#J. Krishnamurti

[petitjeanofficial]

Thought doesn’t exist where Love is. - J. Krishnamurti

[thepursuitofunderstanding]

As long as the mind is seeking to fill itself it will always be empty.

J. Krishnamurti

[esmacan]

Günaydın gününüz sanatla renklensin 70/ 70: yağlı boya. ( Resim Şehriban )

[edwordsmyth]

"Is society healthy, that an individual should return to it? Has not society itself helped to make the individual unhealthy? Of course, the unhealthy must be made healthy, that goes without saying; but why should the individual adjust himself to an unhealthy society? If he is healthy, he will not be a part of it. Without first questioning the health of society, what is the good of helping misfits to conform to society? I don't think society is healthy; it is run by and for frustrated, power-seeking, superstitious people. It is always in a state of convulsion. To help the individual to fit into a society which is ever at war with itself—is this what psychologists and analysts are supposed to do? Is the individual to be healed only in order to kill or be killed? If one is not killed, or driven insane, then must one only fit into the structure of hate, envy, ambition, and superstition?" -J. Krishnamurti

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

“For centuries we have been spoon-fed by our teachers, by our authorities, by our books, our saints. We say, 'Tell me all about it - what lies beyond the hills and the mountains and the earth?' and we are satisfied with their descriptions, which means that we live on words and our life is shallow and empty. We are secondhand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves; nothing original, pristine, clear. Throughout theological history we have been assured by religious leaders that if we perform certain rituals, repeat certain prayers or mantras, conform to certain patterns, suppress our desires, control our thoughts, sublimate our passions, limit our appetites and refrain from sexual indulgence, we shall, after sufficient torture of the mind and body, find something beyond this little life. And that is what millions of so-called religious people have done through the ages, either in isolation, going off into the desert or into the mountains or a cave or wandering from village to village with a begging bowl, or, in a group, joining a monastery, forcing their minds to conform to an established pattern. But a tortured mind, a broken mind, a mind which wants to escape from all turmoil, which has denied the outer world and been made dull through discipline and conformity - such a mind, however long it seeks, will find only according to its own distortion.” ~ J Krishnamurti

[Ian Sanders]

[nicksalius]

Meditare e meditazione … - Jiddu Krishnamurti

La meditazione è uno stato di consapevolezza che va oltre il pensiero e le sue limitazioni. Non è una pratica meccanica o una fuga dalla realtà, ma una comprensione profonda della vita e delle sue relazioni. In questi appunti, tratti da frammenti dell’opera di Jiddu Krishnamurti, uno dei più grandi maestri spirituali del XX secolo, si esplorano le caratteristiche e gli effetti della meditazione…

[paarijaata]

It is only when there is the fragmentation of thought that there is travail.

J. Krishnamurti, The Network of Thought

[solace-philosophy]

To avoid all disturbance of things as they are is to have the harmony of the graveyard, which is well-kept and orderly, but full of buried putrefaction.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti, Commentaries on Living 3

[the-mystic-garden]

My key notes:

"And the mind that is seeking security can never find it."

"Life is not static..."

"....All life is movement"

"To be aware of every thought, to know from what source it springs and what is its intention-that is meditation."

Always interesting to read little tidbits and gain some perspective 😌

Not being anything is the beginning of freedom. So if you are capable of feeling, of going into this, you will find, as you become aware, that you are not free, that you are bound to very many different things, and that at the same time the mind hopes to be free. And you can see that the two are contradictory. So the mind has to investigate why it clings to anything. All this implies hard work. It is much more arduous than going to an office, than any physical labor, than all the sciences put together. Because the humble, intelligent mind is concerned with itself without being self-centered; therefore, it has to be extraordinarily alert, aware, and that means real hard work every day, every hour, every minute... This demands insistent work because freedom does not come easily. Everything impedes—your wife, your husband, your son, your neighbor, your Gods, your religions, your tradition. All these impede you, but you have created them because you want security. And the mind that is seeking security can never find it. If you have watched a little in the world, you know there is no such thing as security. The wife dies, the husband dies, the son runs away—something happens. Life is not static, though we would like to make it so. No relationship is static because all life is movement. That is a thing to be grasped, the truth to be seen, felt, not something to be argued about. Then you will see, as you begin to investigate, that it is really a process of meditation. But do not be mesmerized by that word. To be aware of every thought, to know from what source it springs and what is its intention—that is meditation. And to know the whole content of one thought reveals the whole process of the mind.⁠

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J. Krishnamurti⁠

The Book of Life

[kntxt]

> am reading Krishnamurti's book

> came across this specific quote online the other day

> thought about this quote in the context of another idea a few days ago (will post it some time soon)

> opened up the book today and this is literally the second sentence I read

> Harmony is synchronicity?

[philosophors]

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

[rini-descartes]

“Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurthy

[edwordsmyth]

"Modern existence encourages superficial activity and distraction, which is a form of self-defense." -J. Krishnamurti

“Protection against stimuli is an almost more important function for the living organism than reception of stimuli.”

Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle

[esmacan]

Kitaplar küçük dünyama yeni ufuklar bırakan pencere gibidirler 🤗Günaydın yeni gün

[cowboy]

[chryso-poeia]

Chances are (unless you’ve conscious intent to harm the person), that if they dislike you, they want you to be ’as well adjusted’ to a profoundly sick society as they are, so they don’t have to be triggered by the fact that you’re not, and consequently confronted by their own reflection through you. As it is no measure of health to be well adjusted to disorder, dysfunction or depravity.