Why can't we sustain attention? | J. Krishnamurti

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Bombay 1985 - Question #2 from Question & Answer Meeting #1
'Why is it that we are not able to sustain attention for more than a couple of minutes?'
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Yes,guys.we need,more NOW than before,his absolute guidance and love.Thank you,Landon.The Rat.

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NEVER....

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There is no legacy .that thought is a resistance. Let it go and just observe it

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Well said

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[@ericwong3746]

About Krishnamurti , how can I describe this beautiful , splendid, enormous , vast person , taller and higher than any word. Someone said that krishnamurti prepared ground for people and other person made them enlightened . He was right on some part but it was not enough explained. People hold this notion as absolute fact which does not belong to reality. let me say more here to clear that you have a no idea of that person. That person who has no shadow of falsehood, fear. His words were more precious than diamonds , more pure than gold , more cool than breeze, more powerful than atomic energy. But why he is not understood by many. It is not point that he did not make people enlightened . We never know how many people get enlightened by his true words , as not every enlightened person work as a guru so the world will come to know about them. We do not know how many people got lived and become greened and flowered. Why he is not understood on commercial plan? Because his words needs some sharp intelligence and brevity together . It was path totally individually followed and not with collective herds and without any mass effect. Human minds are conditioned with ease and pleasure and afraid to be alone. One can not easily absorb reality in very straight raw way but so mostly were interested into knowing of reality rather to have it. It is like one is watching rain through window sitting in his room and he will never get to know what is meaning of rain drop over his hand and over his body , how it moves, slides , shines and disappear. People gathered around him were mind user , calculated, tired minds but not brave and open enough. People collected around him were serious ,and who were afraid to openness , who were afraid to leave what they were holding. Why such people gathered around him.. because Krishnamurti was taken as serious teacher, who looks sober, intelligent and people took him as a teacher and respected him as a teacher and listened his every talk as a teacher and then left to their houses . They listened him very seriously . So he repeated most of time to them do you understand me , do you got me , can you see it ,can you inquire it by yourself . One can not see his eyes and how these were glowing with glow of fire,suns and stars and universe and his inner was crying for people for Gods sake just see , inquire , see yourself but people were sitting like half paralyzed. People got some relief and peace through his talk for which they came. But there were some people in the corner and did not come for seeking anything, they were different. If you are disappointed and tired from your seeking all around the world then come to listen this old man , who hold mountains of truth and deeper than valley which put you eternal fire with no escape. I am not writing to praise this old person , he is above all these. I am writing because he holds the pure truth. I am not making happy to his followers and pump their egos. Just leave your seriousness and do not listen him as seriously and intellectual half paralyzed and half dead and do not come to listen to his words to save what you hold or you think that he will take your past away or falsehood and do not seek any formula or idea in his words, do not follow his words as followers , do not take his words as rule otherwise words behave as dead and without any meaning. Words got mixed with life then these will bring chemical reaction and transformation. Words depends on you , how much you are allowing it to penetrate and so they disappear into you to become you. It is not mental memorizing , repetition , following words as a rule. Let words meets life and brings all chain reaction. Otherwise words has no meaning without you. He has vision which is powerful than any light. He words are more penetrating than any arrow . leave your shoes outside of sacred house and leave your mind when entered in his world. His words appeal to serious thinking people because he tries to define anatomy, physiology of thought process. It is good that your learn subjects into university but need to get this subject run into veins. Subject is not separate from you and you are only field where it works , there is no garden except you where flowering occurs. Let truth of his words vibrate into your every cells and tissues. Let the truth appears which is waiting for you ever since . You are still wandering and serious about useless things and trifle things of mind. Come here and there is everything for you. It is yours , it is you and you belong to nowhere except this truth. Just close your eyes and stand in center of market and just stand at cross road and listen effortlessly that something is calling you , there is voice among thousand noises , just listen it and take this direction. More you move , more you feel this fire engulfing to make you to be reborn again and burn all ways behind you and you will feel that all stars and planets starting to rotate around you and you are center of this universe. Every particle is center of this universe , there is nothing which is not center. Come my friend and it is not too late , you always welcomed and doors always open for you and which never tired in remaining to be opened. My words are out of this powerful silence for those who lost their ability to listen this silence. come , come step by step, nothing to be afraid , nothing to lose , come near to it, just raise your eyes and all stars are shining over you. You belong to it. Just listen to krishnamurti or any one who pulsates with truth and truth belongs to no one and nobody owns or claim over it,. My words are not balm to your wounds but my words are just old song and nothing new ,which I sing once again and to tell you that where you really belong. Dive !

