“The Book of Life” by Jiddu Krishnamurti has an entry for every day of the year. This blog has each daily entry plus commentary by the writer, Doug Hall.
Meditation script inspired by Jiddu Krishnamurti talk 1985. Seven (7) step overview of above Meditation inspired by Jiddu Krishnamurti. Credits: The song used for this meditation was produced by Aroshanti and is titled Illumination on the CD Zen Relaxation. Photos: Fresh Fir The Meditation itself is based on the Video of Jiddu Krishnamurti “What is …
April 26th ~ You cannot be sensitive if you are not passionate. Do not be afraid of that word passion. Most religious books, most gurus, swamis, leaders, and all the rest of them say, “Don’t have passion.” But if you have no passion, how can you be sensitive to the ugly, to the beautiful, to …
April 27th ~ Obviously there must be passion, and the question is how to revive that passion. Do not let us misunderstand each other. I mean passion in every sense, not merely sexual passion, which is a very small thing. And most of us are satisfied with that because every other passion has been destroyed–in …
April 28th ~ A passionate mind is groping, seeking, breaking through, not accepting any tradition; it is not a decided mind, not a mind that has arrived, but it is a young mind that is ever arriving. Now, how is such a mind to come into being? It must happen. Obviously, a petty mind cannot …
April 29th ~ The word is not the thing. The word passion is not passion. To feel that and to be caught in it without any volition or directive or purpose, to listen to this thing called desire, to listen to your own desires which you have, plenty of them, weak or strong–when you do …
April 30th ~ In the state of passion without a cause there is intensity free of all attachment; but when passion has a cause, there is attachment, and attachment is the beginning of sorrow. Most of us are attached, we cling to a person, to a country, to a belief, to an idea, and when …
May 1st ~ Truth, the real God–the real God, not the God that man has made–does not want a mind that has been destroyed, petty, shallow, narrow, limited. It needs a healthy mind to appreciate it; it needs a rich mind–rich, not with knowledge but with innocence–a mind upon which there has never been a …
May 2nd ~ How do emotions come into being? Very simple. They come into being through stimuli, through the nerves. You put a pin into me, I jump; you flatter me and I am delighted; you insult me and I don’t like it. Through our senses emotions come into being. And most of us function …
May 3rd ~ The very first thing to do, if I may suggest it, is to find out why you are thinking in a certain way, and why you are feeling in a certain manner. Don’t try to alter it, don’t try to analyze why you are thinking in a particular groove and from what …
May 4th ~ Training the intellect does not result in intelligence. Rather, intelligence comes into being when one acts in perfect harmony, both intellectually and emotionally. There is a vast distinction between intellect and intelligence. Intellect is merely thought functioning independently of emotion. When intellect, irrespective of emotion, is trained in any particular direction, one …