply, all the intimations of the various layers of c...

• Most of us are aware, are functioning, only within the superficial layers of consciousness. April 04, 2015

  ... most of us are aware, are functioning, only within the superficial layers of consciousness. I hope you are interested in all this; but whether you are interested or not, it is a fact. If merely...

• The more one is alert, passively aware, the more one comprehends the deeper layers of consciousness; and I assure you, there is an extraordinary joy in it, in discovering, in fathoming one's whole being. April 05, 2015

  ... there is a very narrow margin of division between the waking-consciousness and the sleeping-consciousness; but since most of you are almost entirely occupied with the waking consciousness, with...

• Consciousness is action; and without challenge, response, without experiencing, naming or terming, and recording, which is memory, there is no action July 25, 2015

  ... So, our life is a series of actions, or a process of action at different levels of consciousness. Now, consciousness, as I explained the other day, is experiencing, naming, and recording. That ...