Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes About Tradition

Quotes about: Tradition

• When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Christian, Spiritual, Country

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Raymond Martin (1997). “Krishnamurti: Reflections on the Self”, p.94, Open Court Publishing

• It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth, God, or love.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Truth, Men, Inquiring

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “Individual & Society: A Study Book of the Teachings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.104, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

• Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Atheist, Mind, Atheism

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Mary Lutyens (1973). “The second Penguin Krishnamurti reader”

• How very important it is to bring about in the human mind the radical revolution. The crisis is a crisis in consciousness, a crisis that cannot anymore accept the old norms, the old patterns, the ancient traditions. Considering what the world is now with all the misery, conflict, destructive brutality, aggression and so on... man is still as he was, is still brutal, violent, aggressive, acquisitive, competitive and has built a society along these lines.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Men, Community, Mind

  "Zeitgeist: Addendum" Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2008.

• Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be. When you love, everything will come right. Love has its own action.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Book, Blessing

  "Commentaries on Living".

• All tradition is merely the past.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Past, Culture, Tradition

• Life is a joyous thing essentially, but when you bind life by all these rigid moralities and traditions, and dogmas and creeds, then there is misery.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Morality, Misery, Dogma

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

• Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Book, Journey

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living 1”, p.262, M-y books ltd

• From these prejudices there arises conflict, transient joys and suffering. But we are unconscious of this, unconscious that we are slaves to certain forms of tradition, to social and political environment, to false values.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

• Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Life, Conformity, Tradition

• Learning in the true sense of the word is possible only in that state of attention, in which there is no outer or inner compulsion. Right thinking can come about only when the mind is not
  enslaved by tradition and memory.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Memories, Thinking, Mind

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1967). “Life Ahead”

• Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Thinking, Long, Tradition

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