The Krishnamurti Collection

Krishnamurti: Effort To Be Intelligent Is Not Intelligent Ojai 1966, Public Meetings 8/9: Is It Possible to Radically Change ‘What Is’? Is there a state of mind awakened to beauty without the object? Why are we psychologically discontented? If one is aware of ‘what is’, there is no seeking and the movement of ‘what is’ is entirely different. When seeking comes to a complete end, you have the energ...

Krishnamurti: Effort To Be Intelligent Is Not Intelligent Ojai 1966, Public Meetings 7/9: Meditation Is Freeing the Mind of the Known Is it possible to end the decaying process of the brain and mind? Are we aware that there is an image, conscious or unconscious, in each of us about ourselves? When one realises the observer is the image-maker, our process of thinking changes tremendously. The empty...

Krishnamurti: Effort To Be Intelligent Is Not Intelligent Ojai 1966, Public Meetings 6/9: Love and Suffering Is love pleasure, is love desire? How does one find out what love is? Is joy the same as pleasure? What is wrong with desire? Though we know everything is energy, is there activity of this energy that does not produce sorrow? How does one perceive the totality of anything? Why do we suffer?...

Krishnamurti: Effort To Be Intelligent Is Not Intelligent Ojai 1966, Public Meetings 5/9: Dying To Everything Known Understanding the nature of conflict and effort. Fear is thought in action with regard to the past through the present, to the future. The more the tension between the observer and the fact of fear, the greater the effort and desire to escape or cover up. You cannot separate death fr...

Krishnamurti: Effort To Be Intelligent Is Not Intelligent Ojai 1966, Public Meetings 4/9: Giving Complete Attention to Pleasure Passion with a motive is bound to come to an end. When you attend, there are no borders of inattention. Without understanding pleasure, there can be no freedom from fear. Observation cannot be taught by another. If you are taught how to observe, you cease to observe. Only...

Krishnamurti: Effort To Be Intelligent Is Not Intelligent Ojai 1966, Public Meetings 3/9: Is It Possible To End Violence Without Effort? Is it possible, living in this world, to be non-aggressive and not to have war? To understand violence, we must be rid of the idea of non-violence. Why do we have ideals? How do I know I am violent? Making an effort to change violence is part of violence. Does co...

Krishnamurti: Effort To Be Intelligent Is Not Intelligent Ojai 1966, Public Meetings 2/9: Learning Is in the Active Present Where are human beings heading? One has to meet this immense challenge with the understanding of the whole of the human world. To understand, there must be discipline. I am always learning, always in the present. This active learning ceases when it becomes, ‘I have learnt.’ T...

Krishnamurti: Effort To Be Intelligent Is Not Intelligent Ojai 1966, Public Meetings 1/9: Freedom To Inquire If we merely consider the individual, we shall not inquire very deeply. Freedom is one of the fundamental issues of life. It requires tremendous inquiry, intelligence and sensitivity to find out what it is to be free. Revolt is not freedom. You may reject outward war, but inwardly we are in...

Krishnamurti: The Shared Consciousness of Humanity New Delhi 1983, Public Meetings 4/4: Being With Death While Living Can you look at sorrow, hold it as you would a precious jewel? Where there is sorrow, there cannot be love. To understand life and death, one must approach non-dualistically. Is it possible as we live to die to the things to which we are attached? Live with death so that you are a...

Krishnamurti: The Shared Consciousness of Humanity New Delhi 1983, Public Meetings 3/4: Fear, Thought and Love Thought can only imagine the illimitable, the timeless, the immeasurable. One of the major burdens of our consciousness is fear. Fear is part of violence. Thought projects into the future and that creates fear. Is it possible to stop thought and the continuity of a movement as time? How d...

Krishnamurti: The Shared Consciousness of Humanity New Delhi 1983, Public Meetings 2/4: Your Consciousness Is Not Separate From Humanity’s Why do you have ideals? Ideals separate people and bring about conflict. We are not analysing the content of consciousness but are observing. Is there an observation without the observer? The consciousness you think is yours is shared by all humanity. To realis...

Krishnamurti: The Shared Consciousness of Humanity New Delhi 1983, Public Meetings 1/4: Bringing About Peace Requires Great Intelligence Governments talk about peace, but there has never been peace in the world. The world is fragmented into nationalities geographically, linguistically, religiously; broken up into the business, spiritual, religious and non-sectarian worlds. Conflict ultimately is w...

