Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Thought sustains fear and pleasure, 4 February 1969.
To understand the relationship and to end the conflict in it is our entire problem. Can man live at peace, within himself and outwardly? In a relationship, one becomes aware of the actual state of oneself. The man that has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free man, a peaceful man.
• What is fear?
• Can thought be silent?
Conduct becomes virtuous only when thought doesn't cultivate...
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IF WE MAY, we will continue with what we were talking about yesterday. When you look at a field stretching out to the horizon - a field of tulips - words come into your mind: how beautiful it is, the colour, the brilliancy, the texture, the depth of the colour. This whole field of colour with its beauty is put into words. Or you translate it in terms of some symbol, or you want to write about it, paint it, carry some of those flowers back to your...
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Complete freedom from thought, 9 September 1972.
Learning is instant perception and action. What place has thought in learning? To learn about freedom must “thought” be completely silent? Does insight into freedom take time? Can thinking, however rational, bring about a psychological revolution in us? Is thought always conditioned? Is freedom the non-existence of thought? My very being is related to thought.
If you want to see something new,...
44) Inner Space
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Why are you being educated? 1 December 1965.
• What is the function of education?
• Some people say that we must live now and others say that we must be concerned further, beyond the present.
• Can a man really be human without any effort?
• What is the difference between affection and love?
• How am I to know that I am bad?
• How am I to improve if I am bad?
• Why does nature attract us?
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1. To perceive 'what is' is the basis of truth - 7February 1971
Duration: 86 minutes
• Where there is division there must be conflict. A mind in conflict must inevitably
be distorted and therefore it cannot possibly see clearly what is truth.
• We need a total change, a deep revolution, psychological revolution, the inward
revolution, without which you cannot possibly create a new society.
• Is it possible to observe, to perceive without the...
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When one observes a fact without knowledge then one can learn, 28 May 1967.
• Why do we dream at all?
• Isn't dreaming at night a waste of energy, when the brain needs to be
completely at rest?
• When do you actually learn?
• When I learn through Freud about myself I am not observing myself, I am
observing the image which Freud has created about me.
• Can you do nothing, psychologically?
• If two people are quarrelling and one stops,...
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Life, death and love - 5 February 1969
• What is it that we call living?
• How can a confused mind find somebody who will tell the truth?
• When there is no comparison, no opposite, you are actually faced with the fact of anger, then is there anger?
• Without knowing what sorrow is, understanding its nature and structure, we shall not know what love is.
• What is it to die?
• One is never afraid of the unknown, one is afraid of the known...
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To understand 'what is' there must be no prejudice - 6 August 1949.
• To understand reality, or for that immensity to come into being, one must understand the process of one's own thinking.
• How is it possible to go into the deeper layers of consciousness?
• If we do not name then perhaps it's possible to go into the deeper layers of consciousness.
• To see things as they are requires enormous alertness of mind.
• Q: I understand intellectually...
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Being serious without belief - 15 March 1970
• Can the intellect, a fragment, ever be serious? Serious in the sense of a sustained observation without any distortion.
• Control
• What is living?
• How does it happen that one can be completely harmonious?
• What does awareness mean?
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Can insight be awakened in another? - 19 April 1980
• What is the relationship to society of a man who has insight? What is his action
with regard to war and the whole world?
• Q: What is the significance of mankind in the universe, or in the 'ground'?
• 'Y' is concerned with 'Show me, prove it to me, what benefit it has, will I get my future...
And he is looking at 'X' with the eyes that are so accustomed to this pettiness. He reduces that...
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The intelligence of love - 16 September 1980
• Can the mind, brain, the whole psychological structure ever be free from all conflict, from all shadow of disturbance?
• Thought is the outcome of psychological accumulation. That accumulation gives a sense of continuity, which is time.
• Why do all human beings throughout the world have the urge to become?
• In accumulation man has sought psychological security, and that security with its accumulation...
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The role of the teacher - 26 March 1971
• Q: There is much talk of a spiritual revolution among young people. Do you see in this very mixed phenomenon any hope of a new flowering for civilisation or possibility of growth?
• One can go into oneself at tremendous depths and find out everything. To go into oneself is the problem. Not being able to do it we ask for help.
• If there were no books, no gurus, what would you do?
• Q: You speak against...
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Cleansing the mind of the accumulation of time - 2 April 1980
• Time is the enemy of man.
• Is there a beginning which is not enmeshed in time?
• We said nothingness is everything and so it is total energy. It is undiluted pure, uncorrupted energy. Is there something beyond that?
• Has man ever been free from the 'I'?
• That emptiness can only exist when there is death of the particular.
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Death has very little meaning, 17 April 1980.
Is there a totally different way of approaching the whole turmoil of life? As long as the center is creating darkness, and thought is operating in that darkness, there must be a disorder, there must be everything as a society now is. To
move away from that you must-have insight. Insight can only come about when there is a flash that abolishes not only the
darkness but the creator of darkness.
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If thought cannot achieve, why should it suffer? - 18 July 1975
• How does science investigate the mysterious?
• If thought cannot achieve, why should it suffer?
• Can consciousness, which is filled with the things of thought, empty itself?
• Thought cannot possibly apprehend, comprehend or be aware of the whole.
• Time.
• Krishnamurti's early years.
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The mind in the universe - 20 September 1980
• Is thought a material process?
• Is it possible to have a mind that is really completely empty of all the things that thought has put together?
• Only the insight into the nature of reaction ends psychological reaction.
• There is absolute stillness and in that stillness, or from that stillness, there is a movement which is everlastingly new.
• Can the silent movement of order affect my daily...
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Meditation means a life that is totally different every minute of the day - 14 March 1971
• A mind that inquires into this whole question of meditation must have tremendous discipline.
• When you observe 'what is' without the interference of the past, there is complete change of 'what is'.
• Is there a way of seeing the whole content of consciousness without analysis?
• When you give complete attention there is no centre from which you attend.
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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,...