J Krishnamurti on Nothingness: Quote, Reflection and Inspired Poem

 J Krishnamurti on Nothingness:  Quote, Reflection and Inspired Poem

 Quotes of J Krishnamurti on Nothingness

 

• Be nothing. Life then becomes extraordinarily simple and beautiful. 
• We are empty, and we have tried to fill that emptiness with such trivialities as belief, opinion, judgments, and with political, so-called religious and artistic activities. 
• The mind penetrates deeply up to a point, and below that point there is the feeling of dark emptiness.
• If we are able to face emptiness, to be with that aching loneliness, then fear altogether disappears and a fundamental transformation takes place. 
• Out of real emptiness, quietness, there is a seeing. 
• When there is awareness of emptiness without choice, without condemnation or justification, then in that understanding of ‘what is’, there is action, and this action is creative being. 

Reflection

 

According to J. Krishnamurti, a prominent thinker of the 20th century, truth should not be perceived as a supreme physical being, but rather as a state of "nothingness"— a deep, creative emptiness that emerges when the mind is liberated from the psychological burdens of self, fear, and ambition. He asserts that the concept of nothingness is not a mere negative void, but a condition of choiceless pure awareness that, when accepted, facilitates genuine love, boundless energy, and the resolution of internal conflicts.

 

Inspired Poem

 

Empty space, no shape, no name,

Truth hides in a boundless frame.

 

Beyond the body, senses' sway,

A waking mind lights up the way.

 

Pure knowing, a silent hum,

Consciousness with which we come.

 

Nothingness, a void so deep,

Where secrets softly sleep.

 

Unknown, yet waiting to be found,

In moments quiet, calm and sound.

 

Be still, be empty, let it flow,

Sunya's whisper, soft and low.