infiniti science

The obvious is well hidden. The Truth is not a theory. . . . . . . Simplex veri sigillum

Thought has been built through time

One has to understand the nature of thought, that is, first desire, then pleasure, and then why thought interferes at all. If I find out the relationship among these three, then desire becomes a very small affair. I can see a beautiful house, and leave it; I see a beautiful woman, and not produce all the reactions. Thought has been built through time. Thought is time. If you do not think, there will be no tomorrow. And, we have to think; but if that thinking is based on pleasure, on desire, then thought becomes a problem, then thinking becomes a danger. So, is it possible to see a house, a woman, and not let thought interfere with it? Not deliberately, not say that thought must not interfere because it brings pain, sorrow, and all the rest of it, but actually see the fact not the explanation; see the actual fact that, when thought interferes with desire or when thought gives importance to desire, then it becomes pleasure, and where there is pleasure there is always pain. The two, pleasure and pain, are not separate: pleasure is pain. You can see that very obviously. Most of our values, concepts, ideals, relationships between man, woman, neighbor and yourself, all that is based on pleasure, and hence all our problems. We function with the principle of pleasure.Thought is time. Pleasure is pain.

– Krishnamurti, Collected Works, Vol. XVI,62

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Know Thyself

“I advise you, whoever you are, Oh you! who wish to explore the mysteries of nature, if you do not find within yourself that which you seek, neither shall you find it outside. Within you is hidden the treasure of treasures.
Oh, man, know yourself and you shall know the Universe and the Gods!”

The Oracle of Delphi