The Catalyst Launch

LINKS TO MY NEW BOOK "THE CATALYST"

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CLICK HERE FOR VIDEOS DISCUSSED IN THE BOOK

LINK TO AMAZON AUTHOR PAGE

 

catalyst video links

 These are the videos I am planning to talk about in the upcoming chapters and also please find links for audio books of "freedom from the known" and "I am that". 

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My talk on Catalyst with Indore group.

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Don't seek(Video) 

The boy sent to visit death(Video) 

How does one inquire into the source of all life?(Video) 

Living is a constant movement small group discussion Krishnamurti

Why does sex play such an important part in life? | J. Krishnamurti 

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If a tyrant attacks, do you not defend? | Krishnamurti 

Would you allow a friend to be attacked in front of you? | J. Krishnamurti 

Killing has become an industry | J. Krishnamurti 

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This is for chapter "Rajgopal incident"

Rare! | J Krishnamurti | K describes off recording, his brains’ selective memory | 

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SHORT VIDEOS 

1) Is effort necessary? | Krishnamurti 

2) Jiddu Krishnamurti - Don't Compare Yourself to Others 

3) The Outward Show. J. Krishnamurti 

4) Why Don't People Get Angry With Speaker? | Jiddu Krishnamurti 

 

Samadhi Movie, 2017 Part 1 Maya, the Illusion of the Self 

Samadhi Movie, 2018 - Part 2 (It's Not What You Think) 

Samadhi Movie, 2021- Part 3 - "The Pathless Path" 

 

AUDIO BOOKS 

Hope this will give clarity for the basic question or it may take out the confusion "what is life all about?". 

Freedom from the known AUDIO BOOK(chapter wise playlist): 

 To read online:   http://www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net/en/freedom-from-the-known/ 

FOR OTHER BOOKS BY JK:   https://jiddu-krishnamurti.net/en/  

For more JK audio books 

I AM THAT audio book chapter wise playlist 

Peace within

 Murugan, the proprietor of a coffee shop had been busy all day. Being Saturday, his shop was very crowded and the customers seemed unending. 

He had been on his toes since morning. Towards the evening he felt a splitting headache surfacing. 

As the clock ticked away, his headache worsened. 

Unable to bear it, he stepped out of the shop leaving his staff to look after the sales. 

He walked across the street to the Pharmacy to buy himself a painkiller to relieve his headache. 

He swallowed the pill and felt relieved. He knew that in a few minutes he would feel better. 

As he strolled out of the shop, he casually asked the salesgirl, "Where is Mr. Gopalan, the Chemist? He's not at the cash counter today!" 

The girl replied, "Sir, Mr. Gopalan had a splitting headache and said he was going across to your coffee shop. He said a cup of hot coffee would relieve him of his headache." 

The man's mouth went dry and he mumbled, "Oh! I see."

This is a typical case of looking outside ourselves for something that we have within us. 

How strange, but true! 

The Chemist relieves his headache by drinking coffee and the coffee shop owner finds relief in a pain relieving pill! 

Similarly, many of us travel across the lengths and breadths of the universe and also visit several shrines and ashrams to find peace. 

Eventually, we come to realize that real peace is within our own hearts. 

Peace is really a state of mind.????????

Detachment is the opposite of attachment, not the opposite of enjoyment

 Once upon a time there was a great fakir [an ascetic] who lived a simple life. He ate whatever he found, drank water from the nearby river and meditated under the tree in the forest on the outskirts of a town. Word spread and the king of the province came to know about the fakir.

He decided to meet the fakir. The king was so impressed with the fakir’s unpretentious demeanor that he invited the fakir to live with him in the palace.

The fakir agreed readily, which surprised the king, who was expecting that the fakir will have to be persuaded a lot to accept the invitation. Nevertheless, the king took the fakir along with him and made lavish arrangements for his stay.

The ascetic settled down quickly and started enjoying all the luxuries of the palace—imperial clothes, royal food and a life of absolute comfort. Soon, the king started suspecting that perhaps he was being hoodwinked by the fakir.

But he kept his thoughts to himself and continued to observe the fakir. Six months on, the fakir was still enjoying his stay and didn’t seem to mind this majestic life one bit.

By now the king had become convinced that the fakir had only been pretending in the forest. He decided to confront him. On meeting the fakir, the king said, “When I first met you, I was impressed by your austere lifestyle and minimum needs. Your life was an example of renunciation. But what I now see is totally the opposite. You seem to be enjoying every material pleasure there is. So what is the difference between you and me?”

The fakir smiled and said, “I was waiting for you to ask me this question but I will answer you tomorrow morning.” The next morning the fakir appeared before the king wearing his old tattered clothes.

The fakir said, “I am leaving for an unknown destination. If you really want the answer, you will have to leave your palace, your family, your kingdom and accompany me.” The king was stunned. He said, “You know, I can’t do that!”

The fakir smiled and replied, “Yes, I know. And that is the difference between you and me. I can leave all pleasures and comforts whenever I want because I am not attached to them. You are. I hope you have your answer now.”

It dawned on the king that the fakir was indeed great. He pleaded him to stay on but the fakir had made up his mind. As he was leaving, he said to the king, “Remember, what you hold on to, holds you. And since I hold on to nothing, I have nothing to renounce. I am forever free.”

