On Fear
But if you yourself see that thought/time are really the root of fear, it doesn’t need deliberation or a decision. A scorpion is poisonous, a snake is poisonous—at the very perception of them you act.
J. Krishnamurti • On Fear
Mankind, like you and others, goes through every form of difficulty, pain, travail, anxiety, loneliness, depression, sorrow, pleasure—every human being goes through this—every human being all over the world. So our consciousness, our being, is the entire humanity. This is so. How unwilling we are to accept such a simple fact, because we are so accu
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So, thinking and time are together. There is no division between thought and time.
J. Krishnamurti • On Fear
All that is time as distance, right? I have to go from here to there. That is a distance covered by time. But time is also inward, psychological: I am this, I must become that. Becoming that is called evolution. Evolution means from the seed to the tree.
J. Krishnamurti • On Fear
In pursuit of becoming fearing we are not enoygh as we ade si we need to change and feelikng separate from ourselves our nature our intuition in pursuit of bdecoming someone who we think will di a brtter job of reaching salvation
So what is the root of fear?
J. Krishnamurti • On Fear
Desire comparison worshippng some external srare and therefore fearing that u will grt something wrong or need someone else to tell u the answers
Fear also makes one shrink, apprehensive, wanting to escape from it, and therefore the escape becomes more important than the fear.
J. Krishnamurti • On Fear
Is it that there is no one we can go to who will help us to have no fear? You understand the question? Do we want help from somebody to be free of fear—from psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, or the priest, or the guru who says, ‘Surrender everything to me, including your money, then you will be perfectly all right’? We do this. You ma
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To see the false as the false is attention. The false as the false cannot be seen when there is opinion, judgement, evaluation, attachment, and so on, which are the result of non-attention. Seeing the whole fabric of non-attention is total attention. An attentive mind is an empty mind.
J. Krishnamurti • On Fear
What brings about total attention? Not any method nor any system; they bring about a result, promised by them. But total attention is not a result, any more than love is; it cannot be induced, it cannot be brought about by any action. Total attention is the negation of the results of inattention, but this negation is not the act of knowing attentio
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