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ceased. Do you understand, sirs? You have a problem, and you think
about it, argue with it, worry over it; you exercise every means within
the limits of your thought to understand it. Finally you say, ‘I can do no
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into the problem to the full extent of your capacity, you leave it alone.
Your mind is no longer worried, no longer tearing at the problem, no
longer saying, ‘I must find an answer’; so it becomes quiet, does it not?
And, in that quietness, you find the answer. Hasn’t that sometimes
happened to you? It is not an enormous thing; it happens to great
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KRISHNAMURTI FOUNDATION INDIA
In Kaigal Valley...
(In Kaigal Valley, not far away from Krishnamurti’s birthplace Madanapalle, the Krishnamurti Foundation India runs
several projects which, over the years, have grown silently, steadily. Read about it in this Newsletter.- Ed.)
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Choiceless Awareness: A selection of passages from the teachings of J. Krishnamurti.
A handy 7’ x 7’ volume, pp.176, Price Rs 130.
produce for income-generation stop where you need to alight, is Waterfalls bus stop, you have a 10-
programmes for the communities. on the Palamaner–Kuppam road minute walk on a mud road leading
The income generated from the at a distance of 28 km from to the waterfalls to reach KEEP.
sale of honey and pickles is shared Palamaner and 59 km from Kaigal valley enjoys good weather
with the people and is also used Kuppam. You can come from all through the year. Summer
to continue the activities in the Bangalore or Chennai by train and months (April, May, June) do get
area of tribal welfare. Bee-keeping get off at Kuppam. From Kuppam, very hot sometimes. If you wish
was introduced as an appropriate take a bus going towards to come, please contact: Kaigal
income-generating activity for Palamaner (1 to 1½ hours). You Education and Environment
these people who were already can come from Bangalore, Programme, Krishnamurti
very familiar with handling Chennai, or Madanapalle by bus Foundation India, Kaigal,
beehives. and get off at Palamaner. From Thotakanam Post, Byreddipalli
Reaching Kaigal: Kaigal Palamaner, take a bus to Kuppam Mandal, Chittoor—517415, AP.
Waterfalls, the name of the bus (1 to 1½ hours). From the Kaigal Website : www.kaigalconserve.com P
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Zilla Sarbajanik Pustakalay, Behind Mangal Gonda; Dist. State Library, Near Govt. Bhadra; Vinayak Mehta Library, Near City
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Allahabad Museum, Allahabad; Govt. Dist. Pustakalay, 58/49, Birhana Road (Kasturba Ward, Allapuzha; Chenganur Muncipal
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Library, Near Swaroop Rani Hospital, Road, Padrauna, Dt. Kushi Nagar; Govt. Allapuzha; Immanuel Marthoma Yuvajana
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Bus stand, Auraiya; Govt. Dist. Library, Lucknow; Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Library, Ernakulam; Elloor Library, Press Club Road,
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Inter College, Near Veer Vinay Chowk, Inter-College, Maharajaganj; Govt. Dist. Building, Kalady-Alluva Road, Kalady;
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Rly. Station, Chandouli; Govt. Dist. Library, Meerut; Goverment District Library, Begam Library, T B Road, At Panchayat Complex,
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111, Near Gandhi Hospital, Ghaziabad; Dt. Sant Ravidas Nagar; Govt. Dist. Library, Sporting Youths Library, Thiruvangad,
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Library, Pulikunnu, Kasargode; Kochi King Edward Fraser Memorial Library, Children’s Library, Thycaud, Thiruvanantha-
Corporation M K Raghavan Memorial Library Fraser Hall, Jubilee Road, Near Mallapuram puram; Kerala Kalamandalam Library,
& Reading Room, Chullikal, Kochi; Samastha Traffic Police Station; Manjeri Public Vallathol Nagar, Cheruthuruthy, Thrissur;
Kerala Sahithya Parishad Grandhasala, Library, Court Gate, Kacharipadi, Manjeri; Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Vidya Mandir,
Hospital Road, Kochi; Wisdom School of V K Krishna Menon Public Library, Pattambi Poochatty PO, Eravimangalam, Thrissur;
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Library, Ayoor-Chunda Road, Near Ittiva Library, Chittoor, Palakkad; General Library, ‘Vistas’, Narayana Nivas, Konathukunnu
Panchayat Office, Vayyanam, Ayoor; Quilon Govt College, Chittoor, Palakkad; K Jacob PO, Irinjalakuda, Thrissur; S N Public
Public Library & Research Centre, P.B.No. Thomas Memorial Sahrudaya Library, Library, SN Nagar, Irinjalakuda North PO,
520, Kollam; Mar Thoma Valiyapalli, Hospital Road, Hospital Junction, Thrissur; Kodungallur Municipal
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In awareness…there is no self-improvement
From page 1... KRISHNAMURTI: Don’t be aware all introspection? And, who is aware
mathematicians, scientists, and the time! Just be aware in little in awareness?
people experience it occasionally bits. Please, there is no being
in everyday life. Which means aware all the time—that is a KRISHNAMURTI: Let us first examine
what? The mind has exercised fully dreadful idea! It is a nightmare, what we mean by introspection. We
its capacity to think and has come this terrible desire for continuity. mean by introspection looking
to the edge of all thought without Just be aware for one minute, for within oneself, examining oneself.
having found an answer; therefore one second, and in that one second Why does one examine oneself? In
it becomes quiet—not through of awareness you can see the whole order to improve, in order to
weariness, not through fatigue, not universe. That is not a poetic change, in order to modify. You
by saying, ‘I will be quiet and phrase. We see things in a flash, introspect in order to become
thereby find the answer.’ Having in a single moment; but, having something, otherwise you would
already done everything possible seen something, we want to not indulge in introspection. You
to find the answer, the mind capture, to hold it, give it would not examine yourself if
becomes spontaneously quiet. continuity. That is not being aware there were not the desire to
There is an awareness without at all. When you say, ‘I must be modify, change, to become
choice, without any demand, an aware all the time’, you have made something other than what you
awareness in which there is no a problem of it, and then you are. That is the obvious reason for
anxiety; and in that state of mind should really find out why you want introspection. I am angry and I
there is perception. It is this to be aware all the time. See the introspect, examine myself, in
perception alone that will resolve greed it implies, the desire to order to get rid of anger or to
all our problems. acquire. And to say, ‘Well, I am modify or change anger. Where
New Delhi, 2nd Talk, February 17, aware all the time’, means nothing. there is introspection, which is
1960 London, 3rd Talk, June 10, 1962 the desire to modify or change
the responses, the reactions of
Questioner: I find it impossible to Questioner: What is the differ- the ‘self’, there is always an end
be aware all the time. ence between awareness and in view. When that end is not
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Published by G. Rajeev on behalf of the Krishnamurti Foundation India, Vasanta Vihar, 124,126 Greenways Road, Chennai - 600 028.
Printed by N. Subramanian at Sudarsan Graphics Offset Press, 27 Neelakanta Mehta Street, T. Nagar, Chennai – 600 017. Editor: K. Krishnamurthy