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Jiddu Krishnamurti „Problems of Life“.
Investigation of fundamental questions of human existence through the prism of self-knowledge and consciousness.
Three virtuous egoists
Krishnamurti describes a meeting with three types of people: a sannyasin, a follower of a brotherhood, and a utopian. They all live for the future (the next life, a divine niche, or a new state) and sacrifice the present to their ideals. The author asserts that becoming is a prolongation of suffering, and radical transformation is only possible in the present, in "being.".
ID
People identify with groups, religions, or leaders out of fear, laziness, or habit. **Identification denies love and freedom; it is a form of self-defense and a surrogate for lived experience. Truth only emerges in a state of freedom, when all identification ceases.
Empty talk and worry
Both phenomena result from a restless mind seeking intense sensations. Escaping from oneself through gossip or worry hinders deep self-knowledge. Peace of mind cannot be achieved through abstinence; it comes only with an understanding of what "is.".
Thought and love
Thought is not love, Because thought is based on memory and always divides. Jealousy and possessiveness are products of thought that take the place of love. Love is a state of being in which thought is absent; it cannot be cultivated or deliberately brought about.
Loneliness and isolation
Loneliness Solitude is not a fear-inducing isolation, but a pure, imperishable state of being. While seclusion (isolation) leads to conflict, solitude enables true communication with that which is beyond measure.
students and teachers
The separation into teacher and student leads to spiritual exploitation and self-deception. Humility is not an achievement., It cannot be cultivated for the future. It is important to understand oneself and not to follow someone who promises a reward.
Rich and poor
Wealth often possesses more than people actually possess, creating a feeling of alienation and inner poverty. Desire to become (Expansion of the "self") hinders the understanding of reality for both rich and poor.
Rituals and Conversion
Conversion from one faith to another is merely a change of "cells" (prisons). Rituals act like stimulants., ...which dull the mind and heart over time. The truth lies beyond all ideological patterns and rituals.
To know
Knowledge is based on the past and is an obstacle to understanding the unknown. Understanding the "self" is freedom from knowledge., since the accumulation of information often serves only as a protection against the fear of emptiness.
Respectability
To be respectable means to build a wall of security around oneself made of money, power, or virtue. Respectable people fear the truth. and are closed off to reality due to constant concern for their own self-improvement.
policy
Political activism often serves as an escape from the triviality of everyday life. External changes (political and economic) cannot be separated from internal ones. The inner always triumphs the outer.. Only deep awareness can lead to an integration of life as a whole.
Experience
Experience (past, memory) hinders the state of experiencing (present). In true In this state of experience, there is neither an experiencer nor an experienced thing. – it is a silent movement of being beyond time.
virtue
True virtue comes from the heart, not the mind; virtue cultivated by the mind is merely a clever calculation and self-defense. Virtue is a spontaneous understanding of what is., and no accumulated resistance.
Simplicity of the heart
Outward renunciation and a simple life do not equate to simplicity of heart. Complexity begins with the desire to "be" (protected, meaningful). Reality cannot be achieved through means., but by ending all attachments.
Facets of individuality
Every person is a "multiplicity," a collection of conflicting desires. The whole cannot be understood through a part; one must recognize the desire itself, without the participation of the "understander", who is himself a product of desire.
Sleep
Sleep is not only important for the body's recovery, but also for calming the mind. Deep sleep is essential for... creative renewal This is possible if the mind voluntarily relinquishes the tendency to gather experiences.
Love in relationships
Relationships are the process of uncovering the ways of the "self," which we often resist. We love with our minds (seeking security, possession), not with our hearts. Unity arises only when the mind becomes still..
The known and the unknown
Reality (the incomprehensible) cannot be found through discipline or tools created by time. The mind must be completely still., without registering or giving a name, so that the immeasurable can occur.
The search for truth
To seek the truth is to deny it, since the search is based on desire and projection. Self-awareness is the first step.; it reveals itself in the process of relationships and actions without choice.
Sensitivity (receptivity)
Rejecting ugliness and clinging to beauty means being insensitive. Reality reveals itself only in the absence of contrasts. and the conflict of choice.
Individual and Society
Society exists for the individual, to grant them the freedom to awaken their highest reason. The conflict between humanity and society reflects the inner conflict within humanity. Transformation in the present is more important than the state's future plans.
Personality, the „self“
We cling to names and positions out of fear of being "nothing." **The "self" is an emptiness** that we try to fill with activity and identifications. Freedom comes through the fearless experience of this emptiness.
Believe
Faith is an expanded desire, a refuge that often replaces love and clarity. **The idea is less important than the action**, but we often replace action with activity based on faith.
silence
True stillness is not the result of fatigue or discipline, but a state in which **the "experiencer" and the process of accumulation are absent**. It is the creative stillness of life outside of time.
