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Is it possible to empty the whole of consciousness, the whole of the mind, with all its tricks and vanities, its deceptions, pursuits and moralities, and all that, based essentially on pleasure? Is it possible...

Is it possible for man to be totally free—I mean psychologically? We don't know what that freedom means. We can only build an image, or an idea, a conclusion, what freedom should be or should not be; but to...

A revolt against a certain pattern of thought or a certain structure of society, a mere revolt, is not freedom. Freedom implies, doesn’t it really, a state of mind in which there is no imitation, conformity,...

Have you ever tried to die to a pleasure—something that you want tremendously, that gives you great satisfaction, delight—without any reason, without any motive, without any argument, to die to it? If you can,...

Is it possible to empty the mind totally, so that it is fresh every day, so that it’s no longer creating problems for itself, so that it’s able to meet every challenge so completely, so totally, that it leaves...

Can I look, be aware without choice—to look without choice of any kind?

Krishnamurti: Is relationship a matter of thought? Huston Smith: Not only, but thought can contribute to a relationship. K: Thought is always the old, relationship is something new. HS: Yes,...

When one realises, not verbally, not as an idea, but actually – when one realises that one is the world, and one’s responsibility to the world is the responsibility of understanding yourself so completely. And...

Fear seems to be one of the most common things in life, and strangely we have accepted it as a way of life, as we have accepted violence in all its various forms as a way of life, we have also accepted and got...

Violence plays an extraordinary part in our life, we never ask whether the mind can be completely and utterly free from violence. We have accepted it as part of life, as we have accepted war as a way of...

To bring about order is to understand disorder. And therefore, order is not according to a blueprint, according to some authority, or your own particular experience. And how this order comes about must...

Krishnamurti: Why should one make meditation into a problem? We human beings have enough problems, both physically and psychologically, why add yet another one with meditation? And is meditation a way...

K: …it’s so important to understand from the beginning in our talk, in our dialogue, that the world is not different from me and that I am the world. … The moment I say to myself, and I...

The observer, when he observes, is observing with the memories, experiences, knowledge, hurts, despairs, hope ? all that, with all that background he looks at the observed. So the...

The art of listening demands a quality of attention in which there is real listening, a real sense of having an insight as we go along, each second, not at the end, but at the beginning.

If one has this total feeling of responsibility then what is your responsibility with regard to your children? It means education. Are you educating them to bring about a mind that...

Can the mind be aware of itself as a movement of disorder, not trying to correct it, not trying to justify it, not trying to shape it, just to observe?

It may be the fear of death, fear of loneliness, fear of not being loved, fear of not becoming famous, successful, and also fear of not having physical security…. There are so many...

Freedom for, and freedom from, has this contradiction in itself and therefore conflict and therefore a battle, violence, struggle. When one understands that rather deeply, then one can...

They always say freedom is at the end, not at the beginning. On the contrary, the beginning is the first step that counts, not the last step. …understanding can only come in freedom to...

What is beauty? Must it be expressed?…Does it need the word, the stone, the colour, the paint? Or it is something that cannot possibly be expressed in words, in a building, in a statue?

Do we actually see, or do we see through a screen darkly? A screen of prejudice, a screen of our idiosyncrasies, experiences, our wishes, pleasures, fears, and obviously our images...

Religion is not a thing put together by thought, or by fear, or by the pursuit of satisfaction and pleasure…I think when we lost touch with nature, with the universe, with the clouds,...

Love is intelligence. And intelligence means sensitivity, to be sensitive to the situation. And the situation, if you are sensitive, will tell you what to do. But if you are...

An intelligent man…has to find out a way of living which is not going to sleep, which is not just vegetating, which is not just escaping to some fanciful, mystical visions and all that...

One cannot possibly understand the immensity, and it is immense, this thing called death, unless there is a real freedom from fear. …Unless the mind frees itself from fear there is no...

Prof. Anderson: Mr Krishnamurti, we were talking last time together about death in the context of living, and love. And as I remember just as we came to the close of what we were...

Why do human beings accept authority, obey? Is it because they have been trained in the field of function where you must obey to learn…?

Is it possible to live without control? Because what is the control? And who is controller? The controller is the controlled. When I say, ‘ I must control my thought’, the controller...

Can a life be led without control, without will, without direction, that means time? And that is meditation.

To have an insight into something is not personal, it is not based on some ideological conclusions, memories, remembrances. One must be free of that to have an instant insight into something. One must be...

How is one to have complete, total order in oneself, is that possible? Where there is order there is tremendous energy. Where there is disorder there is the dissipating of energy, wastage of energy. ...

What is love? Theologians have written volumes about it. The priests throughout the world have given a significance to it. Every man and woman throughout the world gives a specific meaning to it. . . ....

Part of meditation is to find out for oneself whether time can stop. You can't do this saying, "Time must stop"—it has no meaning. But to understand the whole structure and the nature and the...

If there is no tomorrow psychologically then what happens to the quality of your mind?… the mind – not your mind, my mind – but the mind that has seen the whole progressive movement of the ‘me’ becoming, that...

If we are able to think together, the division between you and another comes to an end. There is only thinking, not your way of thinking or another way of thinking, just the capacity to think together. But that is...

The fact is the reaction which we call 'envy'. That is the fact. But the non-fact is 'I should not be envious'. Right?… The fact of this reaction which we call 'envy' is what is happening, but the mind has...

