Tag:  Knowledge

• We must find out - if it is possible or not - whether there is a different dimension, a different approach, to life altogether. August 04, 2009

  Thought is born of experience and knowledge, and there is nothing sacred whatsoever about thought. Thinking is materialistic, it is a process of matter. And we have relied on thinking to solve all ...

• Thinking is materialistic, it is a process of matter. August 17, 2009

  Thought is born of experience and knowledge, and there is nothing sacred whatsoever about thought. Thinking is materialistic, it is a process of matter. And we have relied on thinking to solve ...

• the explanation is never that thing which is explained, that is the word is never the thing. October 09, 2009

  The eagle in its flight does not leave a mark, only the scientist does. And in enquiring into this question of freedom there must be not only the scientific observation, but also the flight of the ...

• Your experiences, your inclinations and motives, all that is the movement of the past, which is knowledge. October 15, 2009

  Your experiences, your inclinations and motives, all that is the movement of the past, which is knowledge. Movement of the past can only take place through knowledge, which is the past. So the past...

• ...when knowledge interferes in the discovery of the new, there is no discovery of the new. October 16, 2009

  ...when knowledge interferes in the discovery of the new, there is no discovery of the new. There must be an interval between knowledge and the new, otherwise you are just carrying on the old.

• All one's education, all one's past experience and knowledge is a movement in becoming, both inwardly, psychologically as well as outwardly. October 21, 2009

  So I would like to come back to the question: all one's education, all one's past experience and knowledge is a movement in becoming, both inwardly, psychologically as well as outwardly. Becoming i...

• Why do you condemn the acquisition of knowledge? November 01, 2009

  Question: Listening to you, one feels that you have read a great deal, and are also directly aware of reality. If this is so, then why do you condemn the acquisition of knowledge? Krishnamurti: ...

• Love does not compare, and so the envy and torture of 'becoming' cease. November 11, 2009

  Learning in the true sense of the word is possible only in that state of attention, in which there is no outer or inner compulsion. Right thinking can come about only when the mind is not enslaved ...

• From the known you cannot possibly see the unknown; November 19, 2009

  Now, freedom from all that, is freedom from the known; it is the state of a mind which says, "I do not know", and which is not looking for an answer. Such a mind is completely not seeking not expec...

• Only the mind that has emptied itself of the known is creative. November 22, 2009

  If you are hearing for the first time this statement that you must be free of thought, you may say, " Poor chap, he is crazy." But if you have really listened, not only this time but for the many y...

• You have only one head, care for it, don't destroy it. It's so easy to poison it. January 10, 2010

  You have only one head and look after it for it's a marvellous thing. No machinery, no electronic computers can compare with it. It's so vast, so complex, so utterly capable, subtle and productive....

• Without innocence, it is impossible to be happy. January 15, 2010

  Without innocence, it is impossible to be happy. The pleasure of sensations is not the happiness of innocence. Innocence is freedom from the burden of experience. It is the memory of experience t...

• Can thought be aware of its own movement? Can thought see itself, see what it is doing, both in the outer and the inner? February 06, 2010

  Can thought be aware of its own movement? Can thought see itself, see what it is doing, both in the outer and the inner? There is really no outer and inner: the inner creates the outer, and the out...

• Can one see that the whole movement of this illusory memory, which appears so real, can end? February 09, 2010

  You can learn about the limited, but you cannot learn about the unlimited. And we try to learn about the whole field of the psyche, and say that needs time. But time may be an illusion in that area...

• It is odd what importance we give to the printed word, to so-called sacred books. February 10, 2010

  It is odd what importance we give to the printed word, to so-called sacred books. The scholars, as the laymen, are gramophones; they go on repeating, however often the records may be changed. They ...

• You cannot find out what is true by assertion. You must sweep the slate completely clean of the known before you can find out. February 22, 2010

  Every experience is conditioned by the past experience. So there is no new experience; it is always colored by the past. In the very process of experiencing, there is the distortion which comes int...

• Time is merely the outcome of our not meeting the fact without knowledge. June 30, 2010

  We say that we need time to free the mind from all accumulative, self-protective knowledge, to unburden ourselves of all sorrow, misery, strife. But I do not think time is necessary at all. On the ...

• Knowledge is never complete, can never be complete. October 23, 2010

  Knowledge is never complete, can never be complete. That is a fact, the scientists can explore not only the atom but also the universe, the stars, what is beyond the stars, but their knowledge is l...

• The brain needs protection, order, it must be completely secure, to function properly. October 27, 2010

  The brain needs protection, order, it must be completely secure, to function properly. It thinks it will function properly if it has a conclusion, because it sees round itself great disorder, and i...

• The centre from which you think, the `me', the self, the ego, is a bundle of memories, and you are nothing else but that. November 22, 2010

  Knowledge is, after all, experience, and this experience dictates future experience. So you will find that experience does not liberate at all; on the contrary, experience strengthens the past. A m...