Tag:  Intelligence

• An intelligent mind acts in the field of thought intelligently, sanely, without resistance; January 12, 2010

  One asks: is love attachment? - not that love is detachment. When love is attached or detached then it is painful - which we all know, we go through that ugly state. Power is another form of corrup...

• An ambitious man, whether he be a merchant, a politician, or a so-called saint is essentially a self-contradictory human being. February 24, 2010

  The experiences, the influences, the traditions by which we are bound may be conscious or unconscious. Most of us are probably unaware of all these things that bind us. Being in a state of contradi...

• Don't change. It's very simple. If you want to remain as you are, carry on, nobody is going to prevent you. March 22, 2010

  Questioner: The whole world of nature is a competition to survive. Is it not innate in humans to struggle for the same reason? And are we not struggling against our basic nature in seeking to chang...

• The highest form of sensitivity is the highest intelligence, and no drug ever invented by man will give this intelligence. April 01, 2010

  Questioner: Why should one not take drugs? You apparently seem to be against it. Your own prominent friends have taken them, have written books about them, encouraged others to take them, and they ...

• Sensitivity in its highest form is intelligence. April 14, 2010

  Sensitivity in its highest form is intelligence. Without sensitivity to everything - to one's own sorrows; to the sorrow of a group of people, of a race; to the sorrow of everything that is - , unl...

• Intelligence does not offer shelter from the struggles and turmoils of life, nor does it give comfort; it only creates understanding. May 13, 2010

  Question: Which is the wiser course to take - to protect and shelter the ignorant by advice and guidance, or to let them find out through their own experience and suffering, even though it may take...

• To understand anything, one must find out what it is all about. July 31, 2010

  What you have to decide is whether what I say has any value in life, in the everyday movement of life. To do this properly, you must understand that of which I am speaking. I am not saying this ...

• To be integrally intelligent means to be without the self. September 06, 2010

  Can we find an element which would dissolve the self? Or, is that a wrong question? That is what we want basically. We want to find some thing which will dissolve the 'me'. Is it not? We think...

• When the mind is attached to an idea or a belief, or to a past experience, it reveals the lack of intelligence. December 11, 2010

  To understand [the] completeness of the present, the mind cannot be attached to a single idea. Only in freedom from attachment is there true intelligence. When the mind is attached to an idea or a ...

• There is a vast distinction between intellect and intelligence March 15, 2011

  Questioner: According to you, there appears to be no connection between intellect and intelligence. But you speak of awakened intelligence as one might of trained intellect. What is intelligence an...

• To live a natural life, full, spontaneous life, creative, intelligent life, you can only do that when you understand the false standards and the true standards of society, and have broken away from it because you understand their significance; June 02, 2011

  Question: Virtue does not appear to be a very prominent feature in your teachings. Why is this? Has the virtuous life so small a part to play in the realization of truth? Krishnamurti: What do ...

• To me, all ideals must be the means of alleviation of suffering, and, therefore, cannot possibly explain to you the reason of suffering. June 04, 2011

  Question: You seem to regard the pursuit of ideals as an escape from life. Is there no substance of truth in the highest ideals? Krishnamurti: Why do we want ideals? I do not say they are not t...

• We can talk about tolerance, which is an intellectual invention to keep you where you are and to keep me where I am, and try to be friendly. June 05, 2011

  Question: Do you believe in Communism, as understood by the masses? Krishnamurti: I don't know what is understood by the masses, so I cannot explain that. So what is it, now? Let us look at it,...

• When your whole being becomes conscious of something which is poisonous, there is no effort to throw it out; you have already moved away from it. June 20, 2011

  We are used to continual effort to do anything; to think is to make tremendous effort. We are used to this ceaseless effort. Now, I want to put what, to me, is not an effort but a new way of living...

• In the process of discovering, there is born intelligence, understanding; and that supreme intelligence is life itself. You don't want any more. June 27, 2011

  Question: When one has discovered for oneself that every method of escape from the present has resulted in futility, what more is there to be done? Krishnamurti: When you discover that you are e...

• Exploitation comes into being when individuals seek more than their essential needs; July 03, 2011

  Exploitation comes into being when individuals seek more than their essential needs; and to discover your essential needs requires a great deal of intelligence, and you cannot be intelligent so lon...

• I do not want to give you examples and similes, because I want you to think it out, and if I give examples I do all the thinking and you merely listen. July 16, 2011

  I do not want to give you examples and similes, because I want you to think it out, and if I give examples I do all the thinking and you merely listen. Whereas if you begin to think about what I am...

• in that state of acuteness of suffering, in that intensity of suffering in which there is no longer escape, the mind itself becomes intelligence. July 17, 2011

  Whenever there is the lack of understanding of environment there must be conflict. Environment gives birth to conflict, and so long as we do not understand environment, conditions, surroundings, an...

• 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. July 18, 2011

  Please, 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. You have so many environments, which have b...

• One should bear in mind that what we call accumulation of sorrows does not lead to intensity, nor does the multiplication of suffering lead to its own dissolution; July 19, 2011

  One should bear in mind that what we call accumulation of sorrows does not lead to intensity, nor does the multiplication of suffering lead to its own dissolution; for acuteness of mind in sufferin...

