Tag:  Religion

• Religion as it exists is not religion at all. August 06, 2009

  The word 'religion', the root of it, has not been established. I think from observing and looking into various dictionaries, it really means gathering together all energy to find out the truth. I...

• Religion, surely, is the uncovering of reality. Religion is not belief. August 07, 2009

  Religion, surely, is the uncovering of reality. Religion is not belief. Religion is not the search for truth. The search for truth is merely the fulfilment of belief. Religion is the understand...

• Religion, surely, is the uncovering of reality. Religion is not belief. Religion is not the search for truth. September 10, 2009

  Religion, surely, is the uncovering of reality. Religion is not belief. Religion is not the search for truth. The search for truth is merely the fulfilment of belief. Religion is the understand...

• Religion as it exists is not religion at all. September 17, 2009

  The word 'religion', the root of it, has not been established. I think from observing and looking into various dictionaries, it really means gathering together all energy to find out the truth. I t...

• Breaking through is not a matter of time. October 07, 2009

  ... the religious man is he who, through self-knowledge, begins to discover his conditioning and to break through it; and the breaking through is not a matter of time.

• The worship of authority, whether in big or little things, is evil, the more so in religious matters. October 25, 2009

  Exclusive, private knowledge offers deeply satisfying pleasure. To know something that others do not know is a constant source of satisfaction; it gives one the feeling of being in touch with deepe...

• You see man imprisoned by innumerable walls, walls of religion, of social, political and national limitations, walls created by his own ambitions, aspirations, fears, hopes, security, prejudices, hate and love. November 07, 2009

  Let us for a moment, imaginatively at least, look over the world from a point of view which will reveal the inner workings and the outer workings of man, his creations and his battles; and if you c...

• From my point of view, religions with all their intermediaries, their ceremonies, their priests, destroy creative understanding and pervert judgment. November 08, 2009

  Some of you are seeking physical security through wealth, comfort, and the power over others that wealth gives you; you are interested in social differences and social privileges that assure you of...

• Self-knowledge is not a conclusion, an end; it has no beginning and no end. November 23, 2009

  Questioner: I have been told that you do not read any philosophical or religious literature. I can hardly credit this, as when I listen to you I realize that you must have read, or have, some secre...

• Truth is truth, one, alone; it has no sides, no paths; all paths do not lead to truth. November 24, 2009

  Truth is truth, one, alone; it has no sides, no paths; all paths do not lead to truth. There is no path to truth, it must come to you. Truth can come to you only when your mind and heart are sim...

• Mere reformation of the pattern of society only alters the surface, it brings about a more respectable form of ambition. December 03, 2009

  Society is not changed by example. Society may reform itself, it may bring about certain changes through political or economic revolution, but only the religious man can create a fundamental transf...

• For me, revolution is synonymous with religion. I do not mean by the word 'revolution' immediate economic or social change; I mean a revolution in consciousness itself. January 06, 2010

  For me, revolution is synonymous with religion. I do not mean by the word 'revolution' immediate economic or social change; I mean a revolution in consciousness itself. All other forms of revolutio...

• The religious mind is really a scientific mind - scientific in the sense that it is able to observe facts without distortion, to see itself as it is. March 29, 2010

  The religious mind isn't the mind that believes, that goes to church every day, or once a week; it isn't the mind that has a creed, that is bound by dogmas and superstitions. The religious mind is ...

• Man has always sought something beyond the physical existence. He has always searched, asked, suffered, tortured himself, to find out if there is something which is not of time, which is not of thought, which is not belief or faith. May 12, 2010

  Man has always sought something beyond the physical existence. He has always searched, asked, suffered, tortured himself, to find out if there is something which is not of time, which is not of tho...

• The whole idea of following a discipline makes the mind and heart rigid and consistent. April 15, 2011

  Question: What is your view concerning religious, ceremonial, and occult practices - to mention only some activities that help mankind? Is your attitude to them merely one of complete indifference,...

• The so-called religions give the pattern of conformity to the mind that is seeking security born of fear, in search of comfort; May 03, 2011

  The so-called religions give the pattern of conformity to the mind that is seeking security born of fear, in search of comfort; and where there is the search for comfort, there is no understanding....

