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2012-10-24

Can the experiencer, the self, totally cease?

A mind that would understand that which is true, that which is real, that which is good, or that which is beyond the measure of the mind, give it whatever name you like, must be empty, but not be aware that it is empty. I hope you see the difference between the two. If I am aware that I am virtuous,...

2012-08-19

Emptiness comes as a sunset comes of an evening

That emptiness of the mind cannot be produced: the mind cannot be made empty, cannot be put together to be empty. That emptiness comes as a sunset comes of an evening, full of beauty, enchantment, and richness; that comes as naturally as the blossoming of a flower when there is no fear, when there are ...

2012-01-29

Creative Emptiness

Can you not just listen to this as the soil receives the seed and see if the mind is capable of being free, empty? It can be empty only by understanding all its own projections, its own activities, not off and on, but from day to day, from moment to moment. Then you will find the answer, then you will ...

2010-12-06

Energy without a center

The complete stillness of the brain is an extraordinary thing; it is highly sensitive, vigorous, fully alive, aware of every outward movement but utterly still. It is still as it is completely open, without any hindrance, without any secret wants and pursuits; it is still as there is no conflict which ...

2010-11-19

The sadness of life

He said he had read a great deal, and you could see from the books in the library that he had all the latest authors. He spoke about spiritual mysticism and the craze for drugs that was seeping over the land. He was a rich, successful man, and behind him was emptiness and the shallowness that can never ...

2010-10-25

The complete stillness of the brain is an extraordinary thing.

The complete stillness of the brain is an extraordinary thing; it is highly sensitive, vigorous, fully alive, aware of every outward movement but utterly still. It is still as it is completely open, without any hindrance, without any secret wants and pursuits; it is still as there is no conflict which ...

2010-10-08

Creation is always new.

Questioner: You are advocating that we liquidate the environment within us.  Why do you advocate that?  What is the use of it? Krishnamurti: I am not advocating anything.  But you know, the cup is useful only when it is empty.  With most of us, the mind is clouded, cluttered...

2010-10-01

Have you ever really let go the me?

There is so much to do in the world, to wipe away poverty, to live happily, to live with delight instead of with agony and fear, to build a totally different kind of society, a morality which is above all morality. But this can only be when all the morality of present day society is totally denied. There ...