Jiddu Krishnamurti: Thought

Jiddu Krishnamurti was Indian spiritual philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on thought.
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“In this constant battle which we call living, we try to set a code of conduct according to the society in which we are brought up, whether it be a Communist society or a so-called free society; we accept a standard of behaviour as part of our tradition as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or whatever we happen to be. We look to someone to tell us what is right or wrong behaviour, what is right or wrong thought, and in following this pattern our conduct and our thinking become mechanical, our responses automatic. We can observe this very easily in ourselves.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

1960s, (1969)

“Is there a thinker apart from thought?”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

12th Public Talk, London, UK (28 May 1961)
1960s

“Throughout theological history we have been assured by religious leaders that if we perform certain rituals, repeat certain prayers or mantras, conform to certain patterns, suppress our desires, control our thoughts, sublimate our passions, limit our appetites and refrain from sexual indulgence, we shall, after sufficient torture of the mind and body, find something beyond this little life. And that is what millions of so-called religious people have done through the ages, either in isolation, going off into the desert or into the mountains or a cave or wandering from village to village with a begging bowl, or, in a group, joining a monastery, forcing their minds to conform to an established pattern. But a tortured mind, a broken mind, a mind which wants to escape from all turmoil, which has denied the outer world and been made dull through discipline and conformity — such a mind, however long it seeks, will find only according to its own distortion.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

1960s, (1969)

“Is there an observation which is not the instrument of thought?”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

2nd Public Talk, Brockwood Park, UK (26th August 1979)
1970s

“Can thought be silent?”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

2nd Public Talk, Berkeley, California (4 February 1969)
1960s

“When man becomes aware of the movement of his own thoughts, he will see the division between the thinker and thought, the observer and the observed, the experiencer and the experience. He will discover that this division is an illusion. Then only is there pure observation which is insight without any shadow of the past or of time. This timeless insight brings about a deep, radical mutation in the mind.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

&quot;The core of the teachings (1980) http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/about-krishnamurti/dissolution-speech.php <br class="br">1980s