Frases de Jiddu Krishnamurti

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“La búsqueda se convierte en otra huida de lo que realmente somos.”

“Sólo cuando la mente está libre de ideas y creencias puede actuar correctamente.”

“La sabiduría no es una acumulación de recuerdos, sino una suprema vulnerabilidad a lo verdadero.”

“Cuando no hay amor en nuestro corazón, solo nos queda una cosa: el placer; y ese placer es el sexo, por lo tanto este se convierte en un enorme problema.”

“La religión de todos los hombres debe ser la de creer en sí mismos.”

“Ningún libro es sagrado, lo puedo asegurar, igual que el periódico, son solo palabras impresas en papel, y tampoco en ellas hay nada sagrado.”

“Guarda el libro, la descripción, la tradición, la autoridad, y toma la ruta para descubrirte a ti mismo.”

“Cuando la mente está completamente silenciosa, tanto en los niveles superficiales como en los profundos; lo desconocido, lo inconmensurable puede revelarse.”

“Sembrando trigo una vez, cosecharás una vez. Plantando un árbol, cosecharás diez veces. Instruyendo al pueblo, cosecharás cien veces.”

“«Es porque somos tan secos nosotros mismos, tan vacíos y sin amor, que hemos permitido que los gobiernos se apoderasen de la educación de nuestros hijos y de la dirección”

“Lo decisivo para traer paz al mundo es nuestra conducta diaria.”

“Solo si escuchamos podremos aprender. Y escuchar es un acto de silencio; solo una mente serena pero extraordinariamente activa puede aprender.”

“La sabiduría no ejerce ninguna autoridad y aquellos que ejercen la autoridad no son sabios.”

“El miedo corrompe la inteligencia y es una de las causas de la egolatría.”

“Por la esperanza del mañana sacrificamos el hoy, sin embargo la felicidad siempre está en el ahora.”

“Entre dos soluciones, opta siempre por la más generosa.”

“No es signo de buena salud el estar bien adaptado a una sociedad profundamente enferma.”

“La libertad consiste en reconocer los límites.”

“No se comprende primero y luego actúa. Cuando comprendemos, esa comprensión absoluta es la acción.”

“Conoceremos el estado del amor solo cuando los celos, la envidia, la posesión y el dominio terminen. Mientras haya posesividad, no hay amor.”

“Si posees claridad, si eres una luz interna para ti mismo, nunca seguirás a nadie.”

“¿Ha notado usted que la inspiración llega cuando no la está buscando? Llega cuando toda expectativa se detiene, cuando la mente y el corazón se tranquilizan.”

“No te pierdas ni te confundas en las organizaciones, permanece solo y sencillo.”

“La tradición incapacita y entorpece la mente de manera inevitable.”

“Pensar: Proceso de supervivencia, condicionante. Para sobrevivir, nos vemos forzados a pensar.”

“Aprender de uno mismo requiere humildad, requiere nunca asumir que conoce algo, se trata de aprender de uno mismo desde el principio y nunca acumular.”

“Ser ricos internamente es mucho más arduo que ser exteriormente ricos y famosos; se requiere mucho más cuidado, una atención más intensa.”

“Why does the brain retain the memory of the hurt from yesterday?”

“Can I live a life, daily life, without sense of self-concern?”

“When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation.”

“Truth does not belong to an individual.”

“We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown.”

“If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.”

“Is it possible to live in this world without the operation of will?”

“Can thought be silent?”

“The answer is in the problem, not away from the problem. I go through the searching, analysing, dissecting process, in order to escape from the problem. But, if I do not escape from the problem and try to look at the problem without any fear or anxiety, if I merely look at the problem — mathematical, political, religious, or any other — and not look to an answer, then the problem will begin to tell me. Surely, this is what happens. We go through this process and eventually throw it aside because there is no way out of it. So, why can’t we start right from the beginning, that is, not seek an answer to a problem?”

“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.”

“And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are.”

“The real lessons of life are learned by recognizing and coming to terms with being human. It is how we stand up to failure and duress which really marks our progress in life. Sometimes one of the most important lessons is to learn to just let go of the past.”

“Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.”

“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”

“You must understand the whole of life,
not just one little part of it.
that is why you must read,
that is why you must look at the skies,
that is why you must sing and dance,
and write poems and suffer and understand,
for all that is life.”

“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.”

“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.”

“If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.”

“One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.”

“Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being.”

“Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.”

“Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.”