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Dependency indicates no relationship – I’m using you for my comfort or my satisfaction, so I must possess you. Is that r...
10/11/2026

Dependency indicates no relationship – I’m using you for my comfort or my satisfaction, so I must possess you. Is that relationship?⁠
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J. Krishnamurti⁠
From Seminar 3, Ojai, 26 March 1979⁠
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10/10/2026

Choiceless Awareness. | Krishnamurti

There are these three things which we must understand: concentration, choiceless awareness, and attention. Concentration implies resistance – concentration on a particular thing, on the page you are reading, or on the phrase you are trying to understand: to concentrate, to put all your energy in a particular direction. That is one thing. I needn’t enlarge on that, need I? In that concentration there is resistance and therefore there is effort and division. I want to concentrate, thought goes off on something else, I bring it back. The fight. And if you love something you concentrate very easily. All that is implied in the word ‘to concentrate’, to put your mind on a particular object, or a particular picture, a particular action. That is one thing. Choiceless awareness implies to be aware both objectively, outside, and inwardly, without any choice. Just to be aware of the colours, of the tent, of the trees, the mountains, nature – just to be aware. Not choose, say, ‘I like this’, ‘I don’t like that’ or ‘I want this’, ‘I don’t want that’. Right? To observe without the observer. The observer is the past, which is conditioned, therefore he is always looking from that conditioned point of view, therefore there is like and dislike, my race, your race, my god, your god, all the rest of it. We are saying to be aware implies to observe the whole environment around you, the mountains, the trees, the ugly walls, the towns, aware, look at it. And in that observation there is no decision, no will, no choice. Get it? You understand it? And attention – concentration, choiceless awareness and attention. In attending there is no center. Right? You are completely attending. Are you now – if I may ask – attending to what is being said? If you are completely, totally attending there is no you who is attending – is there? You understand? If you are listening completely with your heart and with your blood, everything, there is no me attending. Right? There is no me which limits that attention. Then attention is limitless. Right? Therefore attention then has complete space."

J. Krishnamurti
Public Talk 7, Saanen, 1977

To understand the innumerable problems that each one of us has, is it not essential that there be self-knowledge? And th...
10/09/2026

To understand the innumerable problems that each one of us has, is it not essential that there be self-knowledge? And that is one of the most difficult things, self-awareness—which does not mean an isolation, a withdrawal. Obviously, to know oneself is essential; but to know oneself does not imply a withdrawal from relationship. And it would be a mistake, surely, to think that one can know oneself significantly, completely, fully, through isolation, through exclusion, or by going to some psychologist, or to some priest; or that one can learn self-knowledge through a book. Self-knowledge is obviously a process, not an end in itself; and to know oneself, one must be aware of oneself in action, which is relationship. You discover yourself, not in isolation, not in withdrawal, but in relationship—in relationship to society, to your wife, your husband, your brother, to man; but to discover how you react, what your responses are, requires an extraordinary alertness of mind, a keenness of perception.⁠
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J. Krishnamurti⁠
The Book of Life⁠
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10/08/2026

You Are the History of Mankind. | Krishnamurti

Mankind is me. The ‘me’ is the history of mankind, the book of mankind. If I know how to read it... I don’t depend on anybody. So, can I, without distortion, without prejudice, without choice, be aware of the content of this book, which is me? To read it very carefully, never... distorting it, requires a great deal of attention, a great deal of energy, intensity, immediacy. And we are not willing to do all that because... we think that is too tiresome. “Tell me quickly what to do and I will do it.” Or I may not do it. Generally, I may not do it. And I personally think that... this psychological guidance by another, whether it is the religious guidance, or the guidance of the psychologist, is totally wrong. Because then you are making humanity into children, who have to be guided, told, encouraged. We are all grown up human beings after...5 or 10 million years.

