OUTER IS THE INNER

This movement from the outer to the inner, and the inner to the outer, inner being psychological movement, which effects the outer, and the outer effects the psychological state, as long as this movement exists, we'll be caught in this cycle of misery.

AUTHORITY

There is the authority of knowledge, the authority of one's own experience, the authority of memory, the authority of what others say, the authority of the interpreter; and wherever the mind clings to authority, is hedged about by it, obviously there can be no radical change.

I think authority is one of the greatest hindrances that prevent this inward transformation which is so essential if there is to be an outward change in which the problem of war and starvation can be resolved.

Be a light to yourself.

You have to be your own teacher and your own disciple.

HELP

If someone has helped you and you make of him your authority, then are you not preventing all further help, not only from him, but from everything about you? Does not help lie about you everywhere? Why look in only one direction? And when you are so enclosed so bound, can any help reach you? But when you are open, there is unending help in all things, from the song of a bird to the call of a human being, from the blade of grass to the immensity of the heavens. The poison and corruption begin when you look to one person as your authority, your guide, your saviour.

ALONENESS

When you are alone, totally alone, not belonging to any family, any nation, any culture, any particular continent, there is that sense of being an outsider. The man who is completely alone in this way is innocent and it is this innocence that frees the mind from sorrow.

REFINEMENT

Peace is of the heart, not of the mind. So, you have to find out what beauty is. It matters very much, the way you talk; for, you will discover through the words you use, the gestures you make, what the refinement of your heart is.

PATIENCE

One must have a great deal of patience. Impatience is time. Patience is not time. Patience means observation, close careful, critical, step by step observation. That is real patience.

IMITATION

Imitation is forced by fear. Through fear also comes the formation of sects, of narrow groups of individuals who cling together in their imitation. A sect or a collective body comes into being when there are many who are trying to imitate a set type, which is not complete truth but only a segment of truth. A sect, as a body, cannot approach truth, because truth is an individual realization, through purely inward, individual effort. By clinging to a group, you cannot arrive at the full realization of being

DISCONTENT

Discontent is a flame that must be kept burning brightly, and not be smothered by some interest or activity that is pursued as a reaction from the pain of it. Discontent is painful only when it is resisted.

A man who is merely satisfied, without understanding the full significance of discontent, is asleep; he is not sensitive to the whole movement of life.

Satisfaction is a drug, and it is comparatively easy to find. But to understand the full significance of discontent, the search for certainty must cease.

ON SILENCE

After all, music is the silence between two notes. If it were a continuous sound, there would be no music. It is the silence between two notes that gives emphasis, beauty to the notes. Similarly, it is silence between words, between thoughts, that gives significance, meaning to the thought.

When the mind is relaxed, no longer making an effort, when it is quiet for just a few seconds, then the problem reveals itself and it is solved.

FORMATION OF IMAGES

The actual relationship between two human beings or between many human beings completely end when there is the formation of images.

TO SOLVE PROBLEMS

It is only a mind, a brain that is free from problems can solve problems. Only a brain that has no problems can solve problems

CONCLUSIONS

You have come to a conclusion and there you have shut the door. Conclusion means the ending of investigation. The very word conclusion is to close, to end. So if you come to any conclusion, then you cannot possibly answer.

THINKING CLEARLY

You can think very clearly only when you are not seeking a result; you can think very clearly only when you have no prejudice - all of which means, really, that you can think clearly, simply and directly only when your mind is no longer pursuing any form of security and is therefore free of fear.

ESCAPES

When escapes have been cleansed from my mind, then only, my mind is face to face with sorrow.

The escapes are many and various but the mind in escape is still fearful.

Love is not the worship of God; you may worship a stone image, or your conception of God, and that is a marvellous escape from your brutal husband or your nagging wife, but it does not solve our difficulty.

WHOLENESS

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

DEATH

If you die to everything you know, including your family, your memory, everything
you have felt, then death is a purification, a rejuvenating process; then death brings innocence and it is only the innocent who are passionate.

MEDIOCRITY

Do you know what the word mediocrity means? The root meaning is to go half way up the hill, never reaching the top. That is mediocrity: never demanding the excellent, the very highest thing of yourself. ~Jiddu Krishnamurti~ This is the essence of mediocrity. One may have a literary gift, recognised by the few, and work towards popularity; one may be a painter, a poet or a great musician, but in our daily lives we are not concerned with the whole of existence.

ECCENTRICITY

Eccentricity is tolerated only if you are well-to-do or gifted, but if you are poor and act peculiarly you are snubbed and ignored. But few of us are talented; we are workers carrying on with our particular profession

WOMAN AND BEAUTY

Throughout the world, so-called holy men have maintained that to look at a woman is something totally wrong: they say you cannot come near to God if you indulge in sex, therefore they push it aside although they are eaten up with it. But by denying sexuality they put out their eyes and cut out their tongues for they deny the whole beauty of the earth. They have starved their hearts and minds; they are dehydrated human beings; they have banished beauty because beauty is associated with woman.

SPIRITUAL STRUGGLE

Your conception of life is based on this principle. Your striving for spiritual achievement, spiritual growth, is the outcome of your desire for further securities, further aggrandizement, further glory, and hence this continual and ceaseless struggle.

There is a certain beauty associated with conditioning.

This post was last updated by Dappling Light (account deleted) Thu, 09 Jul 2009.

Updated July 09 2009.

There is a certain beauty associated with conditioning.

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There is a certain beauty associated with conditioning.