Life 06 (Jan 10 - Mar 10)

Re: Life 6 (Jan 10 - Mar 10)

Postby winston » Sat Mar 27, 2010 6:38 pm

The craving for identification

One wonders why this craving, longing, for identification exists. One can understand the identification with one's physical needs - the necessary things, clothes, food, shelter and so on. But inwardly, inside the skin as it were, we try to identify ourselves with the past, with tradition, with some fanciful romantic image, a symbol much cherished.

And surely in this identification there is a sense of security, safety, a sense of being owned and of possessing. This gives great comfort. One takes comfort, security, in any form of illusion. And man apparently needs many illusions.

In the distance there is the hoot of an owl and there is a deep-throated reply from the other side of the valley. It is still dawn. The noise of the day has not begun and everything is quiet. There is something strange and holy where the sun arises. There is a prayer, a chant to the dawn, to that strange quiet light.

That early morning, the light was subdued, there was no breeze and all the vegetation, the trees, the bushes, were quiet, still, waiting. Waiting for the sun to arise. And perhaps the sun would not come up for another half hour or so, and the dawn was slowly covering the earth with a strange stillness.

Gradually, slowly, the topmost mountain was getting brighter and the sun was touching it, golden, clear, and the snow was pure, untouched by the light of day. As you climbed, leaving the little village paths down below, the noise of the earth, the crickets, the quails and other birds began their morning song, their chant, their rich worship of the day.

And as the sun arose you were part of that light and had left behind everything that thought had put together. You completely forgot yourself. The psyche was empty of its struggles and its pains. And as you walked, climbed, there was no sense of separateness, no sense of being even a human being.

Krishnamurti to Himself Ojai California Tuesday 10th March, 1983

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Re: Life 6 (Jan 10 - Mar 10)

Postby winston » Sat Mar 27, 2010 8:21 pm

How to Eat Like a Zen Master by Alexander Green

Two weeks ago, I suffered a home invasion - and not for the first time.

I had plopped down to watch Duke play Virginia, having just fixed a toasted ham and Swiss on rye, and a few minutes later - to my astonishment - my plate was bare except for a few crumbs and a spot of pickle juice.

The sandwich thief had struck again!

How clever of him to enter my home in broad daylight, steal the sandwich and dill spear right under my nose, then vanish without a trace.

Wiping the Dijon mustard from my lips, I considered the suspects...

Seriously now, how many meals have you eaten this way, so consumed by your plans for the day, the conversation at the table or - worst of all - the drone of the Tube that you never really tasted the food?

Thich Nhat Hanh would not approve.

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Re: Life 6 (Jan 10 - Mar 10)

Postby winston » Sun Mar 28, 2010 6:22 am

Why are the four goals of life and how should we pursue them?

The Scriptures lay down four goals before man:-
1) Righteousness
2) Wealth
3) Desire and
4) Liberation

But they have to be pursued in pairs, Righteousness and Wealth together and Desire and Liberation combined. That is to say, Wealth has to be earned through Righteousness, and our Desire should be for Liberation.

But man takes these four separately and ends up losing everything. He puts them into separate compartments and adopts distinct plans to achieve them. He gives up Righteousness and Liberation as beyond him and wastes his life pursuing only Wealth and Desire. This leads him to ruin.


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Re: Life 6 (Jan 10 - Mar 10)

Postby winston » Mon Mar 29, 2010 6:39 am

The truly religious man is not the one who practices so-called religion

The truly religious man is not the one who practices so-called religion, who holds to certain dogmas and beliefs, who performs certain rituals, or pursues knowledge, for he is merely seeking another form of gratification.

The man who is truly religious is completely free from society, he has no responsibility towards society; he may establish a relationship with society, but society has no relationship with him.

Society is organized religion, the economic and social structure, the whole environment in which we have been brought up; and does that society help man to find the Divine, truth it matters little what name you give it - , or does the individual who is seeking the Divine create a new society?

That is, must not the individual break away from the existing society, culture, or civilization? Surely, in the very breaking away he discovers what is truth, and it is that truth which creates the new society, the new culture.

The Collected Works Vol. IX Bombay 1st Public Talk 16th February 1955

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Re: Life 6 (Jan 10 - Mar 10)

Postby winston » Mon Mar 29, 2010 1:39 pm

What is the one important lesson that the beautiful flowers teach us everyday?

Look at the blossoms in the garden. When the gardener plucks the flowers, the buds exult that tomorrow is their turn to be gathered into his hands, and their faces are so full of joy when they unfold in that hope.

Do they feel any sadness? Do their faces droop? Are they any less bright? No, the moment they know that the next day it is their turn, they make themselves ready with great gusto and excitement.

So also, one must be ready on the path of Spiritual Practice, enthusiastically remembering the Name of the Divine, without worrying and feeling sad about when we may have to depart from the earthly plane.


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Re: Life 6 (Jan 10 - Mar 10)

Postby winston » Wed Mar 31, 2010 12:43 pm

Now, must we not be alone?

Now, must we not be alone? At present we are not alone - we are merely a bundle of influences. We are the result of all kinds of influences - social, religious, economic. hereditary, climatic. Through all those influences, we try to find something beyond; and if we cannot find it, we invent it, and cling to our inventions.

But when we understand the whole process of influence at all the different levels of our consciousness, then, by becoming free of it, there is an aloneness which is uninfluenced; that is, the mind and heart are no longer shaped by outward events or inward experiences.

It is only when there is this aloneness that there is a possibility of finding the real. But a mind that is merely isolating itself through fear, can have only anguish; and such a mind can never go beyond itself. With most of us, the difficulty is that we are unaware of our escapes. We are so conditioned, so accustomed to our escapes, that we take them as realities.

But if we will look more deeply into our selves, we will see how extraordinarily lonely, how extraordinarily empty we are under the superficial covering of our escapes. Being aware of that emptiness, we are constantly covering it up with various activities, whether artistic, social, religious or political. But emptiness can never finally be covered: it must be understood.

To understand it, we must be aware of these escapes; and when we understand the escapes, then we shall be able to face our emptiness. Then we shall see that the emptiness is not different from ourselves, that the observer is the observed. In that experience, in that integration of the thinker and the thought, this loneliness, this anguish, disappears.


The Collected Works Vol. IX Paris 5th Public Talk 7th May 1950

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Re: Life 6 (Jan 10 - Mar 10)

Postby winston » Wed Mar 31, 2010 4:18 pm

An Intelligent Mind

An intelligent mind acts in the field of thought intelligently, sanely, without resistance; it is free from the structure and implications of attachment, from the action of attachment, from the pursuit of power with all its complications, the ruthlessness of it.

It sees the dividing process of thought, and seeing that clearly, totally, it has energy; that energy is intelligence.

Having that energy, that intelligence, it can operate in the field of thought, not the other way round.


Saanen, 2nd Public Talk 16th July 1974


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Re: Life 6 (Jan 10 - Mar 10)

Postby winston » Wed Mar 31, 2010 8:49 pm

How to convert the negative in the world to positive? How to see unity in this world of diversity?

The expression “The Divine is no where" can remain unchanged; there is no need to confront or contradict that expression.

The only thing necessary is to read the letter "w" in "where", in conjunction with the previous word "no", so that it becomes, "The Divine is now here!".

The negative suddenly becomes positive! Similarly, by merely unifying your vision towards the Divine, the distinctions and differences you see in the world disappear and the many becomes One.

Great devotees from all the religions have realized this truth by their unwavering faith won through the purification of the mind.

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