Tag:  Observation

• The 'observer' exists only when you accumulate in the observation; August 03, 2009

  Questioner: You tell us to observe our actions in daily life but what is the entity that decides what to observe and when? Who decides if one should observe? Krishnamurti: Do you decide to obse...

• You tell us to observe our actions in daily life but what is the entity that decides what to observe and when? August 16, 2009

  Questioner: You tell us to observe our actions in daily life but what is the entity that decides what to observe and when? Who decides if one should observe? Krishnamurti: Do you decide to obse...

• Through attachment the inevitable darkness of fear is waiting August 19, 2009

  One may depend on belief, or on an experience, or on a conclusion attached to a particular prejudice; how deeply does this attachment go? I do not know if you have observed it in yourself. We were ...

• Why do we give such deep significance and meaning to the unconscious? - for after all, it is as trivial as the conscious. October 12, 2009

  Why do we give such deep significance and meaning to the unconscious? - for after all, it is as trivial as the conscious. If the conscious mind is extraordinarily active, watching, listening, seein...

• What is meditation? Why should one meditate? To find that out, stop meditating. November 04, 2009

  What is meditation? Why should one meditate? To find that out, stop meditating. To find out what is real meditation, not yours or mine, your type and my type, or X's type, but what is meditation, t...

• A mind that is indifferent, is aware of the shoddiness of our civilization, the shoddiness of our thought, the ugly relationships; November 09, 2009

  A mind that is indifferent, is aware of the shoddiness of our civilization, the shoddiness of our thought, the ugly relationships; it is aware of the street, of the beauty of a tree, or of a lovely...

• You think you are the center of this beautiful earth. November 18, 2009

  Surely, since you have burnt yourself in politics, your problem is not only to break away from society, but to come totally to life again, to love and to be simple. Without love, do what you may, ...

• Only the mind that has emptied itself of the known is creative. November 22, 2009

  If you are hearing for the first time this statement that you must be free of thought, you may say, " Poor chap, he is crazy." But if you have really listened, not only this time but for the many y...

• The observer is also the image, only he has separated himself and observes. January 27, 2010

  One image, as the observer, observes dozens of other images around himself and inside himself, and he says, 'I like this image, I'm going to keep it' or 'I don't like that image so I'll get rid of ...

• Let the thing that you are watching tell its story, rather than you tell it what it should be. February 13, 2010

  Let the thing that you are watching tell its story, rather than you tell it what it should be. You follow, sir, what I mean? Can you do that? Can one do that? So that it reveals everything. Like a ...

• You cannot perceive if you do not ask the right question - and a right question has no answer, because it needs no answer. February 17, 2010

  We are not concerned with what you should or should not do; that is not the problem. We are concerned with understanding the mind; and in understanding there is no condemnation, no demand for a pat...

• There was no observer listening, pitying, and walking behind them. He was not part of them out of love and pity; he was them. March 02, 2010

  Two women came down the path carrying firewood on their heads. One was old and the other quite young, and the burdens they carried looked rather heavy. Each had balanced on her head, protected by a...

• When you say to somebody `I love you', what does it mean? June 11, 2010

  I wonder if you have ever observed anything, that is, to see things actually as they are, not as you wish them to be, or you hope they should be, but actually as they are? Have you ever observed a ...

• to observe means to observe without the interference of one's background; but one is the background - you follow?-one's whole being which looks is one's background - as a Christian, as a Frenchman, or as an intellectual. June 20, 2010

  Questioner: Am I to understand we have to meditate, but our minds are prevented from meditating because they tick over automatically and so we are unable to observe what happens around us? Does thi...

• Observation is not detachment because there is no attachment. June 22, 2010

  A mind that is indifferent is aware of the shoddiness of our civilization, the shoddiness of our thought, the ugly relationships; it is aware of the street, of the beauty of a tree, or of a lovely ...

• As long as the mind is active in its desire to transform itself, it can only be a model of its own projection; therefore there is no transformation. October 22, 2010

  When the mind is aware of its own activities, not only the conscious, but also the unconscious, then you do not have to examine the unconscious to bring the hidden things to the surface - they are ...

• To observe means actually to be aware of the interference of thought; January 17, 2011

  Questioner: Am I to understand we have to meditate, but our minds are prevented from meditating because they tick over automatically and so we are unable to observe what happens around us? Does thi...