Rejection of wealth
Liberation from material things requires wisdom, not just outward gestures. Simplicity does not come from the mind.; it arises together with freedom from conflict and an understanding of desire.
Repetition and feeling
The constant repetition of words or rituals offers only temporary satisfaction and numbs the mind. Truth cannot be repeated.; what is mechanically reproduced is lifeless.
Radio and music
Entertainment often serves to..., to escape "what is".. The dependence on external stimuli (music, art) indicates an inner emptiness that the person is afraid to confront.
authority
Following authority (guru, leader) is a denial of understanding. Authority breeds fear, and true clarity cannot be received from another.
→Meditation
True meditation is not about controlling the mind, but about... Uncovering and understanding the interests of the "self"„. The mind must be completely empty in order to perceive the immeasurable.
→Anger
Anger has the quality of isolation and is often fueled by the desire to justify oneself by blaming others. Violence cannot be overcome by willpower.; It requires a silent awareness of the desire itself.
Psychological safety
Belief in a teacher or an ideology provides a sense of security, but it creates illusions. Experience is not reality; for reality to appear, knowledge and accumulated experience must cease.
seclusion
We cling to the feeling of separation because we live with feelings and are afraid of losing them. Only when the mind is calm is love possible without "I" and "mine".
Power
The desire for power (through money, knowledge, or virtue) corrupts and destroys humility. Isolation is the path of the "ego," leading to antagonism and suffering.
sincerity
Sincerity is often based on willpower, which hinders a passive recognition of the truth. Simplicity and sincerity are incompatible, since sincerity is geared towards attainment (identification).
Self-realization
To seek self-realization means to seek self-preservation and the permanence of desire. The illusion of self-realization conceals inner poverty..
words
We often fill the inner void with words and sounds, fleeing from ourselves. The awareness of the ways of the mind, who create these illusions, is the beginning of true meditation.
Idea and fact
The idea (what „should be“) is more important to us than the fact (what „is“). Conflict arises from the attempt to adapt the fact to an ideal.; Understanding comes only through encountering reality without preconceived notions.
continuity
The fear of death is the fear of the end of accumulated experience ("I"). Renewal is only possible through the death of the center of continuity. (Idea, memory, word) in every moment.
Self-defense
We hurt others because we ourselves are wounded by our conflicts; defending the idea of self generates aggression. The realization that you are "nothing"., freed from fear and accumulation.
„My path and your path“
The term "my experience" suggests an illusion; experience based on belief only reinforces conditioning. There are no multiple paths to reality., since the very idea of the journey is an escape from inner conflict.
Awareness
The solution to a problem lies within the problem itself, not in searching for an answer outside of it. You yourself are the problem; only passive, non-selective consciousness makes it possible to fully understand it.
loneliness
We fear loneliness and use people or ideas to hide it. When a person He experienced his loneliness directly as himself., The fear disappears.
coherence
Following a pattern (an ideal) provides security, but it destroys the mind and leads to inner contradictions. **Integration is freedom from the struggle of becoming.**.
Plot and idea
The idea restricts and controls action out of fear. Real action is free from idea and pattern; it is only possible in the present.
City life
City life, with its comforts and alienation, leads to attachment to things and ideas. **Understanding the ways of the "self" is the beginning of reason,** which transcends urban cunning.
Obsessive thoughts
Knowing the cause of an obsessive idea does not eliminate it. **Acceptance of what "is"** and the calmness of the superficial mind allow the hidden conflict to reveal itself and resolve.
Spiritual guide
We choose leaders from our own chaos, seeking comfort instead of truth. No one else can bring about a change in you.; Resistance and control are not understanding.
stimulation
Silence caused by external stimuli (mountains, music) is dead. The appropriate response to life is action., not the creation of an idea or the escape into the past.
Problems and escape
We cling to problems because without them, the "self" does not exist. The truth liberates from oppression, but cannot be achieved gradually or through willpower.
What is and what should be
Conflict arises from the desire to become something one is not (an ideal). Understanding what „is“ (reality), requires the absence of comparison and judgment.
Contradiction
Contradiction arises when we establish a fixed point (an ideal) and deviate from it. True action is independent of conclusions. and plans, it is complete at every moment.
jealousy
Jealousy is a way of keeping a person as property for one's own security. Where there is possession, there is no love.; An idea cannot hide the absence of a flame.
naturalness
Cultivating a pose (even an ascetic one) is a denial of naturalness out of fear. Only naturalness in freedom can reveal the truth..
Conscious and unconscious
Both levels of the mind arise from the past and from inferences. A problem can be solved when the entire mind is still. and projects no answers.
Challenge and response
Thought is an inadequate response of memory to the ever-new challenges of life. True action is openness to the unknown., where there is no room for an idea.
