The Education Philosophy of J Krishnamurti — II: How To Become An Original
“As the soil renews itself during winter, so, when the mind is allowed to be quiet, it renews itself. . . When you come to the point where you are really allowing yourself to be as you are—bored, ugly, hideous, or whatever it is—then there is possibility of dealing with it.”
The Education Philosophy of J. Krishnamurti: Where Have We Failed? [Part 1]
In this two-part series, we look at the education philosophy of J. Krishnamurti and why it is critical today. AI is stealing jobs. Mental health is at an all-time low. Countries are at war over boundaries. The stress of education and work is costing people their lives. 50 years ago, this is not how we […]
Arguing Will Not Make the World a Better Place
“Thinking has not solved our problems. The clever ones, the philosophers, the scholars, the political leaders, have not solved any of our human problems—which are the relationship between you and another, between you and myself.” — J. Krishnamurti Kunal Kamra’s tweet about OLA Electric’s poor customer service caused the company’s market valuation to tank. Almost […]
How to Fuel Self-Growth? Remove The 3 Obstacles To Learning
“Life is something that you listen to, that you understand from moment to moment without accumulating experience… Like the river, life is running, swift, volatile, never still; and when you meet life with the heavy burden of memory, naturally you are never in contact with life.” — J. Krishnamurti
How To Build Self-Confidence? Get Better at What You Do
“We all place ourselves at various levels, and we are constantly falling from these heights. It is the falls we are ashamed of. Self-esteem is the cause of our shame, of our fall. . . If there is no pedestal on which you’ve put yourself, how can there be any fall?” — J. Krishnamurti
How to Stop Doomscrolling
“We are not only conditioned by environment, but we are the environment—we are not something apart from it. Our thoughts and responses are conditioned by the values which society, of which we are a part, has imposed upon us.” — J. Krishnamurti
Persistent or Stubborn?
“Where there is a want there cannot be discernment. You crave happiness; you look for means to get it. Someone offers you the means. Now your mind-heart is so blinded by the intense desire for blindness that it is incapable of discernment. Though you may think you’re analyzing and examining the means offered to you, yet this deep craving for satisfaction, happiness, security prevents clarity of comprehension. So where there is a want there cannot be true discernment.” — J. Krishnamurti
You Are Killing Your Creativity
“Organized society takes away individual responsibility; it makes him conform. And society, the state, becomes more important than the individual; through bureaucracy, the boredom of office and routine, the individual creative responsibility is destroyed.” — J. Krishnamurti
How To Be Happy
“When we seek happiness through something, then the thing becomes pf greater value than happiness itself. . . we have never asked ourselves if this can be found through things made by the hand or the mind. . . There is happiness only when the search for it ceases.” — J. Krishnamurti
When What You Have Gets Taken Away
“To be frustrated is to be psychologically prevented from gaining or achieving that upon which our mind and heart are set. We want something. . . and when we are thwarted, we feel frustrated, a feeling of being nothing, a miserable failure.” — J. Krishnamurti