Tag:  Awareness

• The process of recognition is a process of the continued known. July 27, 2009

  How does one deny? Does one deny the known, not in great dramatic incidents but in little incidents? Do I deny when I am shaving and I remember the lovely time I had in Switzerland? Does one deny...

• The 'observer' exists only when you accumulate in the observation; August 03, 2009

  Questioner: You tell us to observe our actions in daily life but what is the entity that decides what to observe and when? Who decides if one should observe? Krishnamurti: Do you decide to obse...

• What is the relationship of attention to inattention, and to awareness? November 12, 2009

  K: ...we are asking now, what is the relationship of attention to inattention, and to awareness? Right? They are all related. Why is the mind inattentive - not, can the mind be continuously attenti...

• You can never know what the unknown is because the moment you recognise it as the unknown you are back in the known. December 08, 2009

  How does one deny? Does one deny the known, not in great dramatic incidents but in little incidents? Do I deny when I am shaving and I remember the lovely time I had in Switzerland? Does one deny t...

• This is what we mean when we speak of awareness. December 14, 2009

  Questioner: I left the world, my world of professional writing, because I wanted to lead a spiritual life. I abandoned all my appetites and ambitions to be famous, although I had the necessary tale...

• Every habit, repetition, rituals strengthened by belief and dogma, sensory responses, can be and are refined, but the alert awareness, sensitivity, is quite another matter. December 21, 2009

  The so-called saints and sannyasis have contributed to the dullness of mind and to the destruction of sensitivity. Every habit, repetition, rituals strengthened by belief and dogma, sensory respons...

• Yoga exercises are excellent; the speaker does them every day, for an hour or more; but that is merely physical exercise, to keep the body healthy, and so on. February 02, 2010

  Yoga exercises are excellent; the speaker does them every day, for an hour or more; but that is merely physical exercise, to keep the body healthy, and so on. But through them you can never come up...

• 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 ...

• 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, ...

• If you don't know about yourself, actually what you are, you have no basis for any action which will be true, not fragmentary, not miserable, regretting, and so on. February 26, 2010

  If you don't know about yourself, actually what you are, you have no basis for any action which will be true, not fragmentary, not miserable, regretting, and so on. Don't you want to know what you ...

• 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...

• For beauty to come into being, the mind must be choicelessly aware of its own pettiness; April 07, 2010

  She was among a group of people who had come to discuss some serious matter. She must have come out of curiosity, or was brought along by a friend. Well dressed, she held herself with some dignity,...

• Awareness is not a matter of determination, for purposive direction is resistance, which tends towards exclusiveness. April 16, 2010

  Problems will always exist where the activities of the self are dominant. To be aware which are and which are not the activities of the self needs constant vigilance. This vigilance is not discipli...

• I cannot live in the present if the present is in the shadow of the past. To understand this the mind must be capable of looking and you can only look when there is no condemnation, no identification, no judgement - as you can look at a tree, a cloud - simply look at it. April 27, 2010

  Questioner: I don't understand this business of immediate action. Krishnamurti: What is action? The actual meaning of that word is `to do'. Action implies an active present. But action is the r...

• You do not have to tell me or another what you are, but be aware of what you are, whatever it is, pleasant or unpleasant; live with it without justifying or resisting it. May 04, 2010

  We all place ourselves at various levels, and we are constantly falling from these heights. It is the falls we are ashamed of. Self-esteem is the cause of our shame, of our fall. It is this self-es...

• The reaction, the response of your relationship with other people, may be external; but that response is the outcome of an inward suspense, an inward anxiety, an inward fear. May 06, 2010

  Question: What is external awareness? Krishnamurti: Are you not aware that you are sitting in this hall? Are you not aware of the trees, of the sunshine? Are you not aware that the crow is cawin...

• Awareness is the complete and unconditional surrender to what is, without rationalization, without the division of the observer and the observed. May 21, 2010

  Awareness is from moment to moment, it is not the cumulative effect of self-protective memories. Awareness is not determination nor is it the action of will. Awareness is the complete and unconditi...

• I wonder if we really are aware of anger, sadness, happiness? Or are we aware of these things only when they are all over? July 20, 2010

  I wonder if we really are aware of anger, sadness, happiness? Or are we aware of these things only when they are all over? Let us begin as though we know nothing about it at all and start from scra...

• You must be free from the sentimentality of emotion, which does not mean you must be free of emotion; on the contrary, you must have great intensity of emotion without being entangled in it. November 02, 2010

  Now, to realize truth, to realize this infinite renewal of life, you must be utterly free, your mind must be entirely stripped of all craving. You will say, "How can I, a man of the world, live wit...

• Awareness is not a constant repetition of the idea that you must be aware, which becomes but a memory. November 10, 2010

  Awareness is not a constant repetition of the idea that you must be aware, which becomes but a memory. Awareness is the fullness of perception, and you can fully perceive only when your mind is not...

• To become fully aware is not to yield to the layer after layer of craving, thinking you must go through all experience, which is but another sensation. November 18, 2010

  Question: Please explain the difference between self-analysis and self-recollectedness. Krishnamurti: What is self-analysis? You desire a car, and at the same time your mind tells you it is not ...

• Awareness does not result from the struggle to be aware; it comes of its own accord when you are conscious with your whole being, when you realize the futility of choice. January 23, 2011

  Most of you are faced by some kind of crisis, with regard to money, or people, or love, or death; and when you are caught up in such a crisis you have to choose, to decide. How do you decide? Your ...

• When you become fully aware with your mind and your heart of the cause of incompleteness, then incompleteness ceases. January 27, 2011

  Most people do not know the cause of their incompleteness, and from this ignorance arises ceaseless effort. When they become aware of the cause - which is the search for achievement - then in that ...

• Because there is in us a longing, a want, a craving, we cannot know true perception or discernment. January 31, 2011

  As I have said, when one feels an emptiness, a want, one accepts without true discernment. And most of the actions that make up our lives are based on this feeling of want. We may think that our ch...

• If you seek consolation, be honest, be frank, be aware of what you want and conscious that you are seeking it. February 04, 2011

  Question: I do not want a set of rules for being "aware", but I should very much like to understand awareness. Must not great effort be made to be aware of each thought as it arises, before one arr...

• To be a theist or an atheist, to me, are both absurd. June 08, 2011

  To be a theist or an atheist, to me, are both absurd. If you knew what truth is, what God is, you would neither be a theist nor an atheist, because in that awareness belief is unnecessary. It is th...

• You can find out the cause of insufficiency only through awareness. November 10, 2011

  The mere search for the solution of your problems is not going to free the mind from creating further problems. As long as this centre of self-protectiveness, born of insufficiency, exists, there m...

• To be aware is not to alter. November 11, 2011

  To be aware is not to alter. Our mind is accustomed to alteration which is merely modification, adjustment, becoming disciplined to a condition; whereas if you are aware, you will discover the full...

• If you are aware of your actions, you will notice that this is what is happening to most of you, that you are functioning through an established background of tradition, or of fear, and therefore increasing your conflict, your struggles. November 29, 2011

  If you are aware of your actions, you will notice that this is what is happening to most of you, that you are functioning through an established background of tradition, or of fear, and therefore i...

• It is very good of you, sirs, to have invited me and I thank you for listening to me. April 25, 2012

  Question: Many of us are conscious of and take part in this corrupt life around us. What can we do to free ourselves from its suffocating effects? Krishnamurti: You can be intellectually aware, ...