krishnamurti

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  

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 […]

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 […]