Sooner or later our relationships turns into pain and suffering when one neglects the other, we will get wounded psychologically and carry on with that hurt, there are innumerable hurts like this, we are never staying with that hurt to learn something out of it, so that we will never get hurt for the rest of life. At the time of hurt if I tell myself next time I must be careful, this should not repeat...etc, I am slowly isolating myself building walls around myself by thinking that, this isolation protects me from psychological hurt. This isolation brings its own loneliness and pain. Thinking is a very complex affair when I can't understand my own thinking, how can I guide the others but in expectation I am doing the same. The fact is when you understand nature of thought which is cunning and divisive, you don't chase it, you don't put race with it.
When I say someone is a good friend to me, inwardly I am comfortable with his presence and he is also feeling the same, otherwise we are not good friends.
That means it's like business, I will be gentle, kind, pleasant to you and you do the same to me. When I am constantly expecting something from you or demanding from you, there is no love between you and me, as love means no expectation in return. Love knows no suffering any pain, and you can come to it
only through negating what is not love.
We are never realizing the simple fact that other is also human being and he/she is also living with expectations. I can do something good or bad to him which is completely in my hand, at the same time I don't have control at any level what he/she returns for that to me. In expectation I desire for something which is completely not in my hand.
The fragrance of a flower is always there weather you smell it or not, it never expects anything from you as it is rich in itself.
http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Is there resistance between me and my work?
This resistance we can be avoided only by understanding how this comes into place, not by saying I must work effortlessly. Present society accepts competition, comparison as a way of life. It is never looking at the energy that one gets when one is in love with what he is doing, to be in love there
must be no ambition, goal, target in your work.
When you are ambitious you are interested in the end result not the actual work, how can one be creative when he is looking for the end result always. The present defines the end result not vice versa. I'm not saying end result has no
importance but it is not only the important thing. When the mind is looking for the end result, we are missing the happiness in little things.
Time is very important factor to understand in our work, you may ignore understanding the effect of time but its effect is always there. Suppose your work has to be completed in a certain time and you are not able to do it, then operation of thinking begins, it says complete your work otherwise you have to face the consequences, it might be answering your authority, losing your job....etc. The basic activity of thought is search for security, but thought can produce fear,
confusion, frustration .....Etc, here if you observe closely thinking is forming resistance towards work, and this resistance that makes you dull not the actual work.
It is our duty to observe and understand this resistance because this is the actual enemy, because of which I am suffering in my work, this resistance can even destroy the relationships between us. So becoming expert in work is not only means to train your brain in a certain technology or subject, but it also includes the understanding of the culture of work. Try to look how you are reacting when a problem is thrown at you, are you looking at it as though it is not a problem
at all or you are giving it energy and making it more complex. It is simplicity in thought that can solve the problems.
It is each and every individual's job to understand all this, you can't say it's the duty of the management, government, ideal...etc or they can't say it's the duty of the individual.
http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/
must be no ambition, goal, target in your work.
When you are ambitious you are interested in the end result not the actual work, how can one be creative when he is looking for the end result always. The present defines the end result not vice versa. I'm not saying end result has no
importance but it is not only the important thing. When the mind is looking for the end result, we are missing the happiness in little things.
Time is very important factor to understand in our work, you may ignore understanding the effect of time but its effect is always there. Suppose your work has to be completed in a certain time and you are not able to do it, then operation of thinking begins, it says complete your work otherwise you have to face the consequences, it might be answering your authority, losing your job....etc. The basic activity of thought is search for security, but thought can produce fear,
confusion, frustration .....Etc, here if you observe closely thinking is forming resistance towards work, and this resistance that makes you dull not the actual work.
It is our duty to observe and understand this resistance because this is the actual enemy, because of which I am suffering in my work, this resistance can even destroy the relationships between us. So becoming expert in work is not only means to train your brain in a certain technology or subject, but it also includes the understanding of the culture of work. Try to look how you are reacting when a problem is thrown at you, are you looking at it as though it is not a problem
at all or you are giving it energy and making it more complex. It is simplicity in thought that can solve the problems.
It is each and every individual's job to understand all this, you can't say it's the duty of the management, government, ideal...etc or they can't say it's the duty of the individual.
http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/
Peace on earth..
The world will change only by changing yourself.
As long as there is no fundamental change in you and me, it is very little significance to do charity work, revolutions; helping others, ideologies, sacred books nothing can save the humanity from the present chaos.
If you really interested to change the society change yourself,
Replace attachment with love in your life.
Don't run after success, power, position, money, sex...etc, be in love with what you are doing not the end result.
It's the activity of a corrupted mind to always looking for the end result.
