The Krishnamurti Collection

Krishnamurti: Two Conversations with Pupul Jayakar, 1978 Brockwood Park 1978, Conversations with Pupul Jayakar 2/2: Thought Cannot Fundamentally Perceive or Comprehend the Totality of Consciousness What does the word ‘conscious’ mean to you? Thought can never be aware of the total content of consciousness. Can the mind perceive the totality? Is there a love or a quality which is not part of consci...

Krishnamurti: Two Conversations with Pupul Jayakar, 1978 Brockwood Park 1978, Conversations with Pupul Jayakar 1/2: Has There Been a Radical Change in Krishnamurti’s Teaching? Q: Has there been a radical change in your teaching? Has there been, after thirty years, a movement away from observation, from the division between the thinker and the thought, and from the whole content of consciousness? W...

Krishnamurti: What Is Correct Action in a Disintegrating World? Brockwood Park 1975, Public Meetings 6/6: Can We Ever Perceive Truth? What is reality? What are the limitations of thought and can it ever perceive truth? Can we go far unless there is order in the world of reality? Is there an observation of the field of reality without the movement of thought? What is freedom?  To understand freedom...

Krishnamurti: What Is Correct Action in a Disintegrating World? Brockwood Park 1975, Public Meetings 5/6: Is There Something With No Beginning or End? Can we end suffering at all levels inwardly? Can there be love, not just personal love but the enormous feeling of compassion? What is the total significance of death, the ending of what we know as life? That which ends has a new beginning, not that...

Krishnamurti: What Is Correct Action in a Disintegrating World? Brockwood Park 1975, Public Meetings 4/6: Do You Respond According to an Image? Q: How is one to be aware of the content of one's consciousness? To be totally aware implies no observer. The observer is the past which therefore brings about fragmentation. Can you live in the present? To live in the present means not a single memory not...

Krishnamurti: What Is Correct Action in a Disintegrating World? Brockwood Park 1975, Public Meetings 3/6: The Action of Total Awareness Q: What does it mean to be aware? If you are aware every moment your conditioning does not exist. Is there an activity which is not mechanical?  The mechanical part of the brain follows a line set by thought.  Thought itself is mechanical. We are all hurt from chi...

Krishnamurti: What Is Correct Action in a Disintegrating World? Brockwood Park 1975, Public Meetings 2/6: Can Suffering End Totally? Isn't the only energy of thought we know that which comes in contradiction and duality? How does desire arise? Is it seeing, sensation, contact, then desire? Why is there a sense of wanting, lack, pursuing something all the time, which is desire?  Does desire, the wa...

Krishnamurti: What Is Correct Action in a Disintegrating World? Brockwood Park 1975, Public Meetings 1/6: What Is the Function of Thought? Is there an action that is whole and complete at the personal and social level? Does thought, having created the ‘me’ make it into a fragment?  Can thought realize its limitation and not spill over into the realm it can never touch?  Is compassion the result of...

Krishnamurti: The Brain Can Function Excellently Only in Order Bombay 1980, Public Meetings 5/5: Self-Centred Occupation Creates Sorrow Loneliness comes about through our daily self-centred action. Can there be activity not centred around oneself? As long as we are lonely, sorrow inevitably continues. Self-centred activity in any form leads to isolation, division and strife. Can the mind be free o...

Krishnamurti: The Brain Can Function Excellently Only in Order Bombay 1980, Public Meetings 4/5: Time Perpetuates the Agony of Humanity Can there be freedom from the remembrance of grief, violence and human problems? The brain is accustomed to time: I am not, but I will be, time from ‘what is’ to ‘what should be’. Time is the distorting factor in life. If you act immediately, there is no time. Is...

Krishnamurti: The Brain Can Function Excellently Only in Order Bombay 1980, Public Meetings 3/5: Learning and Desire Your brain is the result of thousands of years of experience, evolution and accumulation of knowledge. When energy is limited its activity must be limited. Order based on knowledge inevitably brings disorder. Release of energy can only come when there is absolute order. When there i...

Krishnamurti: The Brain Can Function Excellently Only in Order Bombay 1980, Public Meetings 2/5: The Tremendous Energy of the Brain Your brain is the result of thousands of years of experience, evolution and accumulation of knowledge. When energy is limited its activity must be limited. Order based on knowledge inevitably brings disorder. Release of energy can only come when there is absolute orde...

