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Stimulation - Jiddu Krishnamurti

 

Jiddu Krishnamurti  viewed outward stimulation as a temporary escape from daily problems that traps the mind in a cycle of dependency, illusion, and conflict.   

The Mechanism of Stimulation 

• Temporary Quiet: Outward stimuli—such as nature, a person, alcohol, ideas, or entertainment—can temporarily quiet a troubled mind and create a sense of pleasurable peace. 

• Dependency: Because the mind enjoys this relief, it turns the specific source of stimulation into a psychological necessity, returning to it as a memory or craving. 

• Attachment: The means of stimulation become more important than actual experience, leading people to fiercely defend these attachments or even fight over them. 

Consequences of Seeking Stimulation 

• Dulls Sensitivity: Relying on exciting or isolating talents, possessions, or ideas distorts true sensitivity and breeds insensitivity to the realities of life. 

• Creates Dulling Habits: Constant demands for sensory or chemical reinforcement—from rich foods and alcohol to drugs—gradually dull and destroy the active, fresh state of the mind. 

• Breeds Conflict: Sensation demands repetition and more intensity; when thwarted, it gives rise to negative emotions like anger, despair, and violence.  

The Path to Freedom 

• Passive Watchfulness: Freedom from dependency does not come from intellectual analysis or harsh ascetic control, but from passive, total awareness of the entire structure of desire and habit. 

• Inaction of Thought: When the mind remains completely quiet and watches its own reactions without seeking a new sensation, thought becomes inactive, allowing for true, uncaused action, sensitivity, and bliss. 

Stillness

 

Jiddu Krishnamurti taught that  true stillness cannot practiced, induced, or forced by thought.

Any effort by the mind to make itself quiet is merely the observer trying to control noise, which creates more conflict. 

True, absolute stillness emerges naturally through passive, choiceless awareness of the mind's daily chaos. 

The Illusion of False Stillness 

The silence found in nature (like an empty forest or late at night) is just outward quietness, not inner stillness.

Methods, repetition, and concentration create a controlled suppression of thoughts, which is still manufactured by the ego. 

If you ask "how" to be still, you introduce a system. The person trying to achieve stillness is the very source of disturbance. 

Understanding True Stillness 

Real silence happens when you simply watch your confusion and chattering without wanting to change it. 

It is the passive observation of every movement of thought and self-centered activity, without an observer or a "watcher". 

A still mind is not a dead or sluggish mind; it is extraordinarily alive, fresh, and clear. 

Space - Jiddu Krishnamurti

 

Sorrow - Jiddu Krishnamurti

 

Krishnamurti explored the phenomenon of sorrow through several core principles: 

• The Trap of Attachment: He explained that sorrow arises when we lose something or someone we are deeply attached to. 

Loss exposes our underlying loneliness and isolation, as we often view loved ones as extensions of ourselves. 

• The Movement of Thought: Sorrow is prolonged by the mind's mechanical thinking, such as constantly remembering the past or clinging to the ideal of what "should be."

 When you try to escape sorrow through distractions or comfort, you create internal division. 

• Remaining With Sorrow: Krishnamurti urged that the only way to transcend sorrow is to face it directly. 

When you observe the feeling of sorrow completely without trying to rationalize, suppress, or escape it, the separation between the observer and the pain dissolves.

 You become entirely sorrow, and in that totality, sorrow withers away. 

• Sorrow and Passion: He often pointed out that the root of the word "passion" comes from suffering. 

He believed that when suffering is fully understood and shed, the resulting energy transforms into deep love, compassion, and a new kind of intelligence. 

Solitude - Jiddu Krishnamurti

 

Here are Krishnamurti's core teachings on solitude: 

• Solitude means "All One": True solitude is not about physically running away to live in a cave. It means having a mind that is quiet and untouched by the endless conditioning of society. You can walk busy city streets and still be in solitude if your mind is still. 

• Do Not Run from Loneliness: Most people are terrified of being alone, so they fill their lives with noise, books, phones, or constant social activity. Krishnamurti taught that to find true solitude, you must first stop running. By sitting with and observing your loneliness without judging it, the fear begins to disappear. 

• Freedom from the "Self": Loneliness comes from self-centeredness—worrying too much about personal success, relationships, and daily problems. True solitude is leaving all of that behind. It is a state where the mind stops clinging to the past or worrying about the future. 

• The Power of Observation: Being alone allows you to look at nature and observe your own thoughts without trying to change them. When you can just look at a tree, a bird, or the flow of water without words or criticism, you connect with a deep, incorruptible peace. 

To explore more of his teachings, visit the  J. Krishnamurti Foundation  to read or listen to his complete talks on how to quiet the mind.

Society - Jiddu Krishnamurti

 

Jiddu Krishnamurti viewed society not as an external entity, but as the projection of individual human consciousness, asserting that "you are the world". He argued that because our relationships are rooted in greed, envy, and conflict, we have created a corrupt, competitive, and violent society that demands conformity rather than true freedom. [

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5 facts of Sleep and Dreams - Jiddu Krishnamurti

 

• Dreams as Disordered Thought: Dreams represent the continuation of conflicts, fears, and activities from daily life. They are the mind's unsuccessful attempt to process confusion accumulated during the day. 

