Emptiness

 Dialogue 3 Malibu, California, USA January 27, 1972 Q: Are the various scriptures of India and the Middle East similar to or in contradiction to your teaching? https://jkrishnamurti.org/content/mind-not-empty-can-never-find-truth Can thought end right through one's consciousness? Must thought not end for something new to be observed? How does the mind look at itself? Does it look as an observer different from the observed, or without the observer and therefore there is only the observed? Can consciousness empty itself of its content? What has happened to the mind that has discarded the weight of becoming, of tradition, myth, gurus and authority? A mind that has no space can never find truth. A mind that is not empty can never find truth. Remaining with the fact of hurt. When you are nothing, you love. There is a movement in silence that has no beginning and no end, a movement that is always new. Inquiry is different from effort, from seeking, from achievement. https://www.awakin.o

https://jkrishnamurti.org/content/chapter-8 That is why you should have very strong feelings - feelings of passion, anger - and watch them, play with them, find out the truth of them; for if you merely suppress them, if you say, "I must not get angry, I must not feel passionate, because it is wrong", you will find that your mind is gradually being encased in an idea and thereby becomes very shallow. ... In this country, unfortunately, as all over the world, we care so little, we have no deep feeling about anything. Most of us are intellectuals - intellectuals in the superficial sense of being very clever, full of words and theories about what is right and what is wrong, about how we should think, what we should do. Mentally we are highly developed, but inwardly there is very little substance or significance; and it is this inward substance that brings about true action, which is not action according to an idea. That is why you should have very strong feelings - feelings of pa

  https://www.evidenceinvestor.com/tag/j-krishnamurti/ J. Krishnamurti, one of the greatest teachers India has produced, writes this in his landmark book, Education and the Significance of Life: “The ignorant man is not the unlearned, but he who does not know himself, and the learned man is stupid when he relies on books, on knowledge and on authority to give him understanding. “Understanding comes only through self-knowledge, which is awareness of one’s total psychological process. “Thus education, in the true sense, is the understanding of oneself, for it is within each one of us that the whole of existence is gathered. What we now call education is a matter of accumulating information and knowledge from books, which anyone can do who can read. Such education offers a subtle form of escape from ourselves and, like all escapes, it inevitably creates increasing misery.”

The word is not actually the thing, the word Peter is not me, not my... My wife, my husband, boy or girl friends ... :) You know... (not "my") Aha She's not your girl friend, she's our girl friend :)

https://jkrishnamurti.org/content/will-you-be-responsible-not-be-corrupt-0 Education is basically to learn about yourself and your relationship to the world. https://jkrishnamurti.org/content/what-cause-corruption

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