The importance of meditation
The Lord is attained without the least effort; he is worshipped by self-realisation alone. … The self is not realised by any other means other than meditation. If one is able to meditate even for thirteen seconds, even if one is ignorant one attains the merit of giving away a cow in [...]
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Meditation
Are you seeking God?
It is an illusion to think that we are all seeking God — we are not. We don’t have to search for light. There will be light when there is no darkness and through darkness we cannot find the light. All that we can do is to remove those barriers that create darkness and the [...]
Inner light alone is the means
All that I am trying to do is to help you to discern for yourself that there is no salvation outside of yourself, that no Master, no society, can save you; that no church, no ceremony, no prayer can break down your self-created limitations and restrictions; that only through your own strenuous awareness is there [...]
Sense pleasures or the bliss of peace?
Weigh in the balance of your wisdom, the sense-pleasures on one side and the bliss of peace on the other. Whatever you determine to be the truth, seek that.
— Yoga Vasishta (tr. by Sw. Venkatesananda, p. 146)
Questioner: How would you cope with an incurable disease?
Krishnamurti: Most of us do not understand ourselves, our various tensions [...]
‘I’ love ‘you’?
Love is not of the self. Self cannot recognize love. You say ‘I love’; but then in the very saying of it, in the very experiencing of it, love is not. But when you know love, self is not. When there is love, self is not.
— J. Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom
J. Krishnamurti on fanaticism
To identify oneself with a particular race, with a particular country or with certain ideologies yields security, satisfaction and flattering self-importance. This worship of the part, instead of the whole, cultivates antagonism, conflict and confusion.
— J. Krishnamurti, 4 June 1944.
Do not let us be clouded by words, names or labels which only bring confusion as [...]
Admiration Vs Possessiveness
When you see the beauty somewhere, when you fall in love with something, the next impulse that comes in you is to possess it, have it; and, when you have it, it looses all its significance.
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
When you see a sunset, in that moment of beauty there is a spontaneous, creative joy. [...]
