Tag:  Freedom

• We should go into this question of freedom and enquire whether it is at all possible to be free, or if it is an ideological utopia, a concept which has no reality whatsoever. August 27, 2009

  I am not at all sure that most of us want to be completely free of every burden, rather we should like to keep some pleasurable, satisfying, complex ideologies and gratifying formulas. We should of...

• Only in total freedom does bliss exist. October 06, 2009

  Happiness and pleasure you can buy in any market at a price. But bliss you cannot buy for yourself or for another. Happiness and pleasure are time-binding. Only in total freedom does bliss exist. P...

• From the known you cannot possibly see the unknown; November 19, 2009

  Now, freedom from all that, is freedom from the known; it is the state of a mind which says, "I do not know", and which is not looking for an answer. Such a mind is completely not seeking not expec...

• 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 ...

• 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...

• Self-knowledge is not a conclusion, an end; it has no beginning and no end. November 23, 2009

  Questioner: I have been told that you do not read any philosophical or religious literature. I can hardly credit this, as when I listen to you I realize that you must have read, or have, some secre...

• It is only the righteous man that develops his will as a means of resistance, and a man of will can never find truth, because he is never free. November 27, 2009

  Virtue is freedom, it is not a process of enclosure. It is only in freedom that truth can come into being. Therefore, it is essential to be virtuous, not righteous, because virtue brings order. It ...

• 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 ...

• 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 'me' is created by thought and the 'me' says: "I am independent of thought". January 18, 2010

  How does one perceive the whole of anything? The whole of fear, not the broken up of fear in different forms or the fear of the unconscious and the conscious - in the conscious and in the unconscio...

• Freedom is born of the perception that freedom is essential. February 20, 2010

  So, to go into ourselves deeply, fully, a sense of freedom is necessary - not at the end, but at the very beginning. Do not ask how to arrive at that freedom. No system of meditation, no book, no d...

• Everything we see, every thought we have, shapes our mind; whatever you think now, whatever you have thought in the past and whatever you are going to think in the future, it all shapes the mind. March 06, 2010

  Everywhere there is a compelling environmental influence. Newspapers tell us what to think, and there are so many five, ten or fifteen-year plans. Then there are these specialists at the economic, ...

• The mind is never free, pliable, for it is always anchored; it moves within the radius, narrow or wide, of its own centre. March 13, 2010

  The daily pattern of life was repeating itself around the only water tap in the village; the water was running slowly, and a group of women were awaiting their turn. Three of them were noisily and ...

• If I have the whole picture in mind then I can take in the detail; but if my mind only operates in a detail then I cannot take in the whole. June 01, 2010

  Can the mind observe its content without any choice as to the content - not choosing any part of the content, any part of the piece, but observing totally? Now, how is it possible to observe totall...

• I cannot lead you to truth, nor can anyone else; you have to discover it every moment of the day as you are living. July 09, 2010

  To find out what this life is all about, to know the whole content of it and not just the superficial layers which we call living, to be aware of its joy, its extraordinary depths, its width and be...

• How can one stimulate a desire for freedom? August 08, 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 ...

• To live without comparison is to remove a tremendous burden. September 04, 2010

  To live without comparison is to remove a tremendous burden. If you remove the burden of comparison, imitation, conformity, adjustment, modification, then you are left with "what is". Conflict ar...