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Objections re happiness teaching JK

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

Question: We are happy with our beliefs and traditions based on the doctrines of Jesus; whereas, in your country, India, there are millions who are far from being happy. All that you are telling us, the Christ taught two thousand years ago. What is the use of your preaching to us instead of to your own countrymen?

KRISHNAMURTI: Thought does not belong to any nation or to any race. (Applause) Reality is not conditioned by religious or racial distinctions; and because the questioner has divided the world into Christian and Hindu, into India and Argentina, he has helped to create misery and suffering in the world. (Applause) When I talk in India about nationalism, they say to me, Go to England and tell the people there that nationalism is stupid, because England is pre venting us from living. (Laughter) And when I come here you tell me, Go somewhere else and leave us with our own belief and religion. Do not disturb us. (Laughter)

If your own beliefs and traditions satisfy you, then you will not listen to what I say, because your traditions and your beliefs are shelters under which you take cover in time of trouble. You dont want to face life, therefore you say, I am satisfied; don disturb me. If you would really understand truth, if you would know love, you must be free from beliefs and organized religions. There cannot be your religion and the religion of another, your beliefs and doctrines as against another. The world will be happy when there need be no preacher, when each individual is really fulfilling; and as he is not, I feel I can help him in his fulfillment.

If you feel that I am disturbing, creating sorrow, then you will naturally remain in the religion to which you belong, with its exploitations and illusions; but life will not leave you alone. In that lies the beauty of life. However much you have protected and enclosed yourself within certainties, securities, and beliefs, the wave of life breaks down all your structure. But the man who has no support, no security, shall know the bliss of life.

The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti – Volume II 1934-1935: What Is Right Action?
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Just be happy

Adams, Robert
Robert Adams 20th Cent

When you concern yourself with your body, when you concern yourself with worldly conditions,
when you try to improve something,
all you’re doing is admitting that you are a fool.
In truth, this is all nonsense.
Everything is nonsense.

Therefore, why not be happy?
Why think about conditions, situations? Just be happy.
Do not try to analyze what happiness is. Do not even try to be happy.
Just be happy.

How do you become happy?
By not thinking.
If you have to think about it, it is not happiness.

The worst thing you can ever do is to try to change your condition, to be dissatisfied with the way things are.
Things are the way they’re supposed to be. Do not try to think about it or to analyze it. Things are exactly the way they’re
supposed to be. When you think about this you spoil it.
There are no mistakes.
No one is right, and no one is wrong.

~ The Collected Works of Robert Adams Volume 1, Chapter: The Body and the World

Inquiry into freedom JK

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

However much progress we may make in this world, however far we may go into the skies—visit the moon, Venus, and all the rest of it—the lives of most of us are still very shallow, superficial; they are still outward. And it is much more difficult to go inward; there is no technique for it, no professor to teach it, no laboratory where you can learn to travel within. There is no teacher who can guide you—and please believe me—there is no authority of any kind that can help you to investigate this complex entity called the mind. You have to do it entirely by yourself, without depending on a thing. And as modern civilization is becoming more and more complex, more and more outward, progressive, there is a tendency for all of us to live still more superficially, is there not? We attend more concerts, we read more clever books, we go endlessly to the cinema, we gather together to discuss intellectually, we investigate ourselves psychologically with the help of analysts, and so on; or, because we live such superficial lives, we turn to churches and fill our minds with their dogmas, both unreasonable and reasonable, with beliefs that are almost absurd; or we escape into some form of mysticism. In other words, realizing that our everyday living is shallow, most of us try to run away from it. We engage our minds in speculative philosophies or in what we call meditation, contemplation, which is a form of self-hypnosis; or, if we are at all intellectual, we create a thought-world of our own in which we live satisfied, intellectually content.

Seeing this whole process, it seems to me that the problem is not what to do, or how to live, or what is the immediate action to be taken when we are confronted with war, with the catastrophes that are actually going on in the world, but rather how to inquire into freedom. Because without freedom, there is no creation. By freedom I do not mean the freedom to do what you like—to get into a car and zip along a road, or to think what you like, or to engage yourself in some particular activity. It seems to me that such forms of freedom are not really freedom at all. But is there a freedom of the mind? As most of us do not live in a creative state, I think it is imperative for any thoughtful, serious man to inquire very profoundly and very earnestly into this question.

The Collected Works of
J. Krishnamurti –
Volume XI 1958-1960:
Crisis in Consciousness
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Truly listening rjs

Methodology

There COULD be a most amazing surge in peace, love, mutual growth and understanding if people would always stretch beyond their last level of spiritual apprehension and ferret out what another is truly alluding to. Beyond pat answers and beyond pat reactions. Way way beyond and into rarefied place of finally forever free.

Emptiness, not knowledge RA

Adams, Robert

Knowledge seems to be destroying this world not making it a better place in which to live. The great secret is we have to unlearn everything we’ve learnt if we wish to become free and liberated. No matter how many times I say this to you, you’re still acquiring more knowledge, some of you. Think of the books you read recently. The news you’ve watched on TV. The newspapers you read. Aren’t you acquiring more and more knowledge? What is this knowledge doing for you? Expanding your ego and your ego grows and grows and encompasses the whole world, the whole universe. You have complete knowledge of the universe, of the world in which you live and you think this is going to free you. Freedom comes when you’re empty, when you know nothing. That’s when you’re free, completely absolutely free. Not when you accumulate knowledge yet you keep on doing it. And you will keep on doing it until life throws you around so much, that you’ll get disgusted with this world and start searching for answers within yourself.

