Krishnamurti & the Art of Awakening

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Ommen Camp, Holland | 2nd Public Talk 27th July, 1936

You can see for yourself in your life how this ["I"] process, with its fears, illusions and escapes, diminishes creative intelligence which alone can bring about the well-being of man. The comprehension of reality, truth, comes with the cessation of sorrow. Our consideration of the hereafter, of immortality, is vain pursuit for there can be the bliss of reality only with the cessation of sorrow.

To understand suffering we must begin with ourselves, not with the idea of suffering, which is only the arid emptiness of the intellect. We must begin with ourselves, with the agonies, miseries and conflicts which seem to have no end. Happiness is not to be sought after, but with the cessation of sorrow there is intelligence, the bliss of reality.

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If you experiment with this, you will see that I am not giving you theories, but something with which you can work, something which is practical.
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the individual builds up a romantic haven of escape in which he seeks compensation for the loss and suffering in the outer world.
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When the mind is stagnant, drugged to sleep by beliefs, crippled by limitations, and is awakened by the movement of life, that awakening we call suffering.
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Does sorrow, suffering, come to an end through effort, through a thought process?