JK on belief

 A man who believes in God can never find God. 

If you are open to reality, there can be no belief in reality. If you are open to the unknown, there can be no belief in it. After all, belief is a form of self-protection, and only a petty mind can believe in God. Look at the belief of the aviators during the war who said God was their companion as they were dropping bombs! So you believe in God when you kill, when you are exploiting people. You worship God and go on ruthlessly extorting money, supporting the army—yet you say you believe in mercy, compassion, kindliness. ...As long as belief exists, there can never be the unknown; you cannot think about the unknown, thought cannot measure it. The mind is the product of the past, it is the result of yesterday, and can such a mind be open to the unknown? It can only project an image, but that projection is not real; so your god is not God—it is an image of your own making, an image of your own gratification. There can be reality only when the mind understands the total process of itself and comes to an end. When the mind is completely empty—only then is it capable of receiving the unknown. The mind is not purged until it understands the content of relationship—its relationship with property, with people—until it has established the right relationship with everything. Until it understands the whole process of conflict in relationship, the mind cannot be free. Only when the mind is wholly silent, completely inactive, not projecting, when it is not seeking and is utterly still—only then that which is eternal and timeless comes into being.

The Book of Life, December 18, HarperSanFrancisco, 1995

From Pupul Jayakar Biography of JK

 Page 10 : He to her , circa 1948 . 

" Have you ever been alone ? Without books ? The radio ? Try and see what happens ! " 

" For mind to be creative there must be deep stillness . That can only come into being when you have faced your loneliness . " 

" If you love, then you do not demand . Then, if the person does not love you , you will help other to love, even though it is someone else ! " 

Page 12 , end of the chapter : " As I journeyed back home, I suddenly realized that, in many face to face conversations, JK did not say a single word about himself . There has been no reference to any personal experience, not a single movement of self has manifested itself . It was this that made him a stranger , however well you knew him ! In the midst of a gesture of friendship, a casual conversation , one felt it - a sudden distance, silences that emanated from him, a consciousness that had no focal point . And yet, in his presence, one felt the bounty of an infinite concern ! " 

Page 48  

17 Aug 1922 . His first Kundalini experience, started with a server pain in the neck . 

" I had the most extraordinary experience . There was a man mending the road and that man was me ! The very stone which he was breaking was a part of me . The tender blade of grass was my very being and the tree beside the man was myself . I almost could feel and think like the roadmender, and I could feel the wind passing through the tree and the little ant on the blad of grass I could feel. 

The birds , the dust and the very noise were a part of me ! Just then, there was a car passing by and some at some distance. I was the driver, I was the engine and the t . As the car went further away from me, I was going away from myself . I was in everything , or, rather, everything was in me, inanimate and the animate,   the mountain, the work and the all breathing things . All day long I remained in this h happy condition . I cold not eat anything ! And again, at about six, I began to lose my physical body , and naturally, the physical elemental did what it liked ; I was semi conscious! 

1922  , 18 August  Page 48 

I felt an acute pain and I had to cut down my meditation to 15 minutes . Pain grew worse and by 19 Aug , friends took me to bed . 

In front of me was my body and over my head I saw the star bright and clear . Then, I could feel the vibration of Lord Buddha . I beheld Lord Buddha and master KH ( Koot Hoomi ) and I was so happy, calm and at peace . I could still see my body and I was hovering and within myself was the calmness of the  bottom of a deep unfathomable lake . Like the lake, I felt the physical body , an unfathomable lake . Like th lake I felt that my physical body with its mind and emotions could be ruffled on the surface, but nothing, may nay nothing could disturb the calmness of my soul . The presence of the might Beings was with me for sometime and then, They were gone ! I was supremely happy for I had seen . Nothing could ever be the same . I have drunk at the clear pure waters at the source of the fountain of life and my soul was appease . Never more could I be thirsty , never more could i be in utter darkness. I have seen the Light . I have touched compassion which heals all sorrows and suffering , it's not for myself, but for the world . I have stood on the mountain top and gazed at the mighty Beings. Never can I be in utter darkness ; I have seen glorious and healing  light . The fountain Truth has been revealed to me and the darkness has been dispersed . Love in its all glory has intoxicated my heart ; my heart can never be closed . I have a drunk at the fountain of joy and eternal Beauty . I am God intoxicated .  ( page 49) 

Page 65 

Krishnaji spoke of the Lord Buddha and that state of existence which is absolutely without self . He is thinking much of being absolutely impersonal these days , and already he seems to have dived dep into that clear well which is unsullied by the mud of self . As he spoke of Lord Buddha  , a new world lay stretched before one, in which all personal love and ambition died away and became as naught, only impersonal , tremendous unshakeable love remained . The full realisation of life without self only came to Krishnaji while he was at Ojai , and even he finds it almost impossible to describe .  

Page 72 

 " In the message to the International Self Preparation group, shortley after Nitya's death, Krishna jee wrote " For instance , when my brother died, I felt utterly lost ! You have no idea how I felt for 2 or 3 days ! For more than that, for a week, perhaps. I still miss him . I shall always miss him, physically . But I feel that, he and I are working, together , that we are walking along the same path, on the same mountain side, seeing the same flowers, the same creatures, the same blue sky, the same clouds and tress. That is why, I feel as if I were a part of him and the only when I get tired , djo I begin to say ' My brother is not here ' . But at once my mind pulls me up an tells me how absurd is such a thought. " 

Relationship , a gateway to spirituality

 

Relationship with human beings is of the highest importance because out of that relationship, we create the society in which we live. Out of that relationship, all our existence comes.