• Our religions throughout the world keep people apart. May 06, 2011

  If both the inquirer and the teacher knew what truth is, then you could both go towards it; but the disciple cannot know what truth is. Therefore his inquiry after truth can only exist in the confl...

• The people who believe so much in God are really not in love with life. June 09, 2011

  Now, what is happening in the world? You have a Christian God, Hindu Gods, Muhammadans with their particular conception of God - each little sect with their particular truth; and all these truths a...

• To me religion is the false result of a false cause, the cause being conflict, and religion merely a means of escape from that conflict. August 24, 2011

  Question: In your opinion, would it be better for me to become a deaconess of the Protestant Episcopal Church, or could I be of greater service to the world by remaining as I am? Krishnamurti: I...

• As in a circus the animals are trained to function for the amusement of spectators, so the individual through fear seeks out these spiritual trainers whom he calls priests and swamis, who are the defenders of spurious spirituality and the inanities of religion. September 12, 2011

  Where there is the craving for security there must be fear, so mind and heart seek out spiritual trainers to learn from them ways of escape. As in a circus the animals are trained to function for t...

• An authority seasoned through the mists of time becomes invulnerable, and then man accepts that authority as being final. September 19, 2011

  Question: If priests are exploiters, why did Christ found the apostolic succession and Buddha his sangha? Krishnamurti: First of all, how do you know? You have been told, you have read of it in ...

• Curiously, if you consider it, religion which should denounce war, helps its furtherance. December 26, 2011

  In the search for comfort, security, life has come to be divided into the religious or the spiritual, and the economic or the material. Material security is sought through possessions which give po...

• The system which you call religion and which has been created through your own demand for security has become so powerful, so realistic, that very few free themselves from its weight of crushing tradition and authority. December 27, 2011

  Through the search for individual security, through the demand for individual continuance, you have created a religion that exploits you through priestcraft, through ceremonies, through so-called i...

• If wisdom could be acquired through a religious society or sect, we should all be wise, for we have had religions with us for thousands of years. January 12, 2012

  Question: I belong to no religion, but I am a member of two societies which give me knowledge and spiritual wisdom. If I give these up, how can I ever reach perfection? Krishnamurti: If you unde...

• Religions, with their beliefs, dogmas and creeds, have become tremendous barriers between human beings, dividing man against man, limiting him and destroying his intelligence. February 16, 2012

  Religions, with their beliefs, dogmas and creeds, have become tremendous barriers between human beings, dividing man against man, limiting him and destroying his intelligence. Please understand wha...

• Question: What do you mean by "religion"? February 25, 2012

  Question: What do you mean by "religion"? I feel myself reunited to God through Christ. And through whom are you reunited to God? Krishnamurti: I mean by religion, organized belief, creed, dogma...

• Religion, to most people, is nothing but a reaction against intelligence. March 21, 2012

  Religion, which is an organized form of stupidity, has become your destroyer. it has become an instrument of power, of vested interest, of exploitation. You as individuals must awaken to this struc...

• The constant conformity to a particular mould is the basis of our religious thought and moral action; March 26, 2012

  Each one must discover intelligence for himself, whose expression will then be true fulfillment. If he does not, if he merely follows a plan laid down, then it will not be a fulfillment, but only a...

• For me, all religions are but defensive reactions against life, against intelligence. March 29, 2012

  Question: It is being said in some newspapers and elsewhere that you have led a gay and useless life: that you have no real message, but are merely repeating the gibberish of the Theosophists who e...

• Organised religion has never said that ambition is evil, but has always decried sex. Don't you see the implications? September 30, 2014

  Is 'evil' an idea which is used by the society to control man so that he does not go beyond the limits? Organised religions have cultivated and controlled man by their laws through fear, through co...

• Any positive approach to the unknown will make the unknown knowable and therefore that is not the Truth. November 07, 2014

  What do you mean by religion? Surely, it is not going to church or going to the temple and worshipping images, reading the sacred books, or belonging to any religious sect or body. Surely that is n...