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Krishnamurti
– The Pathless Path
(1895 - 1986)
What Krishnamurti has done is to free spiritual life, as science has done
in other areas… He has maintained that one can be in total freedom
from the very beginning to the very end, and he has stood for that, like a
rock, for forty years. I think it may well take the world fifty more years to
understand that. - Vimala Thakar
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K’s Biography (1)
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K’s Biography (2)
In 1929 Krishnamurti disbanded the organization,
returned the estates and monies that had been given to
him and declared that his only purpose was to set human
beings unconditionally free from psychological
limitations, and set out on a teaching mission of his own,
as a secular philosopher of spirituality with no affiliation
to sects or dogmas.
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Krishnamurti – the Teacher (1)
Krishnamurti is regarded globally as one of the greatest religious teachers of
all time. He did not expound any philosophy or religion, but spoke of the
everyday matters that concern all human beings—the problems of living in
modern society with violence and corruption, the individual's search for
meaning, security and happiness; and our need to free ourselves from the
inner burdens of fear, anger, hurt and sorrow. He talked of the need to have
a deeply meditative and religious quality in our daily life.
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Krishnamurti – the Teacher (2)
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His Quote on the Fear of Dying
Most of us are frightened of dying because we don't know
what it means to live. We don't know how to live, therefore
we don't know how to die. As long as we are frightened of
life we shall be frightened of death. The man who is not
frightened of life is not frightened of being completely
insecure for he understands that inwardly,
psychologically, there is no security. When there is no
security there is an endless movement and then life and
death are the same. The man who lives without conflict,
who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death
because to love is to die. - Freedom
from the Known, 1969
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His Quotes on The Pathless Path (1)
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His Quotes on The Pathless Path (2)
You cannot discover the path, because there is no
path, Truth is a thing that is living, and to a living
thing there is no path - it is only to dead things
that there can be a path. Truth being pathless, to
discover it you must be adventurous, ready for
danger; and do you think a guru will help you to
be adventurous, to live in danger? To seek a guru
obviously indicates that you are not adventurous,
that you are merely seeking a path to reality as a
means of security. - 1948
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His Quotes on The Pathless Path (3)
But as truth is a pathless land, you can't lay down a line, a
direction, a path to it and practise it, discipline yourself,
learn a technique. It is immovable. There is no technique
to truth. - 1976
So one has to be totally free from all that because truth has
no path to it. It is a pathless land, like a ship that has no
rudder. You have to walk out of darkness, out of your own
chaos, out of your own confusion, out of the forest of
ignorance and come to that by yourself, your own
comprehension of perception. - 1982
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K’s Brockwood Park School, UK
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Thank You
Ivan Frimmel
Cell: 082-454-0311
E-mail: ivan.frimmel@nanhua.co.za
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