Krishnamurti: A Complete Revolution of the Mind New Delhi 1962, Public Meetings (No recording of Talk 4) 9/9: The Freedom and Energy Necessary for a New Way of Living If one is to find out what freedom is, one must question everything. We have built resistance because we are always in conflict. The idea that you will gradually change is a form of resistance. Can you look at something without thoug...

Krishnamurti: A Complete Revolution of the Mind New Delhi 1962, Public Meetings (No recording of Talk 4) 8/9: Investigating Fear and Death Investigation is impeded or denied when there is a motive. How does fear arise? Understanding doesn’t come about through time or comparison. We have to understand the process of thinking in order to understand fear. To understand fear you must understand time....

Krishnamurti: A Complete Revolution of the Mind New Delhi 1962, Public Meetings (No recording of Talk 4) 7/9: Dreams and Consciousness With what integrity and seriousness do you ask questions? Q: What is the difference between a still mind and a state of sleep without dreams? Why does one dream? The mind has to break down its insensitivity. A dull mind that is routine-bound can never be sensitive....

Krishnamurti: A Complete Revolution of the Mind New Delhi 1962, Public Meetings (No recording of Talk 4) 6/9: Laying the Right Foundation for Meditation The nature of mediocrity. You are put together by society and environmental influences which compel you to belong. Meditation is not seeking visions or indulging in prayer. Negative thinking is essential because it is the highest form of thinking....

Krishnamurti: A Complete Revolution of the Mind New Delhi 1962, Public Meetings (No recording of Talk 4) 5/9: A Religious Mind Has No Belief The act of denial. Your mind is shaped by the past, by centuries of culture. The religious mind does not follow anyone. If you observe your mind, you will see how cluttered and burdened it is with belief. Seeing without distortion the fact of what you are, no...

Krishnamurti: A Complete Revolution of the Mind New Delhi 1962, Public Meetings (No recording of Talk 4) 4/9: Seeing One Conditioning Totally Breaks Down All Conditioning Q: Who is responsible for this chaos and suffering? Q: How can one concentrate on the truth when occupied with work? Q: What is the self and why does it exist? Q: Do we need masters and holy books? Q: What is the purpose of life?...

Krishnamurti: A Complete Revolution of the Mind New Delhi 1962, Public Meetings (No recording of Talk 4) 3/9: The Energy That Brings About a Mutation of the Mind How is a mutation of the mind to take place? Most of us want success. Through the act of listening you are learning about yourself. When there is attention, goodness flowers. Why is it that we take conflict as part of existence? To unders...

Krishnamurti: A Complete Revolution of the Mind New Delhi 1962, Public Meetings (No recording of Talk 4) 2/9: A New Mind Free From the Past and Authority Is it possible for an individual to bring about a new mind? Action can only come about when there is emotional contact with the fact. If thought is not the instrument of inquiry, how is one to understand? How is the past to be dissolved?  The act...

Krishnamurti: A Complete Revolution of the Mind New Delhi 1962, Public Meetings (No recording of Talk 4) 1/9: By Questioning Everything an Extraordinary Revolution Takes Place We are not individuals; we are the result of the collective. Religions have failed, and education has not brought peace to the world. The act of listening is the act of discovering the fact. The disease of nationalism. How i...

Krishnamurti: The State of Not-Knowing Is Intelligence Malibu 1971, Conversations with Jacob Needleman 2/2: Inner Space Is it possible to be free of the centre, so that the centre doesn’t create space around itself and build a wall? Can the centre be still or fade away?  Can consciousness empty itself of its content? Is love within the field of consciousness? If you don’t form an image now, the pa...

Krishnamurti: The State of Not-Knowing Is Intelligence Malibu 1971, Conversations with Jacob Needleman 1/2: The Role of the Teacher 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...

Krishnamurti: A Religious Life Is a Life in Which the Self Is Not Malibu 1971/72, Conversations with Alain Naudé 7/7: Religion and Meditation Q: Is there any connection between the supernatural and religion? Is a religious life to lead a good life? A religious life is a life in which the self is not. We get caught in the so-called mysterious. But when the self is not, there is a greater, vaster my...

Krishnamurti: A Religious Life Is a Life in Which the Self Is Not Malibu 1971/72, Conversations with Alain Naudé 6/7: A Mind That Is Not Empty Can Never Find Truth Q: Are the various scriptures of India and the Middle East similar to or in contradiction to your teaching? Can thought end right through one’s consciousness? Must thought not end for something new to be observed? How does the mind look...