The pursuit of possessions
We use others to escape the fear of loneliness, and we call it love. Jealousy and hatred are the result of possession and the search for security.
Vanity (shame)
Resentment towards others is often an escape from one's own shame about one's own actions. We are ashamed of our falls because we have put ourselves on a pedestal.; Without a podium, there is no fall.
Fear
Fear only exists in relationships (to the past, the future, to success). The mind creates fear., by resisting the unknown challenge of the present.
„"How can I love?"“
Love cannot be bought through sacrifice or cultivated through exercises. The heart must be completely empty of the objects of the mind., so that love can arise within it.
The futility of striving for results
The search for results is a search for death (completion), not for life. The experience is inexhaustible., if the memory doesn't bother her.
The desire for happiness
Meditation as a means to achieve happiness is merely a calculation of the mind. The destruction of the form of the "self" is meditation.; Happiness comes only in solitude.
Thought and consciousness
Thought is always a superficial, conditioned response of memory. A state of experience is impossible as long as the thought process is ongoing..
Self-sacrifice
Conscious sacrifice is merely a form of exchange and expansion of personality. Love for what "is" is the beginning of wisdom., in contrast to isolating renunciation.
Flame and smoke
We recognize the smoke (jealousy, anger, memory), but we mistake it for the flame of love. Love arises when the mind is free from thoughts. and the heart empty of objects of the mind.
Busy mind
The mind exists as long as it is occupied with something (even with God); this occupation is a form of escape from nothingness. The end of mental activity is the beginning of true stillness..
Ending the thinking
Knowledge is a barrier to experience and creativity. The truth is only revealed when thinking ceases., not through violence, but through self-knowledge.
Desire and conflict
Conflict (the awareness of the "self") arises from an inappropriate reaction to a challenge. The termination of the process of naming experiences ends the conflict.
Acting without a goal
Acting for an ideal is „like a dog chasing its own tail“ (a projection of the „self“). Action without an idea is the only radical revolution..
Cause and effect
The search for the cause of suffering is often merely a search for comfort, not for understanding. Cause and effect are a continuous flow., no fixed points.
dullness
We become dulled by choosing habit and escape (books, rituals) instead of vigilance. To own something means to become dull.; Virtue is freedom, not accumulation.
Clarity in action
Clarity is not what precedes action, but the action itself. Love is a flame without smoke, it lies beyond the achievements of the mind and of time.
ideology
Ideologies divide people and sacrifice the people of today for a fictitious person of the future. Freedom from any ideology arises from self-knowledge..
beauty
Beauty requires sensitivity and openness to both the beautiful and the ugly. The search for beauty as an ideal is an escape from life., which is man himself.
integration
Every conflict and every process of becoming is disintegration. Integration is not an act of will., but a state of completeness in the absence of struggle.
Fear and flight
We use people (wife, husband) to escape our loneliness and call it love. In solitude (freedom from escape) fear ends..
Exploitation and activity
A superficial mind cannot do true good; its "service" is often just a form of self-aggrandizement. The truth lies in the silent observation of what is., transforms the person.
Educated or wise?
Knowledge is conditional and an obstacle to understanding the unknown. To know is to remain in ignorance., and „not knowing“ is the beginning of wisdom.
Silence and will
Will is a goal-oriented desire that only intensifies the conflict. Silence cannot be brought about by means of anything.; it is present when there is no noise of effort and will.
ambition
Ambition is the beginning of the conflict, masked by the ideals of progress. We avoid what „is“.“, because we fear our own emptiness.
satisfaction
Satisfaction is the understanding of what "is", which is always new. She will arrive when all the searching is over.; Only love makes everything new.
Wisdom – not a collection of knowledge
Knowledge (memory) always refers to the past and hinders the discovery of the new. Wisdom comes when knowledge is exhausted., when the thought falls silent.
Distraction
There is no distraction, there is only the flight from what "is" to more agreeable interests. When the spirit and that which "is" become one, Transformation and silence occur.
Time
Psychological time is a process of becoming that is false. A life lived in time is confusion; Bliss is a timeless state of being.
Sorrow
We flee from grief into solace (religion, ideas), which only intensifies it. Understanding suffering requires passive vigilance. without judgments.
Feeling and happiness
Feelings are always a reaction and a desire for "more", which leads to conflicts. Happiness is not a feeling and not a goal; It occurs when the mind is completely inactive.
Recognizing what is false as false
Condemning a problem is an escape from it. Recognizing a flawed approach as flawed (through passive vigilance) opens the true path.
Security
We seek security in the external (possessions) or internal (ideals), out of fear of the uncertainty of life. To remain with "being"., without ideals – that means finding freedom and happiness.
Work
Often we don't love the work itself, but the satisfaction (power, happiness) it gives us. Using people as a means to an end – that is a lack of love. and a source of conflict.
