Are You Looking?
Einstein, Carl Jung, Bruce Lee, and Alan Watts — they all looked toward one man: Jiddu Krishnamurti.
This is what he taught them.
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
“When one loses the deep intimate relationship with Nature, temples, mosques, and churches become important.”
“One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.”
“The ability to observe without judging is the highest form of intelligence.”
“The day you teach the child the name of the bird, the child will never see that bird again.”
“The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.”
“The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of a reality promised by another.”
“All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.”
“It’s beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. It means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.”
“If I have an image about you and you have an image about me, naturally we don’t see each other at all as we actually are. What we see is the images we have formed about each other — which prevents us from being in contact, and that is why our relationships go wrong.”
“Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being.”
“A mind that is full of conclusions is a dead mind. A living mind is a free mind, always learning, never concluding.”
Krishnamurti was a philosopher unlike any other. He was revered by many, yet rejected every title, tradition, and system. Born to be a “World Teacher,” he dissolved the role, insisting that truth is a pathless land. He spoke of radical freedom—not as a concept, but as direct perception untouched by thought. In stillness, he revealed the workings of fear, desire, time, and ego.
He asked for no followers—only that we observe ourselves deeply, without judgment. “To see,” he said, “is to be free.”
h/t @sapienkind on IG, double h/t to Amir ;)