Kategori: Jiddu Krishnamurti

What is this sense of loneliness? Is it the result of our daily life which is so self-centred, so egocentric, so selfish, which is all the time isolating, building a wall around oneself? That brings about a quality or feeling of utter loneliness, utter despair in that loneliness. If you do not escape from it and you see the absurdity of escaping, the fact that running away from it is part of that loneliness, then you have the energy to face loneliness. We are wasting that energy through verbal or actual escape, so when you realise the absurdity, the silliness of it, then you are facing loneliness.

But to go through that loneliness without escaping, without verbalizing, which is to be with it completely, requires a great deal of energy.
You need energy to live with something ugly and not let it corrupt you, just as you need energy to live with something beautiful and not get used to it. That uncontaminated energy is the aloneness to which you must come; and out of that negation, out of that total emptiness, there is creation.

Surely, all creation takes place in emptiness, not when your mind is full. Death has meaning only when you die to all your vanities, your superficialities, to all your innumerable remembrances.
Then there is something which is beyond time, something to which you cannot come if you have fear, if you cling to beliefs, if you are caught in sorrow.

– Krishnamurti

The greater the outward show, the greater the inward poverty; but freedom from this poverty is not the loincloth. The cause of this inward emptiness is the desire to become; and, do what you will, this emptiness can never be filled.

– Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditate alone. Get lost. And don’t try to remember where you have been. If you try to remember it then it will be something that is dead. And if you hold on to the memory of it then you will never be alone again. So meditate in that endless solitude, in the beauty of that love, in that innocency, in the new; then there is the bliss that is imperishable.

— Krishnamurti

Please listen to this; do not just listen to the mere words. As I talk, if you have observed your own minds, you will have come to that state of loneliness. It is with you now. This is not hypnosis because I suggest it; but actually if you have followed the workings of your own mind, you will have come to that state of loneliness; to be stripped of everything, every pretence, every pride, every virtue, every action. Can the mind live with that? Can the mind stay with it without any form of condemnation? Can it look at it without interfering – not as the observer looking at it? Is not then the mind itself that state? Do you follow?

– Jiddu Krishnamurti

Krishnamurti hade ett blixtrande skarpt intellekt. Han menade att för att nå självkännedom så krävs relationer. Detta är spegeln, allt du är framstår i mötet.

Men se också vad det kan mynna ut i. Vi ska inte stanna. Fortsätt till sann självkännedom: ”Negating without resistance this content of consciousness is the beauty and compassion intelligence.”

Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. — Krishnamurti

Context: Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. Even in a monastery, you are related to the society which has made the monastery as an escape, or closed the doors to freedom. The movement of behaviour is the sure guide to yourself; it is the mirror of your consciousness. This mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and the sorrow. Poverty lies in the running away from this, either in its sublimations or in its identities. Negating without resistance this content of consciousness is the beauty and compassion intelligence.

From The Beauty of Life: Krishnamurti’s Journal