Tag:  Accumulation

• The more you are interested in something, the more your intention to understand, the more simple, clear, free the mind is. February 27, 2010

  Questioner: You say the mind, memory and the thought process, have to cease before there can be understanding, and yet you are communicating to us. Is what you say the experience of something in th...

• By adding little by little to the granary in the mind, you hope to become full, and to be able to meet life fully, wholly. August 09, 2010

  I think that in that very process of accumulation, which we call learning, lies our misfortune. When it is burdened with knowledge, with learning, mind is crippled - not that we must not read. But ...

• A man who is really living has no sense of accumulation. March 18, 2011

  A man who is really living has no sense of accumulation. But the man who is seeking certainty and security, who is seeking a shelter from which he can act - the shelter of character, of virtue - th...

• Being insufficient, incomplete, knowing poverty, emptiness, utter loneliness and shallowness of thought and emotion, we depend on other people, on books, on literature, on ideas, on philosophy to enrich our lives, and thus we begin to acquire, store up. September 18, 2011

  Question: When love is freed of all possessiveness, does this not necessarily result in asceticism and hence abnormality? Krishnamurti: If you were free of possessiveness, you would not ask this...