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Action without idea   - JKOnline Daily Quotes

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What do we mean by 'idea'? Surely idea is the process of thought, is it not? Idea is a process of mentation, of thinking; and thinking is always a reaction, either of the conscious or of the unconscious. Thinking is a process of verbalisation which is the result of memory. Thinking is a process of time. So, when action is based on the process of thinking, such action must inevitably be conditioned, isolated. Idea must oppose idea; idea must be dominated by idea. There is a gap then between action and idea. What we are trying to find out is whether it is possible for action to be without idea. We see how idea separates people. As I have already explained, knowledge and belief are essentially separating qualities. Beliefs never bind people, they always separate people. When action is based on belief, or an idea, or an ideal, such an action must inevitably be isolated, fragmented. Is it possible to act without the process of thought; thought being a process  of time, a process of calculation, a process of self-protection, a process of belief, denial, condemnation, justification? Surely it must have occurred to you, as it has to me, whether action is at all possible without idea. - J. Krishnamurti, The Book of Life

Ideas are not truth

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It is only when the mind is free from idea that there can be experiencing. Ideas are not truth, and truth is something that must be experienced directly, from moment to moment. It is not an experience which you want, which is then merely sensation. Only when one can go beyond the bundle of ideas - which is the 'me', which is the mind which has a partial or complete continuity; only when one can go beyond that, when thought is completely silent, is there a state of experiencing. Then one shall know what truth is. - J. Krishnamurti, The Book of Life

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Thursday, February 17, 2011