Tag:  Comparison

• A mind that is capable of measuring is capable also of illusion October 18, 2009

  Questioner: "I understand what you say verbally, but I can't stop groping and longing, for deep within me I do not believe that there is no way, no discipline, no action that will bring me to the o...

• Is there anything new in your teaching? October 30, 2009

  Question: Is there anything new in your teaching? Krishnamurti: To find out for yourself is much more important than my asserting 'yes' or 'no'. It is your problem, not my problem. To me, all th...

• It is futile to waste time over what another is thinking, or what you imagine he is thinking - because you can never know. December 10, 2009

  It is futile to waste time over what another is thinking, or what you imagine he is thinking - because you can never know. The one to be scrutinised is yourself.

• There was complete emptiness of the brain, and the mind was free of all experience, the knowing of yesterday, though a thousand yesterdays have been. December 16, 2009

  And walking on that road, there was complete emptiness of the brain, and the mind was free of all experience, the knowing of yesterday, though a thousand yesterdays have been. Time, the thing of th...

• There was no observer listening, pitying, and walking behind them. He was not part of them out of love and pity; he was them. March 02, 2010

  Two women came down the path carrying firewood on their heads. One was old and the other quite young, and the burdens they carried looked rather heavy. Each had balanced on her head, protected by a...

• I compare the present with what has been and I am going to compare the present with what should be. July 18, 2010

  Not to compare what is, not only with the future, but also with what has been the past - this demands tremendous attention. You understand? I had a pleasure yesterday - sensuous pleasure, an idea w...

• To live without comparison is to remove a tremendous burden. September 04, 2010

  To live without comparison is to remove a tremendous burden. If you remove the burden of comparison, imitation, conformity, adjustment, modification, then you are left with "what is". Conflict ar...

• As long as the mind is in any way constrained, it is unable to discern the many hindrances that impede true perception. December 15, 2010

  I am not preaching self-contentment or satisfaction. Quite the contrary. I say that as long as the mind is in any way constrained, it is unable to discern the many hindrances that impede true perce...

• What prevents you from meeting life wholly is the continual action of memory, of a standard from which arises fear. March 14, 2011

  Questioner: Some say that your teaching is only for the learned and the intellectual and not for the masses, who are doomed to constant struggle and suffering in daily life. Do you agree? Krishn...