Kinfonet Quote of the Day: The essence of control is suppression.

Krishnamurti Quote Archives » November 2009 » Quote For November 06, 2009

«« previous quote

Krishnamurti Quote of the Day

Krishnamurti's Notebook | Part 7

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 much understanding; conformity to a pattern, obedience to established authority, fear of not doing the right thing, of tradition, the drive for success, these are the very things that bring about suppression of what is or the sublimation of what is. The pure act of seeing the fact, whatever the fact be, brings its own understanding and from this, mutation takes place.

Tags: conformity, control, mutation, understanding

Related Quotes: You see man imprisoned by innumerable walls, walls of religion, of social, political and national limitations, walls created by his own ambitions, aspirations, fears, hopes, security, prejudices, hate and love.; A mind that is enquiring into the nature of truth must be free totally from all organized pursuit, all organized practice, all organized enquiry.; What I am saying is not in any way philosophical, nor is it Western or Oriental thought expressed to suit modern minds;; Wisdom is not acquired but is in the very action of living itself.; All conformity to the pattern or ideas of another destroys completely your own creative energy, and hence the innumerable transient miseries in which you are caught.; I shall have to say this so often that it will become almost a formula for you.; That you are awakened to suffering is but the indication that mind is trying to free itself from all standards;; When there is fear there must be conformity.; Reforms are made only because of the need for adjustment between the mind and the environment, not because the mind pierces through the environment, and therefore understands it.; A man who says, "I am free of tradition", has probably another mould of his own to which he is a slave.; Life is in continual movement, and a mind that is incapable of adjustment must inevitably suffer.; The constant conformity to a particular mould is the basis of our religious thought and moral action;; What happens when the`thinker' sees that he is the thought - which he is - that the experiencer' is the experience?; 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.; Let the thing that you are watching tell its story, rather than you tell it what it should be.; Sir, don't follow any authority. Authority is evil. Authority destroys, authority perverts, authority corrupts;; Freedom is born of the perception that freedom is essential.; 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.; 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.; Life is a battle of ideas, a battle of influences, and your mind is the field of the battle.; To control thought-feeling for a greater reward, for a greater result, is to make it petty, ignorant and sorrowful.; 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.; 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.; What you call intuition is merely the unfettered fulfillment of your own secret hopes and desires.; To control, to possess, we have certain laws which we call moral.; We have reduced the vastness of all this to some petty little reactions.; The fundamental issue is whether the brain cells, which have been conditioned, can really bring about a mutation in themselves.; the explanation is never that thing which is explained, that is the word is never the thing.; We don't love children, because we have no love in our own hearts. We just breed children.; A mind that is indifferent, is aware of the shoddiness of our civilization, the shoddiness of our thought, the ugly relationships;; Mere reformation of the pattern of society only alters the surface, it brings about a more respectable form of ambition.; Until I, in my relationship to you, understand myself, I am the cause of chaos, misery, destruction, fear, brutality.; Life itself has no system, for it is always in movement;; In the confusion and turmoil of life, in its continual bustle and conflict, every individual is caught.; Criticism is only of value in so far as it trains your observation so that it can eventually be turned on yourself.; Desire, which has been the driving force in man, has created a great many pleasant and useful things; desire also, in man's relationships, has created a great many problems and turmoil and misery - the desire for pleasure.; As fear cannot free itself through any means, for all its efforts spring from its own source, there must be the cessation of all intellectual safeguards.; Conflict at any level, at any depth, indicates immaturity.; There is no essential difference between the old and the young, for both are slaves to their own desires and gratifications.; Is it possible for the mind to be so attentive all the time, so sensitive that every challenge is answered completely and immediately, and to come to a state when there is no challenge and no response, when it is no longer in a state of experiencing?; There is a vast difference, then, between the mental examination of a fact and the understanding of that fact.; We are not concerned with individual salvation or individual liberation, or whatever the individual is trying to seek but rather with the whole movement of life, the understanding of the whole current of existence;; to observe means to observe without the interference of one's background; but one is the background - you follow?-one's whole being which looks is one's background - as a Christian, as a Frenchman, or as an intellectual.; Stillness cannot be cultivated, because if you cultivate a still mind, it is not a still mind, it is a dead mind.; When one merely understands intellectually, verbally or romantically or emotionally, it is just nothing at all.; In action born of choice there is no discernment, choice being calculation, a remembrance of incomplete action.; When you are awakened there is conflict, struggle. which you call suffering; but immediately you want to put away that struggle, that awakening;; In order to fight, you must know what you are fighting, so there must be understanding of the fundamental, not of the divisions between the false things.; Why do you want to eliminate self-consciousness?; Because what you can now discern as God must be limited, since your mind is circumscribed, held in bondage; therefore I will not describe that.; When you understand you don't seek to modify, to alter, to reform.; There is the reaction to environment when the mind does not understand the environment, and acts without understanding, thereby further increasing the limitation of environment; I doubt, if I may say so, that you really understand what I am saying, even intellectually;; There is either deep understanding or the creation of mere theory.; Truth, the beauty of reality, can be discerned only when the mind is fearless; not with the fearlessness of intellectuality, but of utter insecurity.