Krishnamurti Information Network
Tag: Desire
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Why cannot the mind experience something that is true, beyond its own projections? July 25, 2009
Now, what is it that makes the mind superficial? Please don't merely listen to me, but observe, be aware of your own thinking when a question like that is put to you. What makes the mind superfic...
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Can there be honesty - that is, clear insight, seeing things as they are - if there is a principle, an ideal, an ennobled formula? August 21, 2009
What does honesty mean? Can there be honesty - that is, clear insight, seeing things as they are - if there is a principle, an ideal, an ennobled formula? Can one be direct if there is confusion? C...
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Freedom is to stand alone, unattached and unafraid, free in the understanding of desire which breeds illusion. November 20, 2009
Freedom is to stand alone, unattached and unafraid, free in the understanding of desire which breeds illusion. There is a vast strength in being alone. It is the conditioned, programmed brain that ...
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To go beyond the self-enclosing activities of the mind, you must understand them; December 01, 2009
That is why it is important, as I said, to understand the process, the ways of our own thinking. Self-knowledge cannot be gathered through anybody, through any book, through any confession, psychol...
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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...
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The self, the "me," is a network of complex desires, each desire having its own impetus and aim, often in opposition to other hopes and pursuits. December 26, 2009
To be in self-contradiction is to live in conflict and sorrow. The self, in its very structure, is contradictory; it is made up of many entities with different masks, each in opposition to the othe...
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To walk alone, unimpeded by thought, by the trail of our desires, is to go beyond the reaches of the mind. January 21, 2010
We are never alone; we are surrounded by people and by our own thoughts. Even when the people are distant, we see things through the screen of our thoughts. There is no moment, or it is very rare, ...
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Is silence to be cultivated, carefully nurtured and strengthened? And who is the cultivator? Is he different from the totality of your being? January 26, 2010
Krishnamurti: Is silence to be cultivated, carefully nurtured and strengthened? And who is the cultivator? Is he different from the totality of your being? Is there silence, a still mind, when on...
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Creativeness is not a process of becoming or achieving, but a state of being in which self-seeking effort is totally absent. February 05, 2010
"Must not a definite practice be adopted to put an end to this deterioration, this inefficiency and laziness of the mind?", asked the government official. Practice or discipline implies an incen...
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Desire, which has been the driving force in man, has created a great many pleasant and useful things; desire also, in man's relationships, has created a great many problems and turmoil and misery -...
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The religious mind does not depend on time for its development. February 18, 2010
You may be treating the talks we have been having as an exchange of ideas, as a process of accepting new ideas and discarding old ones, or as a process of denying new ideas and holding on to the ol...
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Until you are committed, dedicated, to eradicating this national, economic, religious division, you are perpetuating war February 19, 2010
It is our earth, not yours or mine or his. We are meant to live on it, helping each other, not destroying each other. This is not some romantic nonsense but the actual fact. But man has divided the...
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You can't empty the mind, do what you will you can't empty it, because the desire to empty it is part of the activity of the self. March 19, 2010
Q: Why is it so difficult to empty one's mind? Krishnamurti : Now just listen to that question. Why is it so difficult to empty the mind? Listen to this. The speaker stated: meditation is the em...
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Contentment is a thing that cannot be achieved - though all the religious books, all the saints and the Masters, promise it to you. Their promise is no promise at all; it is just a vanity which gra...
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How can a man that is in prison stimulate the desire for freedom? October 28, 2010
Questioner: How can one stimulate a desire for freedom? Krishnamurti: How can a man that is in prison stimulate the desire for freedom? What a question to ask! Sirs .... is not the suffering of ...
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There is illusion as long as there is a want, which is different from needs. December 19, 2010
To me there is not the "I" and the "non-I", the high and the low. There is illusion, which you call the "I", and there is that supreme, ever-renewing intelligence, which is life itself, in which th...
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To understand what I am saying is not very difficult. The difficulty lies in putting what I am saying into action. May 24, 2011
Surely, to understand what I am saying is not very difficult. The difficulty lies in putting what I am saying into action. Now, to put it into action does not need courage, but rather comprehension...
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Where there is no creative expression of life, we give undue importance to sex, which becomes an acute problem. October 15, 2011
Question: What suggestion or advice would you give to one who is hindered by strong sexual desire? Krishnamurti: After all, where there is no creative expression of life, we give undue importanc...
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Question: I desire many things from life which I do not have. Can you tell me how to get them? January 13, 2012
Question: I desire many things from life which I do not have. Can you tell me how to get them? Krishnamurti: Why do you want many things? We all must have clothes, food, shelter. But what is beh...
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