From Dialogue 2 with Allan W. Anderson in San Diego, 18 February 1974

" There is no path to truth "

JK Quote 
" There is no path to truth " 

Truth is truth, one, alone; it has no sides, no paths; all paths do not lead to truth. 
There is no path to truth, it must come to you.
 Truth can come to you only when your mind and heart are simple, clear, and there is love in your heart; you do not talk about belief !  Then you are a simple human being without a label, without a country.
 This means that you must strip yourself of all those things and allow truth to come into being; and it can only come when the mind is empty, when the mind ceases to create.
 Then it will come without your invitation. 
Then it will come as swiftly as the wind and unbeknown . 
It comes obscurely, not when you are watching, wanting. 
It is there as sudden as sunlight, as pure as the night; but to receive it, the heart must be full and the mind empty. 
Now you have the mind full and your heart empty.
 - Jiddu Krishnamurti,

A ceaseless inquiry into every movement of thought

A ceaseless inquiry into every movement of thought

You will have to find out for yourself, and that requires enormous investigation, hard work, much harder work than earning a livelihood, which is mere routine. 
It requires astonishing vigilance, constant watchfulness, a ceaseless inquiry into every movement of thought. 

And the moment you begin to inquire into the process of thinking, which is to isolate each thought and think it through to the end, you will see how arduous it is; it is not a lazy man's pleasure. 

And it is essential to do this because it is only the mind that has emptied itself of all its old recognitions, its old distractions, its conflicts and self-contradictions,it is only such a mind that has the new, the creative impulse of reality. 
The mind then creates its own action; it brings into being a different activity altogether, without which mere social reform, however necessary, however beneficial, cannot possibly bring about a peaceful and happy world. 

- Krishnamurti, The Collected Works, Vol. X",255,Choiceless Awareness

Can one die every day…?

Can one die every day…?
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Now, can one die every day to everything that one knows—except, of course, the technological knowledge, the direction where your home is, and so on; that is, to end, psychologically, every day, so that the mind remains fresh, young and innocent? That is death. And to come upon that there must be no shadow of fear. To give up without argument, without any resistance. That is dying. Have you ever tried it? To give up without a murmur, without restraint, without resistance, the thing that gives you most pleasure (the things that are painful, of course, one wants to give up in any case). Actually to let go. Try it. Then, if you do it, you will see that the mind becomes extraordinarily alert, alive and sensitive, free and unburdened. Old age then takes on quite a different meaning, not something to be dreaded. - Krishnamurti, You are the World, p 135

How do you deal with fear?

How do you deal with fear?
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Fear is the urge that seeks a Master, a guru; fear is this coating of respectability, which everyone loves so dearly—to be respectable. Sir, I am not talking of anything which is not a fact. So you can see it in your everyday life. This extraordinary, pervasive nature of fear—how do you deal with it? Do you merely develop the quality of courage in order to meet the demand of fear? You understand, sir? Do you determine to be courageous to face events in life, or merely rationalize fear away, or find explanations that will give satisfaction to the mind that is caught in fear? How do you deal with it? Turn on the radio, read a book, go to a temple, cling to some form of dogma, belief? - Krishnamurti, The Collected Works vol XII, p 58

Meditation is inquiry into the very being of the meditator

As human beings we are all capable of inquiry, of discovery, and this whole process is meditation. Meditation is inquiry into the very being of the meditator. You cannot meditate without self-knowledge, without being aware of the ways of your own mind, from the superficial responses to the most complex subtleties of thought. I am sure it is not really difficult to know, to be aware of oneself, but it is difficult for most of us because we are so afraid to inquire, to grope, to search out. Our fear is not of the unknown, but of letting go of the known. It is only when the mind allows the known to fade away that there is complete freedom from the known, and only then is it possible for the new impulse to come into being. - Krishnamurti, The Collected Works, Vol. X",255,Choiceless Awareness

choiceless awareness

Problems will always exist where the activities of the self are dominant. 
To be aware which are and which are not the activities of the self needs constant vigilance.
This vigilance is not disciplined attention, but an extensive awareness which is choiceless. Disciplined attention gives strength to the self; it becomes a substitute and a dependence. Awareness, on the other hand, is not self-induced, nor is it the outcome of practice; it is understanding the whole content of the problem, the hidden as well as the superficial. 
The surface must be understood for the hidden to show itself; the hidden cannot be exposed if the surface mind is not quiet.
This whole process is not verbal, nor is it a matter of mere experience.
Verbalization indicates dullness of mind; and experience, being cumulative, makes for repetitiousness. 
Awareness is not a matter of determination, for purposive direction is resistance, which tends towards exclusiveness. 
Awareness is the silent and choiceless observation of what is; in this awareness the problem unrolls itself, and thus it is fully and completely understood. 
A problem is never solved on its own level; being complex, it must be understood in its total process. 
To try to solve a problem on only one level, physical or psychological, leads to further conflict and confusion. 
For the resolution of a problem, there must be this awareness, this passive alertness which reveals its total process. 

- Krishnamurti, J. Krishnamurti Commentaries on Living Series I