The Krishnamurti Collection

Krishnamurti: A Religious Life Is a Life in Which the Self Is Not Malibu 1971/72, Conversations with Alain Naudé 5/7: Stepping Out of the Stream of the Self Is there in me a place where there is no corruption, where there is real, absolute peace, order? The stream of vulgarity has its source in the self, ‘the me’, the ego. When there is no self, there is a responsibility for humanity. What is the...

Krishnamurti: A Religious Life Is a Life in Which the Self Is Not Malibu 1971/72, Conversations with Alain Naudé 4/7: Masters and Hierarchy Q: One finds in various teachings the idea of masters, conscious entities who work for the good of mankind. Is there a reservoir of wisdom? Do such entities exist, or does man want to have myths? There is the reservoir of goodness and the reservoir of violence...

Krishnamurti: A Religious Life Is a Life in Which the Self Is Not Malibu 1971/72, Conversations with Alain Naudé 3/7: Is There a Permanent Ego? Is there a permanent ‘me’? Unless I am free from the vulgar, I will continue representing the whole vulgarity of man. I lead the usual life, along the small river, following that current. I am that current and ‘the me’ is bound to continue in that stream,...

Krishnamurti: A Religious Life Is a Life in Which the Self Is Not Malibu 1971/72, Conversations with Alain Naudé 2/7: On Good and Evil Q: Do good and evil really exist or are they simply conditioned points of view? Goodness is total order, not only outwardly but inwardly especially. Is virtue the outcome of planning? You cannot will to do good. Either you are good or not good; you cannot will good...

Krishnamurti: A Religious Life Is a Life in Which the Self Is Not Malibu 1971/72, Conversations with Alain Naudé 1/7: The Circus of Man’s Struggle Why do we divide the world, the human being and the divine? When I realise that my consciousness is the consciousness of the world, and the consciousness of the world is me, whatever change takes place in me affects the whole of consciousness. Can human...

Krishnamurti: When You Observe ‘What Is’, There Is No Conflict Madras 1981/82, Public Meetings 8/8: In Meditation There Is No Becoming nor Being Is it possible to bring complete order without any compulsion, without any pressure, without reward and punishment acting? Is there an intelligence which is not born of thought? What is a religious mind? Purity is not so great as innocency. ‘Innocent’ mea...

Krishnamurti: When You Observe ‘What Is’, There Is No Conflict Madras 1981/82, Public Meetings 7/8: Can One Live a Totally Integrated Life? Integrity means innocence, a mind that has not been touched by corruption. As human beings living in this neurotic world where there is so much corruption and disorder, can we live a totally integrated life? Can this movement, the outer and the inner, ever sto...

Krishnamurti: When You Observe ‘What Is’, There Is No Conflict Madras 1981/82, Public Meetings 6/8: Fear, Pleasure and Suffering Are One Unitary Movement Because we do not understand beauty we have no love in our heart. Where there is intelligence there is right action born out of compassion; and beauty is that compassion. Is pleasure the other side of fear? Can beauty exist where there is greed,...

Krishnamurti: When You Observe ‘What Is’, There Is No Conflict Madras 1981/82, Public Meetings 5/8: Discovering the Causes of Disorder Disorder exists where there is contradiction in one’s life, when life is fragmented, broken up. Thought born of ignorance will invariably create conflict. Freedom from fear has a quality of tremendous, vital strength. What is time? Greed trying to become non-greed...

Krishnamurti: When You Observe ‘What Is’, There Is No Conflict Madras 1981/82, Public Meetings 4/8: 2nd Question & Answer Meeting Q1: We live in a corrupt and unjust society. Is there no place in your teaching to fight on behalf of the victims of injustice? Q2: What is the place of right action in one’s quest for self-knowledge? Q3: Even though I am able to bring about order within myself, the...

Krishnamurti: When You Observe ‘What Is’, There Is No Conflict Madras 1981/82, Public Meetings 3/8: 1st Question & Answer Meeting Q1: Without conflict or struggle in the sense of desire to improve, how can there be any progress, material or social, in the world? The desire to change supplies the motive force for work towards achievement and progress. If you accept ‘what is’ then how can there...

Krishnamurti: When You Observe ‘What Is’, There Is No Conflict Madras 1981/82, Public Meetings 2/8: Why Have We Become Habituated To Conflict? Why have human beings not solved the problem of conflict with each other and in themselves? When we do not accept what actually is but escape to an ideal, the opposite of ‘what is’, then conflict is inevitable. Non-violence is non-fact, not a reality but a...