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Great understanding about the Great teacher.

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Great insight

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ok

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He would say to you iF YOU HAVE AN IMAGE OF ME , JUST OBSERVE that ITS MERE IMAGE OF MINE and NOT ME. the image which you name splendid, enormous vast etc.

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Great

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He won’t be forgotten. Love everyone!

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The most intelligent gurú in history

[@redddybhaskar]

Appeal to the people around the world let us spread the vibrations triggered by JK, there is a need for reviving that wonderful tempo he was cultivating. The world will be a different place if atleast quarter of it's population follow his teachings.

[@FelippeMedeiros]

"See how we are distracted by words..."

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And this found its place in the comments section!

[@conversationcorner1837]

Without sustained attention, learning becomes hard.

[@bluesage1528]

Always unpredictable, always fresh, always expanding my horizons... Thank you

[@100basilmat]

If you understand inattention there is attention.thought is always moving ,don't try to resist it then their is conflict.just watch thought as it moving without any preoccupation.

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Great. Deep thanks

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Why thought moves

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It’s Very very important to know this precious things!! Thank you so much J 🙏❤️❤️❤️

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One of the original Gurus Of our time✝️🦋

[@jez3858]

as someone with ADHD, thank you. I believe it’s about making the best of whatever attention you have and connecting all “distracting” thoughts together because they are all related

[@leroyessel2010]

Bingo and Dittos at the same time.

[@goodgreatlife]

I had to pause the video to say thanks for uploading this. 🙏🙏

[@ff_hao]

When I see those videos, I become part of the discussion and inwardly I am discussing and discovering together, with him, ourselves.

[@carpenterfamily6198]

Yes, exactly I don’t want to be distracted as I’ll miss something. Therefore I feel ‘maintaining attention’ is important. But JK seems to be saying, By labeling one thought as valuable and another bad, a distraction - that a duality is being created by defining, separating or categorizing thoughts. JK says don’t [mis] judge thought flow as distraction. Rather than attempt to maintain ‘attention’, instead maintain awareness - observation of whatever thought comes. Stay open, non-resistive to anything . . . including your own thought flow. Fabricating dualities ( all of which are false, - actually nonexistent ) and the resistance that results impedes spirituality . The problem with duality is that it is untrue. The problem with things are are untrue is that they are not true.

[@pawanbhatta5435]

Thank you for the explanation.

[@impancaking]

@R v interesting theory. Have you heard of aphantasia?

[@impancaking]

@R v visualisation is a spectrum. And a skill you can cultivate. However I am to the far end of aphantasia. I can only visualise in my dreams. I cant picture anything.

[@betsybarnicle8016]

I saw the value of this understanding when I was in class at Bible college. If the teacher said something that opened my mind and spirit to a new thought or perspective, then I would think on that while in class and take the time to write it down. My teacher was wise and understood that when we were writing and not listening, that it was important...important enough that we trusted God that it was worth more than those few minutes of missed lecture. So we weren't seen as being distracted - we were seen as being inspired and illuminated. After writing down our new learning, we'd return to listening. It was an awesome time.

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Carpenter Family - thank you for your reply. JKs talk spoke deeply, but you comments helped me see more clearly. GB

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This helped me at my crucial time... I wish all listen keenly to his insight

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I always love how he answers a question by another question.

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Thoughts are like a river. Always flowing . It is a stream of consciousness.

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This is pure gold. Thank you

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This man is out of the world. I don't BELIEVE he is an enlightened being coz am SURE of it

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Thank you.

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6:51 - This is absolutely brilliant. And the bottom line. The truth.