J. Krishnamurti
Excerpt from "The challenge of change".

Where there is separation there must be conflict; that is inevitable. Joy is not yours. You cannot cultivate it, whereas...
10/08/2026

Where there is separation there must be conflict; that is inevitable. Joy is not yours. You cannot cultivate it, whereas you can cultivate pleasure. You cannot run after joy; it is there when you are not there. You and joy cannot exist together. In joy there is no separation.⁠
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J. Krishnamurti⁠
Can The Mind Be Quiet? ⁠
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10/06/2026

Is the Savior Just an Image? | Krishnamurti

K: The Savior is the result of thought. And go to India, it is exactly the same thing. Only the the name changes, the shape of the image changes, the symbol changes, but it's the same actions of thought. So thought is a material process.

KB: Yes.

K: So, there is nothing sacred which thought has created.

KB: This then is a conundrum because all of our established methods of action seem to be retrograde. So how does one achieve right action? Right relationship. How do you do it?

K: That's the real question. When you use the word relationship, what does that mean? To be in contact with something.

KB: It is what we are experiencing now.

K: Now if you have an image about me, and if I have an image about you, where is the contact?

KB: There's no contact because we're dealing with images. Yes.

K: Most of our relationship, whether intimate, or not, is based on images.

J. Krishnamurti
From an interview with Keith Berwick, Los Angeles, 1983

You have heard all this, you have heard the ending of fear, the ending of sorrow, beauty and love, but the hearing is on...
10/06/2026

You have heard all this, you have heard the ending of fear, the ending of sorrow, beauty and love, but the hearing is one thing and action is another. You hear all these things which are true, logical, sane, rational, but you won't act according to that. You will go home and begin all over again, your worries, your conflicts, your miseries. So one asks what is the point of it all? What is the point of listening to this speaker and not living it? In the listening and not doing is the wastage of your life. If you listen to something that is true and not act, you are wasting your life. And life is much too precious. It is the only thing that we have. And we have also lost touch with nature, which means we have lost touch with ourselves, which is part of nature. You don't love trees, the birds, the waters and the mountain. You are destroying the earth and we are destroying each other. And all that is such a waste of life. When one realises all this, not merely intellectually or verbally, then one lives a religious life. Not put on a loin cloth or go round begging, or join a monastery - that is not a religious life. A religious life begins when there is no conflict, when there is this sense of love, when you can love another, your wife or your husband, but that love is shared by all human beings, it is not given to one person and therefore restricted. So there is, if you give your heart and mind, brain, there is something that is beyond all time. And there is a benediction of that, not in temples, not in churches, not in mosques. That benediction is where you are.⁠
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J. Krishnamurti⁠
Public Talk 4 Bombay (Mumbai), India - 10 February 1985⁠
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10/05/2026

The Totality of Consciousness | Krishnamurti
Beyond Myth & Tradition 5 – Choiceless Awareness

There is a reality - please listen, sirs - there is a reality which, coming upon the mind, transforms it. You don't have...
10/02/2026

There is a reality - please listen, sirs - there is a reality which, coming upon the mind, transforms it. You don't have to do a thing. It operates, it functions, it has a being of its own; but the mind must feel it, must know it and not speculate, not have all kinds of ideas about it. A mind that is seeking it will never find it, but there is that state, unquestionably. In saying this I am not speculating, nor am I stating it as an experience of yesterday. It is so. There is that state, and if you have it, you will find everything is possible because that is creation, that is love, that is compassion. But you cannot come to it through any means, through any book, through any guru or organization. Do please realize that you cannot come to it through any means. No meditation will lead you to it. When you realize that no sanctions, no pattern of behavior, no guru, no book, no organization, no authority can lead you to that state, you have already got it. Then you will find that the mind is merely an instrument of that creation. And it is that creation operating through the mind that will bring about a totally different world - not the planned world of the politician or the religio-social reformer - because that creation is its own reality, its own eternity.⁠
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J. Krishnamurti⁠
Madras 4th Public Talk 23rd December 1956⁠
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