Tag:  Desire

• Why cannot the mind experience something that is true, beyond its own projections? July 25, 2009

  Now, what is it that makes the mind superficial? Please don't merely listen to me, but observe, be aware of your own thinking when a question like that is put to you. What makes the mind superfic...

• Can there be honesty - that is, clear insight, seeing things as they are - if there is a principle, an ideal, an ennobled formula? August 21, 2009

  What does honesty mean? Can there be honesty - that is, clear insight, seeing things as they are - if there is a principle, an ideal, an ennobled formula? Can one be direct if there is confusion? C...

• Freedom is to stand alone, unattached and unafraid, free in the understanding of desire which breeds illusion. November 20, 2009

  Freedom is to stand alone, unattached and unafraid, free in the understanding of desire which breeds illusion. There is a vast strength in being alone. It is the conditioned, programmed brain that ...

• To go beyond the self-enclosing activities of the mind, you must understand them; December 01, 2009

  That is why it is important, as I said, to understand the process, the ways of our own thinking. Self-knowledge cannot be gathered through anybody, through any book, through any confession, psychol...

• Mere reformation of the pattern of society only alters the surface, it brings about a more respectable form of ambition. December 03, 2009

  Society is not changed by example. Society may reform itself, it may bring about certain changes through political or economic revolution, but only the religious man can create a fundamental transf...

• The self, the "me," is a network of complex desires, each desire having its own impetus and aim, often in opposition to other hopes and pursuits. December 26, 2009

  To be in self-contradiction is to live in conflict and sorrow. The self, in its very structure, is contradictory; it is made up of many entities with different masks, each in opposition to the othe...

• 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, ...

• Is silence to be cultivated, carefully nurtured and strengthened? And who is the cultivator? Is he different from the totality of your being? January 26, 2010

  Krishnamurti: Is silence to be cultivated, carefully nurtured and strengthened? And who is the cultivator? Is he different from the totality of your being? Is there silence, a still mind, when on...

• Creativeness is not a process of becoming or achieving, but a state of being in which self-seeking effort is totally absent. February 05, 2010

  "Must not a definite practice be adopted to put an end to this deterioration, this inefficiency and laziness of the mind?", asked the government official. Practice or discipline implies an incen...

• Desire, which has been the driving force in man, has created a great many pleasant and useful things; desire also, in man's relationships, has created a great many problems and turmoil and misery - the desire for pleasure. February 08, 2010

  Desire, which has been the driving force in man, has created a great many pleasant and useful things; desire also, in man's relationships, has created a great many problems and turmoil and misery -...

• The religious mind does not depend on time for its development. February 18, 2010

  You may be treating the talks we have been having as an exchange of ideas, as a process of accepting new ideas and discarding old ones, or as a process of denying new ideas and holding on to the ol...

• Until you are committed, dedicated, to eradicating this national, economic, religious division, you are perpetuating war February 19, 2010

  It is our earth, not yours or mine or his. We are meant to live on it, helping each other, not destroying each other. This is not some romantic nonsense but the actual fact. But man has divided the...

• You can't empty the mind, do what you will you can't empty it, because the desire to empty it is part of the activity of the self. March 19, 2010

  Q: Why is it so difficult to empty one's mind? Krishnamurti : Now just listen to that question. Why is it so difficult to empty the mind? Listen to this. The speaker stated: meditation is the em...

• Until you and I understand the 'me', which is the center of discontent, until we go into it and understand this whole process of becoming, achieving, there must always be discontent. July 28, 2010

  Contentment is a thing that cannot be achieved - though all the religious books, all the saints and the Masters, promise it to you. Their promise is no promise at all; it is just a vanity which gra...

• How can a man that is in prison stimulate the desire for freedom? October 28, 2010

  Questioner: How can one stimulate a desire for freedom? Krishnamurti: How can a man that is in prison stimulate the desire for freedom? What a question to ask! Sirs .... is not the suffering of ...

• There is illusion as long as there is a want, which is different from needs. December 19, 2010

  To me there is not the "I" and the "non-I", the high and the low. There is illusion, which you call the "I", and there is that supreme, ever-renewing intelligence, which is life itself, in which th...

• To understand what I am saying is not very difficult. The difficulty lies in putting what I am saying into action. May 24, 2011

  Surely, to understand what I am saying is not very difficult. The difficulty lies in putting what I am saying into action. Now, to put it into action does not need courage, but rather comprehension...

• Where there is no creative expression of life, we give undue importance to sex, which becomes an acute problem. October 15, 2011

  Question: What suggestion or advice would you give to one who is hindered by strong sexual desire? Krishnamurti: After all, where there is no creative expression of life, we give undue importanc...

• Question: I desire many things from life which I do not have. Can you tell me how to get them? January 13, 2012

  Question: I desire many things from life which I do not have. Can you tell me how to get them? Krishnamurti: Why do you want many things? We all must have clothes, food, shelter. But what is beh...

• If we destroy desire, there is death; March 11, 2012

  Question: Should we destroy desire? Krishnamurti: We want to destroy desire because desire creates conflict and suffering. You cannot destroy desire; if you could, you would become but an empty ...

• When you are really able to think without any craving, without any desire to choose - for choice implies opposites - there is discernment. June 17, 2012

  To understand truth, there must be silent observation, and description of it but confuses and limits it. To comprehend the infinite process of life, we must begin negatively, without assertions and...

• The very desire to be free creates its own limitation. July 01, 2012

  The very desire to be free creates its own limitation. These primitive or ignorant reactions create conflicts, disturbances and sorrow in your life, and by getting rid of them you hope to acquire s...

