Jiddu Krishnamurti
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The benediction of meditation - 17 November 1968
• We shall explore together into this life, existence, in which is included relationship, love and death, not merely as a phenomenon but as something tremendously significant, to be cherished, deeply lived. Meditation is the approach to this problem of living.
• It is only a free mind that is capable of attention in which there is no achieving or losing or fear. It is only a quiet, attentive mind...
42) What is Order?
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What is order? - 28 March 1970
• Order and disorder.
• Why does the mind accumulate?
• How do you receive something that is not of the mind?
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Attention implies the total abandonment of the 'me' - 6 March 1971
• Can the mind undergo a radical revolution?
• How do you observe the world?
• What solves our human problem is observing the whole process of ourselves without judging, condemning, translating or rejecting — just to observe.
Question topics following the talk include: being disturbed in order to know, being confused, transcendental meditation.
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To perceive 'what is' is the basis of truth - 7 February 1971
• Where there is division there must be conflict.
A mind in conflict must in evitably be distorted and therefore it cannot possibly see clearly what is truth.
• We need a total change, a deep revolution, psychological revolution, the inward revolution, without which you cannot possibly create a new society.
• Is it possible to observe, to perceive without the observer?
• How are...
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Is there in the brain anything untouched by culture? - 6 August 1975
• Can there be a total perception which completely heals the brain?
• What benefit has culture?
• Does speech come before thought?
• Is it possible to say something without the operation of thought?
• Is there in the brain anything untouched by culture?
• Is attention a conscious process?
• Is love the factor of profound change?
• You explain all this, and you say...
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You can understand yourself very simply when you are quiet - 4 December 1965
• When you are really quiet, alone with yourself, you begin to know yourself and to see the intricacies of your mind.
• Q: Why does the mind get disturbed when it is in a state of revolt and how can it quieten down?
• Q: Is communication possible in all conditions?
J. KRISHNAMURTI
• Q: When we say anything that is a bit alternative to what our elders think, we...
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Implicity comes into being when there is freedom from the desire to achieve, 27 August 1949
One who is sincere can never be simple because he who is trying to be sincere always has the desire to pattern or approximate himself to an idea.
Self-knowledge can be discovered more fully, deeply, widely, only when there is passive awareness, which is not the exertion of will.
In the search for self-knowledge, we get caught in self-consciousness. Being...
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You can understand yourself very simply when you are quiet - 4 December 1965
• When you are really quiet, alone with yourself, you begin to know yourself and to see the intricacies of your mind.
• Q: Why does the mind get disturbed when it is in a state of revolt and how can it quieten down?
• Q: Is communication possible in all conditions?
J. KRISHNAMURTI
• Q: When we say anything that is a bit alternative to what our elders think, we...
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Wisdom comes through the understanding of suffering - 23 July 1974
• Do we respond to the whole field of existence? Must not there be love to do that?
• To love, to be responsible for the whole, one must go beyond suffering. • Can we know the nature, structure and function of suffering?
• Is isolation one of the major causes of suffering?
• Is attachment, which denies freedom, a cause of suffering?
• In the love of the whole the particular...
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The action of intelligence - 14 September 1972
• Q: Why don't we see the division between the observer and the observed?
• How does the division come about which causes conflict and misery?
• Are we aware that we are fragmented? Why does contradiction exist?
• Can we have a mind that is not fragmented and contradictory?
• Can the mind live without comparison?
• The brain sees that nationalities and religious divisions are disastrous for...
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What is the relationship between attention and lack of attention? - 3 August 1974
• We are educated to follow, accept and conform. This is tradition, second-hand.
• When you become aware of conformity without reaction is that awareness the act of intelligence?
• Does the mind realize the nature of conformity, intelligence and awareness?
• I am attentive for a minute and there is no border, no time, no 'me', no problem. The whole energy is...
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A mind in meditation is concerned only with meditation, not with the meditator - 17 February 1971
• If you can put aside your favourite systems, if you can understand that concentration is merely a resistance and therefore constant conflict and wastage of energy, then we can find out for ourselves what is necessary for a mind that is in a state of meditation.
• To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute.
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54) True Revolution
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True revolution - 6 February 1969.
• What is a religious mind?
• Must one go to an expert to tell us what the unconscious is or can one find it for oneself?
• Through the negation of disorder, order comes into being.
• It is only the meditative mind that can find out, not the curious mind or the mind that is everlastingly searching.
• To meditate implies to see very clearly. It is not possible to see clearly when there is space between...
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To understand 'what is' there must be no prejudice - 6 August 1949.
• To understand reality, or for that immensity to come into being, one must understand the process of one's own thinking.
• How is it possible to go into the deeper layers of consciousness?
• If we do not name then perhaps it's possible to go into the deeper layers of consciousness.
• To see things as they are requires enormous alertness of mind.
• Q: I understand intellectually...
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Being serious without belief - 15 March 1970
• Can the intellect, a fragment, ever be serious? Serious in the sense of a sustained observation without any distortion.
• Control
• What is living?
• How does it happen that one can be completely harmonious?
• What does awareness mean?
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Is it possible to renew the mind? - 24 May 1967
• 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 brain to be quiet, to give an interval between the old and the new? This interval is the timeless nature in which thought cannot possibly...
58) Inner Space
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Why are you being educated? 1 December 1965.
• What is the function of education?
• Some people say that we must live now and others say that we must be concerned further, beyond the present.
• Can a man really be human without any effort?
• What is the difference between affection and love?
• How am I to know that I am bad?
• How am I to improve if I am bad?
• Why does nature attract us?
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Thought sustains fear and pleasure, 4 February 1969.
To understand the relationship and to end the conflict in it is our entire problem. Can man live at peace, within himself and outwardly? In a relationship, one becomes aware of the actual state of oneself. The man that has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free man, a peaceful man.
• What is fear?
• Can thought be silent?
Conduct becomes virtuous only when thought doesn't cultivate...