Beautiful story to depict how sacred teachings are misinterpreted

 A young monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to helping the other monks in copying the old canons and laws by hand.

He notices, however, that all of the monks are copying from copies, not from the original manuscript. So, the new monk goes to the head abbot to question this, pointing out that if someone made even a small error in the first copy, it would never be picked up! In fact, that error would be continued in all of the subsequent copies.

The head monk, says. "We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but you make a good point, my son."

He goes down into the dark caves underneath the monastery where the original manuscripts are held as archives in a locked vault that hasn't been opened for hundreds of years. Hours go by and nobody sees the old abbot.

So, the young monk gets worried and goes down to look for him. He sees him banging his head against the wall and wailing. "We missed the 'R' ! We missed the 'R'."

His forehead is all bloody and bruised and he is crying uncontrollably.

The young monk asks the old abbot. "What's wrong, father?"

With a choking voice, the old abbot replies. "The word was... CELEBRATE!”"

Most unfortunately this is the story of every religion. Now the real, may not sound interesting but what will you do about it?

What we pickup we pass onto next generation. If I pickup wrong, and I tell my child Celibate and there is protection from life force. This is the reason Buddha and Jiddu Krishnamurti stressed upon being a light to yourself..??

Move close to your psychological problems

Dear Friends,

You are suffocating yourself, with never ending desire to change what is happening in the present or with your faulty desire to become somebody(to be free, peaceful, intelligent, rich, popular, famous, powerful). I think we can do this, stop becoming somebody(correcting the present) psychologically and observe. If there is happiness you can go for this way of living, otherwise you can always fall back to your everlasting struggle and effort to become somebody. So can you end your desire to become somebody without any anxiety for what happens next? 

You see even in the absence of not becoming anything, there is hard work, and organic growth in day to day life. That hard work is out of passion. Happiness is NOT end result, rather you work hard being happy in the present. Common good, inclusive growth are part of that hard work. Hope you haven't missed the point that there is no sacrifice here, only sharing and being joyful together.

What helps in understanding something, moving close to it or escape from it? If you say moving close, are you doing that? Be alone, and move close to your mind observe how thought is creating immense disorder, suffering inside the skull, as well as in the outer world. How it divides, isolates you from the rest of the world through it's never ending movement. Is moving close possible, if there is judgement as good and bad thought? Is moving close possible if you don't love thought? I wish abundant energy for all of us to move close, until the mind as unnecessary thought process dies in us.

The enemy(The chattering of the mind) is within

The whole purpose of education

Best book on education:  Education-and-the-Significance-of-life
List of schools by K     :  https://jkrishnamurti.org/schools

The whole purpose of education, or the function of a teacher or parent is to show a child the dangers involved in psychological dependency. In the tender age, we may instruct them. I think we must be serious, if we really love our children. What I mean by seriousness, is constantly we must learn together along with the child. Suppose we are trying to teach a child about good and bad behavior, first we must observe our own life and see can we change in few things where change is required. In that way we will be clear about what really involves, to bring change in oneself. For example, the man who wants recognition for his change, is not really changed. You saw something wrong, which is damaging your life and you changed, so the change must be for it's own sake, not to impress others.

The words of a man who is leading a orderly life are much more affective, than a person who merely talks for his own pleasure. So before teaching your child about inward strength and happiness, can you lead such a life. The psychological dependency, when life throws problems at us is real cause of sorrow. If you love your child, try to understand how to face problems of life without any outward dependency. There is great beauty, when you don't depend psychologically. You may depend on a carpenter that is different, we are talking about psychological dependency. In some situations you may ask for help from your friend that is not dependency, but if you are suffering or feeling happy based on your friend's denial or acceptance then it is dependency.

In our day to day life, we are struck in psychological dependency. We depend on gurus, leaders, analysts, whom we think wise, sacred books, ideologies, astrology, rituals, theories to tell us what is correct and what is wrong in life. If we go little deeper, our own conclusions, opinions, beliefs, knowledge about life is also a bondage. This dependency on outside authority to understand our own life which is in our hands, is the most miserable thing. This dependency is the root of all corruption. You are not dependent, doesn't mean that you are arrogant, rather you are just a light to yourself. Only a man who is free from the crutches of dependency, can really love another human being.

Moment to moment learning out of sensitive observation is required, to not to depend on outside authority. In this kind of learning, there is no accumulation of knowledge about life. The accumulation in the form of opinions,  beliefs, tradition is what constructs ego. Ego invites suffering into life.

Instead of telling your child what is correct or what to think, the negative approach works perfectly. For example earlier we have seen, changing ourselves to impress others is not a change. So by negating what is not correct, we come to the positive. Where as if we start positive(by making rules), we may end up negative. To find out what is love, the only approach is to see what it is not. In this negative approach, you stumble upon something unknown. If you have an idea of what is love, and you try to inquire, it is no more inquiry at all.

Slowly the child must crack the different complexities of life like fear, loneliness, running after pleasure, depression, relationship, love, time, death and come out of them victoriously. Once this ground is set, the child can approach education or any other issue in life with a sense of freedom. Only in freedom the child can make relationship with people or subjects that they have to pass. Once this relationship out of love established, struggle and effort are not required.

Best book on education:  Education-and-the-Significance-of-life by Jiddu Krishnamurti
List of schools by K     :  https://jkrishnamurti.org/schools