Food, clothing and shelter — these are the basic needs. Beyond that, if you want anything, it is the beginning of self-deception. U.G. Krishnamurti More Quotes by U.G. Krishnamurti More Quotes From U.G. Krishnamurti You can have the courage to climb the mountain, swim the lakes, go on a raft to the other side of the Atlantic or Pacific. That any fool can do, but the courage to be on your own, to stand on your two solid feet, is something which cannot be given by somebody. U.G. Krishnamurti courage lakes two We are using the neurons, our identity, to constantly maintain our identity. Whether you are awake, asleep, or dreaming, this process is carried on. But, it is wearing you out.That is why I say the tragedy that is facing mankind is not AIDS or cancer, but Alzthiemer's disease. U.G. Krishnamurti cancer tragedy dream The questioner has to come to an end. It is the questioner that creates the answer; and the questioner comes into being from the answer, otherwise there is no questioner. U.G. Krishnamurti language ends answers It would be more interesting to learn from children, than try to teach them how to behave, how to live and how to function. U.G. Krishnamurti trying children interesting If anyone thinks he can help you, he will inevitably mislead you, and the less phony he is; the more powerful he is, the more enlightened he is, the more misery and mischief he will create for you. U.G. Krishnamurti powerful helping thinking I discovered for myself and by myself that there is no self to realize -- that's the realization I am talking about. It comes as a shattering blow. It hits you like a thunderbolt. You have invested everything in one basket, self-realization, and, in the end, suddenly you discover that there is no self to discover, no self to realize -- and you say to yourself "What the hell have I been doing all my life?!" That blasts you. U.G. Krishnamurti self blow talking Don't follow me, I'm lost. U.G. Krishnamurti follow-me lost There is no need to change this world at all; and there is no need to change yourself either. U.G. Krishnamurti change-yourself world needs To be yourself requires extraordinary intelligence. You are blessed with that intelligence; nobody need give it to you; nobody can take it away from you. He who lets that express itself in its own way is a "Natural Man". U.G. Krishnamurti being-yourself blessed men There is no such thing as experience here. You seem to know, you imagine. Imagination must come to an end...I don't know how to put it. The absence of imagination, the absence of will, the absence of effort, the absence of all movement in any direction, on any level, in any dimension - THAT is the thing. That is a thing that cannot be experienced at all. It is not an experience. U.G. Krishnamurti effort movement imagination There is no such thing as truth. The only thing that is actually there is your 'logically' ascertained premise, which you call truth. U.G. Krishnamurti premises Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow. U.G. Krishnamurti capture movement A guru is one who tells you to throw away all the crutches that we have been made to believe are essential for our survival. He would ask you to walk, and he would say that if you fall, you will arise and walk. U.G. Krishnamurti survival believe fall Nature is interested in only two things--to survive and to reproduce one like itself. Anything you superimpose on that, all the cultural input, is responsible for the boredom of man. U.G. Krishnamurti boredom men two It is fear that makes you believe that you are living and that you will be dead.What we do not want is the fear to come to an end. That is why we have invented all these new minds, new sciences,new talks, therapies, choiceless awareness and various other gimmicks. U.G. Krishnamurti fear mind believe We don't want to be free from fear. All that we want to do is to play games with it and talk about freeing ourselves from fear. U.G. Krishnamurti games want play The search ends with the realization that there is no such thing as enlightenment. By searching, you want to be free from the self, but whatever you are doing to free yourself from the self is the self. How can I make you understand this simple thing? There is no 'how'. If I tell you that, it will only add more momentum to that (search), strengthen that momentum. That is the question of all questions: "How, how, how?" U.G. Krishnamurti simple self life The body is not interested in anything you are interested in. And that is the battle that is going on all the time. U.G. Krishnamurti not-interested battle body My teaching, if that is the word you want to use, has no copyright. You are free to reproduce, distribute, interpret, misinterpret, distort, garble, do what you like, even claim authorship, without my consent or the permission of anybody. U.G. Krishnamurti teaching use want You know, this dialogue is only helpful when we come, both of us, to a point where we realize that no dialogue is possible, that no dialogue is necessary. When I say understanding or seeing, they mean something different to me. Understanding is a state of being where the question isn't there any more. There is nothing there that says, "Now I understand!" That's the basic difficulty between us. By understanding what I am saying, you are not going to get anywhere. U.G. Krishnamurti different understanding mean