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Because it is the same Consciousness. You are him and he is you. Consciousness talking to Itself through the sim characters.

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Tons of thanks for uploading ..no words

[@sadsaccc]

If we follow our thought process... it will fade away. What remains cannot be recorded by the brain.

[@brandonwallick7504]

I had not thought about it that way.

[@zharis1884]

'What remains cannot be recorded by the brain.' Could you please elaborate? 13

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@@brandonwallick7504 can you please elaborate?

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@@sreenivasan9450 Watching your own thoughts process diminishes it's power over you. Hence thought slowly fades away by itself. It's like putting light on darkness and darkness fades away.

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Excellent. Glad to see that there are more than 7k views already.

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He did a great job explaining the unexplainable

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Focus shift = what we call a distraction. Thank You

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Thank u JK

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Unique and amazing!

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I really enjoyed the first 45 seconds of this vide

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I thoroughly enjoy the speaker. So enriching.

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I am always attentive whenever you speak because you make even the most complicated and abstract concepts as lucid as the water in the Blue lake. ❤️

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Very beautifully Said 🙏

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Wow. Just wow. “See how we are distracted by these words”

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You are diamond Or more than diamond Priceless ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Simply put just watch your thoughts. No judgements. Wish there was podcast on JK teachings.

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Gautham Kakkente urgency of change the Khrishnamurti podcast also the immeasurable podcast which discusses K‘s teachings...

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THANKS

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Absolutely valuable........I will read books of him to understand more.

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One needs absolute attention to understand this man, but oh it's so worth it

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Awesome 😎👍

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He wanted to make this world a great place to live in

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Superb.

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Back in the 70's I read "Think on These Things" based on a recommendation from Alan Watts. I than read the 3 part series "Commentaries on Living". Mind blowing stuff, still my favorite books of his. His description of "beauty" is spot on and when you read it, it's one of those things in life that you know comes directly from the heart of the Universe to you. He has to be related to Tagore! P.S.-Alan Watts' stuff is up there with Krishnamurti's, most especially "Cloud Hidden, Whereabouts Unknow" , "The Wisdom of Insecurity" and last but not least, "The Joyous Cosmology" (with an introduction by Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, AKA: Ram Dass. If you can't guess by the 2 men making the intro, the book was written after he experimented with LSD as a sacrament!).

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Brillant 💎

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Simply LIVING..... . WOW

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Whaa cool explanation

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You cannot sink your teeth in the flowing water, but thoughts freeze the flow and keep us cold and numb, like an icicle -- paralyzed.

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Damn 😮

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Wow

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🙏🙏🙏what a thought...👍

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Thanks for the vedeo, about attention, during this 10 minitue talk my thovef away twenty times and back to vedeo listening

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Man took off his coat like “let me at em” 🐐

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WoW😊

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He is telling the right thing.....but it can help only an open mind🙏

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This man from black shiny hair to grey to white to silver..has been living truth... What a legend... ❤️ ... Am deeply thankful to the one who gets these videos in...🙏

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Extremamente importante, para todos que querem se conhecer

[@chiteshseth4723]

I understood, attending is to attend something happening, attention is the quality of our being like- hearing something of interest we are more intention. In-attention is being without thoughts fully present with our being. Distraction is not at all there it's only not being in attention, to attend one one thing all the time serve no purpose, it is not what we should look for. Rather we can focus on attention and it's quality, to watch any distraction attentively, unattached, and come back to real stuff in attention again and again, and develop this quality. 🙏

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Genius

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please keep uploading the videos thank you.

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Wow..

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🙏🙏🙏BLESSED by the WISDOM

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Thanks KFT... You don't know what kinda support you are continue to providing... 💙

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"There is no distraction..."

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this is first video of this guy, i can understand.

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Sending gratitude from a Daoist monastery near Seattle! 💙☯️

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Merp!

[@flosse1993]

I sort of got distracted during this... Which means I paid full attention!!

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You can attempt at being a stand up comedian ....

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It doesn't get any simpler than this

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'Why' is base of truth..

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❤

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