Jiddu Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurtiwas a speaker and writer on matters that concerned humankind. In his early life he was groomed to be the new World Teacher but later rejected this mantle and withdrew from the organization behind it. His subject matter included psychological revolution, the nature of mind, meditation, inquiry, human relationships, and bringing about radical change in society. He constantly stressed the need for a revolution in the psyche of every human being and emphasised that such revolution cannot be brought...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth12 May 1895
CountryIndia
Jiddu Krishnamurti quotes about
The becoming still can never be the being still; only with the death of becoming is there being.
Meditation is like the breeze that comes in when you leave the window open; but if you deliberately keep it open, deliberately invite it to come, it will never appear.
After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.
Real freedom is not something to be acquired, it is the outcome of intelligence.
The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting joy. It must begin there, and bring order, and from there move endlessly. .. You must take a plunge into the water, not knowing how to swim. And the beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.
As long as you are held within a pattern you must create disorder in the world.
One must know oneself as one is, not as one wishes to be, which is merely an ideal and therefore fictitious, unreal; it is only that which is that can be transformed, not that which you wish to be.
A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions.
Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.
Society is the product of relationship, of yours and mine together. If we change in our relationship, society changes.
Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
But inwardly we are as corrupt as the person who sits in an office and plans war-because, we want to be somebody in the family, in a group, in society, in the nation.
Intelligence is not discernment and judgment or critical evaluation.
Meditation is the movement of love. It isn't the love of the one or of the many. It is like water that anyone can drink out of any jar.