Krishnamurti: When You Observe ‘What Is’, There Is No Conflict Madras 1981/82, Public Meetings 1/8: How Do We Psychologically Respond to the Present Condition of the World? If we do not observe the world carefully, we have no criteria by which to judge when we turn inwardly. Why have we given such extraordinary importance to thought? Thinking is the beginning of memory; without memory there is no...

Krishnamurti: The Seed of a Million Years Madras 1979/80, Public Meetings 7/7: Sorrow, Death and Meditation How do you approach any problem, physical or psychological? What is the relationship between sorrow and passion? Sorrow indicates a state of mind in which there is pain, grief, tears, a sense of immense loneliness and isolation. Without passion you can never be free or creative. Why are we e...

Krishnamurti: The Seed of a Million Years Madras 1979/80, Public Meetings 6/7: Why Does the Mind Live in Concepts? Can the human mind be free of concepts? Is the making of concept an escape from action? Can you listen and not make a concept but apply? Is fear the word ‘fear’? Integrity means saying things that you actually mean. Time will not solve fear but will complicate the issue. When you list...

Krishnamurti: The Seed of a Million Years Madras 1979/80, Public Meetings 5/7: Bringing Together All One’s Energy To Look at a Problem Is our psychological pain as acute as toothache, or are we aware of it after it has taken place? Do we see the absurdity, the futility of escape? If one sees that escape does not solve the problem, what does one do with the problem? What are the implications of ana...

Krishnamurti: The Seed of a Million Years Madras 1979/80, Public Meetings 4/7: A Mind Living in Control, Conflict and Desire Is Never Free Our minds are chattering, thought moving from one association or desire to another, a contradiction of opposing energies. Within the mind can there ever be freedom? If not, man is everlastingly slave to the known. Is it possible to go beyond the process of time...

Krishnamurti: The Seed of a Million Years Madras 1979/80, Public Meetings 3/7: Where Is Security Found for the Brain? Why do human beings with their extraordinary brain and mind live in narrow grooves, with narrow activities, self-centred impulses and urges? There is no infinite thought, there is no complete thought. In what manner can consciousness be transformed? Our brains are trained, subjecte...

Krishnamurti: The Seed of a Million Years Madras 1979/80, Public Meetings 2/7: Thought Has Put Together the Whole Structure of the ‘Me’ Our minds are the result of a thousand experiences and man has been searching for an eternity. Immortality is merely the continuity of one’s own ignorance. We are questioning the cultivation through the centuries this idea of the self, the ‘me’ that must evolve th...

Krishnamurti: The Seed of a Million Years Madras 1979/80, Public Meetings 1/7: The Flowering of the Seed of a Million Years If we are not capable of listening we are not capable of learning. Man since the beginning of time has asked if there is a reality, truth, something timeless that cannot be measured, and that inquiry, that seed, is still with us. Is it possible for that seed to grow and flowe...

Krishnamurti: Without Freedom From the Known, the Possible Cannot Be Captured London 1969, Public Meetings 4/4: Meditation and the Activity of Silence Is truth ever to be found by seeking? Why should one have any experience at all? Light is light; it doesn’t ask for more light. The desire for more experience is an escape from the actual, from ‘what is’. Unless one lays the foundation of virtue, me...

Krishnamurti: Without Freedom From the Known, the Possible Cannot Be Captured London 1969, Public Meetings 3/4: A Way of Living in Which There Is No Division To find a way of living with no fragmentation, one has to go deeply into what is love and death. What is the relationship between pleasure and intelligence? Is there a tomorrow psychologically? Is it possible for the mind to be free of the pa...

Krishnamurti: Without Freedom From the Known, the Possible Cannot Be Captured London 1969, Public Meetings 2/4: Can the Mind Be Free of Fear? Can there be complete psychological freedom? Learning and freedom go together. One cannot learn about oneself unless one is free. To learn about oneself one must observe actually as one is, not according to patterns, formulas or concepts. Can the mind resolv...

Krishnamurti: Without Freedom From the Known, the Possible Cannot Be Captured London 1969, Public Meetings 1/4: Looking at Violence Without the Word Is it possible for the mind to be entirely free from conflict? In the understanding of conflict is the possibility of right conduct. Is the analyser different from the thing analysed? What does it mean to see and understand something or to listen to s...

Krishnamurti: Thought, Stillness and Time Gstaad 1965, Small Group Discussions 6/6: When the Mind Is Completely Quiet, How Can There Be Time? What does time mean to you, as a human being? Is there such thing as existence? Quietness has come because I have understood the nature of time, function, thought and pleasure. What takes place when there is great intensity? Thought has a movement in functio...