Jiddu Krishnamurti

Why do we seek a method or technique? - 21 August 1949. • The problems of life do not demand a method, because they are so vital and alive that if we approach with a method we totally misunderstand and don't adequately meet that problem. • Where there is efficiency there is ruthlessness. • The means and the end are not separate. • Reality or God is something that cannot come by a technique, a means, or through a long, determined practice...

Attention implies that there is no centre - 22 June 1975 • Consciousness, because it is in constant movement, has never found an energy which is not contradictory, which is not produced by desire and thought. • Can thought ever see its own movement and the futility of its own movement? • Attention implies that there is no centre. • Is there a perception, a seeing outside the space which is part of consciousness? • There are two human...

True revolution - 6 February 1969. • What is a religious mind? • Must one go to an expert to tell us what the unconscious is or can one find it for oneself? • Through the negation of disorder, order comes into being. • It is only the meditative mind that can find out, not the curious mind or the mind that is everlastingly searching. • To meditate implies to see very clearly. It is not possible to see clearly when there is space between...

A mind in meditation is concerned only with meditation, not with the meditator - 17 February 1971 • If you can put aside your favourite systems, if you can understand that concentration is merely a resistance and therefore constant conflict and wastage of energy, then we can find out for ourselves what is necessary for a mind that is in a state of meditation. • To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute. •...

Senility and the brain cells, 1 June 1980. Is the human brain deteriorating? The human brain is not particular, it doesn't belong to me or anyone else, it is the human brain that has evolved for millions of years. Can the brain not only be aware of its own movement but can the brain itself have enough energy to break all patterns and move out of it? Is psychological knowledge not in itself a factor of the shrinking of the brain? The ending of suffering...

Four Small Group Discussions, Ojai, USA, 1972 1. Conflict and choice - 29 March 1972 Duration: 95 minutes • What do we mean by learning? • Why is one frightened of the past? • Knowing and looking at oneself. • Can that mess which is me be washed away? • How are you aware of conflict? • Choice and clarity. • Looking without any distortion. 2. A life without measurement - 30 March 1972 Duration: 87 minutes • Human beings have tried...

When the mind is completely quiet, how can there be time? - 29 August 1965 • What does time mean to you, as a human being? • Is there such thing as existence? • Quietness has come because I have understood the nature of time, function, thought and pleasure. • What takes place when there is great intensity? • Thought has a movement in function. Here there is no movement which thought can recognise, because thought is not coming into this...

What will make me see that thought breeds frustration? - 21 August 1965 • What is the function of thought? • Can the mind see the fact that thought will always breed frustration? • Function is necessary, but function with status, position and power must breed frustration. • Without frustration thought says to itself, 'I am not seeking. I don't want anything.' • If there is no thought, what happens? • The very perception of the limitation...

Is it possible to end the thousand yesterdays? - 13 November 1968 • Living together amicably, creatively, in complete relationship with one another — if that is what is essential then we need not only a different kind of mind but also a different quality of affection, love. • What is the function of a religious mind? • Our struggle in life is dualistic: good and bad, right and wrong, holy and unholy, the ideal and the fact. There is only...

Relationship has significance only when it is a process of self-revelation - 17 July 1949 • Where there is authority there can be no discovery of something new. • Relationship based on an idea cannot be a self-revealing process. • Self-knowledge is understood, uncovered and its process revealed through relationship. • Is it possible to love without the interference of the mind? • When the mind becomes supreme, all-important, then there can...