The Krishnamurti Collection

Krishnamurti: Can Thought Become Quiet? Amsterdam 1968, Students Discussions 4/4: It Is Only in Freedom That There Can Be Love When there is a response to a challenge, is that response free, in the sense unconditioned, or are all our responses conditioned?  There is only one challenge, which we translate differently according to our conditioning. The challenge is: be free.  Is there freedom from t...

Krishnamurti: Can Thought Become Quiet? Amsterdam 1968, Students Discussions 3/4: Thought Operates in the Present Having Its Root in the Past Why has man throughout the world given so much importance to thought?  Is there thinking without word, imagination or symbol?  Is love between two human beings the result of a thought which cultivates a certain feeling?  Is it possible for me to be free of a...

Krishnamurti: Can Thought Become Quiet? Amsterdam 1968, Students Discussions 2/4: To Change Without Effort Why does a human being think about himself?  ‘Don’t be committed to anything.’ That’s a challenge. If you listen to that challenge with silence then there is a change, even a mutation biologically. Can thought be quiet?  When I look at something with the light of silence, I see things very cl...

Krishnamurti: Can Thought Become Quiet? Amsterdam 1968, Students Discussions 1/4: When I Say I Must Know Myself, What Is ‘Myself’? When we say, ‘I know,’ what does that mean? What does ‘knowledge’ mean and what does ‘self’ mean?  Who is the entity that is observing the conditioned state? Is the observer different from the thing observed? Is it possible for human beings to break through conditionin...

Krishnamurti: Can Thought Become Quiet? Amsterdam 1968, Public Meetings 5/5: The Meaning of Life To act according to a principle, belief or ideology is the fundamental distortion of energy.  Is there action without formula?  You cannot possibly invite reality, the heavens and the beauty of the earth. All you have to do is to leave the window open and let that beauty and love come. To leave the win...

Krishnamurti: Can Thought Become Quiet? Amsterdam 1968, Public Meetings 4/5: This Light in Oneself To lay the foundation for meditation one must understand what living and dying are.  Truth can never be experienced, that is the beauty of it. It is always new, never what has happened yesterday. To follow implies not only the denying of one’s own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty, but it...

Krishnamurti: Can Thought Become Quiet? Amsterdam 1968, Public Meetings 3/5: In Acting Completely There Is No Fragmentation When pleasure becomes the dominating demand of life then there is constant breaking up of life into compartments, fragments and divisions. To be related means to be active in the present, otherwise there is no relationship. Why does the human heart carry this burden of sorrow...

Krishnamurti: Can Thought Become Quiet? Amsterdam 1968, Public Meetings 2/5: Is It Possible To End Thought? Life is something that’s constantly new, challenging us all the time with new demands and new phases. To that challenge we respond according to our old pattern and so there is a contradiction.  The fundamental question is not how to get rid of fear or violence but whether thought as time can...

Krishnamurti: Can Thought Become Quiet? Amsterdam 1968, Public Meetings 1/5: Can One Establish a Relationship With Reality? A person who would find reality must be completely free of the influence of the word, propaganda and the symbol.  When you believe, there is fear behind that belief.  A mind that is afraid can never find light. It may invent a thing called light out of fear, imagine a heaven...

Krishnamurti: A Different Dimension of Mind Bombay 1969, Public Meetings 4/4: Learning, Energy and the Immobile Mind It is only a mind that has a great sense of humility that can learn. The instant response to vanity is justification or condemnation. Watch the justification or condemnation, not vanity. There is no good energy and bad energy, only energy. The user of energy is also energy. The user...

Krishnamurti: A Different Dimension of Mind Bombay 1969, Public Meetings 3/4: Love Means Living in the Movement of the Present Why are we violent? To find out what love is there must be freedom. Thought cultivates pleasure as thought cultivates fear. Why has sex become so extraordinarily important in life? Love is the dying of everything that man has put together as the formula of what love is, dy...

Krishnamurti: A Different Dimension of Mind Bombay 1969, Public Meetings 2/4: Learning Is the Only Movement in Life To learn requires curiosity and a great deal of energy, demanding that you give attention. Why can’t we live life in constant movement, a harmonious whole, without contradiction and effort? The act of learning is the act of living. The quality of the mind that learns is far more impo...

Krishnamurti: A Different Dimension of Mind Bombay 1969, Public Meetings 1/4: A New Quality of Mind Human beings are broken up in themselves, fragmented, not whole. The intellect and thought cannot answer this challenge. Is it possible for the brain which has lived for millions of years to undergo drastic change? We are slave to words. How can a new mind with a new quality come into being? To lear...

