The Krishnamurti Collection

Krishnamurti: One Sees or Understands Only When the Mind Is Quiet Amsterdam 1967, Public Meetings 3/5: Is It Possible To Renew the Mind? When the mind is living through imagination and thought, it is incapable of living in the complete fullness of the present.  Thought has created time, not chronological time but psychological time. That is, ‘I will be,’ ‘I should be.’  Is it possible for the brai...

Krishnamurti: One Sees or Understands Only When the Mind Is Quiet Amsterdam 1967, Public Meetings 2/5: Where There Is Pleasure There Is the Shadow of Pain The whole movement of living, which is relationship, is a movement in action.  What is consciousness? When do you say, ‘I am conscious, I am aware, I am attentive’? Is there actually a division between the conscious and the unconscious, or it is...

Krishnamurti: One Sees or Understands Only When the Mind Is Quiet Amsterdam 1967, Public Meetings 1/5: To Look Without a Concept Is To Be Aware of the Observer and the Thing Observed Violence and sorrow are not limited to the West or the East; it is part of the human structure, psychologically.  Is it possible to bring about a change radically, a total revolution in the psyche itself, not through...

Krishnamurti: Magnitude of the Mind Colombo 1980, Public Meetings 5/5: What Is the Magnitude of the Mind? We have not been able to fathom the enormous energy that lies in the mind. Psychologically you are the world and the world is you. When you realises this fact, you become astonishingly responsible about what you think and do, how you behave. Enlightenment is not of time, it doesn’t come throug...

Krishnamurti: Magnitude of the Mind Colombo 1980, Public Meetings 4/5: What Is Death? In the very looking into desire you begin to have an insight into its nature. Thought creating an image is the beginning of desire. Can that image come to an end? Enjoyment is totally different from pleasure. Pleasure means the avoidance of punishment and holding on to that which is pleasurable. Our minds functio...

Krishnamurti: Magnitude of the Mind Colombo 1980, Public Meetings 3/5: The Root of All Fear When we talk about world government, world organisation, world religion, world economy, where would we begin? Is your mind capable of comprehending the global issue? As human beings are violent and ambitious, seeking power and position, we create the society in which we live. Is religion a series of rituals...

Krishnamurti: Magnitude of the Mind Colombo 1980, Public Meetings 2/5: The Book of Life The art of listening to what the book of life is saying. The book is you; you can’t tell the book what it should reveal; it will reveal everything. Learning means inquiring into the limits of knowledge and moving away from it. Disorder exists as long as there is contradiction. As long as you are acting self-cen...

Krishnamurti: Magnitude of the Mind Colombo 1980, Public Meetings 1/5: Life Is Relationship and Action What is the condition of man? Listening is a great art, one we have not cultivated: to listen completely to another. To bring about a different society you as a human being who is the rest of mankind must radically change. Doubt is of great importance, it gives you tremendous energy. Life is a mo...

Krishnamurti: Thought Can Never Change Man Ojai 1976, Public Meetings 9/9: Meditation Implies a Life of Great Order If religion is divorced from our daily life, it can only create further chaos, confusion and conflict. Without order in your life, without being totally moral in your daily activity, how can you think of meditating? By clearly observing the outer you discover the inner, and see it is...

Krishnamurti: Thought Can Never Change Man Ojai 1976, Public Meetings 8/9: Desire, Love and Death Is love desire, pleasure, attachment? Sensation plus thought is desire. What is dying? Can you without choice observe the mechanical movement of the brain? Time has a stop when there is no longer any movement of the stream of fear, conflict, sorrow and confusion. When death takes place, we are afraid...

Krishnamurti: Thought Can Never Change Man Ojai 1976, Public Meetings 7/9: Correct Action in a Disintegrating Society What do we mean by action? Does thought bring about correct action? Is there thinking when there is no word? Can you listen without thinking? Is biological survival possible when the world is divided? Will you give up the psychological securities to which you hold? As long as you a...

Krishnamurti: Thought Can Never Change Man Ojai 1976, Public Meetings 6/9: What Is the Correct Action in Life? What do we mean by action? Can there be correct action if based on an ideal? We live in the past, which meets and modifies the present. In this process, action is never complete. To find correct, accurate, right action, needs care. Can you look at fragmentation without judgement? Thought...

Krishnamurti: Thought Can Never Change Man Ojai 1976, Public Meetings 5/9: Reality, Pleasure and Sorrow Is there a way of living, a non-mechanistic action not based on the movement of thought as time? The psychological reality in which we live is mechanistic. Is there is an action that in itself is the flowering of order, free of regret and corruption, that doesn’t leave a residue or create contra...