Don't compare, compete as your fellow human beings are same like you, when you are dead for comparison, competition you will go beyond comparison.
You can come out of things like comparison, competition, violence, desires, fears, loneliness, morality of the social structure only by understanding them. Understanding happens when you live with them, without acceptance or denial.
That understanding and learning about oneself through looking at our relationships, observing our day to day living is the most fundamental duty of a human being. When one ignore this learning there is no beauty or happiness in life.
So please realize the importance of learning about day to day life, action out of this learning is effortless and only this action can bring peace on earth.
www.jkrishnamurti.org
As long as there is no fundamental change in you and me, it is very little significance to do charity work, revolutions; helping others, ideologies, sacred books nothing can save the humanity from the present chaos.
If you really interested to change the society change yourself,
Replace attachment with love in your life.
Don't run after success, power, position, money, sex...etc, be in love with what you are doing not the end result.
It's the activity of a corrupted mind to always looking for the end result.
Don't compare, compete as your fellow human beings are same like you, when you are dead for comparison, competition you will go beyond comparison.
You can come out of things like comparison, competition, violence, desires, fears, loneliness, morality of the social structure only by understanding them. Understanding happens when you live with them, without acceptance or denial.
That understanding and learning about oneself through looking at our relationships, observing our day to day living is the most fundamental duty of a human being. When one ignore this learning there is no beauty or happiness in life.
So please realize the importance of learning about day to day life, action out of this learning is effortless and only this action can bring peace on earth.
www.jkrishnamurti.org
Non violence is just an illusion created by thought
When you use a gesture or a harsh word to hurt others, is it not a form of violence? The catastrophic effect of this violence is war, which is the most brutal and unintelligent thing on earth. The war never solved a single problem for human beings, it multiplies the problems.
What do you do about the violence which is hidden inside yourself? Do you want to be a non-violent, for me non-violence is just an illusion created by cunning thought. An ideal is always an escape from the fact, non violence is just an idea it is not real. If I am trying to become non-violent I take time to become something, whenever time enters it is never ending time.
Is there any other way like, I look at myself my violence, my desires, my fears...etc attentively, and in that very observation there is an ending of those qualities. So real observation is the key for any psychological change, observation which is rational and sane. Like a scientist watching something through microscope, he has to be very careful because he has to prove it to others.
Can we observe our violent nature without the thought of becoming non-violent? See there is beauty in that observation, I am disinterested in non-violence, I don't have any value at all for it, as it is just an illusion created by thought, and the fact is violence. You can learn only from what you are now, not what you are going to become in future.
The ending of violence is not non-violence, it is dying to violence.
www.jkrishnamurti.org
What do you do about the violence which is hidden inside yourself? Do you want to be a non-violent, for me non-violence is just an illusion created by cunning thought. An ideal is always an escape from the fact, non violence is just an idea it is not real. If I am trying to become non-violent I take time to become something, whenever time enters it is never ending time.
Is there any other way like, I look at myself my violence, my desires, my fears...etc attentively, and in that very observation there is an ending of those qualities. So real observation is the key for any psychological change, observation which is rational and sane. Like a scientist watching something through microscope, he has to be very careful because he has to prove it to others.
Can we observe our violent nature without the thought of becoming non-violent? See there is beauty in that observation, I am disinterested in non-violence, I don't have any value at all for it, as it is just an illusion created by thought, and the fact is violence. You can learn only from what you are now, not what you are going to become in future.
The ending of violence is not non-violence, it is dying to violence.
www.jkrishnamurti.org
Thursday, August 26, 2010
About my mails
These mails are not authority based on which you can live, psychological authority destroys the beauty of life. Through these mails I am just trying to point out the way of life, which you are never considering or looking at. It is your responsibility to see these facts in your day to day life.
When I use the word time, it means the interval between idea and action, not the chronological time. Knowledge is impediment to see the truth; it is psychological knowledge not knowledge of mathematics, science, computer...etc
Thinking has to cease in certain areas of life, it happens very naturally only through learning and understanding of its structure not through effort, struggle or control.
Conditioning goes something like this...Generally saint means for us, to reject the beauty of nature, women, fasting, going to Himalayas ...etc. But still he is attached to so called enlightenment, spiritual experience, his sacred books...etc. But a real saint might have car, property, women, power, position all the rest of it in his life, he must take care that he is not getting attached to them.
Attachment is self.
When you are neither craving nor suppressing a desire, how come desire a problem for you?
In the past I have a kind of interest for JK personal life, but now I don't Now what is important is learning from his teachings, not JK.
As he himself asks you for this, he is the true guru.
Learning from JK teachings is not different from learning from your day to day living.
