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Question: Is the soul a reality?

Krishnamurti: Again I would ask the audience to listen without prejudice, without bigotry, to this point. When you talk about the "soul", you mean a something between the material and the spiritual, between body and God. So you have divided life into matter, spirit, and God. Isn't that so? If I may say this, you who talk about "soul", know nothing about it, you are accepting it merely on authority, or it is based on some hope, on some unfulfilled longing. You have accepted on authority many fundamental ideas, as you have accepted "soul" to be a reality.

Please consider what I am going to say, without any prejudice either in favour of or against the idea of soul, and without any preconceived ideas, in order to discover what is true. The only actuality of which we are fully cognizant, with which we have to concern ourselves, is suffering; we are conscious of that constant untulfillment, limitation, incompleteness which causes conflict and suffering. This consciousness of sorrow is the only actuality from which you can start, and it is only in understanding the cause of suffering and being intelligently free from it, that there comes the ecstasy of reality.

J. Krishnamurti

Nichteroy Public Talk 28th May, 1935

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"When two people observe with the same intensity, freedom, and clarity, they see the same thing."

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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What we are talking about is a complete mutation in consciousness And that is the only thing that will bring about a new world, a new civilization, a new way of living and a new relationship between man and man. This is not a theory, because mutation is possible - and mutation has no purpose at all. You know we are using the word

'love' very easily. If you love with a motive, it is no longer love; it is merchandise. If you love with a purpose, it is mean, degrading. Love has no purpose. In the same way, mutation comes about without purpose, without motive. Please see that, please see the difference between a change with a purpose - a change brought about through compulsion, through adjustment, through pressure, through necessity, through fear, through ambition, through

industrialization, all of which have motives - and the mutation which has no purpose at all. The very act of seeing brings about that mutation. That is, when you see something, you understand it immediately, the truth of that brings about the total alteration in one's attitude towards life.

J. Krishnamurti

Madras 2nd Public Talk 26th November 1961

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"I do not know if you have noticed this in yourself, how your daily life is based on this extraordinary principle of fear and pleasure, and one is trying to dominate the other and from this arises this endless conflict. Is it possible to live a life without this constant struggle? To really understand this you have to see what your life is first - that it is a struggle, that it is terribly frustrating, painful. Be aware of that, don't escape from it, don't run away from what you see, don't try to explain it, but stay with what actually is — that you are struggling, that there is a battle going on inside yourself to be different or to become different and so on. Just watch that. And in that watching, in that awareness you will find that by the very act of that attention the struggle comes to an end."

J. Krishnamurti

Krishnamurti at Brockwood Park, 1974

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Without freedom from the past there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent. It is only the fresh, innocent mind that is free. Freedom has nothing to do with age, it has nothing to do with experience; and it seems to me that the very essence of freedom lies in understanding the whole mechanism of habit, both conscious and unconscious. It is not a question of ending habit, but of seeing totally the structure of habit. You have to observe how habits are formed and how, by denying or resisting one habit, another habit is created. What matters is to be totally conscious of habit; for then, as you will see for yourself there is no longer the formation of habit. To resist habit, to fight it, to deny it, only gives continuity to habit. When you fight a particular habit you give life to that habit, and then the very fighting of it becomes a further habit. But if you are simply aware of the whole structure of habit without resistance, then you will find there is freedom from habit, and in that freedom a new thing takes place.

J. Krishnamurti

Public Talk 5 Saanen, Switzerland - 31 July 1962

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The silence is another way of saying to keep your mind stayed on God all the time. God is the silence and you are that. Feel the silence right now. You can feel it. It's a thing of beauty.

You know when you're getting into the true silence, you begin to become happier, and happier and happier for no reason. It makes no difference what's going on in the world. The world is in one place and you're in another place. In the deep silence you are identifying with the substratum of creation. Always remember to go into the silence. A sage is always in the silence. A sage may be talking, listening, partaking of activities, but to the sage there's only silence.

ROBERT ADAMS

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An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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YOU WILL BE ABLE TO

ANSWER YOUR OWN INQUIRY,

YOUR OWN QUESTION,

WHEN YOU ARE NOT SEEKING AN ANSWER.

KRISHNAMURTI

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The one obstacle is the mind It must be gotten over whether in the home or in the forest.

If you can do it in the forest, why not in the home?

Therefore, why change the environment? Your efforts can be made even now, whatever be the environment.

Maharishi's Gospel

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If you want to be free, just concentrate on your in-breath and out-breath.

Breathe in and out for three minutes,

and in those three minutes you are free.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

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Keep quiet for a single instant. Don't allow the mind to stir. For a single moment be without any thought of the past. In that moment you will see that there is no thought, no time, no world. This is what I mean by peace. In that instant everything will be peaceful. If you keep quiet you will see that the whole world is quiet.

HWL Poonja