What matters is not 'knowing', but realizing it as soon as you do it.
Acting, driven by the energy of the soul's instinct toward truth! Like love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti, a great thinker who transcended centuries.
Born in India in 1895, he grew up under the influence of his father, a member of the Theosophical Society, and in 1909 was appointed its successor and trained to become a 'World Teacher'.
However, he rejected this messianic role, cut ties with his ideological followers, and disbanded the 'Star Church' he led in 1929 to convey a greater message to them.
He erased his own foundation and stood alone against the times.
He said, “Truth is a land without a path, and truth is inexhaustible, so it cannot be limited by any organization.
He left behind the teaching that “my only concern is to set people free.”
Krishnamurti's greatest work, which contains his intention, is "Freedom from What You Know."
This book argues that to be truly free, you don't need any leader or teacher, you just have to recognize that you are alone in a world of maddening cruelty, and that it's yours alone.
The important thing is not to learn any teaching or philosophy, but to observe what happens inside and outside of us every day, and then to realize that the recurring problems of suffering, violence, fear, love, time, and death are of our own making.

Meanwhile, the book is indifferent to what it means to know, what knowledge and wisdom are, and what enlightenment is.
Rather, it is saying that 'knowing' is the essence of the problem and that we must go beyond 'knowing'.
This is why misunderstandings arise.
Krishnamurti brings to mind the famous phrase from the Dhammapada, 'The first awakening is the right awakening.'
He says that 'knowing' is just a momentary process towards 'doing', and that we must go beyond the meaning of 'knowing' to move towards 'doing'.
Enlightenment is like falling into that moment of love.
The moment you fall in love, what use is wisdom about what love is, how love works, how to love well, etc.
Just as the moment of love is love, where the word love just happens without any room to intervene, all human understanding and enlightenment is simply jumping in without any rules or meaning.
Krishnamurti says so.
What is important is not 'knowing', but 'doing' as soon as you realize it, driven by the energy of your instinct toward the truth of your soul.
Like that thing called 'love'.
The teachings of "Freedom from Knowing" are an entirely new approach that cannot be found in any systematic or schematic philosophy.
Krishnamurti's message, which leads to immediate enlightenment, will once again revolutionize the dulled minds of modern people, lost in the deluge of AI and information.

So when you ask yourself what love is, you may be too scared to answer.
It could mean a complete upheaval.
That is, it can break up a family.
You may discover that you do not love your wife, husband, or children, that you may have to tear down the house you built, and that you may never go to the temple again.
But if you still seek to find out, you will find that fear is not love, dependence is not love, jealousy is not love, responsibility and duty are not love, self-pity is not love, the pain of not being loved is not love, and love is no more the opposite of hate than humility is the opposite of pride.
And if you can get rid of all this, that is, wash it away, not by force, but as the rain washes away the dust that has accumulated over many days from the leaves, then you may finally meet that strange flower for which man is always thirsting.

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There is a saying that all roads lead to truth.
But truth has no path, and that is the beauty of truth.
Also, the truth is alive.
The dead have a way because they are static, but truth is alive and moving and has no resting place.
When you realize that no temple or church, no religion, no teacher, no philosopher can lead you to the truth, you will realize that this living thing is none other than you, as you are.

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When you perceive risk as merely a concept, there is a conflict between the concept and action, and that conflict drains your energy.
Only when you are immediately aware of your limitations and the dangers of them will you act as if you knew you were on the edge of a cliff.
So to know is to act.

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For many years we have been spoon-fed by teachers, by authorities, by books and by adults.
There is nothing new within us.
There is nothing original, original, or clear.

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It rained heavily last night, but it's starting to clear up now.
It's a new and fresh day.
Let's meet this new day as if it were just one day.
Let's leave all the memories of yesterday behind and go on a journey together.
and
Let us begin to understand ourselves for the first time.

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You say, “I’ll think about it.
“I’m going to try to be free,” he says.
Saying "I'm going to try" is one of the most concerning statements you can make.
There is no such thing as trying, and there is no such thing as doing your best.
It's either do it or don't do it.
The house is burning and you are taking a break.
Your house is burning because of the violence in the world and within yourself, and you say this.
“Let’s think about it for a moment.
“Which ideology would be best to put out that fire?” When your house is on fire, would you comment on the color of the water carrier’s hair?
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You only act when you immediately realize that you are limited, as when you realize that there is a cliff right in front of you.
So to know is to act.

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Only when your mind is not fragmented can you see your wholeness.
This would involve complete self-renunciation, and then there would be no fear, no contradiction, no conflict.
What we see in this wholeness is the truth.

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Joy is immediate, it becomes pleasure by thinking about it.
Living in the present is the immediate perception of beauty, and if we do not seek pleasure in it, it becomes a great joy.

