Tag:  Conflict

• Surely it must be possible to function in a sexual relationship with someone you love without the nightmare which usually follows. November 13, 2009

  Questioner: Is it possible for a man and a woman to live together, to have sex and children, without all the turmoil, bitterness and conflict inherent in such a relationship? Is it possible for the...

• From the known you cannot possibly see the unknown; November 19, 2009

  Now, freedom from all that, is freedom from the known; it is the state of a mind which says, "I do not know", and which is not looking for an answer. Such a mind is completely not seeking not expec...

• 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...

• Man has invented heaven out of hope, for his life has become a hell, an endless conflict from birth to death, coming and going, making money, working endlessly. December 24, 2009

  One was watching the other day a red-tailed hawk, high in the heavens, circling effortlessly, without a beat of the wing, just for the fun of flying, just to be sustained by the air-currents. Then ...

• All our life is spent in struggle, and we think that struggle is a necessary part of existence. December 25, 2009

  It seems to me that it is important to understand that conflict of any kind does not produce creative thinking. Until we understand conflict and the nature of conflict, and what it is that one is i...

• 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...

• Conflict at any level, at any depth, indicates immaturity. March 08, 2010

  Crossing the bridge, up in the sun-speckled wood, meditation was quite a different thing. Without any wish and search, without any complaint of the brain, there was unenforced silence; the little b...

• There is no essential difference between the old and the young, for both are slaves to their own desires and gratifications. March 11, 2010

  There is no essential difference between the old and the young, for both are slaves to their own desires and gratifications. Maturity is not a matter of age, it comes with understanding. The arden...

• We are always caught in this misery of an everlasting battle with ourselves and with society. That is a fact. September 09, 2010

  This constant, violent, unobtrusive, deep down battle is going on within each one of us. We are either conscious or unconscious of it. If we are conscious of every conflict, in the sense we are d...

• There is no release from conflict until there is an understanding of what is. September 15, 2010

  Is conflict in any field productive of understanding? Is there not a continuous chain of conflict in the effort, the will to be, to become, whether positive or negative? Does not the cause of confl...

• Become aware of the cause that prevents you from living completely. February 09, 2011

  Become aware of the cause that prevents you from living completely. You will find that this cause is imitation, conformity, consistency, the search for security which gives birth to authority. All ...

• When we suffer we seek immediate consolation, comfort, and therefore there is no longer questioning; there is no longer doubt, but mere acceptance. February 23, 2011

  The first thing to realize, then, is that we have these barriers, these values given to us. To find out their living significance we must question, and we can question only when our minds and heart...

• The moment we have solved one problem, another arises, and so we continue to the end of our lives seeking solutions to an endless series of problems. March 09, 2011

  We imagine that we find solutions for various problems, but in finding solutions we have not really solved, we have not understood the cause of the problem. The moment we have solved one problem, a...

• You are not concerned with what causes suffering, but you are concerned with the way of escaping from that suffering into perfection. March 12, 2011

  Questioner: Is not the spiritual man always perfect? Krishnamurti: A spiritual man may be, but we are not. That is, we have a sense of duality; we think of a higher man who is perfect and a lowe...

• Do not try to be spiritual, for you do not know what that signifies at all. March 23, 2011

  You want to know how to be free from the search for certainty. I say, do not approach the problem in this way. The futility of gain will have a meaning for you only when you are really in conflict,...

• Heaven knows, we have conflicts all day long, but we have trained our mind to be cunning, and so pass over these conflicts lightly, escape from them. May 28, 2011

  To change one's attitude there must be great affliction, not contentment, great burning conflict which will force you to discover; and heaven knows, we have conflicts all day long, but we have trai...

• 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...

• Conflict can exist only between two false things, between that supposed reality which you call the "I", which to me is nothing else but the result of environment, and the environment itself. July 13, 2011

  Each one has to find out for what he is searching; if he is not searching, then there is satisfaction and decay. If there is conflict, there is the desire to overcome that conflict, to escape from ...

• You have not solved conflict, you have merely shifted it by substituting a new environment, a new condition, which will in turn produce further conflict. July 14, 2011

  If you observe, you will see that when there is conflict, you are at once seeking a solution for it. You want to find a way out of that conflict, and you generally do find a way out; but you have n...

• If you look into your lives, you will see that conflict is continually twisting, perverting, shaping your lives; July 15, 2011

  Now, conflict is the result of environment, isn't it? To put it differently, what is environment? When are you conscious of environment? Only when there is conflict and a resistance to that environ...

• There can be struggle only between two false things, conflict between the environment and the result of environment which is the "I". July 23, 2011

  Question: Surely you cannot mean what your words seem to convey. When I see vice rampant in the world, I feel an intense desire to fight against that vice and against all the suffering it creates i...

• Some people believe that the "I" has had a birth in the distant past and will continue in the future. It is irrelevant to me, it has no significance at all. July 26, 2011

  Question: It is perfectly clear to me that the "I" consciousness is the result of environment, but do you not see that the "I" did not originate for the first time in this life? From what you say i...

• You know we have lost all sense of living normally, simply, directly. August 03, 2011

  Question: "How does one go about the process of re-orientation in order to avoid constant conflict between the two false things?" Krishnamurti: First of all, are you aware that you are in confl...

• Intelligence and conflict cannot exist together. September 16, 2011

  So long as we do not understand the true worth of the environment which creates the individual who battles against it, there must be struggle, there must be conflict, there must be ever increasing ...

• In times of peace and quietness, there takes place a gradual change of values, mostly unconscious, and this change, this gradual change, we term the struggle between the old and the young. September 23, 2011

  In times of stagnation, in times of settled comfort, that which is but the gradual transformation of values we call the struggle between the old generation and the new. That is, in times of peace a...

• How is one to have this intelligence which destroys struggle and conflict and the ceaseless effort which wears out mind itself? October 06, 2011

  How is one to have this intelligence which destroys struggle and conflict and the ceaseless effort which wears out mind itself? You know, when you make an effort, you are as a piece of wood that is...

• When the mind is not imparting values, which is mere conformity, when there is spontaneous understanding of the prison, which is environment, then there is the action of intelligence, which is freedom. October 07, 2011

  I hope you will experiment with what I am saying. Each one has moments of crisis. They occur very often; if one is aware they occur every minute. Now in that crisis, in that conflict, observe, with...

• The turmoil, the end, and the "you" are the same; there is no division. November 04, 2011

  To me, the turmoil, the end, and the "you" are the same; there is no division. This division is artificial, and it is created by the desire to gain, by the pursuit of acquisitive accumulation, whic...

• The illusion of economic security is shown throughout the world by these depressions, crises, wars, calamities, and chaos. November 08, 2011

  As we have built up through centuries, generation after generation, this wheel of self-protection, spiritual and economic, let us find out if spiritual or economic self-protection is real. Perhaps ...

• It is the very essence of stupidity to escape from conflict through a series of established values, or through forming a new set of values. December 11, 2011

  Conflict, suffering, is the process of breaking up [the] habit of attributing values. You have a set of values established through experience, through tradition, and these values have become your g...

• Life is chaotic, conflicting, full of pain, and we think that, if we can find an ideal, then we shall be able to guide ourselves across this aching turmoil. May 14, 2012

  There are many subtle expressions of authority. It is expressed through the desire to follow an ideal, a person, or a system. Why do we want to follow an ideal? Life is chaotic, conflicting, full o...