The Catalyst Launch

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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

Beyond thought

It(Truth, timeless, nameless, eternal, GOD whatever you want to call it) is not within the limits of mind. The mind has ideologies, gossip, theories, attachments, fears, desires, argument, prejudices, success, failure, insult, flattery, charity, failure, hatred, analysis, propaganda, entertainment, self pity, conflicts and many more with which it wants to fill itself. Human being has a sense of feeling that there is something beyond this enormously complex activity of mind. This dark cloud of thought's activity has it's own strength, and cunning intelligence. The utter lack of sensitivity, out of self ignorance produces all kinds of disorder. When this dark cloud is so real to me, the problem for the real teacher is to say that is just illusory cloud. The teacher says silence, stillness may affect that darkness, not your effort and struggle so try to be still. I am so reluctant to be still, and in return I say are you mad? you can't see which is in front of my eyes are you a teacher at all?

As this cloud is real to me, the activity of solving is my life. I try to solve it by dominating, killing other people, helping others, practicing spirituality, acquiring knowledge, money, indulging in pleasure, worshipping other people, running to monasteries, by getting attached, drugs, sharing good things to others. After tremendous effort of doing all these things, the mind got used and accustomed to work in this way. It is programmed, conditioned to solve. Even the social respect is based on one's acquisition, not based on how peacefully one is living. When everything proves to be futile, one goes back to the master, as the master is clear he repeats the same. His point is illusion can not be put aside by effort, you need to observe more closely and realize it as just illusion.

One's mind is programmed to effort and struggle. So when the master says simply observe your own mind, in the beginning one tastes the beauty of simple observation with an unburdened mind. One starts with simple observation, but soon all the effort comes back unconsciously. When one is ignorant of the word "simple" in "simple observation" that observation, awareness might become another burden to mind. After all the circus, if one is lucky he or she realizes the limitation of the mind to find something beyond itself. The challenge is after knowing the dangers of usage of mind, still one needs to use it for livelihood or to do certain functions outwardly in day to day life.

Movement of thought is problem

Our mind being the movement of thought, acts as a blurred screen. Through this screen we occasionally find clarity and soon it disappears. Somehow we are conditioned to put effort to find clarity through this screen only. We are heavily conditioned not to clear the screen and to try for a clear view or perception. Here we may refer to words of K, known and unknown. This distracted view, lack of clarity is what we know and we think it is secure. K's challenge to us might be can we clear the screen at an instance and have a clear perception. Can you put away your mind, this putting away and going beyond its likes and dislikes is real honesty as said by NISARGA. Then there is this benediction of clear perception which is action itself. This action is full of vitality, energy and free of conflict. 

Holding is sorrow

Holding onto things like family, friends, job, property, ideas, images, opinions is sorrow. When they follow you, it is bliss and happiness. May be watching them as an outsider, and out of that observation having a relationship with them is the key to happiness. Not only things but to watch yourself by you as an outsider is very important.

Transformation

What is transformation, psychologically? Thought always pushing us to become, to achieve, to find a secure place. From this constant effort confusion takes birth, and out of this confusion you act, or you don't act. Our education doesn't informed you that when you act out of confusion, that action produces further confusion. We act more fanatically, to clear confusion but the result will be exactly opposite. To clear this dark cloud of confusion, you must show courage to stay with it. It is very interesting to observe in yourself, that when you are in confusion you try everything else except staying with that confusion. Staying with it means neither you accepted it nor you are desiring the ending of confusion rather you are witnessing that very confusion with attention. Only in this silent witnessing you can go beyond the word confusion, and see what it really is.

It is interesting to observe, transformation begins when you slow down inwardly. Transformation is not something mystical, rather rational observation of what is happening inside, and ending of psychological aspects like fear, desire, loneliness, jealousy, greed, dependency..etc. Difficulty is that you need to observe without any desire to end something. That observation without judgement ends the thing, not your effort to end it. Another interesting thing is when you know, how you are going to transform, it is no more transformation. When you transform it's completely new state of being for you as well. So you can not recognize it, you might feel freshness which comes with that newness. when you transform you are a new being, mind entering into new and unknown state is transformation. It can only happen when there is freedom from the past.

Behind sexual perversion

No one can deny that a woman has to live with the same sense of freedom and happiness as we do, because social harmony and peace is interrelated with each and every one’s happiness in life. I know that most of you have respect for woman, but the present situation in India demands more open discussions and a little more energy from your side. There are many complexities that we need to resolve, behind this cruel action called “RAPE” or "sexual abuse". Without resolving them, if we make stringent laws, we are acting only on the peripheral of the issue. However, the centre from which this action springs up still remains the same. Laws are necessary, but they are not enough. In a physical relationship, the man and woman both should have a mutual agreement. Any action without that agreement proves that one is no more a MAN. We need to include this small fact in our education system.

A physical relationship is a sacred thing through which creation happens, looking at it in a vulgar sense is a sin. Having an affair seems to be a heroic action, but sex is just a part of life, not all of it. We must learn how to get energy out of it, and soon die to that pleasure, instead of feeding it to our memory. If we don’t die to that memory, it is used by thought and turns your life into a mess. Few of the issues behind this cruelty seem to be

1. Female foeticide – Because of this, the ratio of the girls to boys is reducing, and more men are left with wild unfulfilled desires, turning them into wild animals.

