Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

The way to freedom is through service to others. The way to happiness is through meditation and being in tune with God... break the barriers of your ego, shed selfishness, free yourself from the consciousness of the body, forget yourself, do away with this prison house of incarnations, melt your heart in all, be one with creation.

I is a great prison. It is your slavery and bondage to the mind. The moment you enter beyond the mind, you are - but you don't have any notion of being an ego, of being an I. In other words: the more you think you are, the less you are; the more you experience that you are not... the more you are.

Forget the dancer, the center of the ego. Become the dance. Then the dancer disappears and only the dance remains. Then the dancer is the dance. There is no dancer separate from dance, no dance separate from the dancer.

Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will.

Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order.

All troubles come to an end when the ego dies

Meditation... dissolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.

The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.

The aim of Zen training is to attain the state of consciousness which occurs when the individual ego is emptied of itself and becomes identified with the infinite reality of all things.

One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.

By constantly keep one's attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.

The mind is the world and the no-mind is freedom from the world. The mind is misery and no-mind is the end of misery and the beginning of ecstasy.

Meditation is nothing but an effort to drop all the foreign elements so that you can see yourself as you were before you were born, mirrored in its purity. It is a great silence and a great joy to be there, and once you start abiding there, there is no death and no time. All fear, all greed, all anger, disappears: one is just there with no idea, no desire.

We have to learn to go beyond both a positive mind and a negative mind to become a silent, nonjudgmental, non-analytical, non-interpretiv e mind. In other words, the silent witness. In the process of silent witnessing, we experience inner silence. In the purity of silence, we feel connected to our source and to everything else.

I think we have to prepare the mind in one way or another to accept the great uprush or downrush, whichever you like to call it, of the greater non-self.

It is godlike to unloose the spirit, and forget yourself in thought.

The objective of spiritual advancement is not so much 'works' but the quality of life free from ego-consciousness.

To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.

That is, when the mind ceases to create, then there is creation.

The whole art of meditation is, how to leave the personality easily, move to the center, and be not a person. Just to be and not be a person is the whole art of meditation, the whole art of inner ecstasy.

The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True "I" enjoys the stillness of bliss.

A true spiritual practitioner is someone who has discovered that it is possible to be at ease in the world for no reason, if only for a few moments at a time, and that such ease is synonymous with transcending the apparent boundaries of the self.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.