Daily Quote, Friday Feb 13, 2009

The Krishnamurti Foundation puts out a daily quote by Krishnamurti. They follow a theme and so I thought I'd add this to the blog everyday as something else to work with in building an understanding of his teachings. I hope it proves to be useful. I'll be adding it every morning around 7am.

Once again, feel free to add your posting as you reflect on it and maybe relate it to something that came up in your reading and the study groups.

Best wishes

Robert

Here's today's:

Reaction breeds sorrow

So action which is born of reaction breeds sorrow. Most of our thoughts are the result of the past, of time. A mind that is not built on the past, that has totally understood this whole process of reaction, can act every minute totally, completely, wholly.

Please do listen. What I am going to say will probably be rather difficult. So, listen as though you are far away. I am going to talk about something which you will come to, if you have gone through all this sweetly, with pleasure. When you have gone through the whole process of action born of reaction, and denied it with enchantment, with joy - not with pain - then you will see that you will come naturally, easily, to a state of mind that is the very essence of beauty.

Collected Works, Vol. XIII - 143