Emptiness

 We are never an outsider and remain outside; we feel ourselves incapable of remaining outside, or are afraid not to be in the current of the commonplace. As parents and educators, we make the family and the school what we are. Mediocrity really means going only half-way up the mountain and never reaching the top. We want to be like everybody else, or if we want to be slightly different, we keep it carefully hidden. We are not talking of eccentricity, which is another form of self-expression, which is what everyone is doing in his own little way. Eccentricity is only tolerated if you are well-to-do or gifted. If you are poor and act peculiarly, you are snubbed and ignored. But few of us are talented; we are workers carrying on with our particular professions. The world is becoming more and more mediocre. Our education, our occupation, our superficial acceptance of traditional religion are making us mediocre and rather sloppy. We are concerned here with our daily life, not with the ...

Small Group Discussion 2 in Gstaad, 16 August 1964 To see the fact is one of the most difficult things to do. I know when I am lying - full stop - it is a fact. To see the fact requires a great sense of humility. Only a free mind can see the fact. https://jkrishnamurti.org/content/see-fact-one-most-difficult-things-do-i-know-when-i-am-l https://jkrishnamurti.org/content/series-i-chapter-37-idea-and-fact     The idea is more important to us than the fact; the concept of what one should be has more significance than what one is. The future is always more alluring than the present. The image, the symbol, is of greater worth than the actual; and on the actual we try to superimpose the idea, the pattern. So we create a contradiction between what is and what should be. What should be is the idea, the fiction, and so there is a conflict between the actual and the illusion - not in themselves, but in us. We like the illusion better than the actual; the idea is more appealing, more sa...

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.