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• Nature is interested in only two things--to survive and to reproduce one like itself. Anything you superimpose on that, all the cultural input, is responsible for the boredom of man.

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  Men, Two, Boredom

  "No Way Out : Conversations With U.G. Krishnamurti" by U.G. Krishnamurti, ch. 4: You Invent Your Reality, 2002.

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• Society has put before you the ideal of a 'perfect man'. No matter in which culture you were born, you have scriptural doctrines and traditions handed down to you to tell you how to behave. You are told that through due practice you can even eventually come into the state attained by the sages, saints and saviors of mankind. And so you try to control your behavior, to control your thoughts, to be something unnatural.

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  Men, Practice, Perfect

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• There is no such thing as experience here. You seem to know, you imagine. Imagination must come to an end...I don't know how to put it. The absence of imagination, the absence of will, the absence of effort, the absence of all movement in any direction, on any level, in any dimension - THAT is the thing. That is a thing that cannot be experienced at all. It is not an experience.

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  Imagination, Effort, Movement

  U. G. Krishnamurti, Rodney Arms (2002). “The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U. G. Krishnamurti”, p.121, Sentient Publications

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• It would be more interesting to learn from children, than try to teach them how to behave, how to live and how to function.

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  Children, Interesting, Trying

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• The search ends with the realization that there is no such thing as enlightenment. By searching, you want to be free from the self, but whatever you are doing to free yourself from the self is the self. How can I make you understand this simple thing? There is no 'how'. If I tell you that, it will only add more momentum to that (search), strengthen that momentum. That is the question of all questions: "How, how, how?"

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  Life, Simple, Self

  "The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U. G. Krishnamurti".

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• Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that.

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  Self, Giving, Constant

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• It is fear that makes you believe that you are living and that you will be dead.What we do not want is the fear to come to an end. That is why we have invented all these new minds, new sciences,new talks, therapies, choiceless awareness and various other gimmicks.

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  Fear, Believe, Mind

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• There is no such thing as truth. The only thing that is actually there is your 'logically' ascertained premise, which you call truth.

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  Premises

  "Mind is a Myth: Disquieting Conversations with the Man Called U.G". Book by U.G. Krishnamurti, Ch. 1: The Certainty That Blasts Everything, 1987.

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• Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow. It is like lightning and thunder. They occur simultaneously, but sound, travelling slower than light, reaches you later, creating the illusion of two separate events.

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  Light, Two, Creating

  "Mind is a Myth". Book by U. G. Krishnamurti. Ch. 3: Not Knowing Is Your Natural State, 1987.

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• Don't follow me, I'm lost.

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  Follow Me, Lost

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• I discovered for myself and by myself that there is no self to realize -- that's the realization I am talking about. It comes as a shattering blow. It hits you like a thunderbolt. You have invested everything in one basket, self-realization, and, in the end, suddenly you discover that there is no self to discover, no self to realize -- and you say to yourself "What the hell have I been doing all my life?!" That blasts you.

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  Blow, Self, Talking

  U. G. Krishnamurti, Rodney Arms (2002). “The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U. G. Krishnamurti”, p.2, Sentient Publications

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• You know, this dialogue is only helpful when we come, both of us, to a point where we realize that no dialogue is possible, that no dialogue is necessary. When I say understanding or seeing, they mean something different to me. Understanding is a state of being where the question isn't there any more. There is nothing there that says, "Now I understand!" That's the basic difficulty between us. By understanding what I am saying, you are not going to get anywhere.

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  Mean, Understanding, Different

  "The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U. G. Krishnamurti".

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• Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow.

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  Movement, Capture

  "Mind is a Myth: Disquieting Conversations with the Man Called U.G". Book edited by Terry Newland (Chapter 3: Not Knowing Is Your Natural State), 1987.

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• We are not created for any grander purpose than the ants that are there or the flies that are hovering around us or the mosquitoes that are sucking our blood.

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  Blood, Mosquitoes, Purpose

  "No Way Out: Conversations With U.G. Krishnamurti". Book edited by J.S.R.L. Narayana Moorty and Anthony Paul Frank Naronha (Chapter 4: You Invent Your Reality), 2002.

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• Your situation and prospects only seem hopeless because you have ideas of hope. Knock off that hope and the crippling feelings of helplessness go with it.

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  Ideas, Feelings, Hopeless

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• If you have the courage to touch life for the first time, you will never know what hit you. Everything man has thought, felt and experienced is gone, and nothing is put in its place.

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  Men, Gone, Firsts

  "Mind is a Myth: Disquieting Conversations with the Man Called U.G". Book edited by Terry Newland (Chapter 4: There Is Nothing To Understand), 1987.

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• The fact is that we don't want to be free. What is responsible for our problems is the fear of losing what we have and what we know.

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  Want, Facts, Losing

  "No Way Out: Conversations With U.G. Krishnamurti". Book edited by J.S.R.L. Narayana Moorty and Anthony Paul Frank Naronha (Chapter 7: What Kind Of Human Being Do You Want?), 2002.

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• My teaching, if that is the word you want to use, has no copyright. You are free to reproduce, distribute, interpret, misinterpret, distort, garble, do what you like, even claim authorship, without my consent or the permission of anybody.

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  Teaching, Use, Want

  U. G. Krishnamurti, Rodney Arms (2002). “The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U. G. Krishnamurti”, p.2, Sentient Publications

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• We don't want to be free from fear. All that we want to do is to play games with it and talk about freeing ourselves from fear.

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  Games, Play, Want

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• The questioner has to come to an end. It is the questioner that creates the answer; and the questioner comes into being from the answer, otherwise there is no questioner.

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  Answers, Language, Ends

  U. G. Krishnamurti, Rodney Arms (2002). “The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U. G. Krishnamurti”, p.83, Sentient Publications

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• Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo.

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  Culture, Purpose, Want

  "Thought is Your Enemy: Mind-shattering Conversations with the Man Called U.G". Book by U.G. Krishnamurti, 1990.

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• There is nothing there - no soul - there is only this question about after death. The question has to die now to find the answer - your answer; not my answer - because the question is born out of the assumption, the belief, that there is something to continue after death.

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  Soul, Answers, Belief

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• A guru is one who tells you to throw away all the crutches that we have been made to believe are essential for our survival. He would ask you to walk, and he would say that if you fall, you will arise and walk.

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  Believe, Fall, Survival

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• I am simply pointing out that at the rate at which we are going the whole genetic engineering technology will end up in the hands of the political system to be used for the complete control and subjugation of man.

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  Technology, Men, Hands

  "Mind is a Myth". Book by U. G. Krishnamurti. Ch. 4: There Is Nothing To Understand, 1987.

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• I am not out to liberate anybody. You have to liberate yourself, and you are unable to do that. What I have to say will not do it. I am only interested in describing this state, in clearing away the occultation and mystification in which those people in the 'holy business' have shrouded the whole thing. Maybe I can convince you not to waste a lot of time and energy, looking for a state which does not exist except in your imagination.

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  People, Imagination, Energy

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