But the question is am I really learning or thinking that I am learning?
When I use the word time, it means the interval between idea and action, not the chronological time. Knowledge is impediment to see the truth; it is psychological knowledge not knowledge of mathematics, science, computer...etc
Thinking has to cease in certain areas of life, it happens very naturally only through learning and understanding of its structure not through effort, struggle or control.
Conditioning goes something like this...Generally saint means for us, to reject the beauty of nature, women, fasting, going to Himalayas ...etc. But still he is attached to so called enlightenment, spiritual experience, his sacred books...etc. But a real saint might have car, property, women, power, position all the rest of it in his life, he must take care that he is not getting attached to them.
Attachment is self.
When you are neither craving nor suppressing a desire, how come desire a problem for you?
In the past I have a kind of interest for JK personal life, but now I don't Now what is important is learning from his teachings, not JK.
As he himself asks you for this, he is the true guru.
Learning from JK teachings is not different from learning from your day to day living.
But the question is am I really learning or thinking that I am learning?
K’s Info
New school is going to open in Chennai by Krishnamurti Foundation.
See the below link for more details...
http://pathashaala.tcec-kfi.org/
Link for KF schools worldwide....
http://www.kfionline.org/schools/index.asp
You can found so many links and videos(youtube) of JK on the net.
If you are in Hyderabad there is one study centre at Punjagutta,
and a retreat centre in Ghatkesar
address:-
6-3-347/5, Behind Model House, Dwarakapuri Colony,
Panjagutta, Hyderabad - 82 A.P.
www.jkcentre.org
Ph : (040) 23357889
See the below link for more details...
http://pathashaala.tcec-kfi.org/
Link for KF schools worldwide....
http://www.kfionline.org/schools/index.asp
You can found so many links and videos(youtube) of JK on the net.
If you are in Hyderabad there is one study centre at Punjagutta,
and a retreat centre in Ghatkesar
address:-
6-3-347/5, Behind Model House, Dwarakapuri Colony,
Panjagutta, Hyderabad - 82 A.P.
www.jkcentre.org
Ph : (040) 23357889
My trip to Rishi Valley school
Here I would like to share my experiences at Rishi Valley school.
1st day:-
It was a long walk from where the bus left me to the school, it was little hot but I haven’t felt any kind of tiredness as the way is full of trees, and when you look at them you forget yourself at least for a second or two. Is living possible when the mind forget the self, it's little petty sorrows, fears, desires when you die to all of them, only then are you and me actually living?
As previous night it was not a complete rest for me in Bangalore, after taking lunch at 1 Pm I slept for a while, it was a hot day, the hot air of the fan exhausted all the liquid in my body. After waking up @ 5 Pm I went to study center to watch Q&A video of JK with IIT Mumbai students. I met a friend who is from Italy and we talked little about life, he is learning Advaita from a master in Tiruvannamalai. After dinner I went to my room and read JK personal notebook, which came in printed form recently. The guest house is really nice, with full of trees around it, and a hill beside the house. The house is very well arranged and maintained in a cleanly manner.
2nd day:-
When one lives in nature there is a sense of peace and energy will be there in life, or it might be the energy which comes when you are alone, I felt this energy on the second day. I met new people from different countries, and the discussion with them has given new insights into life. A good discussion without any prejudices always makes things easier to understand. In the evening we went to the top of a hill, the school is surrounded by hills and scatters up to 300 acres.
To be alone doesn't mean getting isolated and running away from life.
The children:-
It is a delight to see the children at Rishi Valley School, they were uncorrupted by the morality of the present society, there is no comparison, competition, no sense of becoming something, yet they are good at studies as they are in love with what they are doing. You can see discipline in the way they speak and behave but it is surely not something which was imposed on them, this discipline is out of understanding, so it is effortless.
No child wants to be recognized by someone else, so they are like free birds. To be recognized, famous, popular is a very dangerous desire to live with, because it makes you unhappy when someone neglects you. Last day before I was returning from the school, I sat in a morning music session by the students. It was a very big open hall with full of trees surrounded by it, there was gathering of parents, teachers, guests and students.
They sang some of the ancient Sanskrit chants and the melody and rhythm filled air and hearts of the people. It is like someone purifying your heart and mind, an experience which can not be put in words.
Psychological experience is dangerous if you keep that in memory, soon you must die to that and it happens naturally when you are attentive at the time of experiencing.
Can we bring up our children with simplicity in their hearts, which is necessary quality to be happy? Can we take care that they are not slaves to endless entertainment industry, which is making us run away from life? Can we protect their natural qualities of sensitivity & innocence? Can we give them intelligence not money, property, position....etc, as true security lies in intelligence.
