Life 04 (Aug 09 - Sep 09)

[winston]

No Matter What

It doesn't matter what you do for a living.
It doesn't matter how much money you have in the bank.
It doesn't matter how big your house is.
It doesn't matter what your credit score is.
It doesn't matter what kind of clothes you wear.
It doesn't matter how many people you have hurt in the past.
It doesn't matter where you came from.
It doesn't matter where you're going.
It doesn't matter where you are.
It doesn't matter how you look.
It doesn't matter how you feel.
It doesn't matter what you've done.

No matter what, the Divine loves you.

You are good.
You are valuable.
You are worthy.

Forgive yourself. Accept yourself. Love yourself.

The Divine does.


Source: www.followyoursoul.com

[winston]

We often get caught in trying to find faults, when things go wrong. How should we analyze?

Instead of searching for others' faults, search for your own faults yourself. Uproot them; throw them off. It is enough if you search and discover one fault of yours. That is better than discovering hundreds of faults in others.

Whatever people may say about the faults that you know are not in you, do not feel for it. As for whatever faults that are in you, try to correct them yourself, even before others point them out to you.

Do not harbour anger or bitterness against the persons who point out your faults. Do not retort by pointing out their faults. Instead, you must show your gratitude to them. It is good for you to know your faults.

Trying to discover others' faults is a greater mistake on your part. Knowing others' faults is no good for you.

Source: radiosai.org

[winston]

Loving and Being Loved

Whether you are loving or being loved, love must first emanate from you in order to experience it.

When someone is loving you, the love is flowing out of them. In order for you to experience their love, you must also open up to the flow of love within you. We've all known or heard of people who have been loved by others but who do not feel loved. If you don't feel loved, it's not because of the lack of love flowing toward you, it's because of the lack of love flowing from you.

Your experience of loving and being loved requires the flow of love from your being. Open yourself to the flow of love and you will experience it coming and going. And when you do, you'll realize it's all the same... loving and being loved. It's all one big powerful, present, infinite flow.

Source: www.followyoursoul.com

[winston]

The brain is limited, primitive

The brain has extraordinary capacity, but it has been conditioned and therefore it is limited. It is not limited in the technological world, computers and so on, but it is very, very limited with regard to the psyche.

People have said, “Know yourself”—from the Greeks, from the ancient Hindus, and so on. They study the psyche in another but they never study their own psyche. The psychologists, the philosophers, the experts, never study themselves. They study rats, rabbits, pigeons, monkeys, and so on, but they never say, “I am going to look at myself.

I am ambitious, greedy, envious. I compete with my neighbour, with my fellow scientists.” It is the same psyche that has existed for thousands of years, though technologically we are marvellous outwardly. But inwardly we are very primitive, right? So the brain is limited, primitive, in the world of the psyche.

On Mind and Thought, p132

Source: jkrishnamurthi.com

[winston]

Concentration, Contemplation, meditation then Super Conscious

What are the different stages in the journey to experience the transcendental Divine?
Whatever form you attribute to Divinity, contemplate on that form. When you worship that form, your mind may waver quite a bit in the beginning. One-pointed focusing of the mind on a particular form is called concentration.

When you practice concentration, the wavering of the mind may somewhat reduce. That is the state of contemplation. In contemplation also, there is some wavering of the mind. When the mind becomes totally steady, only then can you call it meditation.
Gradually, you forget yourself. That is the super conscious state (samadhi) in which you transcend all forms. Then you will experience the attributeless Divine.

-Divine Discourse, 6 July 2009.

Source: radiosai.org

[winston]

Computer and the future of man

Scientists are now inventing the “ultimate intelligent machine”, a computer which will beat man in every way. If the machine can outstrip man, then what is man? What are you? What is the future of man?

If the machine can take over all the operations that thought does now, and do it far swifter, if it can learn much more quickly, if it can compete and, in fact, do everything that man can—except of course look at the beautiful evening star alone in the sky, and see and feel the extraordinary quietness, steadiness, immensity and beauty of it—then what is going to happen to the mind, to the brain of man?

Our brains have lived so far by struggling to survive through knowledge, and when the machine takes all that over, what is going to happen?

There are only two possibilities: either man will commit himself totally to entertainment—football, sports, every form of demonstration, going to the temple, and playing with all that stuff—or he will turn inward.

A Timeless Spring, p 164

Source: jkrishnamurthi.com

[winston]

Why should we strive for the progress of everyone?

When you put a step forward, there is the Divine in it. It is the same current that makes the bulb shine, fan rotate and mike function. When you put off the main switch, all the electrical gadgets stop functioning. The Divine is like the main switch.

When you look at something, there is the Divine in it. The Divine Force makes everything function. When you forget the Divine, it amounts to forgetting everything. Therefore, always love the Divine.

Kill the demons of your evil qualities. Only those who have good qualities can develop society. Strive for the progress of the society tirelessly.

-Divine Discourse, 6 July 2009

Source: radiosai.org

[winston]

When the machine takes over the brain…

The brain has infinite capacity; it is really infinite. That capacity is now used technologically. That capacity has been used for the gathering of information. That capacity has been used to store knowledge—scientific, political, social and religious. The brain has been occupied with this.

And it is precisely this function (this technological capacity) that the machine is going to take over. When this take-over by the machine happens, the brain—its capacity—is going to wither, just as my arms will if I do not use them all the time.

The question is: If the brain is not active, if it is not working, if it is not thinking, what is going to happen to it? Either it will plunge into entertainment—and the religions, the rituals and the pujas are entertainment—or it will turn to the inquiry within. This inquiry is an infinite movement. This inquiry is religion.

A Timeless Spring, pp 164-165

Source: jkrishnamurthi.com

[winston]

What are the key actions we must take to realize Divinity?

The entire universe is the creation of the Divine and every being is the embodiment of Divinity, including small insects. Do not observe any differences, as the Divine is present in every being.

Do not hate or deride anybody. Do not quarrel with anybody. When you lead your life in such a manner, you will be able to realize your Self. So long as you have ego, you will not be able to understand your reality. When you cut the 'I' from the middle, it becomes a Cross.

Cross symbolizes cutting of ego. When you cut your ego, you rise to the level of Divinity. If you have the feeling of "I, Mine and Thine", it will develop duality in you.

Duality is not correct. The body has been given to you to lead your life in this world and to discharge your duty. Perform your duty well. Duty is the Divine. Do not observe any differences and consider all as one.

-Divine Discourse, July 6, 2009

Source: radiosai.org

[winston]

Is there any other part of the mind…?

You see, we have only operated so far within the area of thought as knowledge. Right? Is there any other part, any other area of the mind, which includes the brain, which is not touched by human struggle, pain, anxiety, fear, and all the violence, all the things that man has made through thought?

The discovery of that area is meditation. That implies the discovery as to whether thought can come to an end, but yet for thought to operate when necessary, in the field of knowledge?

We need knowledge, otherwise we cannot function, we would not be able to speak nor be able to write, and so on. Knowledge is necessary to function, and its functioning becomes neurotic when status becomes all important, which is the entering of thought as the “me”, as status.

So knowledge is necessary and yet meditation is to discover, or come upon, or to observe, an area in which there is no movement of thought. Can the two live together, harmoniously, daily?

Talks in Saanen 1974, p 69

Source: jkrishnamurthi.com