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“Love is the only flame without smoke.”
~ J. Krishnamurti
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The flame and the smoke is an analogy Krishnamurti referred to sometimes. For him, the flame is this burning centre of being that “can never be expressed with words”, that “is beyond the clutches of time”, and that is often expressed as love. The smoke is of the mind. It is “the smoke of envy, of holding, of missing, of recalling the past, of longing for tomorrow, of sorrow and worry; and this effectively smothers the flame.” The smoke is often what we take to be the flame but is not. It is all that is passing, all the thoughts, feelings, perceptions — the smoke that we have gathered to form experience, and that we take to be ourself, our centre of being. This wilful, separate, time bound, suffering self has appropriated the feeling of being when it is in fact the very smoke that is veiling our true nature. Being only is that flame without smoke. It is our true identity and “the source of all happiness”.
I have gathered, over the years, on social medias, many of the most striking quotes by Krishnamurti, that popped up on my screen. These, I found, acted on me like little koans, that had the power to pierce the smoke of the mind, and reveal the subtlest truths. They are like candies which, when chewed upon carefully, reveal the flame of what we truly are. They are short and easy, but need to be taken seriously. They can crack open our resistance, and show us that flame without smoke. I share them here with you…
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“Do not pursue what should be,
but understand what is.”
~ J. Krishnamurti
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“Love is not at the end of time.
It is now, or it isn’t.
And hell is when it is not…”
~ J. Krishnamurti
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“Thought is never free because it is based on knowledge,
and knowledge is always limited.”
~ J. Krishnamurti
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“It is essential to understand the seeker,
before you try to find out what it is he is seeking.”
~ J. Krishnamurti
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“The ego is a ring of defence around nothing.”
~ J. Krishnamurti
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“The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love
and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it,
you will discover that for you the world is transformed.”
~ J. Krishnamurti
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“Awareness is a constant process of liberation.”
~ J. Krishnamurti
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“The religious mind is not an evolutionary mind,
because reality is beyond time.”
~ J. Krishnamurti (Public Talk 9, Paris, 1961)
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“The immensity of silence is the immensity of the mind in which a centre does not exist.”
~ J. Krishnamurti
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“The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.
Self-knowledge has no end — you don’t come to an achievement,
you don’t come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.”
~ J. Krishnamurti (Public Talk 1, Ojai, California 1949)
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“Innocence is freedom from the burden of experience.”
~ J. Krishnamurti
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“Meditation is just opening the door —
what lies beyond can never be expressed with words.”
~ J. Krishnamurti
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“Reality is always the unknown.”
~ J. Krishnamurti
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“Our search is always outgoing;
the mind seeking any experience is outgoing.
Inward-going is not a search at all;
it is perceiving.”
~ J. Krishnamurti (‘Meeting Life’)
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“We are talking of something entirely different,
not of self-improvement, but of the cessation of the self…”
~ J. Krishnamurti
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“You and I have intrinsically the capacity to be happy,
to be creative, to be in touch with something
that is beyond the clutches of time.”
~ J. Krishnamurti
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“With gratitude the universe is eternally abundant.”
~ J. Krishnamurti
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“To be open to the source of all happiness
is the highest religion.”
~ J. Krishnamurti
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“A mind that is rich in its quietness
never looks beyond what is.”
~ J. Krishnamurti (‘The Only Revolution, Part 2’)
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“The state of seeing is more important than what is seen.”
~ J. Krishnamurti (‘The Urgency of Change’)
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“One is absolutely nothing.
But we can’t face that,
therefore we have images about ourselves.”
~ J. Krishnamurti (‘Awakening of Intelligence’)
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“Put your intellect in the heart.
It has no value outside it.”
~ J. Krishnamurti
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“Suffering is an indication of ignorance,
but in seeking an escape from suffering
you are only nourishing ignorance.”
~ J. Krishnamurti
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“When you love, everything will come right.
Love has its own action.
Love, and you will know the blessings of it.”
~ J. Krishnamurti
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“The one who understands himself seeks nothing;
his mind is limitless, undesirous,
and for such a mind the immeasurable can come into being.”
~ J. Krishnamurti (Stockholm 1956, 4th Public Talk)
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“The only freedom
is the freedom of the known.”
~ J. Krishnamurti
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“There is great happiness in not wanting,
in not being something,
in not going somewhere.”
~ J. Krishnamurti
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“If thought frees itself from the past,
it ceases to be thought.”
~ J. Krishnamurti (‘Commentaries on Living’, Series II, 51)
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“Conflict will always exist as long as
the idea is more important than the fact.”
~ J. Krishnamurti (Rajghat, Benares 1954, Talk 3)
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“That which is not understood and completed
will repeat itself again and again till it is;
there is no escape from this, do what you will.”
~ J. Krishnamurti
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“Freedom is not the ultimate goal,
it has to be the first step.”
~ J. Krishnamurti
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“The present is the eternal.”
~ J. Krishnamurti (Ojai, California 1945, Talk 3)
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“Truth, God or what you will,
is not something to be experienced,
for the experiencer is the result of time,
the result of memory, of the past,
and so long as there is the experiencer
there cannot be reality.”
~ J. Krishnamurti (‘The First and Last Freedom’ Ch.21)
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“There is no complexity in what is,
but only in the many escapes that we seek.”
~ J. Krishnamurti
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“When the observer becomes the observed,
know that you have arrived.”
~ J. Krishnamurti
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Quotes by J. Krishnamurti (1895-1986)
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Bibliography:
– ‘Krishnamurti’s Notebook’ – by J. Krishnamurti – (Krishnamurti Publications of America, US)
– ‘Commentaries on Living, I, II & III’ – by J. Krishnamurti – (Quest Books,U.S.)
– ‘The First and Last Freedom’ – by J. krishnamurti – (Rider Book)
– ‘The Awakening of Intelligence’ – by Jiddu Krishnamurti – (HarperOne; New édition)
– ‘The Urgency of Change’ – by Jiddu Krishnamurti – (Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd)
– ‘Meeting Life’ – by Jiddu Krishnamurti – (HarperOne)
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– J. Krishnamurti
– The Immeasurable ( Facebook)
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– Krishnamurti Foundation India
Suggestion:
– A Day at Brockwood Park (Homage to J. Krishnamurti)
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