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(Taken from KFA.org) The Core of the Teachings: When asked in 1974 by his biographer, Mary Lutyens, to define his teachings Krishnamurti wrote the following: "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 organisation, 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. This content is common to all humanity. 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 mankind. So he is not an individual. Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not a 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. Thought is time. Thought is born of experience, of knowledge, which are inseparable from time. 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. When man becomes aware of the movement of his own consciousness he will see the division between the thinker and the 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 . 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 which are not love – desire, pleasure – then love is, with its compassion and intelligence."
krishnamurti -you are the world
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jnzx6-df6Q

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J. KRISHNAMURTI : Immortality. Part 3 (of 6).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNm1RZyzevE

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Krishnamurti On Meditation

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Posted by on Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:03:00 GMT

Krishnamurti: Talks in San Diego (1970)

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Posted by on Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:37:00 GMT

Jumping Ahead and Postponement Vs. NOW

[First of all, before I go into this subject, I wanted to explain these blog entries, because I think there could be misunderstanding about their meaning.  I certainly do not intend to insult any...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:23:00 GMT

What is Meditation?

First, what is customarily thought of as meditation?  Generally, we think of sitting in a certain postition, having a certain posture, using certain devices, sounds, using a method or technique, ...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:36:00 GMT