What Was Your Background Like? Q: What is our relationship to life? What were your parents like, how did they treat you? What was your relationship to your mother, to your father to your brothers and sisters and what did you feel? Was your mother merely looking after you or was there a great deal of affection care and responsibility? What was your relationship to the whole thing, life, trees, the grass, flowers and to your parents? Have you discovered for yourself what your background is what your conditioning is why you think this and not that? That is where you begin to learn about yourself. You begin to learn about your own way of looking. |
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There Is Freedom When There Is Learning Q: What is the difference between learning and accumulating knowledge? Do you see the difference between memorizing to pass exams, have a skill, get a job, and learning? When you are learning mathematics or history you are accumulating information it becomes almost automatic.The brain becomes mechanical. You are being programmed when you learn how to dance or to play football. You have been programmed to be a Hindu or a Christian. Do you realize this as a fact? If, in the same way, you use knowledge of what you have learned about me that becomes a memory then it becomes a barrier and you don't look at me afresh. |
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Isn't Comparison a Form of Violence? Will you stop your own violence? What is non-violence? Are you psychologically violent? Don't you compete? Hasn't your brain been programmed to compare, to react? Aren't reactions mechanical? The brain is conditioned to repeat. Can you observe the whole movement of comparison? Can you live without comparison, without competition? How do you react to what is happening in the world? Can you look without the word? Isn't learning observing without the word? |
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Q1: How can we know if mystical and spiritual experiences are illusions unless we know reality? Q2: Is illness due simply to degeneration or abuse of the body, or does it have some other significance? Q3: What is my responsibility toward the present world crisis? Q4: Does asking for guidance necessarily prevent understanding, or can it be a means of discovering ourselves? Q5: If asking for guidance prevents understanding, what is the sense of listening to you, Krishnamurti? Q6: What is total vision? Is it an extension of our normal brain function or something totally different? |
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Q1: Is there the faculty to see that there is no path to truth outside myself? What will give me the need, the energy to move in this direction? Q2: I am afraid to change. If I change what will happen afterwards? Q3: How does one meet aggression and psychological attack from a close relative from whom one cannot escape? Q4: What do you say to people who pick part of what you say that fits their problems or interest and then discard the rest? Q5: There are many accounts of people following a particular discipline who come upon the immeasurable. Are they self-deluded? |
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Why Do We Have So Many Problems? How do you approach a problem, a challenge? Can the brain, educated to live with problems have no problems at all and therefore tackle them? Are we aware that our brain lives with problems? Can the brain become aware of itself its thoughts, its reactions, its way of living? Can the brain be free of self-interest which is the beginning of corruption and the origin of conflict? Is it possible to live in this complicated world without conflict? The question, not the answerhas tremendous significance. Can one remain quiet and watch? Are observation and love related? |
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The Relationship of Time and Thought to Fear What is the nature of beauty? What is its relationship to thought, time, and love? Can memory apprehend that which is beautiful? Time is the movement of memory, knowledge, experience. Can this movement ever end? What is the connection between thought and time? Can thinking in the deepest valleys of the brain ever stop? Is relationship the closeness, the feeling for each other based on thought? Is fear related to time and thought? Is it possible to end fear now so completely that you are free? |
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The Relationship of Freedom to Self-interest Do we realize how very little freedom we have? Are pleasure, fear, self-interest, time, thought all one movement? Does change imply a movement in time? If we understand that all time is now then is change meaningless? Why has man suffered from time immemorial? Is there an end to sorrow? Is love a continuation and remembrance of pleasure? Or is it entirely beyond thought and time? What relationship has love to sorrow? To compassion? Where there is love there is absolute freedom. Can we live our daily life with that perfume? |
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The Nature of the Brain That Lives Religiously Do we realize that we are the world and the world is us? Can we together understand the world, ourselves and our relationship to the world? Can we enquire together into why we want continuity and what is ending? How are time and thought involved in this process? And what is death? If we realize the immense significance of living with that ending that is called death in our daily life there is real transformation, real mutation even in the brain cells. Can the brain ever understand that which is limitless? Can the brain be quiet? Is there a mind which is not the brain to understand that immensity? |
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