The Krishnamurti Collection

Krishnamurti: Meditation Is the Transformation of the Mind San Francisco 1975, Public Meetings 3/4: Why Have We Not Been Able To Resolve Suffering? In uncovering the structure and the nature of suffering, one must have a free, inquiring mind, not prejudiced or seeking an end. Is it possible to have a relationship with another not based on memory? What is hurt when somebody says something harsh? Th...

Krishnamurti: Meditation Is the Transformation of the Mind San Francisco 1975, Public Meetings 2/4: What Is the Relationship of Knowledge to Transformation? What place has thought in bringing about a totally different quality of mind and heart? Knowledge has its place, but it cannot bring about a psychological revolution. What will? What is the energy that will change man? Find out whether the min...

Krishnamurti: Meditation Is the Transformation of the Mind San Francisco 1975, Public Meetings 1/4: Freedom Is Necessary To Investigate Into Oneself Freedom implies that one can inquire within oneself, to examine the whole structure of the human mind. It is necessary to be free to find out what is true and false for yourself, which no system, philosophy or guru can tell you. Can the mind look at i...

Krishnamurti: It’s Only When the Mind Is Quiet You See Things Clearly San Diego 1972, Conversations with Allan W. Anderson 2/2: What Is the Point of Education? What is the function of an educator? Why in the modern world are children so violent, disorganized? What is meditation? Meditation is to cleanse the mind of every form of deception. It’s only when the mind is quiet you see things clearly. ...

Krishnamurti: It’s Only When the Mind Is Quiet You See Things Clearly San Diego 1972, Conversations with Allan W. Anderson 1/2: Listening Is a Great Miracle Q: What is it that, as a renowned spiritual teacher, you would care to say you teach? Seriousness implies to have the capacity to examine very, very deeply and give your whole life to that examination.  ‘What is’ can only be observed totally,...

Krishnamurti: Thought Cannot Achieve Silence Schönried 1984, Conversations with Radha Burnier 2/2: The Holistic Way of Life Is Outside of the Brain The brain is the centre of all responses, biological, physiological, subjective. Is thought the cause of all fragmentation? Is love outside the brain or within the brain? After a thousand millennia, why haven’t we changed? - The Krishnamurti Collection...

Krishnamurti: Thought Cannot Achieve Silence Schönried 1984, Conversations with Radha Burnier 1/2: Sound and Silence What is silence? Is it the absence of noise? Can thought be ever silent? When you listen to a tree, very quietly, it is communication. Scientists say the universe is very noisy. Is there something beyond that noise? Creation is something totally unrelated to knowledge. Love has no c...

Krishnamurti: In Complete Silence of the Mind Is Love Saanen 1968, Public Meetings 17/17: Is It Possible To See With Love? To discover what it is to see, one has to have a certain quality of discipline. Is it possible to see very clearly? What is the nature and quality of seeing that is not clouded by the past? Is love memory, the remembrance of pleasurable things and holding on to them? Can one l...

Krishnamurti: In Complete Silence of the Mind Is Love Saanen 1968, Public Meetings 16/17: True Action Is there an action which is whole, complete and timeless, or are we condemned to function in fragments and conflict? Is there an action that will always answer, always act totally under all circumstances? Am I committed to conceptual ideologies? I see there is no morality at all in society. What i...

Krishnamurti: In Complete Silence of the Mind Is Love Saanen 1968, Public Meetings 15/17: Why Do We Seek and What Is There To Seek? We seek to have no pressure or strain of anxiety, the constant activity of the ‘me‘ with its fears, dramas and tragedy. Will one who sees very clearly ever seek? What do I do when I am confused? Any action out of our confusion breeds further confusion. Just look at th...

Krishnamurti: In Complete Silence of the Mind Is Love Saanen 1968, Public Meetings 14/17: Can Man Go Beyond His Own Limitation? Man is heavily conditioned, limited, aggressive. Is it possible to break this barrier or limitation? Will can only operate within its own limitation and therefore it breeds antagonism. Is there a universal law which on finding solves our problems? Can disorder be transfor...

Krishnamurti: In Complete Silence of the Mind Is Love Saanen 1968, Public Meetings 13/17: Why Have We Neglected the World of Mind and Spirit? We outwardly live a very full life and inwardly we are poverty-stricken. What is an inward, spiritual life which contains the outer and the inner? A mind that is curious knows the limitation of human understanding. Why do we make inward inquiry impossible? T...

