The Krishnamurti Collection

Krishnamurti: Begin To Learn How To Learn Rishi Valley 1979, School Discussions (Students) 3/4: Can You Be Free of the Image? When the mind and the eye come together instantly you will have an extraordinary quality of attention.  Thought is the movement of words and symbols.  Knowledge can never be complete, so thinking is never complete.  What happens when you do something from very limited knowl...

Krishnamurti: Begin To Learn How To Learn Rishi Valley 1979, School Discussions (Students) 2/4: Do You Lead a Life of Hypocrisy? As long as you are not expressing yourself and are pretending to be something else, you are a hypocrite.  Education is to cultivate and encourage capacity, skill, endurance, so that you are a total human being with a good mind.   If you live a life which is contradictory...

Krishnamurti: Begin To Learn How To Learn Rishi Valley 1979, School Discussions (Students) 1/4: To Be Sensitive Is To Be Aware of What You Are Doing It is very important while young to cultivate the brain’s sensitivity and the capacity to think widely. How very important it is to cultivate all our senses.  Learn for your own sake to be extremely attentive, to watch people, to listen to people, to...

Krishnamurti: Thought, Fear, Death and Meditation Rajghat 1981, Public Meetings 4/4: Understanding the Nature of Meditation Who is it that dies, apart from the organism? The ‘me’ is essentially the product of experience and thought. Is your consciousness different from another’s? What is a mind that has understood the true nature of religion? Only perception can keep the house in order: to see ‘wh...

Krishnamurti: Thought, Fear, Death and Meditation Rajghat 1981, Public Meetings 3/4: Question & Answer Meeting 1st Question: What does it mean to inquire? Is inquiry itself a process of thought? 2nd Question: Does thinking together mean collective thinking? 3rd Question: What is the nature of evil? Must we compromise with evil? 4th Question: Is it possible to retain essential memories and disc...

Krishnamurti: Thought, Fear, Death and Meditation Rajghat 1981, Public Meetings 2/4: Perceiving the Whole Movement of Fear How you approach a problem is more important than the problem itself. Do you look at the tree with all your senses, or with only part of your senses? If there is time inwardly, there is fear. Is there a motive behind your approach to the problem of fear? Negating fear by perce...

Krishnamurti: Thought, Fear, Death and Meditation Rajghat 1981, Public Meetings 1/4: Thought in Relationships Brings Disorder The word ‘religion’ means to bind oneself to something greater. Thinking is common to all humanity. Thought is necessary to do any skill, but psychologically is thought necessary? What is our future if machines take over the operations thought does now? You cannot create or...

Krishnamurti: Learning and Sensitivity Rajghat 1981, School Discussions (Students) 2/2: You Become Insensitive if You Get Used To Anything Are you happy here at this school? If I scold you or am rough with you or say something harsh, you get hurt. The moment you get hurt build a wall not to get hurt more, which is the beginning of insensitivity. If you have fear, you become insensitive. When we ta...

Krishnamurti: Learning and Sensitivity Rajghat 1981, School Discussions (Students) 1/2: Learning and Sorrow If you are interested in looking out of the window and I want you to look at a book, what shall I do? Learn how to attend and pay attention. We learn something, store it in the brain as memory, and respond from memory when asked. Do you read poetry? Do you feel sorrow when a bird dies? What...

Krishnamurti: The Ending of Time Ojai & Brockwood Park 1980, Conversations with David Bohm 15/15: Can Human Problems Be Solved? Why have human beings throughout the world not been able to resolve human, daily problems of life? What are the things that prevent the solution of these problems completely? When there is attention there is no centre from which I attend. A poor man wants to be rich a...

Krishnamurti: The Ending of Time Ojai & Brockwood Park 1980, Conversations with David Bohm 14/15: The Mind in the Universe 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 fro...

Krishnamurti: The Ending of Time Ojai & Brockwood Park 1980, Conversations with David Bohm 13/15: The Ending of Psychological Knowledge Why are our minds always operating in a certain direction? What shall I do, as a human being, realising that knowledge is naturally, inevitably forming a groove in which I live? How am I to break it down? Pure observation, which is actually listening, is that...