• Confusion arises only when you are made incapable of adjustment by your fantastic and harmful conceptions, ideals and beliefs. July 14, 2012

  Through want we create confusion, ignorance and suffering, and then we set in movement the process of escape. This escape we call the search for reality. You say: I want to find God, I want to atta...

• Before we can understand what is truth, reality, or know if there be such a thing, we must discern what it is that is constantly seeking. July 15, 2012

  I wish to explain this morning one idea, and if we can grasp it, not so much as a fact, but deeply and significantly, I think then it will have a profound value in our lives. So please help me by t...

• Through want we create confusion, ignorance and suffering, and then we set in movement the process of escape. July 16, 2012

  Through want we create confusion, ignorance and suffering, and then we set in movement the process of escape. This escape we call the search for reality. You say: I want to find God, I want to atta...

• If you can deeply comprehend [this] self-sustaining process of ignorance which gives a solidity to the "I", from which arise all confusion and suffering, then life can be lived fully, without the various subtle escapes and pursuits that, unknowingly, you have created for yourself. July 17, 2012

  If you can deeply comprehend [this] self-sustaining process of ignorance which gives a solidity to the "I", from which arise all confusion and suffering, then life can be lived fully, without the v...

• The reality of the permanent can only happen, take place, and is not to be cultivated. July 30, 2012

  If one can deeply discern the arising of the "I" process and become strenuously aware of the building up of limitations and their transiency, then that very awareness brings about their dissolution...

• [The] process of escape from actuality, from uncertainty, must lead to illusion, abnormality, neurosis and unbalance. August 14, 2012

  Most of you who come here are, I think, uncertain, confused, and so deeply desire to comprehend what is actuality, what is truth. Uncertainty engenders fear, which gives rise to depression and anxi...

• There is the will of want, which is effort, and the will of comprehension, which is discernment. September 12, 2012

  There is the will of want, which is effort, and the will of comprehension, which is discernment. The will of want is ever in search of reward, of gain, and so it creates its own fears. On this is b...

• The process of choice is merely one want overcoming another, one illusion dispelling another, one set of values substituting itself for another. October 11, 2012

  Question: How can I awaken intelligence? Krishnamurti: Where there is no intelligence, there must be suffering. Intelligence can be awakened through choiceless perception of the mind that it is ...

• I have tried to explain that conduct born of compulsion, whether it be the compulsion of reward or of punishment, of fear or of love, is not right conduct. October 16, 2012

  Question: You say that discipline is futile, whether external or self-imposed. Nevertheless, when one takes life seriously, one submits oneself inevitably to a kind of voluntary self-discipline. Is...

• Desire cannot exist by itself, it must always be in relation to something. February 06, 2013

  I have tried to explain that renewal, rebirth, must be spontaneous and not the result of effort. Before finding out if effort is moral or immoral, important or unimportant, we must first conside...

• Desire is not emotion; desire is the result of a mind that is ever seeking satisfaction, whose values are based on satisfaction. February 07, 2013

  There is the desire to be something, to become, to succeed, not to suffer, to find happiness, to love and to be loved, to find truth, reality, God. There is the positive desire to be something, and...

• The desire to be satisfied creates will, which maintains itself by its own continual effort. February 08, 2013

  To be satisfied, the mind develops its own technique of resistance and non-resistance, which is the will. And when the mind discovers that in the process of satisfaction there is suffering, then it...

• The very question of how to be free of desire is prompted by desire itself. February 09, 2013

  All effort [then,] springing from the will either to be satisfied or not to be satisfied, must ever be mechanical, habit-forming, and so cannot bring about rebirth, renewal. Even when the mind inqu...

• Only in deep emotion is there no craving for satisfaction. February 10, 2013

  Only in deep emotion is there no craving for satisfaction. Love is not dependent on satisfaction and habit. But the will of desire ever seeks to make of love a mechanical habit, or tries to control...

• Desire and emotion are two different and distinct processes; desire being entirely of the mind, and emotion the integral expression of one's whole being. February 14, 2013

  Desire and emotion are two different and distinct processes; desire being entirely of the mind, and emotion the integral expression of one's whole being. Desire, the process of the mind, is ever ac...

• Desire can only recondition itself, reshape itself to a new pattern, but it will still be desire, giving birth to fear. February 15, 2013

  What we are trying to do, the majority of us, is to overcome fear either by desire or by what we call "emotion" - which is really another form of desire. You cannot overcome fear by love. To overco...

• Question: Are desire and interest, as we know them now, the same? February 19, 2013

  Questioner: Are desire and interest, as we know them now, the same? Krishnamurti: If interest is merely the result of desire, to gain, to be satisfied, to succeed, then interest is the same as d...

• Question: How can I attain the quality of desirelessness without having the desire to attain it? February 20, 2013

  Questioner: How can I attain the quality of desirelessness without having the desire to attain it? Krishnamurti: Sir, this is exactly what I have been talking about this morning. Why do you want...

• What we are trying to do here is to understand the process of desire, not to put a boundary to craving. March 12, 2013

  Questioner: Is it not sometimes very difficult to differentiate between natural human needs and the psychological desires for satisfaction? Krishnamurti: it is very difficult to differentiate. T...

• To understand the complex causes of conflict and the desire to be free from it, requires not the mere will to be free, but constant awareness in our daily life. March 15, 2013

  Questioner: To be fully aware, to be pliable, there must always be a great feeling of love. Not by effort can one feel love, nor become fully aware, so what should one do? Krishnamurti: Now what...

• The motive for cultivating the opposite matters greatly; if it is a desire to escape from the struggle and pain of envy, then its opposite becomes identical with itself and so there is no freedom from envy. April 10, 2013

  Though opposites have a similar common cause, we cannot slur over them or put them aside; we have to understand them and so be free from the conflict of opposites. Being envious and therefore consc...