Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Does learning require thinking, or only awareness?
• To be aware is to be conscious, to be in relationship with what you observe outwardly and also our inward reactions.
• Awareness reveals that I have a conclusion from which I act, which prevents the free flow of energy.
• You see that you have many opinions and conclusions.
• You don't know whyyou have them or how to be free of them. Start with not knowing.
• Knowledge is in the past...
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Thought is the cause of fear - 10 November 1968
• Though we have plenty of energy, apparently we lack the drive, enthusiasm, vitality to bring about a change in ourselves.
• As long as there is fear there must be violence, aggression, anger, hatred.
Thought is the source of fear.
• Is it possible to live everyday life without thought interfering?
• Thought is always old. When you worship thought you are worshipping something that is dead.
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Simplicity cannot be found unless one is free inwardly - 24 July 1949
• Only when the mind and heart are really simple is one able to solve the many problems that confront us.
• A religious man is he who is inwardly simple.
• Q: I have been a member of various religious organizations but you have destroyed them all. I am utterly bored and work because hunger forces me to it. I am afraid to commit suicide. What on earth am I to do?
• Q: What...
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What is the substance of thought? 25 July 1975
What is the basic reason for thought to be fragmented? What is the substance of thought? Is it a material process, a chemical process? There is a total perception, which is truth. That perception acts in the field of reality. That action is not the product of thought. Thought has no place when there is total perception. Thought never acknowledges to itself that it is mechanical. Total perception can...
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To look without a concept is to be aware of the observer and the thing observed - 20 May 1967
• Violence and sorrow are not limited to the West or the East, it is part of the human structure, psychologically.
• Is it possible to bring about a change radically, a total revolution in the psyche itself, not through time?
• The first and last freedom is when the mind is totally free from concepts and the mechanical process of building a formula.
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Love is that quality of mind in which there is no division - 14 February 1971
• To live in this world with intelligence, in spite of all the complications.
• Is it possible to be free of fear, not only the superficial fear in relationship but the deep-rooted fear?
• Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.
• When you are learning, your mind is awake.
• Truth isn't second-hand, you can't get it through a guru,...
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The liberation of insight, 14 September 1980.
Can insight wipe away, banish or dissolve the whole movement of being tied, attached, dependent and lonely? Is there an order which is not man-made? Measurement can exist only where there is disorder. We live in a man-made world, we are the result of man-made minds.
Can the mind uncondition itself so completely that it's no longer man-made? What is the relationship between love and hatred?
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Why does one have to have order in life? - 7 December 1965
• You can learn easily when there is an atmosphere of freedom and friendship, a sense of happiness. That is denied when you are compelled. Compulsion is not righteous behaviour.
• Q: What is the foundation of religion?
• Q: Why does a man want success in life?
• What are you going to be when you grow up?
• Q: When bad thoughts come to our mind and we want to suppress them, even...
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Three Public Talks
1. A radical transformation in the psyche itself - 8 November 1968
Duration: 80 minutes
• To communicate we must know that the word is not the thing and also be in
that state of mind whose quality is attention, care. That can only take place if
we are serious.
• We are the world and the world is us. To bring about a radical transformation,
which is so essential in society, there must be radical transformation in
ourselves.
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This series of six talks, given by Krishnamurti in Madras in 1979-80, marks a departure from his usual style of exposition. Usually in the opening talk he would dwell first on the problems of the world and then on the psychological factors underlying them. But here he starts straightaway with the most ancient quest of man to find that which is sacred. 'Man must have asked a million years ago, from the beginning of the time, if there is a reality,...
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Direct perception is freedom - 10 February 1971
• Can the mind living in this world ever be free, not only superficially but profoundly, at the very root of its existence?
• 'Freedom from' is an abstraction, but freedom in observing 'what is' and going beyond it is actual freedom.
How do I observe greed? Do I observe it as an outsider looking in or do I observe it without the observer?
Without the mind being free you cannot live in order.
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Can the brain free itself from all self-delusion? - 11 October 1975
• Thought and the brain.
• Can the brain free itself from all self-delusion?
• Why has the self become important?
• Can there be only sensation, thought, and no desire?
• Can desire - which brings illusion, self-deception and all the complications of changing desires — can the root of desire be dissipated?
• What prevents one from having a real insight? That is, seeing...
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Is there such thing as free will? - 31 May 1967
• Is freedom partial?
• Why should I be bound to destiny? Born in India with the tremendous cultural traditions, why should I be caught in it?
• Man is more important than the frame into which he is put.
• Is it possible for a human being to free himself from society, psychologically?
• Human beings have to change, and will thought change us?
• Man is society, has created the society in...
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You can understand yourself very simply when you are quiet - 4 December 1965
• When you are really quiet, alone with yourself, you begin to know yourself and to see the intricacies of your mind.
• Q: Why does the mind get disturbed when it is in a state of revolt and how can it quieten down?
• Q: Is communication possible in all conditions?
J. KRISHNAMURTI
• Q: When we say anything that is a bit alternative to what our elders think, we...
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You can understand yourself very simply when you are quiet - 4 December 1965
• When you are really quiet, alone with yourself, you begin to know yourself and to see the intricacies of your mind.
• Q: Why does the mind get disturbed when it is in a state of revolt and how can it quieten down?
• Q: Is communication possible in all conditions?
J. KRISHNAMURTI
• Q: When we say anything that is a bit alternative to what our elders think, we...
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Wisdom comes through the understanding of suffering - 23 July 1974
• Do we respond to the whole field of existence? Must not there be love to do that?
• To love, to be responsible for the whole, one must go beyond suffering. • Can we know the nature, structure and function of suffering?
• Is isolation one of the major causes of suffering?
• Is attachment, which denies freedom, a cause of suffering?
• In the love of the whole the particular...
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What is our responsibility? - 2 August 1974 Duration: 93 minutes
• Q: How do I put the feeling of responsibility into action?
• We approach a problem from the outer to the inner and the inner to the outer.
It is an endless ebb and flow.
• Who has created the division, this structure as the outer and the inner? We are educated in that and are caught in it.
• Division takes place when there is an image in the mind.
Responsibility is to free...
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To understand death we must understand living - 10 December 1965
• When you really love something, you put your whole heart, mind and body into that.
• Is there a living without pain, anxiety or fear?
• Q: When a man improves, why do other people feel jealous of him?
• Q: How long will it take for national frontiers to disappear?
• Q: When man knows death is necessary, why doesn't he love it?
• Q: What is the definition of life?
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The action of intelligence - 14 September 1972
• Q: Why don't we see the division between the observer and the observed?
• How does the division come about which causes conflict and misery?
• Are we aware that we are fragmented? Why does contradiction exist?
• Can we have a mind that is not fragmented and contradictory?
• Can the mind live without comparison?
• The brain sees that nationalities and religious divisions are disastrous for...