1st day:-
It was a long walk from where the bus left me to the school, it was little hot but I haven’t felt any kind of tiredness as the way is full of trees, and when you look at them you forget yourself at least for a second or two. Is living possible when the mind forget the self, it's little petty sorrows, fears, desires when you die to all of them, only then are you and me actually living?
As previous night it was not a complete rest for me in Bangalore, after taking lunch at 1 Pm I slept for a while, it was a hot day, the hot air of the fan exhausted all the liquid in my body. After waking up @ 5 Pm I went to study center to watch Q&A video of JK with IIT Mumbai students. I met a friend who is from Italy and we talked little about life, he is learning Advaita from a master in Tiruvannamalai. After dinner I went to my room and read JK personal notebook, which came in printed form recently. The guest house is really nice, with full of trees around it, and a hill beside the house. The house is very well arranged and maintained in a cleanly manner.
2nd day:-
When one lives in nature there is a sense of peace and energy will be there in life, or it might be the energy which comes when you are alone, I felt this energy on the second day. I met new people from different countries, and the discussion with them has given new insights into life. A good discussion without any prejudices always makes things easier to understand. In the evening we went to the top of a hill, the school is surrounded by hills and scatters up to 300 acres.
To be alone doesn't mean getting isolated and running away from life.
The children:-
It is a delight to see the children at Rishi Valley School, they were uncorrupted by the morality of the present society, there is no comparison, competition, no sense of becoming something, yet they are good at studies as they are in love with what they are doing. You can see discipline in the way they speak and behave but it is surely not something which was imposed on them, this discipline is out of understanding, so it is effortless.
No child wants to be recognized by someone else, so they are like free birds. To be recognized, famous, popular is a very dangerous desire to live with, because it makes you unhappy when someone neglects you. Last day before I was returning from the school, I sat in a morning music session by the students. It was a very big open hall with full of trees surrounded by it, there was gathering of parents, teachers, guests and students.
They sang some of the ancient Sanskrit chants and the melody and rhythm filled air and hearts of the people. It is like someone purifying your heart and mind, an experience which can not be put in words.
Psychological experience is dangerous if you keep that in memory, soon you must die to that and it happens naturally when you are attentive at the time of experiencing.
Can we bring up our children with simplicity in their hearts, which is necessary quality to be happy? Can we take care that they are not slaves to endless entertainment industry, which is making us run away from life? Can we protect their natural qualities of sensitivity & innocence? Can we give them intelligence not money, property, position....etc, as true security lies in intelligence.
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Importance of negation in life
When we read a book or listen to a person our mind tries to formulate what we read or listened from others. The result of this formulation is we will say to ourselves I must be like this from now onwards. If we observe closely when I say I must be like this it leads to conflict, effort and struggle to become something which you are not already. If you are learning instead of saying I must, the change is effortless, you feel happy when you comes out of a conclusion, idea, concept and belief which you are carrying with out proper investigation, so self negation makes you stronger not self improvement. Self negation means unconditioning your mind, coming out of narrow and limited thinking. Doubting questioning is intelligence not believing.
Silence of the mind and learning
Inside our skull thought is moving with tremendous speed, and the medium based on which it moves is time. Thought moves into future, back to past never staying in the present, this is fairly simple to observe in one's mind. There is always a struggle in human beings knowingly or unknowingly to keep it in the present, here what we miss is that struggle to stay in the present is again the trick played by thought. There is mutation in the psyche when one realizes I can't do anything about my psychological feelings (fear, desire, anger, suffering...etc) then suddenly mind becomes still, this stillness out of realization can only makes you free not your effort and struggle to be free. In that stillness only, learning about yourself begins and through learning ending of suffering happens, which is completely effortless.
In other words I can say we are always trying "TO BECOME" something, but this effort and struggle to become, is just a waste of energy, it is a constant battle between "What I am" and "What I should be", once if you realize the enormous wastage of energy, realize in the sense you have to feel this as a fact with your heart, with your whole being then this struggle "TO BECOME" naturally comes to an end. Then mind becomes silent and still, only in this silence is learning possible? The mind which is trying to become something can never understand what it is in the present, so it is not an intelligent mind.
Action is always in the present.
In other words I can say we are always trying "TO BECOME" something, but this effort and struggle to become, is just a waste of energy, it is a constant battle between "What I am" and "What I should be", once if you realize the enormous wastage of energy, realize in the sense you have to feel this as a fact with your heart, with your whole being then this struggle "TO BECOME" naturally comes to an end. Then mind becomes silent and still, only in this silence is learning possible? The mind which is trying to become something can never understand what it is in the present, so it is not an intelligent mind.
Action is always in the present.
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