Jiddu Krishnamurti
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When one observes a fact without knowledge then one can learn, 28 May 1967.
• 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
observing the image which Freud has created about me.
• Can you do nothing, psychologically?
• If two people are quarrelling and one stops,...
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1. Does self-knowledge come through searching? - 16 July 1949
• What is it that most of us are seeking?
• Does clarity come through searching and trying to find out what others say?
• Can incessant search and longing give you the extraordinary sense of reality or creative being that comes when you really understand yourself?
• Without knowing your background and the substance of your thought, where it comes from, surely your search is utterly...
83) 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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What makes one control? - 14 March 1970
• Violence
• Why do you control?
• Security means to be in a state in which there is no choice at all.
• The mind has become sensitive because it has observed, not because it has experienced.
• Either you see the fact with the past or you see the fact as it is now.
• The word is of the past.
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Freedom of choice is not freedom, 11 November 1968.
What do we mean by free will? Is there such thing? Is choice ever necessary? Freedom exists only when I perceive very clearly when the mind sees things as they are.
• Is it possible to be free in society?
• Is love the absence of hate?
To find out what truth is you must be free of propaganda: the propaganda of the Church, the propaganda of literature, propaganda of tradition, so that you see...
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Complete freedom from thought, 9 September 1972.
Learning is instant perception and action. What place has thought in learning? To learn about freedom must “thought” be completely silent? Does insight into freedom take time? Can thinking, however rational, bring about a psychological revolution in us? Is thought always conditioned? Is freedom the non-existence of thought? My very being is related to thought.
If you want to see something new,...
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Why do we want to dominate or be subservient to another? - 20 August 1949
• Why is it that we dominate, consciously or unconsciously?
• To submit oneself to another is the negative form of domination. We shall not be able to solve this problem by thinking in terms of opposites.
• Is not domination a process of isolation, which denies relationship?
• Can there be relationship between two people if there is any sense of domination or submissiveness?
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The mind that is free of authority is a very intense, alive mind - 15 November 1968
• Can a mind be free of authority so that there is no impingement of the past, so that the mind is always alert, learning in the present?
• Can the mind experience, go through a challenge so completely that it leaves no mark?
• The mind must purge itself of the social morality in order to be moral.
• Has experience any value at all?
• Attention is the highest...
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Can thought stop? - 28 May 1967
• 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, for thought not to
allow itself to interfere?
• When all authority of every kind is put aside, denied, then you can find out for...
90) Cosmic Order
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Cosmic order - 7 June 1980
• Is there an order which is not man-made?
• Can the brain ever be free from the impositions, pressures, wounds, bruises, all the trivialities of existence?
• Time is my whole existence. I take refuge in the past, which cannot be changed. Why does the brain accept this way of living, and why doesn't it break it down?
• As long as I have my roots in the past there cannot be order.
• If the universe is not of time,...
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A radical transformation in the psyche itself - 8 November 1968
• To communicate we must know that the word is not the thing and also be in that state of mind whose quality is attention, care. That can only take place if we are serious.
• We are the world and the world is us. To bring about a radical transformation, which is so essential in society, there must be radical transformation in ourselves.
• Analysis of violence does not end violence,...
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Why has desire become such an extraordinarily important thing in life?
• How does desire arise from perception?
• Can I desire truth?
• Is the energy of nothingness different from the energy of things?
• Is that nothingness a hypothesis, a theory, a verbal structure, or truth?
• In dying to the reality only then there is nothingness.
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Violence, pleasure and fear, 7 March 1971.
We have accepted violence as a way of life and yet at the same time we want peace. Can one live a life in which there is no comparison at all? Pleasure is the continuance of an experience that is never finished. We are living in the past. How can the conscious mind investigate the total hidden mind?
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Thought cannot bring about an insight - 31 May 1975
• Is there a thinking without the word?
• The action brought about by thought into the investigation of an analysis is always incomplete.
• Insight is complete. It is not fragmented as thought is. So thought cannot bring about an insight.
• I must have an insight into conditioning otherwise I can't dissolve it.
• What takes place when I have an insight that the observer is the observed?
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Can thought bring order? - 18 July 1974
• Are thoughts, feelings, reactions and relationships merely mechanical? Is there any other movement?
• Where there is a cause there is time and so living becomes relative.
• Is my relationship with another based on opinions, memories, demands and sexual appetites?
• Is there a way of living which has no cause?
• Do I actually see disorder or only its description?
• Is it only when the 'me' is non-existent...
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Where there is pleasure there is the shadow of pain, 21 May 1967. The whole movement of living, which is a 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 a total movement, operating all the time?
The mind that pursues pleasure must inevitably invite its opposite, which is pain. The two go...
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Is pleasure love? - 13 March 1971
• Can thought ever solve the whole problem of existence?
• What is the function of thought?
• Why has sex become so extraordinarily important?
• Chastity is the freedom from all image.
• Is love desire?
• A new thing can take place only when there is an ending of the old.
Question topics following the talk include: getting better, controlling thought, the process of invention, vegetarianism, images.
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Is there energy not based on idea or ideology? - 16 July 1974
• Why is thought divisive?
• The desire to change in a particular direction gives an energy that is divisive.
• Will you free the mind taking time, through analysis, or can you look totally and therefore be totally free?
• Does choiceless rejection of the false give a different kind of energy?
• Does a foundation give me direction or does it bring confusion?
• Is the operation...
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Seeing 'what is' is action - 24 May 1975
• If truth is something totally different from reality then what place has action in daily life, in relation to truth and reality?
• Seeing 'what is' is action.
• What place has love in truth?
• When I separate you, in that separation love cannot exist.
• How are you to convey the sense of truth to a student?
• As long as I live in the field of reality, which has its own energy, that energy will...
100) Learning is Action
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Learning is action - 12 November 1968
• Our education is concerned with the accumulation of knowledge.
Very few of us are capable of living a life without the influence of specialists.
• What is the point of going to a university, getting a degree and disappearing into the vast structure of society?
• Q: How shall we approach the idea of study?
• If you express from something already accumulated it is a deadly bore, but if you are all the...