Energy functioning in a pattern becomes matter. That is all life is... Matter and energy are interrelated.
Interpretation
Life is a manifestation of energy and matter, which are interconnected.
This quote by Jiddu Krishnamurti suggests that the essence of life can be understood through the relationship between energy and matter. It emphasizes that energy, when organized in a specific pattern, takes form and becomes tangible matter, highlighting the interconnectedness of all existence and the fundamental nature of reality as a blend of both energy and physical substance.
In practice
In a discussion about the nature of existence, one might say, 'As Krishnamurti stated, energy functioning in a pattern becomes matter.'
The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned.
In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.
If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.
If you have this extraordinary thing going in your life, then it is everything; then you become the teacher, the disciple, the neighbour, the beauty of the cloud - you are all that, and that is love.
Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it.
All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.
In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embedded in it.
Straight ahead you can't go very far.
...for me there is too little of life to spend most of it forcing myself into detachment from it.
ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.
Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead.
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