Krishnamurti: The Brain Can Function Excellently Only in Order Bombay 1980, Public Meetings 1/5: A Crowded Brain Is Incapable of Being Free Freedom is being denied to humanity. Your mind is not yours; it is the mind of humanity, grown through evolution in time. Knowledge can never be complete. What place has memory and thought in our relationships? Our minds are so conditioned by education, tradit...

Krishnamurti: Can the Mind Regenerate Itself? Bombay 1974, Public Meetings 4/4: Meditation, Order and Space Order is necessary for austerity. Can you observe the disorder in which you live without the eyes of the past? When thought is in movement it creates the bondage of time. In meditation are you concerned with achieving something, an experience others say they have had? Thought is time and mea...

Krishnamurti: Can the Mind Regenerate Itself? Bombay 1974, Public Meetings 3/4: Living, Love and the Meaning of Death Our existence, as it is, is very confused: we are in great turmoil outwardly and inwardly. Can the mind be related without a single image? What is the meaning of life? Can a mind, driven by desire and tortured by lust, come to reality? Is love the pursuit of what has been? Can the...

Krishnamurti: Can the Mind Regenerate Itself? Bombay 1974, Public Meetings 2/4: Can the Mind Remain With Hurt? The content of our minds can be understood, explored and observed when the word is not the thing, the description is not the described. Can the mind be free of the machinery of making images? What do we do with all the hurts the image has received? A mind that is hurt is incapable of perc...

Krishnamurti: Can the Mind Regenerate Itself? Bombay 1974, Public Meetings 1/4: Can the Human Mind Radically Regenerate? There is no attention if I move away from the statement that I am the world. Regeneration means to be reborn anew. Can your mind, shaped by the society in which you live, undergo a radical transformation? Can the mind be free of a mechanical way of living? What does it mean to p...

Krishnamurti: Truth Is a Living Thing With No Place, Abode or Time Bangalore 1973, Public Meetings 3/3: A Meditative Mind Is Free of All Control Unless the mind has understood its entirety, the religious mind will not come into being. The foundation of meditation is self-knowing, relationship in which there is no conflict, and order in our daily life. Truth is a living thing with no place, abode o...

Krishnamurti: Truth Is a Living Thing With No Place, Abode or Time Bangalore 1973, Public Meetings 2/3: Fear, Love and Death Where there is dependency there is fear and the pain of that which you depend upon being taken away.  Can the mind be totally free of the accumulated fears of society and culture, and also of the personal fears? Does thought breed fear?  The pursuit of status is a psychologi...

Krishnamurti: Truth Is a Living Thing With No Place, Abode or Time Bangalore 1973, Public Meetings 1/3: In the State of Attention There Is No Observer Where there is division, whether religious, national, economic or social, there must be conflict.  Begin not with the world but with yourself, because you are the world and the world is you.  A revolution is necessary – not of the bomb or with blood...

Krishnamurti: One Sees or Understands Only When the Mind Is Quiet Amsterdam 1967, Discussions with Young People 3/3: Is There Such Thing as Free Will? Is freedom partial?  Why should I be bound to destiny? Born in India with the tremendous cultural traditions, why should I be caught in it? Man is more important than the frame into which he is put. Is it possible for a human being to free himself f...

Krishnamurti: One Sees or Understands Only When the Mind Is Quiet Amsterdam 1967, Discussions with Young People 2/3: When One Observes a Fact Without Knowledge Then One Can Learn Why do we dream at all?  Isn’t dreaming at night a waste of energy, when the brain needs to be completely at rest?  When do you actually learn?  When I learn through Freud about myself I am not observing myself, I am obse...

Krishnamurti: One Sees or Understands Only When the Mind Is Quiet Amsterdam 1967, Discussions with Young People 1/3: What Does It Mean To Be Totally Free? What takes place when one falls in love? Why has sex taken on such extraordinary importance?  How will you know that it is stupid to be a nationalist? You see or understand only when the mind is quiet, when you are aware without any choice. When...

Krishnamurti: One Sees or Understands Only When the Mind Is Quiet Amsterdam 1967, Public Meetings 5/5: It Is Only a Very Silent Mind That Can Actually See Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear, violence and non-violence.  A mind that is in a state of inquiry is entirely different from a mind that is seeking. Seeking implies effort, conformity, authority and the...

Krishnamurti: One Sees or Understands Only When the Mind Is Quiet Amsterdam 1967, Public Meetings 4/5: Can Thought Stop? When there is a process of recognition it is the projection of the past. The mind is always functioning within the field of time, which is of memory. Can the mind go beyond that?  What is pleasure and what is desire?  How is it possible, without control, subjugation or denying,...