Can you observe this ‘me’, which is created by thought, observe it without introducing the movement of thought in that observation?

We have sought security through desire and the fulfilment of that desire…and unconsciously, deeply one may be aware that the things in which you have invested, desire has invested have no value at all. And having...

Is there one solution, or one observation, one insight, one comprehension that will bring about a total revolution psychologically in each one of us? You understand my question? One answer – absolute, irrevocable,...

Your mind is like the mind of thousands and millions of people: striving, struggling, demanding, following, accepting, obeying, idealising, belonging to some religion, sorrow, pain, anxiety—your mind is that and...

Krishnamurti: What is the root of conflict, not only outwardly, but also this tremendous inward conflict of humanity? What is the root of it? David Bohm: Well, it seems it would be...

Time is the enemy of man. And that enemy has existed from the beginning of man. And we said why has man from the beginning taken a wrong turn, a wrong path – in quotes. And if so is it possible...

David Bohm: . . . would this ground be indifferent to man? Krishnamurti: . . . How would you find out? What is the relationship of this ground to man? What is its relationship with man and...

What will make man, a human being, change, deeply, fundamentally, radically? He has had crisis after crisis, he has had a great many shocks, he has been through every kind of misfortune, every...

Krishnamurti: What then is the difference between a religious mind and a philosophic mind?...Do we investigate the ground from a mind that is disciplined in knowledge? ... David Bohm:...we...

David Bohm:... Is there a function in the brain which is independent of the content, which is not conditioned by the content, but it might still be a physical function? Krishnamurti: Yes, I...

I want to come much closer to earth, which is I have lived with death, fear of death, fear of not being and so on, and suddenly I see there is no division and I understand this whole thing. So...

...And he is looking at ‘X’ with the eyes that are so accustomed to this pettiness. ...always translating it into ‘show it to me’, ‘prove it to me’, ‘will I have a better life’ – you follow? He...

So what is the problem? The problem apparently is, society can only be changed if human beings who have created it change themselves. That is the real problem, the real core of the problem. Right? . . . Unless...

Human beings from the very beginning of time, have been hurt inwardly; by a casual remark, by a look, by a word, by being sarcastic, by denying what you hold dear, what you consider the most important thing in your...

Thought has created, has brought about the division between human beings, nationalistic, class, political, economic, spiritual, religious divisions. If you examine it closely, you will see that is a fact. Thought...

If we can understand the nature and the structure of desire, not verbally or intellectually, but actually, factually, then perhaps desire has its proper place. But now desire is so consuming—instant fulfilment of...

We seem to not realize the central fact that we, each one of us, are responsible for what is going on in the world. The terror, violence, wars, and all the rest of it. And to bring about that change in ourselves...

Human beings, from the very beginning of time have lived with conflict. And we are still living in that state after millions and millions of years. Therefore there is something radically wrong: in spite of all the...

What has happened to man after all these centuries upon centuries?…Because that is the only problem in the world now: either we are going to destroy ourselves through hatred, through antagonism, through brutality,...

Thought is the origin, the beginning of this division in our life – you are German, I am French, you are British, I am Russian – that is, we have geographically divided the world by thought. That is, thought tries...

Thought has created disorder in the world through nationalities, through division, ‘I am a Jew, you are an Arab’, I believe and you don’t believe – you follow? – those are all the activities of thought, which in...

Is there anything to learn about oneself? Or there is only the act of observation, not learning. We must differentiate between the two: observation and accumulation as learning. To observe the condition, to...

Compassion can only be when thought doesn’t belong to any group, any association, any isolation.

Question: Can one slow down the ageing process of the mind? Or is the deterioration of the mind inevitable?

Two friends are talking over together about their problems. They are real friends, not convenient friends, but friends who have known each other for some time, and they are walking, perhaps, in a wood,...

Question: I have been following a spiritual leader and it has helped me. … But after listening to you I felt what you say is right and I have left the guru I was following. Now I feel lost without...

JK: All this really comes down to whether humanity can live without conflict. It basically comes to that. Can we have peace on this earth? The activities of thought never bring it...

JK: Can the consciousness of mankind be changed through time? That is one of the questions we should discuss this evening. DB: Yes. We have discussed it actually last time and I think...

The constant knowing that is learning, not accumulating knowledge, but constant learning, moving, enquiring, exploring, pushing, pushing, pushing. That is not based on knowledge, it is a...

MZ: Can you describe what remaining with the fact of fear actually is? K: It is like holding a jewel, an intricate pattern by an artist, who has brought this extraordinary jewel. You...

Why have we so many problems? All our life from the beginning to the end, from being born to dying, we are crowded with problems, we are worn out by problems – worry, anxiety, uncertainty, and the...

Can thought/time stop? Only then there is the end to fear. But one has to see it for oneself, not take it from another. We are not beggars. Nobody is giving or taking. Nobody is stretching his hand out to...

Can I see myself wholly as I am? Can I see the whole map?

The answer is not outside the question. The answer is not outside the problem. The answer is in the problem, in the question.

Is there an end to sorrow? Put this question seriously to yourself. Because where there is sorrow there cannot be love. There can be sympathy, pity, tolerance, empathy but generosity, pity, sympathy is not...

You are the world and the world is you..…When one actually realises this fact, not a theory, not an idea, but the actual, daily fact, then there is totally a different way of living.…when you really feel...