Tag:  Ignorance

• To me, the root cause of ignorance is the consciousness of "I", from which arise conflict and sorrow. March 05, 2011

  Question: Do you mean to say that there is no help for men when life grows difficult? Are they left entirely to help themselves? Krishnamurti: I think, if I am not mistaken - if I am, please cor...

• I can give you nothing. April 06, 2011

  Questioner: Can a minister who has freed himself from the doctrines still be a minister in the Lutheran church? Krishnamurti: I think that he will not remain in the ministry. What do you mean by...

• Intelligence is the only solution that will bring about harmony in this world of conflict, harmony between mind and heart in action. November 27, 2011

  For most people this is the problem: merely to wait, marking time; or to be able to discern the true significance of life with its conflicts and sorrows, and not create a new set of stupidities, a ...

• The human problems that now disturb us will disappear only when each one is able to discern the self-sustaining process of ignorance. July 05, 2012

  The lack of comprehension of oneself is ignorance. That is, one must discern how one has come into being, what one is, all the tendencies, the reactions, the hidden motives, the self-imposed belief...

• There is no beginning to ignorance; it is sustained by its own cravings, through its own acquisitive demands and pursuits, and action merely becomes the means of maintaining it. July 06, 2012

  There is no beginning to ignorance; it is sustained by its own cravings, through its own acquisitive demands and pursuits, and action merely becomes the means of maintaining it. This interacting pr...

• Each one of us is unique in the sense that each one is continually creating his own ignorance, which is without a beginning and is self-sustained through its own actions. July 07, 2012

  Each one of us is unique in the sense that each one is continually creating his own ignorance, which is without a beginning and is self-sustained through its own actions. This ignorance, though it ...

• Ignorance is the unawareness of the process of conditioning, which consists of the many wants, fears, acquisitive memories, and so on. November 28, 2012

  All strife is one of relationship, an adjustment between two resistances, two individuals Resistance is a conditioning, limiting or conditioning that energy which may be called life, thought, emoti...

• If one does not understand the whole process of ignorance, and merely makes an effort to get rid of it, thought is still acting within the circle of ignorance. November 29, 2012

  Where there is want, experience cannot be complete, thus strengthening resistance. A belief, the result of want, is a conditioning force; experience based on any belief is limiting, however wide an...

• When we are integrally aware of the process of ignorance, voluntarily, spontaneously, there is the beginning of that intelligence which meets all conditioning influences. December 19, 2012

  We are aware of this strife between friends, between neighbours, between ourselves and society. Must this conflict ever continue? We may adjust our relationship with another so cunningly that we...

• Without understanding the full implication of self-expression, self-reliance becomes merely the means to greater and greater expression of narrow individualistic and ignorant action. March 26, 2013

  The expression of the self seems so vitally important to most of us. We are trying to express ourselves, according to space and time, and as we do not deeply understand what it is that is expressin...

• It is difficult to with stand the constant pressure of modern civilization unless one is constantly aware and so is discovering the treasures that are imperishable. June 30, 2013

  Questioner: You, like so many Orientals, seem to be against industrialization. Why are you? Krishnamurti: I do not know if many Orientals are against industrialization and if they are I do not k...