Word Gems
exploring self-realization, sacred personhood, and full humanity

Jiddu Krishnamurti
1895 - 1986
What is total action? It is action in which there is no contradiction, no duality. Such action must obviously come about without effort, because effort is the result of contradiction. The beauty of this inquiry lies, not in what is achieved, in what is learnt or gained, but in the complete innocence of a mind that is free to see anew the skies, the many faces, the rivers and the rich land. Only a mind that has understood itself is capable of receiving the benediction which has no ending.
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Editor’s prefatory comments:
Jiddu Krishnamurti has been an important teacher in my life. I began learning about the “true” and “false” selves about 15 years ago, and his insights served to inaugurate this vital area of enquiry.
He was the one to make clear that “guru” signifies merely “one who points,” not “infallible sage.” Pointing the way is what even the best teachers provide, but no more. One must walk the path of enlightenment alone, no one can do this for us.
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Public Talk 3, Madras - 29 Nov 1959
Editor's last word:
For the newcomer reading what might seem to be K’s grandiose pronouncements, one could exclaim, “What is he talking about? What is this fabled condition touched with benediction with no end”?
It is not a super-human mind, or the mind of the singular saint, or the guru, or the chosen elect. No, none of that exclusivity. It is the normal, ordinary mind, the mind God meant each of us to have, once we have thrown off the chains of social conditioning which bully us into believing “you are no good.”
How to achieve such a mind which knows everything new and afresh? It comes to us innocently by “simply noticing.”
Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: “The outcome of the world, the gates of the future, the entry into the super-human - these are not thrown open to a few of the privileged nor to one chosen people to the exclusion of all others... Above all, trust in the slow work of God. Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be."
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