Tag:  Illusion

• We have to find out what is the accurate, correct, right action, or right livelihood in the world of reality, and reality includes illusion July 31, 2009

  Questioner: Is a motive necessary in business? What is the right motive in earning a livelihood? Krishnamurti: What do you think is the right livelihood? - not what is the most convenient, not ...

• A satisfactory explanation, or a comforting belief, can put you soothingly to sleep; but is that what you want? August 05, 2009

  Comfort is one thing, and truth another; they lead away from each other. If you seek comfort, you may find it in an explanation, a drug or a belief; but it will be temporary, and sooner or later...

• 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...

• The craving for experience is the beginning of illusion. November 16, 2009

  The craving for experience is the beginning of illusion. As you now realize, your visions were but the projections of your background, of your conditioning, and it is these projections that you ha...

• 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 ...

• Meditation is seeing the constant touching the ever-changing movement of life. November 29, 2009

  Meditation is seeing the constant touching the ever-changing movement of life. The man who has progressed through being a sinner to being a saint has progressed from one illusion to another. This ...

• 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...

• One takes comfort, security, in any form of illusion. And man apparently needs many illusions. January 09, 2010

  One wonders why this craving, longing, for identification exists. One can understand the identification with one's physical needs - the necessary things, clothes, food, shelter and so on. But inwar...

• We have divided life into dying and living. And this division has brought about great fear. And out of that fear we invent all kinds of theories, very comforting, may be illusory, but it is very comforting, illusions are comfortably neurotic. January 14, 2010

  So for us death is total ending, the ending of your attachment - right?-ending all that you have collected. You cannot take it with you. You may like to have it until the last minute, but you canno...

• 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...

• Instead of discerning the cause, you think that you can comprehend yourself through another. This looking to the example of another only leads to illusion and suffering. February 25, 2010

  Question: Example is said to be better than precept. Cannot the value of personal example to another be considerable, like your own? Krishnamurti: What is the motive that lies behind this questi...

• Most of us do not want to die to anything, particularly to that which gives us pleasure, to the memory of things that we have known and cherished. March 28, 2010

  Unfortunately, most of us do not want to die to anything, particularly to that which gives us pleasure, to the memory of things that we have known and cherished. We would rather find an escape, liv...

• The power to create illusion is vastly more significant to understand than to understand reality. April 19, 2010

  The known is always the little, the fragment, and with the small we seek the unknown. We never let the little go; of the little we are certain, in it we are secure, at least we think we are. But ac...

• That which is real will be known when the various forms of illusions have ceased. May 26, 2010

  Do not let us concern ourselves about what is cosmic consciousness, truth, and so on. That which is real will be known when the various forms of illusions have ceased. As the mind is capable of suc...

• Most minds have identified themselves with a belief, and therefore their thought is always circumscribed, limited by that belief or ideal; June 25, 2011

  The mind cannot think completely, fully, if it is tethered to a belief. It is like an animal that is tied to a post by a string. It does not matter if that string be long or short; it is tied, so t...

• What happens to a house whose walls you are merely decorating though its foundations are rotten? August 20, 2011

  Mind and heart are shaping themselves to environment, external environment, but when they find that they cannot, for the compulsion becomes too strong, they then turn to an inner condition in which...

• If you don't understand something and merely try to modify it, your action must increase the barriers, must build up new sets of barriers; September 06, 2011

  In modification, adjustment, alteration, in your efforts to break through the limitations, the walls, there is what you call activity. For the vast majority of people action is nothing but the modi...

• Not having that creative intelligence which is the comprehension of environment, man begins to play within the walls of his prison, he begins to embellish and decorate the prison and he makes himself comfortable within its walls; September 09, 2011

  Not having that creative intelligence which is the comprehension of environment, man begins to play within the walls of his prison, he begins to embellish and decorate the prison and he makes himse...

• Intelligence is the only solution that will bring about harmony in this world of conflict, harmony between mind and heart in action. November 27, 2011

  For most people this is the problem: merely to wait, marking time; or to be able to discern the true significance of life with its conflicts and sorrows, and not create a new set of stupidities, a ...

• There is no security, no comfort, but only clarity of thought which brings about the understanding of the fundamental cause of suffering, which alone will liberate man. December 25, 2011

  There is no security, no comfort, but only clarity of thought which brings about the understanding of the fundamental cause of suffering, which alone will liberate man. In this liberation lies the ...

• Our present search for reality is nothing but the search for a greater and more magnificent illusion. January 19, 2012

  Suppose that you have lost someone by death. You suffer and you begin to ask about the hereafter, whether it is a fact or not. Then you begin to investigate the theory of reincarnation. What is it ...

• The very search for reality is an illusion, because it is but an escape. January 23, 2012

  You have to ask yourself whether you are seeking a solution for your suffering within the circle of illusion, within the environment of centuries, and thus creating further illusions and entrenchin...

• When there is true discernment there is the ecstasy of the immeasurable, which cannot be imagined or preconceived, but only experienced. February 03, 2012

  So long as thought is seeking and following a pattern, conforming to an environment which it has not understood and merely acting from habit, there must be conflict and disharmony. So the first thi...