2. No sex education – When we don’t teach a child about sex as a part of nature and how to involve in it in a dignified manner, vulgarity creeps into the mind. Forget about the child, can you and I talk about sex in a dignified manner, without any vulgar thoughts or jokes creeping into our conversation?

3. Entertainment – In the entertainment industry, women are mostly objectified. Within the industry women may get paid well and may get good respect. But because of the way they portray women in public, the common man is looking at women as sex objects or glamour dolls. Indecent jokes about sexual organs have become a trend because of our movies today.

4. Not understanding the fact that there is no problem with desire, but the problem is with either suppression or the craving for it.

“I call him empty who has no love, and for him sex becomes a problem, an issue, a thing to be avoided or to be indulged.”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti

The cunning nature of thought

He lost something, and he is happy without any limits a sense of pure joy pervading his mind. Important thing is there is no effort inside to keep that "state of joyfulness" permanent. The mind has no desire to live in that state for the rest of life. Only thing he can see is, he lost something NOT accumulated. He don’t want to analyze it further, he don’t want to keep it. That tranquility, that sense of pure joy is always there on the corner. The obstacles between you and that pure joy is your desire to grab it, formulate it so that you can come to it whenever you want, your desire to control it, your effort to possess it these are real obstacles. You have enjoyed possessing material things, now you want to apply same here as well. This constant effort and struggle to live in that blissful state permanently, makes life miserable.

It's just request, you are not going for war

He entered into the bus, the seats were divided into two columns. There were four seats in a row, and a gap in the middle of each pair of seats. After going forward inside the bus, there was a window seat vacant but the seat next to it was full. Just behind that, the window seat was occupied and the other one is empty. He took that seat, and settled down and bus moved ahead. After some time, he felt uncomfortable as there is direct A/C wind coming onto his face. He wants to move and sit in the front window seat which is empty. He wants to move, but in the back of his mind thought is preventing him to take action. Don't just give all importance to example, it is just to make your understanding easy the scenarios are innumerable.

Why she said negative?

She was listening to a folk song about life. The essence of the song was to say, nothing is permanent in life so live like a guest on this planet. The message has truth in it, she said listen to this song how good it is. He asked her a question, what is the use of listening to this? She said we must listen whenever someone tells something good. He said what is the use, right after completion of that song if we are back in our daily routine? When we don’t give serious thought about it, what is the use of listening? Is it listening at all? She said you are always negative, that is the reason no one likes your books. Of course she told him humorously. He has given serious thought about it, these are his findings.

Are you not the problem?

When it comes to spirituality, what is the problem that you want to resolve? If we don’t make it complex it is you and I who are at the center of the problem, or we are the problem itself. That is the reason the job of a real guru is really tough one. The real one, is not interested in comforting words, sweet explanations, not interested in your worship, your money, your power. Their primary concern is to act like a mirror, in which we can see our own ignorance, jealousy, fears, endless desires, lack of love and compassion. Love and compassion are the essence of intelligence.

The art of LET IT GO(LIG)

Expectation of compulsory result burdens the mind. 'LIG' is like a relaxation point while you are taking the journey called life. The movement or journey of life, and relaxation both are equally important. Most of us don't have balance between these two. That might be the root cause of all our sorrow. Unfortunately we are either inclined towards working hard or being lazy. 'LIG' is like servicing and refueling a vehicle. 'LIG' is not a formula, rather, we need to understand the meaning in depth behind that phrase. We generally use 'LIG', to escape from facing the facts.

The lawyer inside us

There is a lawyer inside our mind, who always judges and
defends whatever we think of as the truth. If this lawyer is
interested in truth, we can create an entirely different society,
but unfortunately he is not. A mind which is incapable of
seeing the difference between an illusion and a truth, can
only bring disorder in its action. An illusion is nothing but
accepting a non-fact as the truth and vice versa. Don’t think
that this lawyer has only been destroying society, he has been
destroying our own life too, because we are missing out on
the strength and energy that we get when we perceive truth.

Be a light to yourself

One of the biggest stumbling block in life, is the deceiving nature of our own mind. If mind takes certain pleasure by getting attached to a book, worshipping another human being it creates an illusion that you are progressing. Whereas in reality you might be where you are, without moving a step further. Don't take knowledge from another about life, it is something you need to discover on your own. The guru's, sacred books, religions they are just pointers use them wisely. If you get attached to those pointers, those pointers might be people, gurus, eloquent motivational speakers, leaders trust me you are in big trouble.

BEST BOOKS FOR SELF HELP

Expert from the book(Freedom from the known):

THE DEMAND TO be safe in relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear. This seeking for security is inviting insecurity. Have you ever found security in any of your relationships? Have you? Most of us want the security of loving and being loved, but is there love when each one of us is seeking his own security, his own particular path? We are not loved because we don't know how to love. What is love? The word is so loaded and corrupted that I hardly like to use it. Everybody talks of love - every magazine and newspaper and every missionary talks everlastingly of love.

Please click on below titles if you wish to purchase. Will add more as soon as I found new ones.

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