Krishnamurti Words of Wisdom

There's more to read, if you are interested...This is some of the text from a film about Krishnamurti - With a Silent Mind.

Narrator: I remember an occasion when a Chan monk walked up - travel weary -  must have been about 11:00 in the morning and Krishnamurti was just going in for his bath. And the monk said he had been walking for weeks to get there because he learned that Krishnaji was there and said it was very urgent that he should see him. 

And Krishnaji smiled and said, "You are trying to find an answer aren't you? You are trying to find a solution." He said "I would rather change this process and merely look at what you are trying to do with your self, look at what thought is trying to do to itself." 

So he said, "Thought is trying to persuade itself and pressurize itself to stop it's operations because it wants to get something out of it and this is something which thought can't do. So you have just to grasp the single fact that what you have been trying to do for fourteen years is something which thought has been trying to do and there is just no way by which thought will ever be able to do it. Just see it, the finality of it, that it is not within the capability of thought to do what you want thought to do. Just see this. Do you see this, sir, what I am saying?" 

The monk was impressed, and he said "Yes I do."

But Krishnamurti said, "You are trying to ask thought to do it for you. Don't do that. Just watch what thought is doing to itself, and perhaps if you do that and wait..."

And suddenly there was a change in the appearance of the monk. He closed his eyes, and he was quite silent. After about four minutes he opened his eyes, and his eyes were full of tears and he touched Krishnaji's feet, and then he said, "Sir, I have been wanting to get this for a long time, and I have not been doing it, so thank you and I'll go."

Krishnamurti said, "No no. Don't be in such a hurry. Please sit down for five minutes." 

The monk sat down. He sat quietly, but suddenly he blurted out, "Sir I have some one more question 
to ask."

Krishnamurti said, "Of course, I am waiting for that." 

And the monk said, "Well that was alright, really. Thought was absolutely quiet, without my doing anything about it, but how can it last? How can I get it again?" 

And Krishnaji said, "That is just the question that I knew you were going to ask me -- but, who is it that asked the question? The mind that's silent is asking this question? Or the mind that was not able to get silent and is worrying over it is asking the question? It is again the old mind. You have gone back to the old mind, and that old mind is asking this question -- because it wants to possess what you got, it wants to hold onto it and continue it. All this is the normal function of thought. When you had moved out of that room, and now you want the answer in this room, that is you want the answer to be with thought. Do you see what you are doing. Do you see, sir, what thought is doing to you? Do you see what thought is doing to itself?" 

And again the monk went silent and this time he was silent for awhile, and he opened eyes that were full of peace, and he touched Krishnaji's feet, and he said, "Sir I'll not come to you again."

-- Achyut Patuvardhan from film "With a Silent Mind"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d3FoZ55wSw