Krishnamurti: The Ending of Time Ojai & Brockwood Park 1980, Conversations with David Bohm 12/15: The Intelligence of Love 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...

Krishnamurti: The Ending of Time Ojai & Brockwood Park 1980, Conversations with David Bohm 11/15: The Liberation of Insight 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 t...

Krishnamurti: The Ending of Time Ojai & Brockwood Park 1980, Conversations with David Bohm 10/15: Cosmic Order Is there an order which is not man-made? Can the brain ever be free from the impositions, pressures, wounds, bruises, all the trivialities of existence?  Time is my whole existence. I take refuge in the past, which cannot be changed. Why does the brain accept this way of living, and w...

Krishnamurti: The Ending of Time Ojai & Brockwood Park 1980, Conversations with David Bohm 9/15: Senility and the Brain Cells Is the human brain deteriorating? The human brain is not a particular brain, it doesn’t belong to me or to anyone else, it is the human brain which has evolved for millions of years.  Can the brain not only be aware of its own movement but can the brain itself have enou...

Krishnamurti: The Ending of Time Ojai & Brockwood Park 1980, Conversations with David Bohm 8/15: Can Insight Be Awakened in Another? 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,...

Krishnamurti: The Ending of Time Ojai & Brockwood Park 1980, Conversations with David Bohm 7/15: Death Has Very Little Meaning Is there a totally different way of approaching the whole turmoil of life? As long as the centre is creating darkness, and thought is operating in that darkness, there must be disorder, there must be everything as society now is. To move away from that you must have in...

Krishnamurti: The Ending of Time Ojai & Brockwood Park 1980, Conversations with David Bohm 6/15: Can Insight Bring About a Mutation of the Brain Cells? Can insight change the brain cells? In the brain is there an activity which is not touched by consciousness? Insight is not dependent on the material process, which is thought. Where there is violence, peace cannot exist. Where there is peace,...

Krishnamurti: The Ending of Time Ojai & Brockwood Park 1980, Conversations with David Bohm 5/15: The Ground of Being, and the Mind of Man Why has having ideas become so important? What is the difference between a religious mind and a philosophic mind? What is the human mind’s relationship to the ground? Why has man accumulated knowledge? When you love somebody there is no ‘me’, it is love. In...

Krishnamurti: The Ending of Time Ojai & Brockwood Park 1980, Conversations with David Bohm 4/15: Breaking the Pattern of Egocentric Activity What will make a human being change, deeply, fundamentally, radically? Will I, as a human being, give up my egocentric activity completely? The more knowledge I have acquired, as I have evolved, as I have grown, as I have experienced, it has strengthened...

Krishnamurti: The Ending of Time Ojai & Brockwood Park 1980, Conversations with David Bohm 3/15: Why Has Man Given Supreme Importance To Thought? Q: Is the 'ground' indifferent to mankind, as the physical universe appears to be?  How does one find out if there is something more than the merely physical? Q: Why is it that theories are necessary and useful in organising facts about matter outwar...

Krishnamurti: The Ending of Time Ojai & Brockwood Park 1980, Conversations with David Bohm 2/15: Cleansing the Mind of the Accumulation of Time 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’? Th...

Krishnamurti: The Ending of Time Ojai & Brockwood Park 1980, Conversations with David Bohm 1/15: The Roots of Psychological Conflict Has humanity taken a wrong turn? What is the root of this tremendous inward conflict of humanity? When I am trying to become something it is a constant battle. Can the brain itself see that it is caught in time and as long as it is moving in that direction confli...

Krishnamurti: Effort To Be Intelligent Is Not Intelligent Ojai 1966, Public Meetings 9/9: How Can a Shallow Mind Become Deep? How can a mind that is dull, superficial, petty, self-concentred, become deep? What do we mean by a shallow, petty, narrow mind, full of opinions, judgments and self-concerned activity? Is comparison the centre of shallowness? We have been trained by society in education to...