The Life and Death of Krishnamurti

To be absolutely nothing means a total contradiction of everything you have learnt … You know what it means to be nothing? No ambition – which does not mean that you vegetate – no aggression, no resistance, no barriers built by hurt? … The security that thought has created is no security. That is an absolute truth. K

It’s really a question of life itself. Either you live in the past, or you live totally differently: that is the whole point.

Can the mind, whose very essence is of time, catch love, which is its own eternity?44

The only way to avoid sorrow is to be without any resistance, to be without any movement away from sorrow, outwardly or inwardly, to remain totally with sorrow without wanting to go beyond it.’

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. This timeless insight brings about a deep radical change in the mind.

Thus education, in the true sense, is the understanding of oneself, for it is in each one of us that the whole of existence is gathered.’

K maintained that no social reform would ever end human misery; people would always transform any new system into what they themselves were;

The uniqueness of the individual does not lie in the superficial but in the total freedom from the content of consciousness.

K asked whether there was an intelligence not born of knowledge and therefore free of self-interest.