Krishnamurti: Thought Can Never Change Man Ojai 1976, Public Meetings 4/9: Fear and the Structure of the ‘Me’ What is the root cause of fear? Is time a factor of fear? The ‘me’ to which we cling is fictitious. Clinging to something non-existent may be the root cause of fear. Deep-rooted fear is the movement of thought in time, a material process. Thought has created an artificial structure called...

Krishnamurti: Thought Can Never Change Man Ojai 1976, Public Meetings 3/9: What Is the Function of Learning? Why are we being educated? Can anybody help me to learn about myself? Can you observe without verbalising? Why are human beings in conflict? Is contradiction two opposing desires? Where there is comparison there must be envy, imitation and the desire to conform to a pattern. Can you look at...

Krishnamurti: Thought Can Never Change Man Ojai 1976, Public Meetings 2/9: Why Is Thought Fragmentary? What is the nature of thought? Why has thought divided you and me, we and they? Why has thought invented ideals? The interference of the observer, who is the past, prevents a radical change of ‘what is’. Our consciousness is full of the things of thought and is fragmentary. Is there a consciousne...

Krishnamurti: Thought Can Never Change Man Ojai 1976, Public Meetings 1/9: Relationships, Images and Hurt Where there is no relationship, there is disintegration. What does it mean to be related to another? When you say ‘I am hurt’, what is the ‘me’ that is hurt? If I have an image about myself and my wife has an image about herself, how can there be any relationship? When there is no image, pictu...

Krishnamurti: Goodness Only Flowers in Freedom San Diego 1972, Conversations with Eugene Schallert 2/2: Ending Disorder Is the Ending of Death Inwardly we are all in a state of confusion. Love is total attention. All this brings us to the question whether man can change at all.  How is it possible for a human being to bring about a total psychological revolution? What is pleasure and joy? To under...

Krishnamurti: Goodness Only Flowers in Freedom San Diego 1972, Conversations with Eugene Schallert 1/2: Goodness Only Flowers in Freedom Freedom is the negation of being conditioned by any culture, religious or political division. What separates man, divides human beings? Goodness only flowers in freedom. It doesn’t flower within the law of religious sanctions or religious beliefs. The ‘me’ is the...

Krishnamurti: Meditation Is the Total Release of Energy Brockwood Park 1971, Public Meetings 6/6: Meditation Is the Total Release of Energy How is one to have the quality of energy which is without friction? When you practise a method in order to achieve enlightenment, bliss, a quiet mind or a state of tranquillity, it obviously makes the mind mechanical. Q: What do you mean by observing greed wit...

Krishnamurti: Meditation Is the Total Release of Energy Brockwood Park 1971, Public Meetings 5/6: What Is the Relationship Between the Pursuit of Pleasure and Love? Why does pleasure play such an important part in our lives? When there is the quality of deep, passionate freedom, then sex has its own place. Then what is chastity? The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that does not hurt or receive hurts...

Krishnamurti: Meditation Is the Total Release of Energy Brockwood Park 1971, Public Meetings 4/6: Can Habit End Without Decision or Choice? Q: What is the difference between analysis and examination of one’s immediate reactions?  Q: I am full of fears, deep-rooted uncertainties - how am I to be completely free of them? When I analyse myself and my reactions or behaviour, there is the act and the a...

Krishnamurti: Meditation Is the Total Release of Energy Brockwood Park 1971, Public Meetings 3/6: Can I Live a Harmonious Life? Q: What is the difference between analysis and examination of one’s immediate reactions?  Q: I am full of fears, deep-rooted uncertainties - how am I to be completely free of them? When I analyse myself and my reactions or behaviour, there is the act and the actor. There...

Krishnamurti: Meditation Is the Total Release of Energy Brockwood Park 1971, Public Meetings 2/6: Action Without the Authority of the Image Can we have a relationship, and therefore co-operation, without the authority of the image? How am I consciously to examine all the images which lie hidden in the recesses of my mind? Q: If the mind is in a state of disorder, what can it do? When there is no o...

Krishnamurti: Meditation Is the Total Release of Energy Brockwood Park 1971, Public Meetings 1/6: Being Free of the Deepest Conditioning Can man ever be free, not only of the superficial conditioning of a particular culture, but also of the much deeper conditioning, of which most of us are unconscious? The demand for psychological security is much deeper than the demand for physiological security....