• If you are in conflict, naturally you must question the environment, but most minds have become so perverted that they are not aware that they are seeking solutions, escapes through their marvellous theories. July 21, 2011

  Please, I am sure half of you don't understand this, but to think over it is not to intellectualize it, that is, to sit down and make it vanish away through the intellect. To find out if what I am ...

• If there is intelligence, then environment has no value, no significance, because intelligence is then freed from circumstance, it is functioning fully. July 24, 2011

  What is the perfect environment? Each man will tell you what to him is a perfect environment. The artist will say one thing, the financier another, the cinema actress another; each man asks for a p...

• The mind which is really intelligent is free of self-discipline, for intelligence is born out of the questioning of environment, and the discovery of the true significance of environment. July 28, 2011

  Self-discipline - what you call self-discipline - is merely an adjustment to an environment which we have not completely understood; therefore in that adjustment there must be the denial of intelli...

• Intelligence is not born out of self-discipline or suppression. July 29, 2011

  Take a primitive; what does he do? In him there is no discipline, no control, no suppression. He does what he desires to do, this primitive. The intelligent man also does what he desires, but with ...

• The test of right action is in its spontaneity, but to act spontaneously is to be greatly intelligent. August 08, 2011

  The test of right action is in its spontaneity, but to act spontaneously is to be greatly intelligent. The majority of people have merely reactions which are perverted, twisted, and stifled because...

• Where there is intelligence, the mind is not conditioned by any environment, because it is all the time conscious, aware and functioning, and therefore discerning, perceiving the full worth of the environment. August 10, 2011

  To an intelligent mind environment yields its significance; therefore that intelligent mind is the master of environment, that mind is free of environment, is not conditioned by environment. What c...

• Every struggle, every effort to attain liberation indicates an escape from the present. August 11, 2011

  Question: There seems to be the idea that liberation is a goal, a culmination. What is the difference in this case between striving for liberation and striving for any other culmination? Surely the...

• To me there is no division between mind and intelligence. August 12, 2011

  To me there is no division between mind and intelligence. Mind stripped of all its memories and hindrances, functioning spontaneously, fully, being aware, creates understanding, and that is intelli...

• the individual builds up a romantic haven of escape in which he seeks compensation for the loss and suffering in the outer world. August 18, 2011

  The outer environment forces the individual, crushes him into this steel frame of standards, of morality, of religious ideas, of moral edicts, and as the individual is crushed from the outside, he ...

• The expression of creative intelligence is very rare, and though it has the appearance of individuality or separativeness, to me it is not individuality but intelligence. September 01, 2011

  [The] expression of creative intelligence is very rare, and though it has the appearance of individuality or separativeness, to me it is not individuality but intelligence. Where there is true inte...

• 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. September 02, 2011

  The man who is functioning intelligently and who is therefore free of circumstances we call creative, divine. To a man who is in prison, the liberated man, the intelligent man is as a god. So we ne...

• The more you battle against environment without understanding, the more you struggle against circumstances, the more you become conscious, in that effort, of your limitation. September 03, 2011

  As long as this spontaneous, intelligent expression which we call life, which is that exquisite reality, is thwarted, there is merely the accentuation of the consciousness of the individual. The mo...

• We are discussing what exists, not what should exist. September 11, 2011

  What is religion? What is the function of religion as it is? Don't imagine some marvellous, true and perfect religion; we are discussing what exists, not what should exist. What is this religion to...

• I am not giving you a mould or a code by which you can live, or a system which you can follow. October 16, 2011

  Question: I have been under the impression that I have been putting your ideas into action; but I have no joy in life, no enthusiasm for any pursuit. My attempts at awareness have not cleared my co...

• There is self-discipline only where there is no intelligence. October 27, 2011

  Question: I live in a world of chaos, politically, economically, and socially, bound by laws and conventions which restrict my freedom. When my desires conflict with these impositions, I must break...

• To awaken true intelligence we must first inquire into the many stupidities which cripple the mind and heart, and not seek a definition of intelligence; November 12, 2011

  Intelligence is not to be awakened by following any group or any system or by obeying one's own particular idiosyncrasies and fancies. To awaken true intelligence we must first inquire into the man...

• To discover what is true one requires great intelligence. November 22, 2011

  To discover what is true one requires great intelligence. Intelligence, to me, is not book knowledge. You may be very learned and yet be stupid. You may read many philosophies and yet not know the ...

• Intelligence is the only solution that will bring about harmony in this world of conflict, harmony between mind and heart in action. November 27, 2011

  For most people this is the problem: merely to wait, marking time; or to be able to discern the true significance of life with its conflicts and sorrows, and not create a new set of stupidities, a ...

• Question: How can I awaken intelligence? December 07, 2011

  Question: How can I awaken intelligence? Krishnamurti: Why do you want to awaken intelligence? Can you really awaken intelligence, or does the mind strip itself of the many stupidities and thus ...

• To find out your needs requires intelligence, for needs are constantly changing, constantly renewing themselves. December 18, 2011

  Question: Are there not times when one needs to separate oneself from outward confusion to aid in the realization of true self? Krishnamurti: If you put needs first, then they become your master...

• We all desire to help the world, but we never begin with ourselves. January 01, 2012

  Question: How can we best help humanity to understand and live your teachings? Krishnamurti: It is very simple: by living them yourself. What is it that I am teaching? I am not giving you a new ...