J Krishnamurti

Truth is a pathless land - J Krishnamurti

[J Krishnamurti @pathless_land]

Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.

[J Krishnamurti @pathless_land]

In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man, and in it is all the becoming, the battle of life, the agony and fear. Meditation is the ending of this space, the ending of the me.

[J Krishnamurti @pathless_land]

Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself?

[J Krishnamurti @pathless_land]

If you leave the pool you have dug for yourself and go out into the river of life then life has an astonishing way of taking care of you, because then there is no taking care on your part.

[J Krishnamurti @pathless_land]

The mind sees its own description and gets caught in it and thinks it sees the fact whereas in reality it is caught up in its own movement. So where are we now, when there is only what is and not the description?

[J Krishnamurti @pathless_land]

The fact and the image are two different things: the pursuit of the image leads to every form of conflict, illusion and hypocrisy whereas the understanding of what is, which is the only thing we really have, leads to quite a different state of mind.

[J Krishnamurti @pathless_land]

Is the observer different from the thing he observes? If the observer is different from the thing he observes, then there will always be division, separation, and therefore conflict. To go beyond this cleavage we must understand what the observer is.

[J Krishnamurti @pathless_land]

Is there a joy that is not dependent on anything? Is there a light that is not lit by another?

[J Krishnamurti @pathless_land]

The desire to be superior is not different from being inferior, so the superior is the inferior. The saint is the sinner.

[J Krishnamurti @pathless_land]

You can't see what to do, you can see only what not to do. The total negation of that road is the new beginning, the other road. This other road is not on the map, nor can it ever be put on any map. Every map is a map of the wrong road, the old road.

[J Krishnamurti @pathless_land]

The mind sees its own description and gets caught in it and thinks it sees the fact whereas in reality it is caught up in its own movement. So where are we now, when there is only what is and not the description?

[J Krishnamurti @pathless_land]

Contradictory drives bring about conflict; one will opposing another form of desire is conflict. Memory of what has been, opposed to what is, is conflict; and this is time. Becoming, achieving, is conflict, and this is time.

[J Krishnamurti @pathless_land]

The fact and the image are two different things: the pursuit of the image leads to every form of conflict, illusion and hypocrisy whereas the understanding of what is, which is the only thing we really have, leads to quite a different state of mind.

[J Krishnamurti @pathless_land]

Conflict prevents perception. The understanding of what is, is the only important thing, not the formulating of what should be. This division between what is and what should be is the origin of conflict. And the interval between idea and action also breeds conflict.

[J Krishnamurti @pathless_land]

It is important to know how to listen, because if we know how to listen truly, something extraordinary happens to us; because then without any bias, without any prejudice, we can go to the root of the matter immediately.

[J Krishnamurti @pathless_land]

Compassion is not hard to come by when the heart is not filled with the cunning things of the mind.

[J Krishnamurti @pathless_land]

The fact and the image are two different things: the pursuit of the image leads to every form of conflict, illusion and hypocrisy whereas the understanding of what is, which is the only thing we really have, leads to quite a different state of mind.

[J Krishnamurti @pathless_land]

This intelligence is sacred and therefore must be touched with clean hands, not exploited for trivial little games. Your little habit is utterly unimportant. If intelligence is there the habit is trivial; if intelligence is not there, then the wheel of habit is all you have got.

[J Krishnamurti @pathless_land]

The silence becomes aware of itself - in this there is no division between an observer and an observed. That is the main point. The silence does not use itself to discover something beyond itself. There is only that silence. Now see what happens.

[J Krishnamurti @pathless_land]

Change is possible only when denying the known; action then is not according to a pattern but out of an intelligence that is constantly renewing itself.