Simplicity Comes Into Being When There is Freedom From the Desire to Achieve: Ojai 1949 - Public Talk 13

Written by Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by Jiddu Krishnamurti

Simplicity comes into being when there is freedom from the desire to achieve

• One who is sincere can never be simple because he who is trying to be sincere always has the desire to pattern or approximate himself to an idea.

• Self-knowledge can be discovered more fully, deeply, widely, only when there is passive awareness, which is not the exertion of will.

• In the search for self-knowledge we get caught in self-consciousness. Being caught we make the thing in which one is caught the most important thing.

• To go beyond self-consciousness there must be freedom from the desire to achieve a result, because the achievement of a result is what the mind wants.

• Q: Would you please explain what you mean by dying daily?

• Q: How does a truth when repeated become a lie? What really is a lie?

• Q: I think I can help, but whatever I say or do to another is interpreted as interference and as domineering. Why does this happen to me?

• Q: What is aloneness? Is it a mystical state?

• Language: English
• Publisher: M-Y Books Ltd.
• Release date: Jun 22, 2022
• ISBN: 9781911140078

Jiddu Krishnamurti

J. Krishnamurti (1895-1986) was a renowned spiritual teacher whose lectures and writings have inspired thousands. His works include On Mind and Thought, On Nature and the Environment, On Relationship, On Living and Dying, On Love and Lonliness, On Fear, and On Freedom.