‘Words Become Our Prison’: Quotes of J Krisnamurti and Inspired Haiku

 

‘Words Become Our Prison’: Quotes of J Krisnamurti and Inspired Haiku

 QUOTES

• The word is not the thing / reality
•  We live by words and words become our prison. The words are necessary to communicate but the word is never the thing. The actual is not the word but the word becomes all-important when it has taken the place of that 'which is'.
•  Thought (Word) is divisive because in itself it is limited. To observe wholly implies the non-interference of thought – to observe without the past as knowledge blocking the observation. Then the observer is not, for the observer is the past, the very nature of thought. 
• In observation there is neither the observer nor the idea of observation. This is very important to understand. There is no observer or the idea of not having an observer. Which means there is only pure observation, without the word, without the recollection and association of the past. There is nothing, only observation.  ~J KRISHNAMURTI

INSPIRED HAIKU 

Worldly things we know,
But so much more to learn,
Limit brings regret.
 
Words hold short lives,
Falsehoods sting, sorrow they bring.
Free your mind from chains.
 
Still mind, quiet deep,
Vastness holds, a silent awe,
World awakens bright.
 
World's knowing, small.
Finite mind, trapped by its words.
Awake to silence