Tag:  Belief

• 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...

• Religion, surely, is the uncovering of reality. Religion is not belief. August 07, 2009

  Religion, surely, is the uncovering of reality. Religion is not belief. Religion is not the search for truth. The search for truth is merely the fulfilment of belief. Religion is the understand...

• As long as mind is caught up in belief, there is no understanding, there is no freedom. August 26, 2009

  As long as mind is caught up in belief, there is no understanding, there is no freedom. So to me, whether or not Masters exist is quite irrelevant to action, to fulfillment, with which we should ...

• Truth is truth, one, alone; it has no sides, no paths; all paths do not lead to truth. November 24, 2009

  Truth is truth, one, alone; it has no sides, no paths; all paths do not lead to truth. There is no path to truth, it must come to you. Truth can come to you only when your mind and heart are sim...

• Freedom cannot be given; freedom is something that comes into being when you do not seek it; November 30, 2009

  Freedom cannot be given; freedom is something that comes into being when you do not seek it; it comes into being only when you know you are a prisoner, when you know for yourself completely the sta...

• Every habit, repetition, rituals strengthened by belief and dogma, sensory responses, can be and are refined, but the alert awareness, sensitivity, is quite another matter. December 21, 2009

  The so-called saints and sannyasis have contributed to the dullness of mind and to the destruction of sensitivity. Every habit, repetition, rituals strengthened by belief and dogma, sensory respons...

• That is the nature of belief: taking for granted, accepting something to be true when your own enquiry, your own vitality, energy, has not found out, you believe. March 09, 2010

  Is there anything sacred in life? Not invented by thought, because man, from time immeasurable, he has always asked this question: Is there something beyond all this confusion, misery, darkness, i...

• Belief implies accepting as true what we don't know. March 17, 2010

  We have divorced from this living what is called death, put it away as far as possible. Knowing that it is inevitable we begin to speculate on what is beyond death, or accept as truth what others s...

• Do you agree with the teachings of Buddha? April 15, 2010

  Questioner: I would like to ask if you recognize the teaching of the Buddha that right understanding will help to solve the inner problems of man, and that inner peace of the mind depends entirely ...

• By studying what we consider important in life, those things which we have accepted - the values, the standards, the beliefs, the innumerable things that we hold - by examining them, perhaps we shall find out the ways of our own thinking and thereby know ourselves. July 08, 2010

  Without self-knowledge, we cannot go beyond the self-projected illusions of the mind. Self-knowledge, as we explained, implies not only the action of relationship between one individual and another...

• All men, everywhere in the world have a belief, it does not matter what it is, and that belief guides their mind, whereas life should guide and not belief. October 26, 2010

  Now personally – and I hope you will understand what I’m saying and not misunderstand it – I have no belief and I have no tradition. That has always been my attitude towards life. As life is differ...

• You have to believe in God only when there is no understanding, and you cannot have understanding by searching for it. April 20, 2011

  Question: Have you no faith whatever in the power of Divinity that shapes the destiny of man? If not, are you then an atheist? Krishnamurti: The belief that there is a Divinity that can shape man i...

• Where there is a search for comfort, security, there must be a pattern, a mould, in which we take shelter, and therefore we begin to preconceive what God must be, and what truth must be. May 04, 2011

  To me - and please bear this in mind, I want you to criticize, not accept - to me all beliefs, all ideals are a hindrance because they prevent you from understanding the present. You say beliefs, i...

• As beliefs separate people, condition people, keep them apart, so possessiveness, expressing itself as class-consciousness and growing into nationality, keeps people apart. May 11, 2011

  Now, if you look, this society is based on class-consciousness which is again the consciousness of security. As beliefs grow into religions, so possessions grow into the expression of nationality. ...

• I hold that to have a belief is a limitation. May 21, 2011

  Do you think a flower, a rose, is ever considering that it is serving humanity, that it is helping the world by its existence because it is beautiful? On the contrary, because it is beautiful, supr...

• To really think, the mind must not be tethered to a belief. May 22, 2011

  To really serve, one must be supremely free from the limited consciousness we call the "I", the ego, self-centred consciousness; and so long as that exists, you are not really serving the world. Un...

• To me, truth has no aspects; it is one, and that which is complete, whole, has no aspects. June 07, 2011

  To me, truth has no aspects. We are in the habit, especially Theosophists I think, and some others besides, of saying that truth has many aspects: Christianity is one aspect, Buddhism another, Hind...

• To be a theist or an atheist, to me, are both absurd. June 08, 2011

  To be a theist or an atheist, to me, are both absurd. If you knew what truth is, what God is, you would neither be a theist nor an atheist, because in that awareness belief is unnecessary. It is th...

• Belief is merely an escape from the present conflict. June 16, 2011

  How can you live intelligently, and therefore harmoniously, if you are bound by beliefs? After all, belief is merely an escape from the present conflict. A man that is in immense conflict with life...

• 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...

• Self-discipline implies a mind that is tethered to a particular thought or belief or ideal, a mind that is held by a condition; July 30, 2011

  Please experiment with what I have said about discipline, self-discipline. Don't reject it, don't say you must have self-discipline, because there will be chaos in the world - as if there were not ...

• Both the believer and the non-believer in God and immortality are wrong, because the mind cannot comprehend reality until it is completely free of all illusions. January 06, 2012

  Question: You deny religion, God and immortality. How can humanity become more perfect, and so happier, without believing in these fundamental things? Krishnamurti: It is because with you it is ...