Various other Conversations and Interviews

If There Is Love There Is Unity

Q: What prevents people from thinking together co-operating together?

One has to begin with oneself.

Can the content of consciousness, the result of thought be wiped out? Can all thought fear, anxiety, agony, beliefs stop?

Is it possible to love another without thought? To love somebody means no thought and it brings about a totally different relationship, a different action. When thought comes into it, it is divisive it destroys the beauty of it. Would you say love has an awareness? Can there be love without any awareness of unity?

Can I be free from the fear of death? It is necessary to die everyday to everything you have psychologically gathered.

Authority is Destructive

Q: Why is man not capable of clear perception and action?

Is this clarity a matter of intellectual perception, or is it a perception with your whole being?

In this confused world, with so many contradictions, such misery and starvation, not only outwardly, but also inwardly, is it at all possible for a human being to find within himself a clarity that is constant and true? What are the things that prevent clarity?

One of the major blocks or hindrances is this total acceptance of authority. To be a light to yourself you must deny every other light, however great. So that the mind is free of the word to look.

Man is the result of time. New experiences break through only when there is an absence of the past. If I want to understand something new I must look with clear eyes.

Can Fear Be Completely Wiped Away?

Q: I would like to ask you about playfulness. Q: What is the significance of life?

The whole way of living has become a movement of fear. Fear of losing a job, fear of my wife or husband fear of not being successful.This whole way of living goes step by step leading to the ultimate fear of death.

What does it mean to come to the end of it all? Is it possible to end fear not a particular fear but to end the whole tree of fear? Time and thought are the root of fear.

Is there a state of mind, brain where there is a complete ending of knowledge and there is something new? That is creation.

The Role of a Flower

This interview takes place mostly at Brockwood Park in England during the annual gatherings when thousands of people assembled to hear Krishnamurti speak. An interview with Krishnamurti is interspersed with other interviews with a variety of people.

The salient points of Krishnamurti's life are traced through a conversation with Mary Lutyens who knew him since childhood. Other people interviewed are Basil Gossage who listened to him for over fifty years, Brockwood Park School staff members and other people who attended the talks.

During the interview in which Krishnamurti briefly touches on all aspects of his teaching, he is asked what he sees his role to be. His answer gives the programme its title.

Q: Are you saying that it is wrong to believe in what you have found to be true?

Q: How can an individual, who is part of the system, get outside the system to observe it and himself?

Q: How do you get people to be aware in your sense?

Q: You have been rather critical of religions, you yourself must have a religious view of life.

Q: It seems you are saying that man has no need of any power outside of himself to bring change.

Q: What do you make of death?

Q: In 1929 you dissolved the Order of the Star. Forty-one years later how would you summarize your aims?

Q: Are you not setting yourself up as a great teacher?

Q: Where do you find truth?