Meditation is hard work. It demands the highest form of discipline – not conformity, not imitation, not obedience – but a discipline which comes through constant awareness, not only of the things about you outwardly, but also inwardly. So meditation is not an activity of isolation but is action in everyday life which demands cooperation, sensitivity and intelligence. Without laying the foundation of a righteous life, meditation becomes an escape and therefore has no value whatsoever. A righteous life is not the following of social morality, but the freedom from envy, greed and the search for power – which all breed enmity. The freedom from these does not come through the activity of will but by being aware of them through self-knowing. Without knowing the activities of the self, meditation becomes sensuous excitement and therefore of very little significance. goo.gl/N947vl « 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕥𝕖𝕒𝕔𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕤 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕚𝕞𝕡𝕠𝕣𝕥𝕒𝕟𝕥 𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕞𝕤𝕖𝕝𝕧𝕖𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕡𝕣𝕖𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕞𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕒𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕤 𝕠𝕟𝕝𝕪 𝕕𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕞. 𝕀𝕥 𝕚𝕤 𝕒𝕕𝕧𝕚𝕤𝕒𝕓𝕝𝕖 𝕥𝕠 𝕘𝕠 𝕕𝕚𝕣𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕝𝕪 𝕥𝕠 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕤𝕠𝕦𝕣𝕔𝕖, 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕥𝕖𝕒𝕔𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕞𝕤𝕖𝕝𝕧𝕖𝕤, 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕟𝕠𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕣𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙 𝕒𝕟𝕪 𝕒𝕦𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕣𝕚𝕥𝕪. » — 𝒥𝒾𝒹𝒹𝓊 𝒦𝓇𝒾𝓈𝒽𝓃𝒶𝓂𝓊𝓇𝓉𝒾 The Core of the Teachings Written by Krishnamurti in 1980 at the request of his biographer Mary Lutyens. The core of Krishnamurti’s teaching is contained in the statement he made in 1929 when he said, “Truth is a pathless land”. Man cannot come to it through any organization, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, not through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the contents of his own mind, through observation and not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection. Man has built in himself images as a fence of security—religious, political, personal. These manifest as symbols, ideas, beliefs. The burden of these images dominates man’s thinking, his relationships, and his daily life. These images are the causes of our problems for they divide man from man. His perception of life is shaped by the concepts already established in his mind. The content of his consciousness is his entire existence. The individuality is the name, the form and superficial culture he acquires from tradition and environment. The uniqueness of man does not lie in the superficial but in complete freedom from the content of his consciousness, which is common to all humanity. So he is not an individual. Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not choice. It is man’s pretence that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is without motive; freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man but lies in the first step of his existence. In observation one begins to discover the lack of freedom. Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence and activity. Thought is time. Thought is born of experience and knowledge, which are inseparable from time and the past. Time is the psychological enemy of man. Our action is based on knowledge and therefore time, so man is always a slave to the past. Thought is ever limited and so we live in constant conflict and struggle. There is no psychological evolution. When man becomes aware of the movement of his own thoughts, he will see the division between the thinker and thought, the observer and the observed, the experiencer and the experience. He will discover that this division is an illusion. Then only is there pure observation which is insight without any shadow of the past or of time. This timeless insight brings about a deep, radical mutation in the mind. Total negation is the essence of the positive. When there is negation of all those things that thought has brought about psychologically, only then is there love, which is compassion and intelligence.
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