Be as you are

We realize that life is ugly, painful, sorrowful; we want some kind of theory, some kind of speculation or satisfaction, some kind of doctrine, which will explain all this, and so we are caught in explanation, in words, in theories, and gradually, beliefs become deeply rooted and unshakable because behind those beliefs, behind those dogmas, there is the constant fear of the unknown. But we never..

The Dissolution of the Order of the Star 별의 교단 해산 The Order of the Star in the East was founded in 1911 to proclaim the coming of the World Teacher. Krishnamurti was made Head of the Order. On August 2, 1929, the opening day of the annual Star Camp at Ommen, Holland, Krishnamurti dissolved the Order before 3000 members. Below is the full text of the talk he gave on that occasion. 동방의 별 교단은 인류의 스..

Self-knowledge is the beginning of wisdom. In self-knowledge is the whole universe; it embraces allthe struggles of humanity. - J. Krishnamurti

If one allows a problem to endure for a month or a day, or even for a few minutes, it distorts the mind. So is it possible to meet a problem immediately without any distortion and be immediately, completely, free of it and not allow a memory, a scratch on the mind, to remain? - Freedom from the Known,93

So what is it that most of us are afraid of? There are superficial fears, such as the fear of losing a job, and so on, but to those fears we can generally adjust ourselves. If you lose your job, you will find some other way of making a living. The great fear is not for one`s social security: it lies much deeper than that. And I do not know if the mind is willing to look at itself so profoundly a..

Why has thought become so important in all our lives-thought being ideas, being the responseto the accumulated memories in the brain cells? Perhaps many of you have not even asked such a question before, or if you have you may have said, "it`s of very little importance- what is important is emotion." But I don`t see how you can separate the two. If thought does not give continuity to feeling, fe..

Demand is born out of duality: `I am unhappy and I must be happy`. In that very demand that I must be happy is unhappiness.when one makes an effort to be good, in that very goodness is its opposite, evil.Everything affirmed contains its own opposite, and effort to overcome strengthens that againstwhich it strives. when you demand an experience of truth or reality, that very demand is born out of..

Is thought the cause of all division, of all fragmentation in life? What is thought made of? What is the substance of those pieces of thread woven into that complex cloth we call the mind? Thought is matter, probably measurable. And it comes from the accumulated memory, which is matter, stored in the brain. Thought has its origin in the past, recent or remote. Can one be aware of thought as it a..

,what would happen? You are What you are.