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Stream of Life vs Stream of Thought

This graphic is an imperfect representation of the words of Krishnamurti, Tolle, and Johan Lem. The central idea is the same one repeated by K for his entire life, that the ‘now’ escapes us as our stream of thought runs away from the now into the past or future. By not seeing completely what is before us, we accumulate incomplete memories which condition us even more. K’s message was one of direct observation… without will or motive… and without thought which has become a ‘distraction’. Of course, until one is capable of this, it is only conjecture and speculation. Some people like to draw diagrams in order to understand it. There are three pages in this PDF.  Click here to open/download this PDF  
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68 Years Ago K Warns of Ideation

Yesterday’s words intended for today’s problems. Taken verbatim and with respect from ‘The First and Last Freedom‘ Jiddu Krishnamurti 1953 QUESTION 1: ON THE PRESENT CRISIS Question: You say the present crisis is without precedent. In what way is it exceptional? Krishnamurti: Obviously the present crisis throughout the world is exceptional, without precedent. There have been crises of varying types at different periods throughout history, social, national, political. Crises come and go; economic recessions, depressions, come, get modified, and continue in a different form. We know that; we are familiar with that process. Surely the present crisis is different, is it not? It is different first because we are dealing not with money nor with tangible things but with ideas. The crisis is exceptional because it is in the field of ideation. We are quarrelling with ideas, we are justifying murder; everywhere in the world we are justifying murder as a means to a righteous end, which in itself is unprecedented. Before, evil was recognized to be evil, murder was recognized to be murder, but now murder is a means to achieve a noble result. Murder, whether of one person or of a group of people, is justified, because the murderer, or the group that the murderer represents, justifies it as a means of achieving a result which will be beneficial to man. That is we sacrifice the present for the future – and it does not matter what means we employ as long as our declared purpose is to […]
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Medieval Mob Rule, 2021

Medieval Mob Rule, 2021 While this website is primarily focused on spiritual issues, it would be negligent not to observe the current trends overwhelming  western cultures. This statement by comedian ‘Mr. Bean’ (Rowan Atkinson) aptly summarizes the dangers of the dystopian future that we seem to have agreed to lower ourselves to. ACIM would tell us to forgive… to look beyond. Krishnamurti would likely tell us to simply observe ‘what is’ without try to escape from it. Other systems may advise something else. But first it is prudent to be aware of what is happening. Rowan Atkinson here does a courageous job here of bringing it to our attention. “You don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone.”   Please, read or re-read George Orwell’s ‘1984’. While its still permitted.
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The Great Reset: Point Blank

This is an excellent, and extremely concerning, expose of what the world’s elites have planned for us, with James Corbett and Del Bigtree providing an introduction to this frightening topic for persons new to the topic. If you are like most, your mind will refuse to believe this information and probably categorize it as ‘conspiracy theory’. This mental delaying maneuver however is well covered by both speakers. A highly recommended interview for all watch. Please pass the link on while we are still allowed to.
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Direct Observation

Krishnamurti’s statement ‘the observer is the observed’ baffled me for many years, and still I have not fully accepted it, or come to terms with its implications. Have you? But I think what he meant and was describing, and that we are terrified to admit, is that ‘we are the world, and the world is us’. Therefore, there is nothing we can change about it. The observer, which is our mind, is a collection of the past observations we have made, the conditionings which are now largely unconscious in us. I found this video below from Saanen 1981 to be refreshingly direct, in which he makes several statements of what actually is the ‘truth’. Like all true spiritual teachings, I believe the truth is simple, and what K is describing is so, however our minds fight to find the complexity in it, and failing to do so, abandon it as below our intellect. To look directly at what K is saying seems to me to take great courage, as the implications of of doing so are to question the foundation which our mind (since there is only one) is made of and how it operates. To see that it is not capable of overcoming its problems, is to begin to distance from it. I believe that to distance ourselves from the mind that we have created, is likely the greatest fear the human being is capable of. A Course in Miracles alludes to this fear in many places, but advises […]
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Applying Krishnamurti’s Wisdom

2004 Letter from Johan Lem Issue No. 24, 2004-2005 of the Krishnamurti International Link magazine, contained the letter below from Johan Lem. I don’t know who Mr. Lem is, but this letter struck me as the most common-sense approach to applying K’s work that I have ever seen. To me, this letter is worth decades of reading and studying, if it is applied. I suspect however, that until one has done decades of reading and studying, letters like this mean nothing. I hope it can save you more time than it saved me! Understanding, or Living the Teachings? After having read a few articles in different issues of The Link, I have the impression that the goal of many authors is to understand the teachings, and their approach is often very intellectual and complicated. My approach is simple. Many years ago I used the teachings to understand myself. This understanding is not intellectual, but direct; it occurs through seeing what is happening one’s psyche when it happens. This seeing comes through a state of awareness when inner and outer senses are open, alert, interested to see or experience what is taking place there and then, no matter whether it is pleasant or unpleasant. From that moment on, if one is alert in daily life, the teachings are no longer so important: ‘what is’ has taken over the teaching job. As in this awareness thought has automatically calmed down, such a state cannot be found through any activity of thought. There […]
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Krishnamurti – The Observer is the Observed

‘The Observer is the Observed’. I struggled for years to understand what Krishnamurti meant by this cryptic statement that he repeated often. This is what I think he meant, although I may be missing the essence of it. We are the world, and the world is us, we are not different from what we are ‘seeing’, if we are in fact seeing it at all. I believe his message was to see ‘what is’, not ‘what should be’. When we see ugliness in ourselves our minds immediately escape into ‘what should be…’, what I will do it improve myself… but this (almost instantaneous are largely unconscious) escape prevents us from seeing clearly in the present moment, rather we are escaping into the past or future. It was part of Krishnamurti’s message that only by seeing what is, what actually is, can we can begin to make progress in understanding ourselves, which is the first step in real change. This video, and other incredibly well produced videos on Krishnamurti, are available through the Krishnamurti Foundation of America ©: https://theimmeasurable.org/