Tag:  Thinker

• There is only thinking, and thinking is impermanent July 24, 2009

  Now, as long as there is the thinker separate from thought, there must be conflict, the process of duality, there must be this gap between action and idea. But cannot the mind actually experience t...

• The thinker is the thought. They are not separate, they are a joint phenomenon and not separate processes. July 14, 2010

  Thought can be modified, changed; but the thinker remains apart. The thinker is the thought. They are not separate, they are a joint phenomenon and not separate processes. The thinker, by manipulat...

• The complete integration of the thinker with his thought cannot be experienced if there is no understanding of the process of becoming and the conflict of opposites. September 22, 2013

  Questioner: What is a lasting way to solve a psychological problem? Krishnamurti: There are three stages of awareness, are there not, in any human problem? First, being aware of the cause and ef...

• Is not the maker of the problem more important than the problem itself? October 31, 2013

  So long as the thinker is concerned with his thought there must be dualism; as long as he struggles with his thoughts dualistic conflict will continue. Is there a solution for a problem in the conf...

• Is the thinker different from his thought? November 01, 2013

  Is the thinker different from his thought? Are they not a joint phenomenon? Why does the thinker separate himself from his thought? Is it not for his own continuity? He is ever seeking security, pe...

• In right meditation the concentrator is the concentration; as generally practised the thinker is the concentrator, concentrating upon something or becoming something. November 02, 2013

  If the thinker separates his thought from himself and tries to modify it without radically transforming himself conflict and delusion inevitably will follow. There is no way out of this conflict an...

• Our thought is conditioned by the past; the I, the me and the mine, is the result of stored up experience, ever incomplete. November 05, 2013

  Our thought is conditioned by the past; the I, the me and the mine, is the result of stored up experience, ever incomplete. The memory of the past is always absorbing the present; the self which is...

• If the thinker is the thought, inseparably, then being the creator, he can begin to solve himself without being concerned with the problem, or with the thought. January 29, 2015

  .... The other point in this question is whether problems can be solved all at once, in one stroke cut off at the root. But first we must discover who is the creator of problems. If the creator ...

• So, as long as the thinker is separate from his thought, there will be problems, one after the other, innumerable problems; January 31, 2015

  Now, how does the thinker come into being? Obviously through desire. Desire is the outcome of perception, contact, sensation, identification and 'me'. Perception of a car, contact, sensation, desir...

• If the thinker can understand himself, then the whole problem is solved. May 30, 2015

  Question: Why is your teaching so purely psychological? There is no cosmology, no theology, no ethics, no aesthetics, no sociology, no political science, not even hygiene. Why do you concentrate on...

• Thoughts themselves are the thinker, they are not separate. May 31, 2015

  Now, is the thinker different from his thoughts? If thought ceases, is there the thinker? Can the quality be removed from the thinker? When the qualities of the thinker are removed, is there the th...

• Question: Why is your teaching so purely psychological? June 01, 2015

  Question: Why is your teaching so purely psychological? There is no cosmology, no theology, no ethics, no aesthetics, no sociology, no political science, not even hygiene. Why do you concentrate on...

• If you have no thoughts, there is no thinker. July 05, 2015

  Question: My mind is restless and distressed. Without getting it under control, I can do nothing about myself. How am I to control thought? Krishnamurti: ... Does the thinker exist when he ce...