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
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
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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