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J Krishnamurti

A Flower is the greatest miracle in the world

The miracle of a waterfall, of a tree, of a cloud! Man is captivated by miracles, some extraordinary happening, unnatural, not to be explained. A flower is the greatest miracle in the world; it is an everyday, common event. The birth of a child, the jet engine and the glory of a cathedral—these are all miracles but they are common sights and we pass them by with a glance and a passing memory. We want something beyond reason and its explanation. The laying on of hands, the cure without medicine and surgery, the healing from a distance, there are so many forms of these phenomena. Thought is ever probing into the mystery of the unexplained. There are miracle-mongers, but they are not the miracle. There are those who levitate, defying gravity and there are those who try to teach how to levitate, at so much a lesson; those who teach have not themselves denied gravity. Scepticism is healthy and doubt sweeps away all illusions; this in itself is a miracle. There are miracles but not for sale. Those who really have this gift never seek publicity; it is not given for money and they never claim to be ‘religious’ or spiritual; they certainly don’t want followers in the name of a god. They are not holy men; they are ordinary people with a certain capacity.

Miracles do happen, but only we are unaware of it.

To be healed physically is not so important as to be healed psychologically. In the past, I have healed physically. Now I am concerned with the healing of the inner, which is far more important. Is it not? If the mind and the heart are diseased, they affect the body, which in turn affects the mind. If we give too much importance to the outer and neglect the inner, the inner will always overcome the outer. This desire for the miracle, this transformation of the inner, is what you are looking for. You want a miracle to happen, which is really a sign of laziness, of irresponsibility. You want somebody else to do the job for you. The healing of the outer may make for popularity, but that will not lead man to happiness. So, we should understand the inward emptiness, the inward disease and corruption. None can heal you inwardly and that is the miracle of it. A doctor can heal you outwardly; a psychoanalyst may make you normal to fit into a decaying society; but to go beyond, to be inwardly true, clear, uncorrupted—that you alone can do and none else. This is the greatest miracle, to heal yourself completely.

This is what we have been doing here during the last three months—to understand ourselves, the causes of our disease, conflict, and contradiction, to see things as they are, clearly and simply, without distortion. When a thing is seen clearly, then a miracle takes place; then, that which is, is perceived without distortion, and the truth that understanding brings, heals. The truth of that understanding can come only through your own awareness and not through a miracle performed by another. Miracles do happen, but only we are unaware of it. You are not the same as you were yesterday. If you can follow the inward nature of the mind easily and swiftly, then you will see that miracles will happen, the miracles of newness, of life, of beauty, and of happiness. But, you cannot follow the swift movement of life if you are tethered, bound to your own achievements and belief. A man who knows, who is caught in what he knows—there can be no miracle for him. But a man who is uncertain, who asks nothing—to him life is a miracle, for there is constant renewal, a renewal without an end.

J Krishnamurti, Bombay, India 1948

We seek miracles because our minds and hearts are so poor, so empty…

Mind wants miracles, romantic ideas, extraordinary supernatural phenomena. Not that there are not miracles, not that there are not supernatural phenomena; but we seek them because our minds and hearts are so poor, so empty, so wretched, so ugly, and we think we can overcome that poverty of mind and heart by seeking those miracles, running and chasing after phenomena. And the more you pursue phenomena and miracles, the less you are rich, the less plenitude of mind and heart, the less affection. When there is the plenitude of heart and mind, then whether there are miracles or superphysical phenomena will have very little significance. Now, we create such divisions, such distinctions between the physical and superphysical, because the physical is so intolerable, so ugly. We want to run away, and anyone that can lead you to the superphysical, you follow, and you call that spiritual; but it is nothing else but another form of real, gross materialism. Whereas, true spirituality consists in living harmoniously, with perfect unity in your heart and mind, because there is understanding, and in that understanding there is the delight of living.

J Krishnamurti, NewZealand 1934
 

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