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The Teaching
The Meaning
Our minds have become so conditioned that we put a label on everything we see.
Because of that, we cannot see the truth that exists in each moment.
When Krishnamurti speaks about truth, he says only what is, is the truth.
That is hard to understand.
We always want meaning, definition, to comprehend, to think.
But the real point is simply to be.
To accept being itself as truth.
When we see a bird, we at once label it — it’s pretty or it’s flying.
But even the word bird is only a name created by society.
We must see this clearly in order to recognize truth.
In reality, Krishnamurti is saying that there is no path.
It is not that he is teaching, or anyone is teaching.
It is a deep realization that arises in oneself. Not an intellectual understanding.
It is not a formula to figure out.
It simply is.
From this way of seeing, we begin to continuously touch truth.
Because that is all there ever was.
We are the ones who give it names, shapes, ideas, meanings.
But the natural flow continues as it is and we remain still, observing that truth.
The Reflection
What if meaning only appears when you stop looking for it?
I spent 7 years of my life trying to find it.
I lived with monks, read philosophy books, meditated for hours.
And through it all, I realized something nobody talks about: maybe we’re searching in the wrong direction.
The harder I searched, the further I got from actually living.
Krishnamurti was right: the act of searching is just another form of labeling.
When you search, you already carry an idea of what you hope to find.
When you label, you replace direct seeing with a word.
Both put the mind between you and life.
So I tried something radical: I stopped searching completely.
And the strangest thing happened—meaning showed up.
Not in a grand vision, but in the ordinary moments I’d been skipping for years.
I started hearing what people actually said instead of rehearsing my replies.
Walking became walking, not a step toward somewhere else.
At first, my mind spiraled. It felt unbearable to sit in the present without clinging to thoughts.
But I kept letting go.
And slowly, something shifted.
The meaning I chased wasn’t in texts or retreats, and definitely not in the next achievement.
It was already here—in my mom’s phone call while I was lost in thinking about business, in the tree I never really saw because I was too busy naming it.
Maybe meaning isn’t something we find.
Maybe it’s what reveals itself when we stop searching and stop labeling—
when we meet life directly, as it is.
In this very moment.
The Practice
The very idea of grasping at truth is the antithesis of what Krishnamurti is pointing toward.
By seeking, by grasping, by trying to understand, we pull ourselves out of the present moment where truth actually lives.
There is nothing to uncover through effort.
There is nothing to achieve through practice.
There is only what can be realized by being fully in this moment—without labeling, without projecting, without mapping, without formulating.
Just being.
The paradox is that the moment we try to practice "just being," we've already stepped outside of it.
The moment we think "now I'm being present," we've created a concept of presence rather than actually being present.
So what's left?
Perhaps just this: when we stop trying to find truth, stop trying to understand it, stop trying to practice it—when we simply allow this moment to be what it is without our commentary—something shifts.
Not because we made it shift, but because we stopped preventing it from revealing itself.
From Nanna’s Voice
From Amma’s Hand
