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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.

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Freedom from the known  --   Think on these things  --

First and last freedom

My misunderstandings and corrections

There are certain things one must be careful while reading JK, or any other true GURU. Here I am writing my understanding, please examine them without acceptance or denial.

1) Attachment to people, things corrupts the mind. Caring for people, things is not attachment. Care without being possessive is possible.

2) Knowledge leads to ignorance. Here knowledge is not technical, it is knowledge we gathered from society, friends, religion, books, gurus, media about what is good and bad in life. Scientific knowledge is not dangerous because there it is not based on belief it is based on thorough inquiry, reason, logic and it is rational.

3) Time is sorrow. Here time not by clock, but the interval between idea and action. In that interval thought comes into play, and tweaks action for it's own comfort.

4) A person with self knowledge is highly moral and law abiding, but his morality is based on his own understanding. It is not confined by his upbringing or social acceptance.

5) Helping others is secondary, but correcting yourself comes first. There is no helping others actually, when you do charity, plant trees, save water, or do something else you are actually helping yourself by bringing some order.

6) The teacher can't be aware of your inward nature. It is you, who needs to be diligently aware about your thoughts. He can only point out through awareness you can keep thought in it's place.

7) The greed for money, power, position, recognition will invite sorrow. There is nothing wrong with money, power, growth that you get naturally. When you are working out of passion they may come to you, and they are not harmful in that way. Natural growth is like the growth of a tree, there is no competition, ambition, comparison in that growth. The tree grows seemlessly, without struggle, pain. That natural growth is always recommended, it is not out of desire to become somebody. Natural growth is always inclusive, the growth of the present mankind is exclusive. There is natural growth, when you enjoy the blissfulness of being. The desire to become negates this extraordinary beauty of being.

8) These teachings along with your diligent work on yourself, will give freedom from false. With out freedom from false life becomes endless struggle and strife. One can not expect material benefits (success, recognition, money) out of it.

9) One can not take shelter in these teachings to feel secure. These teachings will inform you that there is no such thing as psychological security, so that the constant wastage of mind's effort to find security can be saved.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Some of the profound quotes from JK teachings

1.    It’s not work but your own resistance towards work makes you dull.
2.    Wherever there is division there must be conflict.
3.    What is meditation is important, not how to meditate.
4.    The solution lies within the problem not outside of it.
5.    Discipline means act of learning all the time.
6.    The way you approach a problem is tremendously important.
7.    You can act only in the present.
8.    You can not hurt another without hurting yourself.
9.     It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
10.  All propaganda is false, and man lived on propaganda ranging from soap   to God.
11.  Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding   of a problem.
12.  The word GURU means the one who dispels ignorance, not the one who  imposes his own ignorance on you.

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