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Name: What Are You Doing with Your Life?
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Author: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Explore answers to some of life's most difficult questions

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What Are You Doing with Your Life (2001) attempts to answer some of life’s most important questions. From considering the role of happiness and personal transformation to the purpose of life itself, it sets out a philosophy to guide you through every stage of your journey.

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What’s in it for me? Pick up some deep life wisdom.

At one point or another, most of us have asked, What is the purpose of life? Maybe you’ve wondered – aloud or to yourself – how some people manage to find sustained happiness. Maybe you’ve mused over problems you’ve seen in society, and pondered possible solutions.

In these blinks, you’ll find some responses to these fundamental issues. What you won’t find, however, are easy answers – in fact, it’s likely you’ll find some things here disconcerting and provocative. For instance, what if “sustained happiness” doesn’t exist? What if looking for a “purpose” in life is the wrong way to go about things? What follows will challenge and inspire you – and more.

In these blinks, you’ll learn

how your cultural conditioning has influenced you;
why revolution won’t change anything; and
the difference between intellect and intelligence.

Your conditioning stops you from seeing things as they are.

Stop a moment and consider the way that you perceive the world.

Consider, for instance, the way you see love. From the moment you were born, you were subjected to ideas about love that shaped the way you think of it. For you, perhaps love is epitomized by a picture of a happy couple on their wedding day, or a bunch of flowers given as a surprise gift.

No matter what, you’ve been conditioned to see love in a particular way, depending on your social, economic, and cultural background. But this means that your perspective may be very narrow, and the complex truth of love may be lost on you.

The key message here is: Your conditioning stops you from seeing things as they are.

Your conditioning stops you from perceiving the world in all its complexity. Life is constantly in flux, but because of the way you see the world, you tend to think of it as fixed. Your mind is tethered by your cultural background, belief systems, and dogma.

To see how life continuously changes and evolves, you need to be able to change your mind and your perspective along with it. If you don’t attune yourself to life’s subtle, continuous changes, you won’t see the full picture – just your own tiny, static snapshot.

For instance, if you were to watch a flower bloom and change, your description of it would vary from one day to the next if you were to be truthful about that flower. Life is just like that – it requires intimate attention.

To look at life more truthfully, you have to free your mind from all the grand theories and systems that try to explain it in its totality. This is the hard part. For instance, maybe you think of yourself as a socialist, a capitalist, a Christian, or a Hindu. If you adhere to an ideology or religion, any number of situations will be forced to fit your worldview, even if what they’re telling you contradicts your belief system.

So how do you attune yourself to the world? You must watch the way your mind moves very carefully. You must observe its workings, almost as if you were watching from the outside. Only then will you begin to understand how your conditioning limits the way you see.

In this way, you’ll begin to understand yourself and your relationship to the world. That’s the first step toward grappling with the many problems we face – problems that are always changing and evolving, just like life itself.

To transform the world, you must transform yourself.

Imagine a revolution. Inspired to fight against injustice, the people come together to challenge a system that’s rigged against them. They stage a general strike, and bring everything to a halt. They overthrow their government and the elites who benefited from things as they were. They propose a new constitution, with a whole suite of new laws designed to make things fairer, to lift up the downtrodden, and to put an end to violent conflict.

That’s what many people imagine when they hear the phrase “transform the world.” According to the author, though, things will never change if this is what we’re waiting for.

Happiness is fleeting – and the sooner we learn this, the happier we’ll be.

Happiness: we’re all seeking it. After all, isn’t the pursuit of happiness the whole point of life? Whether obtained through love, career, or family, happiness is the ultimate aim of everything we do. The trouble is, it’s hard to find happiness that lasts. And when we’re looking for it, it always seems to stay hidden.

So what’s the trick to seizing happiness?

Intellect is not intelligence.

What do we mean by “intellect”? The word evokes images of university dons, scientists working to solve complex problems, and straight-A students.

The definition of intellect is thought functioning independently of our emotions – a kind of analytical or deductive thinking. Intellect is also something that can be trained in a particular direction. Modern education does just that, in fact. Through education, you can train your intellect to be sharper at mathematics, physics, or economics, for example.

When you’re bored, you should lean into your boredom, rather than try to escape it.

You’re bored. You feel dull and uninspired. So what do you do? You rent a movie, you go for a jog around the block, you call a friend and see if he wants to go out for a drink. And what if you’re bored with your whole life? You change it – you find a new job, take up a cause, travel around the world. You try to run away from the boredom.

But what if this is exactly the wrong thing to do? What if your boredom is telling you something more fundamental about who you are? If that’s so, then you need to confront it and learn more about it.

The purpose of life is life itself.

What is the purpose of life? That’s the million-dollar question! Many have asked themselves this over the centuries. Philosophers, religious leaders, and gurus of various stripes have dipped their quills in ink, bent over their manuscripts, and tried to come up with a satisfactory answer. Many other ordinary people have racked their brains in a similar fashion.

Perhaps you’re asking yourself the same question right now. Well, according to the author, the question itself is the wrong place to start.

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It is only the free mind that can meet life, not the mind tethered to any system . . . .

—Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Jiddu Krishnamurti was born in southern India in 1895. He was a philosopher, speaker, and writer. The Theosophical Society, a global philosophical organization, regarded him as the coming “World Teacher” they were waiting for. He would reject this moniker, and spend the rest of his life speaking to large groups of people all around the world. He died in 1986.

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