Tag:  Conditioning

• Truth is in the silent observation of what is, and it is truth that transforms what is. July 22, 2009

  The very desire to take shelter through conditioning breeds more strife, more problems; for conditioning is separating, and the separate, the isolated cannot live. The separate, by joining itself ...

• Breaking through is not a matter of time. October 07, 2009

  ... the religious man is he who, through self-knowledge, begins to discover his conditioning and to break through it; and the breaking through is not a matter of time.

• 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 ...

• Freedom cannot be given; freedom is something that comes into being when you do not seek it; November 30, 2009

  Freedom cannot be given; freedom is something that comes into being when you do not seek it; it comes into being only when you know you are a prisoner, when you know for yourself completely the sta...

• Your mind is conditioned right through; there is no part of you which is unconditioned. December 13, 2009

  Your mind is conditioned right through; there is no part of you which is unconditioned. That is a fact, whether you like it or not. You may say there is a part of you - the watcher, the super-soul,...

• The shallow are ever afraid of what they are; but what they are is the truth. January 13, 2010

  The very desire to take shelter through conditioning breeds more strife, more problems; for conditioning is separating, and the separate, the isolated cannot live. The separate, by joining itself ...

• Can one see that the whole movement of this illusory memory, which appears so real, can end? February 09, 2010

  You can learn about the limited, but you cannot learn about the unlimited. And we try to learn about the whole field of the psyche, and say that needs time. But time may be an illusion in that area...

• Will you please explain what you mean by awareness? February 15, 2010

  Question: Will you please explain what you mean by awareness? Krishnamurti: Just simple awareness! Awareness of your judgments, your prejudices, your likes and dislikes. When you see something, ...

• You cannot perceive if you do not ask the right question - and a right question has no answer, because it needs no answer. February 17, 2010

  We are not concerned with what you should or should not do; that is not the problem. We are concerned with understanding the mind; and in understanding there is no condemnation, no demand for a pat...

• When the mind is aware that it is conditioned and does not battle against it, only then is the mind free to give its complete attention to this conditioning. March 20, 2010

  Now, can the mind be aware of its own conditioning and not try to battle against it? When the mind is aware that it is conditioned and does not battle against it, only then is the mind free to give...

• Right education is surely finding a different way of life, setting the mind free from its own conditioning. May 19, 2010

  What are you educated for, anyway? You may be a sociologist, an anthropologist or a scientist, with your specialized mind working away at a fragment of the whole field of life. You are filled with ...

• Any movement on my part, any movement, conscious or unconscious is the movement of conditioning August 05, 2010

  Questioner: If I say,`My mind is conditioned', then that `I' is also a conditioning, then I do not know what else is left. Krishnamurti: That is just it. If I say, `I am conditioned', that...

• Whatever movement a conditioned mind makes, whatever movement a conditioned mind follows, it is still conditioned; therefore, one asks, can it remain completely with the fact alone and nothing else? August 24, 2010

  Questioner: If I say,'My mind is conditioned', then that 'I' is also a conditioning, then I do not know what else is left. Krishnamurti: That is just it. If I say, 'I am conditioned', that...

• You will say that I have given you no constructive or positive instruction. February 13, 2011

  You will say that I have given you no constructive or positive instruction. Beware of the man who offers you positive methods, for he is giving you merely his pattern, his mould. If you really live...