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When you realize that you are not separate from fear but a part of it, you can do nothing about it.
So the fear completely disappears.

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There is no such thing as trying, and there is no such thing as doing your best.
It's either do it or don't do it.
The house is burning and you are taking a break.
When your house is burning because of violence in the world and within yourself, would you comment on the color of the water carrier's hair?
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We must become poor inwardly.
Only this inner poverty can see the truth of life, where there is no conflict.
Such a life is a blessing that cannot be found in any church or temple.

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To be alone, you have to let go of everything about the past.
When you are completely alone, you feel like an outsider.
A person who is completely free like this is innocent, and this innocence can free him from sorrow.

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Death is a new birth.
It is a change, and in it thoughts disappear.
Freedom from what you know is death, and then you are living.

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Just as rain washes away the dust accumulated over many days from leaves, can the heart find love without thought, without compulsion, without books, without teachers? Can it, so to speak, find love like a beautiful sunset?
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There is a whole different beauty in that silence when both the observer and the observed are silent.
There is no nature or observer there.
All that exists is a state of mind that is completely alone.
It is a solitude in silence, not isolation, and that silence is beauty.

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Why do you have to do something? If that something were you, what could you do? You couldn't resist it, escape it, or accept it.
There is no like or dislike, no conflict.

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Thoughts accumulate countless memories of pleasure and pain, and from these memories thoughts are born again.
Therefore, thoughts are of the past and are always old.

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We always carry a burden with us, but we cannot forget it.
There is solitude only when we give our full attention to a problem and resolve it immediately.
It is a quiet mind without any center, space or time.

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We say, 'I am unhappy.
So I say, 'I must be happy.'
But in the very demand to be happy lies unhappiness.
We must break free from this constant demand, or the corridors of duality will never end.

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A religious mind is completely different from a mind that believes in religion.
You can be Hindu, Christian, or Buddhist without being religious.
A religious mind does not seek anything at all and is a state of having no faith whatsoever.
It is just what is, what truly is.

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This land, this life, is all we know, and we are so afraid of the immense struggle of existence that we cannot comprehend it that we try to escape from it in various strange ways.
We also fear what we don't know.
We fear death, we fear what lies beyond tomorrow. Ultimately, we fear what we know, and we fear what we don't know.

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He who is not afraid of life is not afraid of uncertainty.
Because he understands internally, psychologically, that there is no safety.
Without safety there is endless movement, and so life and death are the same.

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If you die naturally, without any compulsion or discussion, to one of the pleasures, the smallest or the greatest, you will finally know what it means to die.
Dying means completely emptying your mind.
Dying means completely emptying the mind, death is a new birth, a change, in which thought becomes completely incapable of functioning.
Because the idea is old.
When there is death there is something entirely new.
Freedom from what you know is death, and then you are living.

--- p.141

And if you can get rid of all this, that is, wash it away, not by force, but as the rain washes away the dust that has accumulated over many days from the leaves, then you may finally meet that strange flower for which man is always thirsting.

--- p.155

The only way to find love is to meet it without trying to get it, because the mind that seeks it is not a passionate mind.
That is, we encounter it without knowing it and do not discover it as a result of any effort or experience.

--- p.157

Love is new, fresh, and alive.
It has no yesterday and no tomorrow.
It is beyond the confusion of thought.
Only an innocent heart knows what love is, and this innocent heart can live in this not-so-innocent world.
Discovering that extraordinary thing that has been constantly sought through sacrifice, worship, relationships, sex, and all kinds of pleasure and pain is only possible when thought understands itself and comes to a natural end.
In that case, love has no opposition and no conflict.

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As long as there is a center that creates space around it, there is no love or beauty.
There is love when there is no center and no periphery, and when you love, you are beauty.


The sky is full of shining stars, the air is cool, and then there is you.
That is, there is you who is the observer, the experiencer, the thinker, the active heart, you who is the center and creates space.
You will not understand the distance (space) between you and the stars, the distance between you and your wife, husband or friend.
Because you've never seen something without an image.

--- p.172

A living mind is a quiet mind, a mind without center, without space, without time.
Such a mind is infinite, the only truth, the only reality.

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Only through complete negation, which is the highest form of passion, does it, that is, love, come into existence.
Like humility, you cannot cultivate love.
Humility exists when pride is completely eliminated.
Then you will not know what it means to be humble.
A person who knows what it means to be humble is an empty person.


Likewise, when you give your heart, your mind, your nerves, your eyes, your whole being to discover the way of life, to know what is truly there and to go beyond it, and when you deny completely and utterly the life you are now living, then in that very rejection of the ugly and the cruel, something else comes into being.
And you won't even know it.
That is, he who knows that he is silent, he who knows that he loves, does not know what love is and what silence is.

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