Tag:  Control

• What happens when the`thinker' sees that he is the thought - which he is - that the experiencer' is the experience? October 20, 2009

  What happens when the`thinker' sees that he is the thought - which he is - that the experiencer' is the experience? Then what is one to do? Are you following the question? The thinker is the though...

• The essence of control is suppression. November 06, 2009

  The essence of control is suppression. The pure seeing puts an end to every form of suppression; seeing is infinitely more subtle than mere control. Control is comparatively easy, it doesn't need m...

• Meditation, along that quiet and deserted road came like a soft rain over the hills; it came as easily and naturally as the coming night. December 22, 2009

  Meditation, along that quiet and deserted road came like a soft rain over the hills; it came as easily and naturally as the coming night. There was no effort of any kind and no control with its con...

• Let the thing that you are watching tell its story, rather than you tell it what it should be. February 13, 2010

  Let the thing that you are watching tell its story, rather than you tell it what it should be. You follow, sir, what I mean? Can you do that? Can one do that? So that it reveals everything. Like a ...

• 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...

• Freedom is born of the perception that freedom is essential. February 20, 2010

  So, to go into ourselves deeply, fully, a sense of freedom is necessary - not at the end, but at the very beginning. Do not ask how to arrive at that freedom. No system of meditation, no book, no d...

• We all need a quiet mind, a peaceful mind, an absolutely silent mind without a murmur of thought. Is that possible? Possible means we don't know. March 07, 2010

  We said meditation is a state of mind in which all the things that thought has invented - the illusions, the beliefs, the dogmas, the rituals, the habits, the sexual demands - all that is no longer...

• The energy which seeks truth creates its own discipline without any form of imposition; and as the river finds the sea, so that energy finds its own freedom. March 16, 2010

  Don't you notice how little energy most of the people around you have, including your parents and teachers? They are slowly dying, even when their bodies are not yet old. Why? Because they have ...

• Life is a battle of ideas, a battle of influences, and your mind is the field of the battle. March 24, 2010

  Why are we influenced? In politics, as you know, it is the job of the politician to influence us; and every book, every teacher, every guru - the more powerful, the more eloquent the better we lik...

• To control thought-feeling for a greater reward, for a greater result, is to make it petty, ignorant and sorrowful. May 15, 2010

  Simple life does not consist in the mere possession of a few things but in the freedom from possession and non-possession, in the indifference to things that comes with deep understanding. Merely t...

• If I have the whole picture in mind then I can take in the detail; but if my mind only operates in a detail then I cannot take in the whole. June 01, 2010

  Can the mind observe its content without any choice as to the content - not choosing any part of the content, any part of the piece, but observing totally? Now, how is it possible to observe totall...

• I feel that a radical change can come only when there is no effort, when the mind is not trying to become something, not trying to be virtuous - which does not mean that the mind must be nonvirtuous. June 06, 2010

  Most of us are idealists; we have some form of ideal which we have established through habit, through custom, through tradition, through our own volition, and we hope that by conforming to this ide...

• What you call intuition is merely the unfettered fulfillment of your own secret hopes and desires. August 19, 2011

  Most people - the so-called spiritual people - have rejected the outer force of environment and its influence, but have developed an inner law, an inner standard, an inner discipline, which they ca...