• The Purpose of Sleep: Real sleep is a state where the brain rests, rejuvenates, and functions harmoniously without friction. A brain occupied with dreaming cannot truly rest. 

• Importance of Daytime Awareness: If one is fully attentive and orderly during their waking life, dreams become unnecessary. Constant awareness eliminates the psychological baggage that causes dreams. 

• Dreamless Sleep: Krishnamurti speaks of a "dreamless state" not as a dull void, but as a state of intense quietude and freshness, allowing the brain to be truly young and innocent. 

• Rejection of Interpretation: He often dismissed the psychological analysis of dreams (such as Freudian or Jungian interpretations), focusing instead on resolving the root causes of psychological disorder in the present moment.

5 Key aspects of Simplicity. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

Key aspects of Krishnamurti’s view on simplicity include: 

• Inward vs. Outward: While outward simplicity (minimal possessions) can be helpful, it is not essential; one can have few things and still be inwardly complex and ambitious. 

• Self-Knowledge: Genuine simplicity arises from understanding one's own psychological processes—fears, desires, and conflicts. 

• Freedom from Conflict: A simple mind is not seeking security or trying to become something else; it is free from the "desire to be" which fuels inner and outer turmoil. 

• Direct Perception: It requires observing life directly without the interference of beliefs, prejudices, or the past. 

• Intelligence: Achieving this state demands high intelligence, not just adherence to a rule or formula for simple living.   

Krishnamurti emphasized that when the mind and heart are "empty" of accumulated knowledge and inner chaos, they can approach life's problems with immense, fresh, and creative energy.   

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15 Quotes on Silence by Krishnamurti

 

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Silence is a state totally outside the machinery of the mind; the mind cannot conceive of it and the mind’s attempts to reach silence are still part of noise - Krishnamurti, Commentaries on Living 

The silence of the mountains has a depth the valleys have not. - The Beauty of Life – Krishnamurti’s Journal

There is a silence that has no reason whatsoever – the silence that must have been at the beginning of the world. - Krishnamurti, The Only Revolution

Space and silence are necessary because only when the mind is alone, uninfluenced, untrained and not held by experience can it come upon something totally new. - Krishnamurti, Freedom From the Known

When the mind, heart and organism are completely harmonious, there is silence. When one of the three becomes distorted, there is noise. - Krishnamurti, The Awakening of Intellig

In TOTAL attention is silence. - Krishnamurti’s Notebook

The silence of the mind is beauty in itself. - Krishnamurti, Beyond Violence

This silence of the mind is the true religious mind, and the silence of the gods is the silence of the earth. - Krishnamurti, The Only Revolution

Silence cannot repeat itself; only the brain through memory and recollection can repeat what has been – but what has been is not the actual. - Krishnamurti’s Notebook

Silence is beyond the dream, beyond the occupation of the deeper mind.- Krishnamurti, Commentaries on Living 

Silence has its own movement, and it penetrates into the depths, into every corner of the mind. -Krishnamurti, Commentaries on Living 

Silence is emptiness in which, and from which, all things flow and have their being. - Krishnamurti’s Notebook

Silence is infinite and the past is limited. The conditioning of the past breaks down in the fullness of silence. - Krishnamurti, The Urgency of Change

In silence alone is there that which is nameless and timeless. - Krishnamurti, The Network of Thought

Emptiness is energy, and that emptiness exists in silence. - Krishnamurti, The Ending of Time

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5 Key aspects of Krishnamurti's view on sex:

 

Key aspects of Krishnamurti's view on sex: 

• The Problem of Thought: Sex becomes a "problem" when the mind makes it a preoccupation before and after the act. The constant mental imagery and anticipation, rather than the physical act, creates the issue. 

• Pleasure and Control: He argued that modern society turns to sex as a desperate source of pleasure because they are not free in their daily lives. True love, he stated, is the total absence of the "me" (ego), whereas sexual desire is often driven by self-centered pleasure. 

• Energy and Society: Krishnamurti questioned why sex holds such immense power and suggested that people use it as an escape from the boredom and lack of meaning in their lives. He argued that instead of suppressing it, one should understand the nature of desire itself. 

• Chastity as Mental State: True chastity, in his view, is not merely abstinence or a vow, but a mind that is innocent, free from conflict, and empty of images. 

• Relationship to Love: He emphasized that love is not pleasure, nor is it possessive or lustful. True love, he argued, requires a state without self. 

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Sensitivity: Intelligence Means Sensitivity to the Situation

 

Jiddu Krishnamurti taught that intelligence isn't just intellect but fundamentally involves sensitivity to the situation, meaning awareness of 'what is' without judgment, comparison, or ideological interference, allowing for direct, appropriate action and true understanding, rather than reactive, conditioned responses. This sensitivity, rooted in freedom from fear and conditioning, allows one to see the truth of relationships and life, bringing compassion and order. 

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