Tag:  Will

• Sincerity can never be simple; sincerity is the breeding ground of the will, and will cannot uncover the ways of the self. September 05, 2009

  He spoke at length of God, of his morning and evening prayers, of his fasts, his vows, his burning desires. He expressed himself very clearly and definitely, there was no hesitation for the right w...

• 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 ...

• 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...

• 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...

• We are saying: Be dead to love; it doesn't matter. Live entirely in your intellect and in your verbal manipulations, your cunning arguments. January 28, 2010

  Questioner: Of course we can go on endlessly analysing, describing the cause, but will that bridge the gap between the mind and the heart? That's what I want to know. I have read some of the psycho...

• You cannot brush the past aside. It is there. February 12, 2010

  The past can never be put aside. There is a watching of the past as it goes by, but not occupation with the past. So the mind is free to observe and not to choose. Where there is choice in this mov...

• An ambitious man, whether he be a merchant, a politician, or a so-called saint is essentially a self-contradictory human being. February 24, 2010

  The experiences, the influences, the traditions by which we are bound may be conscious or unconscious. Most of us are probably unaware of all these things that bind us. Being in a state of contradi...

• Have the teachings attributed to the great teachers - Christ, Buddha, Hermes and others - any value for the attainment of the direct path to truth? March 10, 2010

  Question: Have the teachings attributed to the great teachers - Christ, Buddha, Hermes and others - any value for the attainment of the direct path to truth? Krishnamurti: If you will not misund...

• The energy which seeks truth creates its own discipline without any form of imposition; and as the river finds the sea, so that energy finds its own freedom. March 16, 2010

  Don't you notice how little energy most of the people around you have, including your parents and teachers? They are slowly dying, even when their bodies are not yet old. Why? Because they have ...

• 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...

• Is there an action which is not the result of effort, which is not the action of will? June 10, 2010

  From what source, from what center must action arise if it is not to be contradictory and confusing? The social reformer does not ask this question because he wants to act, to reform - and in the v...