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Krishnamurti Foundation Trust

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Established in 1968 as a charitable trust, the Foundation is responsible for preserving and making available the authentic teachings of Krishnamurti. https://kfoundation.org

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Krishnamurti Foundation Trust @krishnamurti.bsky.social · 2h

When you follow somebody, you have destroyed your own thought; you have lost your independence and your freedom – politically, but much more psychologically; outwardly, but much more inwardly. —Krishnamurti

Krishnamurti Foundation Trust @krishnamurti.bsky.social · 1d

Truth is always new, totally unknown and unknowable. —Krishnamurti

Krishnamurti Foundation Trust @krishnamurti.bsky.social · 2d

Contradiction exists because there is duality between the thinker and the thought. As long as this duality exists, there must be conflict. —Krishnamurti

Krishnamurti Foundation Trust @krishnamurti.bsky.social · 3d

We are frightened of losing everything we have gained, understood and gathered. We are frightened of not being. We are frightened of the unknown. —Krishnamurti

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Krishnamurti Foundation Trust @krishnamurti.bsky.social · 4d

We are the things we possess; we are that to which we are attached. —Krishnamurti

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Krishnamurti Foundation Trust @krishnamurti.bsky.social · 5d

The very awareness of my dullness is the freedom from that dullness. —Krishnamurti

Krishnamurti Foundation Trust @krishnamurti.bsky.social · 6d

How anxious we are to find an answer to our problems! We are so eager to find an answer that we cannot study the problem; it prevents our silent observation of the problem. —Krishnamurti

Krishnamurti Foundation Trust @krishnamurti.bsky.social · 7d

Awareness must be choiceless. To be so aware demands wide patience and sensitivity. —Krishnamurti

Krishnamurti Foundation Trust @krishnamurti.bsky.social · 8d

Hesitancy is essential to discovery and further understanding, but how can there be hesitancy when you know so much and the self-protective armour is so highly polished? —Krishnamurti

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Krishnamurti Foundation Trust @krishnamurti.bsky.social · 9d

You choose one kind of escape, I another, and my particular brand is always assumed to be more worthwhile than yours; but all escape is harmful, leading to illusion and mischief. —Krishnamurti

Krishnamurti Foundation Trust @krishnamurti.bsky.social · 10d

Life in a city is strangely cut off from the universe; man-made buildings have taken the place of valleys and mountains, and the roar of traffic has been substituted for that of boisterous streams. —Krishnamurti

Krishnamurti Foundation Trust @krishnamurti.bsky.social · 11d

‘More’ is the constant cry of the self; it is the craving for sensation, whether of the past or the future. —Krishnamurti

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Krishnamurti Foundation Trust @krishnamurti.bsky.social · 12d

We do not really want to let go of our problems, for what would we be without them? —Krishnamurti

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Krishnamurti Foundation Trust @krishnamurti.bsky.social · 13d

To understand that which you are, whether pleasant or unpleasant, the myth, the ideal, the self-projected future state, must entirely cease. —Krishnamurti

Krishnamurti Foundation Trust @krishnamurti.bsky.social · 14d

Once you are aware of ‘what is’, however reluctantly, and deny it because of your commitments, deep contradiction is set going. —Krishnamurti

Krishnamurti Foundation Trust @krishnamurti.bsky.social · 15d

Can you understand anything through conflict? To conquer is not to understand. What you conquer has to be conquered again and again, but there is freedom from that which is fully understood. —Krishnamurti

Krishnamurti Foundation Trust @krishnamurti.bsky.social · 16d

In knowing oneself, there is enlightenment. Not the enlightenment that lies beyond the hills, which you seek, but the enlightenment that comes in the understanding of oneself. —Krishnamurti

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Krishnamurti Foundation Trust @krishnamurti.bsky.social · 17d

To go to the very end of a thought, an idea, a feeling or a subject is to be serious. —Krishnamurti

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Krishnamurti Foundation Trust @krishnamurti.bsky.social · 18d

Understanding is not something mysterious. It requires a mind that is capable of looking at things directly, without prejudices, without personal inclination, without opinion. —Krishnamurti

Krishnamurti Foundation Trust @krishnamurti.bsky.social · 19d

We are always thinking of being free from something. Being free from something is not freedom. —Krishnamurti

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Krishnamurti Foundation Trust @krishnamurti.bsky.social · 19d

Order is the perception of things as they are, and as you are, not my conclusion of what you are. —Krishnamurti

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Krishnamurti Foundation Trust @krishnamurti.bsky.social · 21d

When there is immediate contact with fear, there is a totally different action. —Krishnamurti

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Krishnamurti Foundation Trust @krishnamurti.bsky.social · 22d

When there is no hate, when there is no fear, when there is no ambition, when there is no self-concern, then there is love. Be free from hate, from ambition, from greed. —Krishnamurti

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Krishnamurti Foundation Trust @krishnamurti.bsky.social · 23d

I am greedy. At the moment of greed there is neither ‘I’ nor anything else, there is just that reaction. A second later, thought comes in and says, ‘I was greedy.’ Is that ‘I’ separate from greed? No. —Krishnamurti

Krishnamurti Foundation Trust @krishnamurti.bsky.social · 24d

Love is hard to find, and the one who is sentimentally emotional is generally cruel. —Krishnamurti

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