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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.

Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Meditation, Understanding

After all, without understanding yourself, what basis have you for right thinking?

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Thinking, Understanding, Bases

To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Lying, Understanding, Important
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1973). “Flight of the Eagle”, HarperCollins Publishers

Aloneness is obviously not isolation, and it is not uniqueness. To be unique is merely to be exceptional in some way, whereas to be completely alone demands extraordinary sensitivity, intelligence, understanding.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Unique, Understanding, Solitude
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1963-1964): The New Mind”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

As long as the mind is in conflict-blaming, resisting, condemning-there can be no understanding. If I want to understand you, I must not condemn you, obviously.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Long, Understanding, Mind
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.260, Rajpal & Sons

There is not first understanding and then action. When you understand, that very understanding is action.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Understanding, Firsts, Action
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Susunaga Weeraperuma (1996). “Sayings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.3, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without love, which brings an integrated understanding of life, efficiency breeds ruthlessness.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
War, Ambition, Understanding
"Education and the Significance of Life".

Without understanding the process of the self, there is no bais for thought, there is no basis for right thinking.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Thinking, Self, Understanding

In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from which there comes understanding.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Choices, Meditation, Understanding
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1945-1948): The Observer Is the Abserved”, Krishnamurti Foundation of Amer

I can only insist that understanding, not blind belief, should be the goal.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Blind Belief, Goal, Understanding
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You are this, which does not satisfy, so you want to be that. If there were an understanding of this, would that come into being? Because you do not understand this, you create that, hoping through that to understand or to escape from this.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Understanding, Doe, Want
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2017). “Commentaries on Living - first series: A Study Book Of The Teachings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.171, Krishnamurti Foundation America (PublishDrive)

Meditation is the process of understanding your own mind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Meditation, Understanding
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “Individual & Society: A Study Book of the Teachings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.89, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

True understanding is possible only when we are fully conscious of our thought, not as an operative observer on this thought, but completely and without the intervention of a choice.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Choices, Understanding

When I said that I am the Buddha, the Christ, the Lord Maitreya, and more, it was not a question of superiority or inferiority. I added that phrase 'and more' very carefully, because I knew that people had a very limited understanding of the Buddha and the Christ, and hence if I said: 'I am the Christ, the Buddha', they would limit that Reality to their own conceptions of the Buddha or the Christ, and Life has no limit.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Reality, People, Understanding
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Without an integrated understanding of life, our individual and collective problems will only deepen and extend. The purpose of education isn't to produce mere scholars, technicians and job hunters, but integrated men and women who are free of fear; for only between such human beings can there be enduring peace.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Jobs, Men, Understanding

There is only that inevitable danger as long as there is lack of understanding; but the moment the individual understands, there will be no formation of religion.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Long, Understanding, Moments
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Understanding does not come through analysis;understanding comes only when the mind is very quite,unburdened,no longer seeking success and therefore being thwarted,afraid of faluire.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life, Understanding, Mind
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1955-1956 : The answer is in the problem”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

Relationship is action, is it not? Action has meaning only in relationship; without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict. The understanding of relationship is infinitely more important than the search for any plan of action. The ideology, the pattern for action, prevents action. Action based on ideology hinders the understanding of relationship between man and man.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Understanding, Levels, Action
"The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti".

Religion, it seems to me, has nothing whatsoever to do with any belief, with any priest, with any church or so-called sacred book. The state of the religious mind can be understood only when we begin to understand what beauty is; and the understanding of beauty must be approached through total aloneness.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Religious, Book, Understanding
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1963-1964): The New Mind”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

My chief concern is to make clear the Truth which I have attained, to give an understanding of the Truth, which is the Truth for all. And hence, if there is understanding rather than blind following, people will not create a religion.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
People, Giving, Understanding
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Our conflict is in relationship, at all levels of our existence; and the understanding of this relationship, completely and extensively, is the only real problem that each one has.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Real, Understanding
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Choiceless Awareness”, p.88, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all?

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Understanding, Intellectual, Brain

The purpose of having the title 'World-Teacher' is to acknowledge, to show, the condition of mind and heart when you have achieved. It is like saying: 'I have painted a picture'. It is like saying: 'I have written a poem'. It is an assertion of the fact of attainment, rather than the narrow understanding that is given to labels and phrases. What the phrase indicates is of importance.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Teacher, Heart, Understanding
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