JOURNEY WITHOUT GOAL

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Abundance Is The Very Nature Of Existence

Just look at existence and its abundance. What is the need of so many flowers in the world? Just roses would have been enough. But existence is abundant millions and millions of flowers, millions of birds, millions of animals—everything in abundance.

Nature is not ascetic, it is dancing everywhere in the ocean, in the trees. It is singing everywhere in the wind passing through the pine trees, in the birds...

What is the need of millions of solar systems, of each solar system having millions of stars? There seems to be no need, except that abundance is the very nature of existence; that richness is the very core; that existence does not believe in poverty.

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Belief Is Not Reality

Belief is not reality. You may believe in God, but your belief has no more reality than that of the man who does not believe in God. Your belief is the result of your background, of your religion, of your fears, and the nonbelief of the communist and others is equally the result of their conditioning. To find out what is true, the mind must be free from belief and nonbelief. I know you smile and agree, but you will still go on believing because it is so much more convenient, so much more respectable and safe. If you did not believe, you might lose your job, you might suddenly find that you are nobody. It is being free of belief that matters, not your smiling and agreeing in this room. J. Krishnamurti Collected Works, Vol. VIII

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The Mind Frees Itself

You see, when the mind is totally aware of its conditioning, there is only the mind; there is no “you” separate from the mind. But, when the mind is only partially aware of its conditioning, it divides itself, it dislikes its conditioning or says it is a good thing; and, as long as there is condemnation, judgment, or comparison, there is incomplete understanding of conditioning, and therefore, the perpetuation of that conditioning. Whereas, if the mind is aware of its conditioning without condemning or judging, but merely watching it, then there is a total perception, and you will find, if you so perceive it, that the mind frees itself from that conditioning. J. Krishnamurti Collected Works, Vol. VIII

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Spirituality

The whole of the human past has been praising poverty and making it equal to spirituality, which is absolute nonsense.

Spirituality is the greatest richness that can happen to a man. It contains all other richnesses. It is not against any other richness, it is simply against all kinds of poverty.

On the one hand people will respect poverty, and on the other hand they will say, “Serve the poor.” Strange! If poverty is so spiritual then the most spiritual thing will be to make every rich man, poor. Help the rich man to be poor, so he can become spiritual. Why help the poor? Do you want to destroy his spirituality?

To live in abundance is the only spiritual thing in the world.

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We Are Part Of One Existence

We are part of one existence. Whomsoever you are hurting, you are hurting yourself in the long run. Today you may not realize it, but one day when you become more aware; then you will say, “My God! This wound was inflicted by me upon myself.” You had hurt somebody else thinking that people are different.

Nobody is different. This whole existence is one, cosmic unity. Out of this understanding comes non-violence.

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To Find The Happiness Of A Resting Place

Our life is a series of demands for comfort, for security, for position, for fulfilment, for happiness, for recognition, and we also have rare moments of wanting to find out what is truth, what is God. So God or truth becomes synonymous with our satisfaction. We want to be gratified; therefore truth becomes the end of all search, of all struggle, and God becomes the ultimate resting place. We move from one pattern to another, from one cage to another, from one philosophy or society to another, hoping to find happiness, not only happiness in relationship with people, but also the happiness of a resting place where the mind will never be disturbed, where the mind will cease to be tortured by its own discontent. We may put it in different words, we may use different philosophical jargons, but that is what we all want—a place where the mind can rest, where the mind is not tortured by its own activities, where there is no sorrow.

J. Krishnamurti Collected Works, Vol. VIII

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Freedom Cannot Be Given

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 state of being conditioned, when you know you are held by society, by culture, by tradition, held by whatever you have been told. Freedom is order—it is never disorder—and one must have freedom, completely, both outwardly and inwardly; without freedom there is no clarity; without freedom you can't love; without freedom you can't find truth; without freedom you can't go beyond the limitation of the mind. You must demand it with all your being. When you so demand it, you will find out for yourself what order is—and order is not the following of a pattern, a design; it is not the outcome of habit.

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Aloneness Is Essential

Man has not learned yet to know the beauties of aloneness. He is always hankering for some relationship, to be with someone, with a friend, with a father, with a wife, with a husband, with a child…with someone.

He has created societies, he has created clubs—the Lion’s club, the Rotary club. He has created parties; political, ideological. He has created religions, churches. But the basic need of all is to forget somehow that you are alone. Being associated with so many crowds, you are trying to forget something which in darkness suddenly is remembered that you were born alone, that you will die alone, that whatever you do, you live alone.

Aloneness is something so essential to your being, there is no way to avoid it.

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What Is The True Function Of An Educator?

What is the true function of an educator? What is education? Why are we educated? Are we educated at all? Because you pass a few examinations, have a job, competing, struggling, brutalizing ambition, is that education? What is an educator? Is he one who prepares the student for a job, merely for a job, for technical achievement in order to earn a livelihood? That is all we know at present. There are vast schools, universities where you prepare the youth, boy or girl, to have a job, to have technical knowledge so that he or she can have a livelihood. Is that alone the function of a true educator? There must be something more than that, because it is too mechanical. So you say that the educator must be an example. You agree with that? You will have to follow the truth of the matter, to go into it. When you go into it you will see the truth of it, namely, no example is necessary.

