Teachings of Jiddu Krishnamurti

1. Self Knowing

2. “Self Knowing” -Teachings of
Jiddu Krishnamurti

3. “self-knowing” means
knowing every thought

4. “self-knowing” means
knowing every mood

5. “self-knowing” means
knowing every word

6. “self-knowing” means
knowing every
feeling;
the activity of
your mind

7. It is important to understand
what this self-knowing is . . .

8. …just to be aware,
without any choice, of the “me”

9. which has its source in a bundle of
memories—just to be conscious
of it without interpretation

10. merely to observe the movement
of the mind.

11. But that observation is prevented
when you are merely accumulating
through observation
—what to do, what not to do, what
to achieve, what not to achieve; if
you do that, you put an end to the
living process of the movement of the
mind as the self.

12. That is, I have to observe and see
the fact, the actual, the what is. If I
approach it with an idea, with an
opinion…
—such as “I must not,” or “I must,”
which are the responses of
memory — then the movement of
what is is hindered, is blocked; and
therefore, there is no learning.

13. Self-knowing - Without knowing yourself, do what you will, there cannot
possibly be the state of meditation. I mean by “self-knowing,” knowing every
thought, every mood, every word, every feeling; knowing the activity of your
mind—not knowing the Supreme Self, the big Self; there is no such thing; the
Higher Self, the Atman, is still within the field of thought. Thought is the result of
your conditioning, thought is the response of your memory— ancestral or
immediate. And merely to try to meditate without first establishing deeply,
irrevocably, that virtue which comes about through self-knowing, is utterly
deceptive and absolutely useless.
Please, it is very important for those who are serious, to understand this. Because
if you cannot do that, your meditation and actual living are divorced, are apart—so
wide apart that though you may meditate, taking postures indefinitely, for the rest
of your life, you will not see beyond your nose; any posture you take, anything
that you do, will have no meaning whatsoever.
...It is important to understand what this self-knowing is, just to be aware, without
any choice, of the “me” which has its source in a bundle of memories—just to be
conscious of it without interpretation, merely to observe the movement of the
mind. But that observation is prevented when you are merely accumulating
through observation—what to do, what not to do, what to achieve, what not to
achieve; if you do that, you put an end to the living process of the movement of
the mind as the self. That is, I have to observe and see the fact, the actual, the
what is. If I approach it with an idea, with an opinion — such as “I must not,” or “I
must,” which are the responses of memory—then the movement of what is is
hindered, is blocked; and therefore, there is no learning.

15. Wisdom is a thing that comes
through self- knowing …
- knowing yourself,
knowing every movement of your
thought,
every feeling, every reaction. And as
reaction
you understand all about yourself, there
is that emptiness; and in that
emptiness..
there is wisdom.

16. We are talking of self- knowing:
knowing oneself actually as one
is, not as one should be,
to see that one is stupid, that one is afraid,
that one is ambitious, that one is cruel,
violent, greedy; the motives behind one's
thought, the motives behind one's action -
that isthe beginning of
knowing oneself.

18. If you do not know yourself,
how the structure of your mind
operates, how you feel, what you
think, what your motives are, why
you do certain things and avoid
other things, how you are
pursuing pleasure -

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20. ..unless you know all this basically,
you are capable of deceiving yourself, of
creating great harm, not only to yourself,
but to others.
And, without this basic self-
knowing there can be no
meditation..

22. that is why you have to
inquire into your own
conditioning, and

23. the inquiry
is the
beginning of
self- knowing...

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