Krishnamurti: Why Don’t We See Our Conditioning? Sydney 1970, Public Meetings 7/7: Religion, Attention and Meditation The religions we have, the vast machinery of propaganda, are no religion at all. A mind not free cannot possibly perceive truth. Can a mind be totally awake without any challenge? Any system must make the mind dull, insensitive. Meditation is a movement in understanding every actio...

Krishnamurti: Why Don’t We See Our Conditioning? Sydney 1970, Public Meetings 6/7: Habits and Time, Living and Death Can a habit be dropped immediately? Is it possible to change instantly – not be concerned with time at all? Why don’t we see the psychological dangers we have cultivated for so long? We have divorced death from living. What is it that dies? Is there anything permanent in you?  Q: If...

Krishnamurti: Why Don’t We See Our Conditioning? Sydney 1970, Public Meetings 5/7: A Mind Inquiring Into Pleasure, Fear and Joy Must Find Out What It Is To Love Physical fear is one thing; psychological fear is another. What gives continuity to fear? How is the conscious mind to look into the hidden parts? Joy is not pleasure. Is it possible for an incident to end, whether painful or pleasurable,...

Krishnamurti: Why Don’t We See Our Conditioning? Sydney 1970, Public Meetings 4/7: Dreams, Conformity and Fear A mind that wishes to understand life must be free to observe non-fragmentarily. Why do we dream at all? Is it necessary? Most of our brains are disorderly.  How do you bring about order in life? Looking at the nature and structure of thought. Can the mind be free from all conformity? One...

Krishnamurti: Why Don’t We See Our Conditioning? Sydney 1970, Public Meetings 3/7: Psychological Revolution Is Possible Now, Not in the Future Bringing about a radical revolution in the human mind.  What shall I do, as a human being living in this world?  Analysis implies time. Analysis implies the analyser and the analysed.  If analysis is not the way, if exercise of will is not the way, what sha...

Krishnamurti: Why Don’t We See Our Conditioning? Sydney 1970, Public Meetings 2/7: Learning About the Movement of the Self What is the self? Are you directly in contact, physically and psychologically, with you family, wife or husband? Do you look at the tree with words? The art of seeing is much more important than what you look at. Thought is the response of memory, and thought is always old. Wh...

Krishnamurti: Why Don’t We See Our Conditioning? Sydney 1970, Public Meetings 1/7: Why Don’t We See Our Conditioning? How can one see things very clearly without prejudice? I see division in myself as the observer and the observed. Why does this division exist? When you give attention to the thing you are observing, is there duality? What takes place when you don’t move away in any direction from...

Krishnamurti: To Learn About Myself Means Observing Without the Past Santa Monica 1970, Public Meetings 4/4: Inquiring Into Religion and Meditation Religion has become a matter of propaganda. One must be free of belief to find truth. Energy is necessary, and the body must be extraordinarily sensitive. Systems, practices and methods imply habit. Yoga is a way of life, not just practising exercises...

Krishnamurti: To Learn About Myself Means Observing Without the Past Santa Monica 1970, Public Meetings 3/4: Life, Love and Death What is it that we call living? Can the past be delayed so that there is no immediate formation of an image? What is love? What is compassion? Why do you depend on another? What does death mean to you? Q: You said you are, ‘Like a telephone transmits.’ What happens if t...

Krishnamurti: To Learn About Myself Means Observing Without the Past Santa Monica 1970, Public Meetings 2/4: You Cannot Be Free of Fear Without Understanding Pleasure There is no such thing as gradually getting rid of fear. There is physical fear and various subtle forms of psychological fears, hidden and open. In analysis, there is always the analyser and the thing analysed. What is pleasure? Wha...

Krishnamurti: To Learn About Myself Means Observing Without the Past Santa Monica 1970, Public Meetings 1/4: To Look at Violence Without the Past What is one to do in this chaotic world? What is right conduct? Seeing needs freedom from the image you have about yourself. We are violent; that is an absolute fact. How do you look at it? Do you condemn it? Do you justify it? If you can look without fr...

Krishnamurti: Meditation Is the Transformation of the Mind San Francisco 1975, Public Meetings 4/4: The Art of Meditation In meditation, one must understand the significance of thought, its value and its total irrelevancy in going beyond measurement. Meditation implies freedom from measurement and time. There is no control or discipline of thought in meditation because the one who disciplines is a...