Tag:  Intellect

• 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...

• The cultivation of virtue is not intelligence. September 25, 2012

  Question: How can one come to an agreement with people who have objectives in life radically different from one's own? Krishnamurti: There cannot be agreement between a false objective and a tru...

• What you call thinking is merely moving from one anchorage or centre of bias to another, and from this centre judging, choosing, and creating substitutions. November 01, 2012

  What is the process by which the mind is ever accumulating values, memories, habits, which we call tradition? We cannot discern this process so long as mind is conditioned by fear and want which ar...

• When the mind through analysis discovers the cause of suffering, that very discovery itself may become a refuge. December 11, 2012

  Though intellectually we may perceive the cause of suffering, it has but little influence on our lives. Though we may intellectually agree that so long as there is attachment there is fear and sorr...

• Intellect merely guides fear, controls it, but can never destroy it, for intellect is the very cause of fear. January 15, 2013

  You can know yourself only when you love completely. This, again, is the whole process of life, not to be gathered in a few moments, from a few words of mine. You cannot be yourself when love is de...

• Creative emptiness is not to be run after or sought by devious ways. It must happen. Truth is. January 16, 2013

  Until one frees oneself from the mechanical, there cannot be the spontaneous, the real. Craving for the real, for that flame which bursts from within, cannot bring it about. What will free you fro...

• This discriminative power of desire, choice, must cease, and this can happen only when one understands, inwardly feels the blind effort of the intellect. February 18, 2013

  We must understand deeply the inward nature of the mind itself, and this understanding is not born of a day; it needs immense awareness of our whole being. The mind, as I said, is a battlefield of ...

• The intellect, the faculty to discern, to choose, is influenced by the past, and if we merely rely on that faculty to understand, to love, then our understanding, our love, will be limited. April 05, 2013

  The intellect, the faculty to discern, to choose, is influenced by the past, and if we merely rely on that faculty to understand, to love, then our understanding, our love, will be limited. Reality...

• Intellect, the instrument of craving, is itself narrow, conditioned, and therefore what it chooses is bound to be also limited. May 07, 2013

  Individual thought is influenced, limited, by society, by inherited and acquired tendencies. These tendencies are revealed in relationship, superficial and intimate. By becoming aware of them and n...

• Self-discovery brings about freedom from acquisitiveness and from the complex life of the intellect. July 10, 2013

  ... we somewhat discussed relationship, dependence, fear and love; how to set about freeing thought-feeling from dependence and fear which corrupt love. I said that this morning we would try to und...

• We have over developed the intellect at the cost of our deeper and clearer feelings and a civilization that is based on the cultivation of the intellect must bring about ruthlessness and the worship of success. August 09, 2013

  Questioner: At this time and in our present way of life our feelings become blunted and hard. Can you suggest a way of life that will make us more sensitive? Can we become so in spite of noise, has...

• Verbally we are aware that there is a catastrophe. February 21, 2014

  As I am going to talk every Sunday for many Sundays, I think it will be best if I very carefully and slowly develop the ideas which I have. I shall try to make my points as clear as possible during...

• If you merely ask an intellectual question to trap me you may trap me but you will lose out. March 22, 2014

  I will now answer some of the questions sent to me. I do not prepare beforehand the answers to these questions. Generally I do not even like to look at them in advance as I wish to answer direct...

• Intellect is producing such havoc, degradation and misery, but that is not reason, it is merely intellectuality concerned only with the superficial, responding to the immediate challenge. August 31, 2014

  Question: From your talks it seems clear that reason is the chief means to acquire self-knowledge. Is this so? Krishnamurti: What do you mean by reason? Can reason be separated from feeling? You...

• Before we begin with our discussion where we left off, it is very important to bear in mind why we meet as, otherwise, these discussions will deteriorate into mere intellection without any significance. October 13, 2014

  Before we begin with our discussion where we left off, it is very important to bear in mind why we meet as, otherwise, these discussions will deteriorate into mere intellection without any signific...

• When the intellect becomes supreme, you are bound to have disaster, because the heart is empty; so you fill it with words and the fabrications of the intellect. April 16, 2015

  You want future security, therefore you are destroying present security. Surely, understanding is only in the present and not in the future. Comprehension is now not tomorrow. Now, these two extrao...

• As long as the mind is not understood, obviously there is conflict, there is misery. August 16, 2015

  So, the mind, which is the intellect, with its will and its capacity for evaluation, must be understood; because, as long as the mind is not understood, with its desires, with its pursuits and the ...