Don't quote me, please -J. Krishnamurti

10/03/2025

DO NOT expect anything.

07/10/2025

Every thought and feeling must flower for them to live and die...
..flowering of everything in you, the ambition, the greed, the hate, the joy, the passion; in the flowering there is their death and freedom. It is only in freedom that anything can flourish, not in suppression, in control and discipline; these only pervert, corrupt. Flowering and freedom is goodness and all virtue. To allow envy to flower is not easy; it is condemned or cherished but never given freedom. It is only in freedom the fact of envy reveals its colour, its shape, its depth, its peculiarities; if suppressed it will not reveal itself fully and freely.

When it has shown itself completely, there is an ending of it only to reveal another fact, emptiness, loneliness, fear, and as each fact is allowed to flower, in freedom, in its entirety, the conflict between the observer and the observed ceases; there is no longer the censor but only observation, only seeing. Freedom can only be in completion not in repetition, suppression, obedience to a pattern of thought. There is completion only in flowering and dying; there is no flowering if there is no ending.

-K, Krishnamurti's Notebook

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Krishnamurti emphasizes that seeing, not acting, is key to understanding the consequences of values like symbols, thought, ideology, envy, or hate. He points to their root cause through examples—abstract ones nearing the core issue but inviting comparison and analysis in the search for certainty

I have an extensive essay on the discrete separation between the individuation process and Krishnamurti's call for choiceless awareness.

My issue with Krishnamurti’s curators—whether the KFA, forums, or meme pages—is their tendency to present his teachings as a totalizing “this is it.” His call is for individuals to let their own observations unfold naturally, wherever they are.

Cultural specifics or personal interpretations have little place in Krishnamurti’s circles. Instead, custodians should urge a direct, unhesitating dive into his core works—those he deemed most vital—or not engage at all.

Then, after an earnest and vigorous engagement with his work simply stop.

So you can actually begin to face your own life.

[I will never make a dime from this page. That is why there is no constant posting, let alone promotion. My goal in all interactions with the K community is to honor the life and work of K. And, that is best accomplished by calling, any who are willing to listen, back to the light that is their own]

12/03/2023

"You don't care if your children are murdered. You don't have real love and affection for them. If you had you'd prevent all wars."---"We are all One, basica...

11/17/2023

11/07/2023

This aloneness is not aching, fearsome loneliness.

It is the aloneness of being; it is uncorrupted, rich, complete. That tamarind tree has no existence other than being itself.

So is the aloneness.

One is alone, like the fire, like the flower, but one is not aware of its purity and of its immensity, One can truly communicate only when there is aloneness.

Being alone is not the outcome of denial, of self-enclosure. Aloneness is the purgation of all motives, of all pursuits of desire, of all ends Aloneness is not an end product of the mind. You cannot wish to be alone.

Such a wish is merely an escape from the pain of not being able to commune.

-Commentaries on Living (Series I, Section 5)

07/31/2021

[Un]till the false is seen as false, the truth is not.”

06/13/2021

Followed by Q&A with Karen Hesli, Nandini Patnaik and David Moody. You are watching the 36th annual May Gathering at the Krishnamurti Center in Ojai, Califor...

05/19/2021

“What is the action that is ALWAYS correct?”

Why was K so heavy on negation? Why did he deny the birthright foisted upon him? Why did he ask “don’t quote me, please”?

All of these questions are clearly laid to rest if you follow his work intently.

His work is clear and striking- and it becomes entirely mysterious if this “action that is always correct” is not only understood, but ENACTED.

J. Krishnamurti - Saanen 1980 - Public Talk 3 - Action that is always correctSummary:Is there an action which is incorruptible?If I am tied to a belief my ac...