Krishnamurti: In Complete Silence of the Mind Is Love Saanen 1968, Public Meetings 12/17: Looking at Oneself Without Words, Images or Pride Can I look at myself in silence with a mind that is not disturbed by the past? Pride creates conflict between ‘what is’ and ‘what should be’. Can one look at oneself without the images we have created through fear and pride, and hence look with great silence i...

Krishnamurti: In Complete Silence of the Mind Is Love Saanen 1968, Public Meetings 11/17: Can I Look Out of Silence at My Contradictory Life? To communicate we must use words but words are heavily loaded.  Words create in us a form, a design, a content, which is actually the ‘me’, the thinker, the observer. Am I aware that I lead a fragmentary life? I am afraid and so I become aggressive. Contradi...

Krishnamurti: In Complete Silence of the Mind Is Love Saanen 1968, Public Meetings 10/17: A Religious Life We live in a world of misunderstanding, interpreting according to motive, background and desire. What is religion? Can you completely put aside every form of religious organisation and belief? Religion is an action which is complete, total and covers all of life. A religious way of life is of...

Krishnamurti: In Complete Silence of the Mind Is Love Saanen 1968, Public Meetings 9/17: Meditation Is the Understanding of the Nature of Life Is it possible for the whole of one’s being, in action, in thought, to be completely honest and non-hypocritical? The very act of learning is discipline itself. One must understand the necessity of freedom from all authority so that the mind, that highest f...

Krishnamurti: In Complete Silence of the Mind Is Love Saanen 1968, Public Meetings 8/17: Looking at Sorrow With the Complete Abandonment of Silence Is it possible never to accept, but to examine and explore? To examine ourselves actually as we are needs humility. To think is to invite sorrow. Why do we suffer? Is one able to go beyond sorrow? If the mind is not quiet how can you understand anythin...

Krishnamurti: In Complete Silence of the Mind Is Love Saanen 1968, Public Meetings 7/17: The Ending of Fear Psychologically, we refuse to follow the movement of life because our roots are deep in habit, tradition, in what has been told to us, in obedience and acceptance. What is possible can be found out only when you go beyond the ‘impossible’. Avoidance of fear only increases fear. Flight from f...

Krishnamurti: In Complete Silence of the Mind Is Love Saanen 1968, Public Meetings 6/17: Pleasure, Love, Beauty and Loneliness When there is self-expression in any form, does it convey beauty? What relationship has pleasure to beauty or love? When there is a sense of the deep, unfathomable void of loneliness, is beauty possible? What is loneliness? As long as my activity is self-centred and self-e...

Krishnamurti: In Complete Silence of the Mind Is Love Saanen 1968, Public Meetings 5/17: Living Is the Beauty of Action and Love Is there an action which is right under all circumstances, or is there only action, not right or wrong action? What is one to do in a world that is appalling and brutal? Is there a life of action which is never fragmentary, never exclusive, never divided? The intellect o...

Krishnamurti: In Complete Silence of the Mind Is Love Saanen 1968, Public Meetings 4/17: Looking at Conditioning Without Distortion A religious mind is not burdened with ideologies, dogmas or assumptions. A religious mind is concerned with facts, with ‘what is’, and going beyond it. Is there a looking that will reveal the whole content of our conditioning? If I am aware that whatever I do, whateve...

Krishnamurti: In Complete Silence of the Mind Is Love Saanen 1968, Public Meetings 3/17: Freedom, Systems and Conditioning Is it at all possible for man to be free? Why do you want a system? Systems are tradition, discipline, habits, a groove which the mind follows. Can a mind that is certain about anything psychologically ever be free? Duality and conflict are in essence a complete waste of energ...

Krishnamurti: In Complete Silence of the Mind Is Love Saanen 1968, Public Meetings 2/17: No System Will Help Man Be Free To understand non-cooperation one must also learn what it means to cooperate.   The central issue is complete, absolute freedom, first psychologically then outwardly.   Conditioning makes us self-centred, isolated, separated, divided, which makes it impossible to cooperate.   Is...

Krishnamurti: In Complete Silence of the Mind Is Love Saanen 1968, Public Meetings 1/17: What Is the Essential Issue in Life? One has to be extremely alert to find out what it means to be serious. It is the religious mind only that is a truly revolutionary mind. Cooperation is possible only when there is no authority. If you are not looking for another to help you discover the central issue in lif...

Krishnamurti: Begin To Learn How To Learn Rishi Valley 1979, School Discussions (Students) 4/4: Do You Have Confidence or Trust in Anybody? Do you respect anybody?  Teaching is the greatest and noblest profession in the world, because you are bringing about a new generation of people. It is the function of a school to help you to be intelligent and you cannot be intelligent if you are frightened....