Jiddu Krishnamurti
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JIDDU KRISHNAMURT. The passages in this Study Book have been, taken directly from Krishnamurti's talks and books from 1933 through 1967. The compilers began by reading all the passages from this period, which contained the word action-the theme of this book. This would not have been possible without the use of a full text computer database, produced by the Krishnamurti Foundation Trust of England. Over 750 passages were, studied in all, and the aspects...
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Why do we seek a method or technique? - 21 August 1949.
• The problems of life do not demand a method, because they are so vital and alive that if we approach with a method we totally misunderstand and don't adequately meet that problem.
• Where there is efficiency there is ruthlessness.
• The means and the end are not separate.
• Reality or God is something that cannot come by a technique, a means, or through a long, determined practice...
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The ground of being, and the mind of man, 12 April 1980.
Why has having ideas become so important? What is the difference between a religious mind and a philosophic mind? What is the human mind's relationship to the 'ground'? Why has man accumulated knowledge? When you love somebody there is no 'me', it is love. In the same way, when I say I am human, it is so. It is not an idea, it is not a conclusion, it is part of me.
There is only one thing...
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Attention implies that there is no centre - 22 June 1975
• Consciousness, because it is in constant movement, has never found an energy which is not contradictory, which is not produced by desire and thought.
• Can thought ever see its own movement and the futility of its own movement?
• Attention implies that there is no centre.
• Is there a perception, a seeing outside the space which is part of consciousness?
• There are two human...
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To look without a concept is to be aware of the observer and the thing observed - 20 May 1967
• 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 time?
• The first and last freedom is when the mind is totally free from concepts and the mechanical process of building a formula.
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If freedom is responsibility, how do I act? - 16 September 1972
• Q: What is the action that will be a total response to the world around us?
• Can one respond totally without learning about love and death in relation to daily life?
• Do we live, or do we tolerate living?
• Do we live according to ideas and conclusions based on belief, dogma and memory?
• Is there an action which dissipates all images?
• Is love relationship in which...
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Simplicity cannot be found unless one is free inwardly - 24 July 1949
• Only when the mind and heart are really simple is one able to solve the many problems that confront us.
• A religious man is he who is inwardly simple.
• Q: I have been a member of various religious organizations but you have destroyed them all. I am utterly bored and work because hunger forces me to it. I am afraid to commit suicide. What on earth am I to do?
• Q: What...
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Love is that quality of mind in which there is no division - 14 February 1971
• To live in this world with intelligence, in spite of all the complications.
• Is it possible to be free of fear, not only the superficial fear in relationship but the deep-rooted fear?
• Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.
• When you are learning, your mind is awake.
• Truth isn't second-hand, you can't get it through a guru,...
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Senility and the brain cells, 1 June 1980.
Is the human brain deteriorating? The human brain is not particular, it doesn't belong to me or anyone
else, it is the human brain that has evolved for millions of years.
Can the brain not only be aware of its own movement but can the brain itself have enough energy to break all patterns and move out of it?
Is psychological knowledge not in itself a factor of the shrinking of the brain? The ending of suffering...
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Does learning require thinking, or only awareness?
• To be aware is to be conscious, to be in relationship with what you observe outwardly and also our inward reactions.
• Awareness reveals that I have a conclusion from which I act, which prevents the free flow of energy.
• You see that you have many opinions and conclusions.
• You don't know whyyou have them or how to be free of them. Start with not knowing.
• Knowledge is in the past...
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Thought is the cause of fear - 10 November 1968
• Though we have plenty of energy, apparently we lack the drive, enthusiasm, vitality to bring about a change in ourselves.
• As long as there is fear there must be violence, aggression, anger, hatred.
Thought is the source of fear.
• Is it possible to live everyday life without thought interfering?
• Thought is always old. When you worship thought you are worshipping something that is dead.
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Is thought detrimental? 15 August 1965.
Why does one seek pleasure? Can the mind only face facts and not thought? Why have I never said, 'Thought is poison,' to myself? Meeting something one doesn't know, facing something which has no answer. Acting without knowing.
• What is a state of mind which is silent?
• Time is detrimental.
• Are we twisting everything to our core of pleasure?
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Four Small Group Discussions, Ojai, USA, 1972
1. Conflict and choice - 29 March 1972
Duration: 95 minutes
• What do we mean by learning?
• Why is one frightened of the past?
• Knowing and looking at oneself.
• Can that mess which is me be washed away?
• How are you aware of conflict?
• Choice and clarity.
• Looking without any distortion.
2. A life without measurement - 30 March 1972
Duration: 87 minutes
• Human beings have tried...
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The liberation of insight, 14 September 1980.
Can insight wipe away, banish or dissolve the whole movement of being tied, attached, dependent and lonely? Is there an order which is not man-made? Measurement can exist only where there is disorder. We live in a man-made world, we are the result of man-made minds.
Can the mind uncondition itself so completely that it's no longer man-made? What is the relationship between love and hatred?
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This series of six talks, given by Krishnamurti in Madras in 1979-80, marks a departure from his usual style of exposition. Usually in the opening talk he would dwell first on the problems of the world and then on the psychological factors underlying them. But here he starts straightaway with the most ancient quest of man to find that which is sacred. 'Man must have asked a million years ago, from the beginning of the time, if there is a reality,...
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Relationship has significance only when it is a process of self-revelation - 17 July 1949
• Where there is authority there can be no discovery of something new.
• Relationship based on an idea cannot be a self-revealing process.
• Self-knowledge is understood, uncovered and its process revealed through relationship.
• Is it possible to love without the interference of the mind?
• When the mind becomes supreme, all-important, then there can...
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What will make me see that thought breeds frustration? - 21 August 1965
• What is the function of thought?
• Can the mind see the fact that thought will always breed frustration?
• Function is necessary, but function with status, position and power must breed frustration.
• Without frustration thought says to itself, 'I am not seeking. I don't want anything.'
• If there is no thought, what happens?
• The very perception of the limitation...
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To come upon the new, thought must be quiet - 17 September 1972
• If one is serious, one must learn for oneself if there is such a thing as the IM measurable.
• Thought cannot find the immeasurable because thought is measurement and time.
• Can thought, realizing its limitations, be quiet?
• Can the mind without effort see its content clearly, and the limitation, lack of space and time-binding quality of its consciousness?
• When you say,...