J. Krishnamurti Collected Works, Volume VIII

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Anger

When you are angry, you are punishing yourself. You are burning, you are destroying your heart and its higher qualities and you are full of hate.

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Religious Life

Just do whatsoever is pleasant—pleasant to you and pleasant to your surroundings. Just do something which brings a song to you and creates a rhythm of celebration around you.

This life I call a religious life.

It has no principles, it has no disciplines, it has no laws. It has only one, single approach—and that is, live intelligently.

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When You Are Aware That You Are Transformed, You Are Not

A man who says, "I know" is the most destructive human being because he really does not know. What does he know? So, when you are conscious you are transformed, when you are aware that you are transformed, you are not.

J. Krishnamurti Collected Works, Vol. VIII

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The Seed Of Revolution Has Already Been Planted

Change comes into being when there is no fear, when there is neither the experiencer nor the experience; it is only then that there is the revolution which is beyond time. But that cannot be as long as I am trying to change the “I,” as long as I am trying to change what is into something else. I am the result of all the social and the spiritual compulsions, persuasions, and all the conditioning based on acquisitiveness—my thinking is based on that. To be free from that conditioning, from that acquisitiveness, I say to myself, “I must not be acquisitive; I must practice non acquisitiveness.” But such action is still within the field of time, it is still the activity of the mind. Just see that. Don't say, “How am I to get to that state when I am non-acquisitive?” That is not important. It is not important to be non-acquisitive; what is important is to understand that the mind which is trying to get away from one state to another is still functioning within the field of time, and therefore there is no revolution, there is no change. If you can really understand this, then the seed of that radical revolution has already been planted and that will operate: you have not a thing to do.

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Obedience

Obedience has a simplicity; disobedience needs a little higher order of intelligence. Any idiot can be obedient. In fact only idiots can be obedient.

The person of intelligence is bound to ask, “Why? Why am I supposed to do this? And unless I know the reasons and the consequences of it, I am not going to be involved in it.” Then he is becoming responsible.

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When The Mind Is Intent On Discovering

As one becomes aware at the conscious level, one also begins to discover the envy, the struggles, the desires, the motives, the anxieties that lie at the deeper levels of consciousness. When the mind is intent on discovering the whole process of itself, then every incident, every reaction becomes a means of discovery, of knowing oneself. That requires patient watchfulness—which is not the watchfulness of a mind that is constantly struggling, that is learning how to be watchful. Then you will see that the sleeping hours are as important as the waking hours, because life then is a total process. As long as you do not know yourself, fear will continue and all the illusions that the self creates will flourish. Self-knowledge, then, is not a process to be read about or speculated upon: it must be discovered by each one from moment to moment, so that the mind becomes extraordinarily alert. In that alertness there is a certain quiescence, a passive awareness in which there is no desire to be or not to be, and in which there is an astonishing sense of freedom. It may be only for a minute, for a second—that is enough. That freedom is not of memory; it is a living thing, but the mind, having tasted it, reduces it to a memory and then wants more of it. To be aware of this total process is possible only through self-knowledge, and self-knowledge comes into being from moment to moment as we watch our speech, our gestures, the way we talk, and the hidden motives that are suddenly revealed. Then only is it possible to be free from fear. As long as there is fear, there is no love. Fear darkens our being and that fear cannot be washed away by any prayer, by any ideal or activity. The cause of fear is the “me,” the “me” which is so complex in its desires, wants, pursuits. The mind has to understand that whole process, and the understanding of it comes only when there is watchfulness without choice.

J. Krishnamurti Collected Works, Vol. VII

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A Rascal Can Be A Saint

It is absolutely impossible for a saint to be a rascal but a rascal can be a saint.

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To Be Individual Means Complete Freedom From All Fear

Surely, as long as the mind is caught in authority, it is not an individual at all. And, to find out what is real, what is God, what is truth, to discover that which is nameless, must one not be completely individual? To be individual means complete freedom from all fear, from all compulsion, from the desire to find a right way of living. That is what we all want, that is the cry in our hearts—to find a right way of action, a right way of conduct, a right method to live happily, to have peace. And, does not that very cry create authority, the authority of a book, of a person, of an idea? We want to be told what to do, how to live, in what manner to overcome the innumerable problems that we have. And, with that desire in our minds and in our hearts, we pursue those who can give us what we are seeking, those who we think will lead us to reality, to happiness, to God. Now, can the mind be free of this whole process and live simply from day to day, understanding life as it arises from moment to moment? After all, that is the timeless, the nameless eternity, when the mind itself is the unknown. At present, the mind is the known; it is the result of time, of yesterday, of accumulated knowledge, experiences, and beliefs. And such a mind can never know the unknown. This is not some vague form of mysticism. Surely, if I want to know something that has never been experienced before, that is not of time, that cannot be put into the frame of authority, my mind must be totally free from the past, which means that it must be free from fear. The mind can never be free of fear as long as it is making an effort to get away from fear. All that it can do is to be aware that it is frightened and be completely passive, without any choice. Then you will see that the mind becomes extraordinarily quiet and, in that quietness, the problem of fear can be resolved. In that stillness of mind, authority has wholly vanished. What need have you of authority when, from moment to moment, you are seeing what is true?

J. Krishnamurti Collected Works, Vol. VII