The Mind is Chattering Q: What is the nature of silence? Are there different varieties of silence, different methods to arrive at silence? Or is it possible to come upon silence naturally, without effort, without inducement, without direction? What is harmony? Can the mind, the brain, function efficiently without any friction, distortion, so the mind, the intellect, the capacity to reason, to perceive is sharp, clear? Why is there disorder? Is it possible to end disorder? Conflict is disorder, conflict is comparison, contradiction, imitation, conformity and suppression. Is the mind capable of freeing itself from conflict? Can the mind, knowing what conflict is and does, end it? Is the mind totally aware that it is full of this sorrow, this confusion, this conflict? |
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The Tiger is not Created by Thought What place has knowledge? What place has it in the world of human relationship, what place has all your scientific information, gathered, stored in the brain as memory? Knowledge is never complete, whether in the future or in the past. Thought is the very essence of knowledge. The thinker is knowledge, and the thought of the thinker is also part of knowledge. What is your answer, your response to the world, to your vocation, which is conformity, absorption, either using that knowledge skilfully or inefficiently? Is life's purpose merely to earn money, to be married, a house, power, position? Will you waste your life, which is so complex, life which is so vast and therefore is something most extraordinarily sacred, what will you do with it? |
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What is Right Action in Relationship? It must be in the present, mustn't it? Past activity colours present action, modifies it and creates future action. Is this right action? A person who is hurt feels frustrated, angry, violent. All this is not right action. Who is the "I" that gets hurt? It is the image I have built about myself. If there is an image between you and me then there is disorder in our relationship. Thought has created this image. Thought says "the image is transient but there is a me which is permanent." When thought stops there is no image, no hurt and out of that comes right action. Intelligence is right action. |
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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. |
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1st Conversation: Where There Is Self-Interest Love Is Not Q: Can love be experienced? Love is not desire or pleasure. Love is not the opposite of hate. Love has no relationship to jealousy, it is not attached. Love can never bring conflict. You are looking at the extraordinary delicacy, the bright light and the beauty of a jewel. That requires a great deal of attention real attention in which the self is not. 2nd Conversation: When There Is Love Ther Is Truth and BeautyQ: Why are we fragmented? Why are we fragmented like this? After millions of years why are we still fighting and killing each other? Why do we accept this way of living? Is thought itself fragmented? What is the value of your quietness if your daily life is not without conflict? |
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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. |
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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. |
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Action Without Conflict Q:What is action? The world is in chaos, we are in misery, all the solutions, the doctrines, the beliefs, none of them have solved a thing. Can we find out for ourselves what is action, because we have to act, do something vital, energetic, forceful to bring about a different quality of existence. Is there a way of life which is action, which is relationship, but without conflict, which means without idea, which is not a repetitive form of pleasure? Where there is love there is no pleasure. Love is total negation and out of this negation there is action which is the most positive, because it does not create conflict. When you end something there is the beginning of the new. |
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Unconditioning and Simplicity Q: What is the source for the problems in our world? There is starvation, there is war, organized belief is losing its power. Education, religion, politics have completely failed to answer the problem and science hasn't answered it either. Because man has lost faith, he is afraid. And the only answer to fear is violence. Having realized this, one must proceed to find out how to renew the mind, to renew the total being. How is such a mind that has been so heavily conditioned for so many centuries, through so many agonies, to be made new so that it functions differently? Can the mind which has been made so dull, heavy, stupid by circumstances, by environment, free itself and meet every problem of life anew? Can that mind be a new thing, - sensitive, alive, aware, intense, capable? To see anything there must be light. |
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What is Meditation? Krishnamurti in conversation with Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, a Tibetan Buddhist meditation master and founder of the Naropa Institute in Colorado. Krishnamurti opens up the question of meditation, contrasting the system of practice with living observation. A vital meditation is seen to be essential for the orderly quietness of the mind, which is then dynamic in action. |
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Life is Meditation Q: What is meditation? The word "meditation" is not only to ponder over, but in Sanskrit means to measure: to measure and to be free of all measurement. Meditation is not something separate from daily life. If it is separate it merely becomes an escape, a romantic imagination. Meditation is a form of understanding one's relationship to the world and to nature. It means a tremendous enquiry in which there is no self-deception. One must begin with doubt. Question, enquire, probe, doubt, and not follow any particular system because that is invented by thought, by another man. It means enquiring into the whole nature of yourself. It is not something you do for twenty minutes, then carry on with your daily ugly brutal life. Meditation is love and intelligence and compassion. |
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