The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
Interpretation
Innocence refers to a mental state that is untouched by harm or negativity.
Jiddu Krishnamurti's quote on 'innocence' suggests that true innocence is characterized by a mind that remains unharmed by external factors, indicating a profound state of peace and purity. It implies that an innocent mind is free from the scars of past experiences and the negativity that can taint one's perception of the world.
In practice
In a conversation about resilience, I might say, 'Krishnamurti believed that innocence signifies a mind untainted by hurt.'
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.
I want nothing less than a faith founded upon a rock, faith in the constitution of things. The various man-made creeds are fictitious, like the constellations Orion, Cassiopeia’s Chair, the Big Dipper; the only thing real in them is the stars, and the only thing real in the creeds is the soul’s aspiration toward the Infinite.
Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.
In 1986, Pakistan got the blasphemy law. So, while we had just two cases of blasphemy before that year, now we have thousands. It shows that one should be careful while bringing religion into legislation, because the law itself can become an instrument of persecution.
Randolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old.
The truth is the light and the light is the truth.
The alcohol smell is on my fingers, cold and remote, piercing like a steel pin going in. It smells like white enamel basins. When I look up at the stars in the nighttime, cold and white and sharp, I think they must smell like that.
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