Then you will know that you have to give up everything, not gain anything. You’ll have to drop everything you ever learnt. Everything that you’ve learnt in school, in your travels. All of this must be given up if you want to be free, if you want to be liberated. Liberation is your very nature, your swarrupa. Absolute reality is what you really are. Pure awareness. But it’s emptiness. These things are totally empty of anything. Pure awareness, absolute reality does not carry any knowledge to it. It does not contain any bit of knowledge whatsoever. It is emptiness. Total absolute emptiness. Emptiness is what makes the universe comes to pass. It is out of the emptiness that the universe grows. Everything comes from nothing.

Robert Adams

Transcript 225
Who Were You Before You Were Born?
21st February, 1993

Attachment

Non-duality

A T T A C H M E N T
● I can’t wait until . . . .
● I have to have . . . .
● This condition has to go . . . .
● S/He can’t treat me that way . . . .
● I must straighten out . . . .
● I Can’t stop thinking about . . . .
● This shouldn’t have happened . . . .
● I need to have that finished . . . .
● I won’t be happy until . . . .
● More . . . . . . . . . . . .

N O N – A T T A C H M E N T
Freedom!
Happiness now!
Contentment forever!
Peace!
Perfect Love!
Never needy!
Sublimity!
Self-containment!
Awakening!
Abundance!
Alertness!
Awareness!

DrRobinStarbuck

Simply watch, do not react RA

Adams, Robert

Whatever is going to happen, will happen. You simply watch. You do not react. And you realize it’s all for the good. You are not what you appear to be. You think you’ve made decisions today of what you should wear, where you should go, what you should eat. Every thing has been made for you. What I’m trying to say to you is you do not have to carry the load.

It’s like when you go on a train and you have your suitcase in your hand. Do you sit with the suitcase on your head and carry the load? Or do you put the suitcase on the train in the compartment? You will still get to your destination. It’s the same with life. You’re going to your destination. Your destination is awakening, liberation. You do not have to carry the load. The load is desire. You want it very bad, and the more you want it, the more you’re pushing it away, because a strong want, a strong desire, is a strong ego. It’s not desire you want to develop, it’s love, compassion, understanding. Let everything happen as it may. When the smoke clears, you will still be who you are, and you’ll be totally free.

Robert Adams
Transcript 57
You Have to Have Bhakti
28th April, 1991

I don’t need a body

Nisargadatta Maharaj

I am not my body, nor do I need it. I am the witness only. I have no shape of my own. You are so accustomed to think of yourself as bodies having consciousness that you just cannot imagine consciousness as having bodies. Once you realize that bodily existence is but a state of mind, a movement in consciousness, that the ocean of consciousness is infinite and eternal, and that, when in touch with consciousness, you are the witness only, you will be able to withdraw beyond consciousness altogether.

  • Nisargadatta Maharaj “I Am That”

Catch yourself if your mind starts thinking RA

Adams, Robert

You observe your body, you watch your body doing its thing, but you are not that. You never were the body and you will never be a body. You are pure awareness, the absolute reality. As you think about these things you become them. The worst thing you can do is think about troubles and worries. Always think about the heart. Always think about the Self, which is forever. If you think about anything else it is only temporary, it comes and goes. The good things, the bad things of this world, they come and go. Think only of the Self, the heart. This is your reality, beauty, joy. This is being-ness. This is the I-am that I-am.

Remember all the time it begins in the morning when you first open your eyes and get out of bed. That’s when you catch yourself. If your mind starts thinking about the work that you’re going to do and the problems of the day, catch yourself and change…make the change. Say to yourself, “I’m not my work. I’m not my thoughts that come to me. I’m beyond these things. I-am that, which has always been and will always be. That which remains the same forever. The substratum of all existence, the absolute reality, I-am that.” Just thinking about these things in the morning makes you feel wonderful.

Robert Adams
Transcript 239
Take Refuge In Your Heart
15th April, 1993

One Self, Sole Reality, alone exists eternally RM

Ramana Maharshi

Five Verses on the Self
“Katma Panchakam”
Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi

1.) He who is forgetful of the Self, mistaking the physical body for it, and goes through innumerable births, is like one who wanders all over the world in a dream. Thus realizing the Self would only be like waking up from the dream-wanderings.
2.) One who asks, “Who am I?” and “Where am I?” is like a drunken man who enquires about his own identity and whereabouts.
3.) While in fact the body is in the Self, he who thinks the Self is within the insentient body is like one who considers the cloth of the screen which supports a cinema picture to be contained within the picture.
4.) Does an ornament exist apart from the gold of which it is made? Where is the body apart from the Self? He who considers his body to be himself is an ignorant man. He who regards himself as the Self is the Enlightened One who has realized the Self.
5.) The One Self, the Sole Reality, alone exists eternally. When even the Ancient Teacher, Dakshinamurti, revealed It through speechless eloquence, who else could convey it by speech?

Ramana Maharshi
The Collected Works
edited by Arthur Osborne