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“If you sit on the bank of a river after a storm, you see the stream going by, carrying a great deal of debris. Similarly, you have to watch the movement of yourself – following every thought, every feeling, every intention, every motive – just watch it. That watching is also listening; it is being aware with your eyes, with your ears, with your insight, of all the values that human beings have created, and by which you are conditioned, and it is only this state of total awareness that will end all seeking.” ~ J. Krishnamurti

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“The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.” ~ J. Krishnamurti

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“You cannot live without dying. You cannot live if you do not die psychologically every minute. This is not an intellectual paradox. To live completely, wholly, every day as if it were a new loveliness, there must be dying to everything of yesterday, otherwise you live mechanically, and a mechanical mind can never know what love is or what freedom is.”
~ J. Krishnamurti, 1969

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Thank you for these wonderful quotes, and lovely pictures. Balder. :)

and namste, sam.

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“There is no end to depth; the essence of it is without time and space. It's not to be experienced; experience is such a tawdry thing, so easily got and so easily gone; thought cannot put it together nor can feeling make its way to it. These are silly and immature things. Maturity is not of time, a matter of age, nor does it come through influence and environment. It's not to be bought, neither the books nor the teachers and savious, the one or the many, can ever create the right climate for this maturity. maturity is not an end in itself; it comes into being without thought cultivating it, darkly, without meditation, unknowingly. There must be maturity, that ripening in life; not the ripeness that is bred out of disease and turmoil, sorrow and hope. Despair and labour cannot bring this total maturity but it must be there, unsought.”
Krishnamurti, Notebook, pp. 15-16

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“When Krishnamurti dies, which is inevitable, you will make a religion, you will set about forming rules in your minds, because the individual, Krishnamurti, has represented to you the Truth. So you will build a temple, you will then begin to have ceremonies, to invent phrases, dogmas, systems of beliefs, creeds, and to create philosophies. If you build great foundations upon me, the individual, you will be caught in that house, in that temple, and so you will have to have another Teacher come and extricate you from that temple, pull you out of that narrowness in order to liberate you. But the human mind is such that you will build another temple round Him, and so it will go on and on.

But those who understand, who do not depend on authority, who hold all peoples in their hearts, will not build temples-they will really understand. It is because a few have truly desired to help other people, that they have found it simple. Others who have not understood, although they talk a great deal about it, and of how they will interpret the teaching, will have difficulties.”

J. Krishnamurti, Who Brings the Truth?, pp. 8-9

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Thank you for this superb quoite Chaitanya.  How true indeed, foundations have been built on his name, temples constructed in the minds of those who run these foundations, mindlessly. but there will be always those who will follow and contribute to these flaseness,  and never question. these thought based foundations! 

Some time back all of our freinds were banned out of the kinfonet forum, and the admin gave such rubbhish explainations!!  All of it in the name of Krishnamurti.  They quote Krishnamurti mechanically with out ever really touching another truly….such insanity piling up in the name of inquiriy.

But those few who are really giving their all into this immense understanding  will always find a way to inquire together.  A wonderful firend created another forum for all those of us who were banned, and it's incredible, how we all still inquire and in total freedom, of not having to be thinking banned and some such barbarious ac  It's just as in every political institution, based and built  over a mechanical thought.

namaste, sam.

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Dear Balder, Thank you for this quote.  This evening suddenly when alone, this genlte tenderness felt pouring thru the windows…and filling the heart and mind….the whole evening and everything…..and suddenly it felt  with deep calrity that there was only this tenderness every where, at all times, only we aren't aware of it all times, alive to it…..this tenderness from whihc nothing is seperated….and suddenly coming upon this timeless quote of K which seems to pierce thru the mind and beyond…this sacred tenderness of life itself….

Namaste, Sam

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What we are trying in all these discussions and talks here is to see if we cannot bring about a transformation of mind. Not accepting things as they are, but to understand it, to go into it, to examine it…give your heart and your mind everything you have to find a way of living differently.

But, that depends on you and not somebody else. Because in this there is no teacher, no pupil, there's no leader, there's no guru, there's no master, no savior. You yourself are the teacher and the pupil, you are the master, you are the guru, you are the leader…

You are everything!

And to understand…is to transform what is.

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Beautiful!

 It pretty much sums up a lengthy discussion we've been having on the “God and Life, the Universe and Everything” pod; so I copied it and posted it there too.

Thanks!
Frans