Seeing, observing, listening, these are the greatest acts
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of being fully present and engaged in the moment through sensory awareness.
Jiddu Krishnamurti highlights the significance of actively engaging with the world around us through seeing, observing, and listening. These simple yet profound acts encourage mindfulness and present-moment awareness, suggesting that true understanding and insight come from being fully attentive to our experiences rather than being distracted or preoccupied.
In practice
A teacher might use this quote to encourage students to focus during lessons.
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.
At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.
That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.
Not knowing everything is all that makes it OK, sometimes.
Manβs strength resides in his capacity and desire to elevate himself, so as to attain the good. To travel step by step toward the heights. And that is all he can do. To reach heaven and remain there is beyond his powers: Even Moses had to return to earth. Is it the same for evil?
One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realising this a monk should take no pleasure in the respect of others, but should devote himself to solitude.
To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
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