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22/08/2026

"How Do We Lose Our Sensitivity?"

From the 1st Student Discussion, Rishi Valley, 1979.

There is fear as long as you want to be secure—secure in your marriage, secure in your job, in your position, in your re...
20/08/2026

There is fear as long as you want to be secure—secure in your marriage, secure in your job, in your position, in your responsibility, secure in your ideas, in your beliefs, secure in your relationship to the world or in your relationship to God.

The moment the mind seeks security or gratification in any form, at any level, there is bound to be fear; and what is important is to be aware of this process and understand it.

It is not a matter of so-called purity. The mind which is alert, watchful, which is free of fear, is an innocent mind; and it is only the innocent mind that can understand reality, truth or God.

—Krishnamurti
Think on These Things

18/08/2026

Mirror of Relationship
From the 3rd Student Discussion, Rishi Valley, 1983.

When you wander through woods with heavy shadows and dappled light and suddenly come upon an open space, a green meadow ...
18/08/2026

When you wander through woods with heavy shadows and dappled light and suddenly come upon an open space, a green meadow surrounded by stately trees, or a sparkling stream, you wonder why man has lost his relationship to nature and the beauty of the earth, the fallen leaf and the broken branch. If you have lost touch with nature, then you will inevitably lose relationship with another.

Nature is not just the flowers, the lovely green lawn or the flowing waters in your little garden, but the whole earth with all the things on it. We consider that nature exists for our use, for our convenience, and so lose communion with the earth.

Sensitivity to the fallen leaf and to the tall tree on a hill is far more important than all the passing of examinations and having a bright career. Those are not the whole of life. Life is like a vast river with a great volume of water without a beginning or an ending. We take out of that fast running current a bucket of water, and that confined water becomes our life. This is our conditioning and our everlasting sorrow.

— Krishnamurti
The Whole Movement of Life is Learning

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality, or whatever you like to call it, can never be answere...
16/08/2026

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality, or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosophers or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself.

Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self. To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.

— Krishnamurti
Freedom from the Known

I think one can live in this world anonymously, completely unknown, without being famous, ambitious, cruel. One can live...
13/08/2026

I think one can live in this world anonymously, completely unknown, without being famous, ambitious, cruel. One can live very happily when no importance is given to the self; and this also is part of right education.

The whole world is worshipping success. You hear stories of how the poor boy studied at night and eventually became a judge, or how he began by selling newspapers and ended up a multimillionaire. You are fed on the glorification of success. With achievement of great success there is also great sorrow; but most of us are caught up in the desire to achieve, and success is much more important to us than the understanding and dissolution of sorrow.

— Krishnamurti
Think on These Things

Under the trees it was very quiet; there were so many birds calling, singing, chattering, endlessly restless. The branch...
12/08/2026

Under the trees it was very quiet; there were so many birds calling, singing, chattering, endlessly restless. The branches were huge, beautifully shaped, polished, smooth and it was quite startling to see them and they had a sweep and a grace that brought tears to the eyes and made you wonder at the things of the earth. The earth had nothing more beautiful than the tree and when it died it would still be beautiful; every branch naked, open to the sky, bleached by the sun and there would be birds resting upon its nakedness.

There would be shelter for owls, there in that deep hollow, and the bright, screeching parrots would nest high up in the hole of that branch; woodpeckers would come, with their red-crested feathers sticking straight out of their heads, to drive in a few holes; of course there would be those striped squirrels, racing about the branches, ever complaining about something and always curious; right on the top-most branch, there would be a white and red eagle surveying the land with dignity and alone.

There would be many ants, red and black, scurrying up the tree and others racing down and their bite would be quite painful. But now the tree was alive, marvellous, and there was plenty of shade and the blazing sun never touched you; you could sit there by the hour and see and listen to everything that was alive and dead, outside and inside.

— Krishnamurti's Notebook

"Do you know what it means to learn? When you are really learning, you are learning throughout your life, and there is n...
11/08/2026

"Do you know what it means to learn? When you are really learning, you are learning throughout your life, and there is no one special teacher to learn from. Then everything teaches you—a dead leaf, a bird in flight, a smell, a tear, the rich and the poor, those who are crying, the smile of a woman, the haughtiness of a man.

You learn from everything; therefore, there is no guide, no philosopher, no guru. Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning."

— Krishnamurti
Think on These Things

"When we see a marvellous mountain, snowcapped against the blue sky and the deep-shadowed valleys, that great grandeur a...
09/08/2026

"When we see a marvellous mountain, snowcapped against the blue sky and the deep-shadowed valleys, that great grandeur and majesty absorb us completely. For a moment, we are utterly silent because its majesty takes us over—we forget ourselves. Beauty is where you are not. The essence of beauty is the absence of the self. The essence of meditation is to enquire into the abnegation of the self."

— Krishnamurti
4th Public Talk, New Delhi, 1981

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