Emptiness

Do you still think you can fill the void of loneliness? You have tried every means of filling this void - have you succeeded in filling it, or have you merely covered it up?  https://www.reddit.com/r/Krishnamurti/comments/7py81z/for_those_people_disillusioned_with_krishnamurtis/ As long as a human being lives in the river of sorrow and does not end it, humanity will go on endlessly in that stream. But when there is an ending to that, there is a totally different dimension in which there is no beginning and no ending, and that is absolutely timeless. This you have to come upon by living it. When you are attached to something, end it today, not tomorrow. And one can. There is pleasure in attachment and possession. Look at this pleasure and see what the implications of that pleasure are: fear of losing, fear of not having the same thing tomorrow, jealousy, anxiety, hatred—all that comes out of that attachment. Seeing all this as a whole and instantly ending it is dying to it all now, ...

 Where there is the possibility of pain there is no love The questioner wants to know how he can act freely and without self-repression when he knows his action must hurt those he loves. You know, to love is to be free; both parties are free. Where there is the possibility of pain, where there is the possibility of suffering in love, it is not love, it is merely a subtle form of possession, of acquisitiveness. If you love, really love someone, there is no possibility of giving him pain when you do something that you think is right. It is only when you want that person to do what you desire or he wants you to do what he desires, that there is pain. That is, you like to be possessed; you feel safe, secure, comfortable; though you know that comfort is but transient, you take shelter in that comfort, in that transience. So each struggle for comfort, for encouragement, really but betrays the lack of inward richness; and therefore an action separate, apart from the other individual natur...

You don’t need a clever mind. What you really need, if I may point out, is the capacity to observe and to listen; to observe without all the clamour that lies behind the observation, the noise of opinions, rationalization, condemnation. You can observe very simply a leaf in the breeze; you can observe a fly in the room; and also you can observe your behaviour, why you do this and that, why you are hurt, why you store up the hurt, why you yield and why you are obstinate. Just to observe and to listen, without any muttering of your own like and dislike. You know, to do this you have to pay attention, and the learning of this is attention. And in this is a great deal of fun, much more than you realize. It is fun that comes of itself and that is real. The other kind fades away. —Krishnamurti ⠀ From The Whole Movement of Life is Learning  We seek happiness through things, relationships, ideas or thought. So, things, relationship and ideas, and not happiness, become all-important. —Krish...

https://www.awakin.org/read/view.php?tid=2282 https://medium.com/brightpin/a-short-review-of-freedom-from-the-known-d22f52f8cdd3 “It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.” Awareness is the quality of mind which observes without any justification or condemnation, approval or disapproval, like or dislike - merely observes. http://jiddu-krishnamurti.net/en/1934-1935-what-is-right-action/jiddu-krishnamurti-what-is-right-action-43

The question "What do I do about...?" often arises. If the response is "Do this" or "Do that", then the responder is assuming authority, which is violence - certainly a hypocritical response for this particular question! Yet, compassion - i.e., the awareness of the unity of existence - compels a response to a plea for help. The response here seems to be essentially the same as in other talks: understand the totality of the situation, discard all the false, then what else remains but the truth? The answer does not arise from decision, but from choiceless awareness. In this case, understand the full meaning of violence and its many forms: conformity, "discipline", ambition, competitiveness. With a genuine and complete orientation towards a life without any kind of violence, with neither will nor resistance, then all that remains is the true answer to the question.

 https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/27619143-relationships-to-oneself-to-others-to-the-world Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence. “When we say we love somebody, what do we mean? We mean we possess that person. From that possession arises jealousy, because if I lose him or her what happens? I feel empty, lost; therefore I legalize possession; I hold him or her. From holding, possessing that person, there is jealousy, there is fear, and all the innumerable conflicts that arise from possession. Surely such possession is not love, is it?” ― Jiddu Krishnamurti, Relationships to Oneself, to Others, to the World “Deeply our life is a confusion, a mess, a misery, an agony. The more sensitive we are, the more the despair, the anxiety, the guilt feeling, and naturally we want to escape f...

  So we are asking: why man, throughout the world, at whatever level of society, class he may be, this is one thing he is pursuing, in the name of god, in the name of religion, in the name of politics – pleasure, with which goes power, position, prestige and all the rest of it – why? You understand? Why are you, as a human being, representing the world, which you are, why are you pursuing pleasure? Observe it – not right or wrong. Why is there this demand? You understand? When you go to church, when you go to a temple, it is another form of pleasure. Sexual pleasure, the pleasure of possession, the pleasure of denial, the pleasure of austerity, the pleasure of abundance, the pleasure of possession, the pleasure of detachment, the pleasure of achievement, the pleasure of renunciation; the pleasure of completely controlling your body. This immense structure of pleasure is one of the factors of our consciousness, perhaps it may be one of the major factors. So why? You understand? You...