Sublime

The Indian philosopher J. Krishnamurti once remarked that observing without evaluating is the highest form of human intelligence. When I first read this statement, the thought, “What nonsense!”

The human principle is known as simplicity: freedom from concepts, freedom from trappings.

To the question of Janaka as to how freedom can be achieved, the answer given by Aştävakra is simple. 'Know the Self as Pure Consciousness, the unaffected witness of the phenomenal world, and you will be free' (I. 3). In reality the Self is always free; freedom is not attained, but simply realized and discovered. The impediment to selfrealization a

There is, oh my friend, just one knowledge, this is everywhere, this is Atman, this is within me and within you and within every creature. And so I’m starting to believe that this knowledge has no worser enemy than the desire to know it, than learning.”

Be simple … and don’t try to become something or to capture some experience.

To listen there must be an inward quietness, a freedom from the strain of acquiring, a relaxed attention.

Thought can only create the pattern, and according to that pattern, formula, act - and hence conflict.