Intelligent Revolt
Excerpt taken from Education and the Significance of Life pp. 4
Revolt is of two kinds: there is violent revolt, which is mere reaction, without understanding, against the existing order; and there is the deep psychological revolt of intelligence. There are many who revolt against the established orthodoxies only to fall into new orthodoxies, further illusions and concealed selfindulgences. What generally happens is that we break away from one group or set of ideals and join another group, take up other ideals, thus creating a new pattern of thought against which we will again have to revolt. Reaction only breeds opposition, and reform needs further reform.
But there is an intelligent revolt which is not reaction, and which comes with self-knowledge through the awareness of one's own thought and feeling. It is only when we face experience as it comes and do not avoid disturbance that we keep intelligence highly awakened; and intelligence highly awakened is intuition, which is the only true guide in life.
Biography of Krishnamurti
Resources, Web links related to Krishnamurti
Teachings of Krishnamurti
- On The Core of his Teachings
- At the Feet of the Master (Written by the young Krishnamurti)
- On Awareness
- Watching the Mind
- On Desire
- On Effort
- On Nonduality
- On Revolt
- On Fear
- Self-centred activity
- Self knowledge
- The thinker and the thought
- What is the self?
- Contradiction
- Watching the Mind
- Conditioning
- The Process of Hate
Krishnamurti Dialogues
Dialogue with Bohm: Why has man given supreme importance to thought?
Dialogue with Bohm: Death has very little meaning
Q&A with Krishnamurti
Why am I never satisfied with anything?
Can the crude mind become sensitive?
What is self-knowledge? The traditional approach to self-knowledge is the knowledge of Atman as distinct from the ego. Is that what you mean by self-knowledge?
If you want to live peacefully within yourself, and yet you feel that as part of the society you are responsible for what if going on in the world today, how can you live peacefully or with any degree of happiness, knowing the heartrending things that are happening?