Tag:  Imitation

• Imitation is a form of stealing: you are nothing but he is somebody, so you are going to get some of his glory by copying him. February 03, 2010

  Student: Why do grown-up people steal? Krishnamurti: Don't you sometimes steal? Haven't you known of a little boy stealing something he wants from another boy? It is exactly the same throughout...

• Instead of discerning the cause, you think that you can comprehend yourself through another. This looking to the example of another only leads to illusion and suffering. February 25, 2010

  Question: Example is said to be better than precept. Cannot the value of personal example to another be considerable, like your own? Krishnamurti: What is the motive that lies behind this questi...

• Your mind is like a gramophone record repeating a song you have heard. It is not even your song, it is the song of another; and there may be no 'your song', but only `the song'. February 28, 2010

  You don't really know yourself. To know yourself is to know the extraordinary capacity of your own mind, to uncover the recesses of your own heart; it is to know how your mind operates, and whether...

• It is one fact in life, we are all going to die. That is an absolute, irrevocable fact. March 23, 2010

  Question: When you are no longer physically with us among us what are those of us who understand your message, even if only intellectually, to do? Do we continue working on ourselves and forget th...

• You have to investigate the various patterns which make you copy, imitate, live on the verbal level; November 13, 2010

  Words can never produce action. They can only produce a response, a counter-action or reaction, and therefore still further reaction, like a wave; and in that wave you are caught. Whereas, action i...

• What I am saying is not in any way philosophical, nor is it Western or Oriental thought expressed to suit modern minds; November 29, 2010

  What I am saying is not in any way philosophical, nor is it Western or Oriental thought expressed to suit modern minds; because to me philosophy, a system of thought, merely limits the freedom of f...

• Wisdom is not acquired but is in the very action of living itself. December 23, 2010

  Question: It seems to us that your statements are tinged with extremism. Is it not folly to throw away the true experience of humanity acquired through the ages and embodied in the divine wisdom of...

• I am not giving you a system or a discipline as a way to end your conflict. January 05, 2011

  I am not offering you a remedy. I am not giving you a system or a discipline as a way to end your conflict. I know, you are too willing, too eager, to follow someone, anyone. I have been asked agai...

• I shall have to say this so often that it will become almost a formula for you. February 03, 2011

  Question: You have enumerated the successive steps of the process of creating authorities. Will you enumerate the steps of the inverse process, the process of liberating oneself from all authority....