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The ground of being, and the mind of man, 12 April 1980.
Why has having ideas become so important? What is the difference between a religious mind and a philosophic mind? What is the human mind's relationship to the 'ground'? Why has man accumulated knowledge? When you love somebody there is no 'me', it is love. In the same way, when I say I am human, it is so. It is not an idea, it is not a conclusion, it is part of me.
There is only one thing...
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Why do we seek a method or technique? - 21 August 1949.
• The problems of life do not demand a method, because they are so vital and alive that if we approach with a method we totally misunderstand and don't adequately meet that problem.
• Where there is efficiency there is ruthlessness.
• The means and the end are not separate.
• Reality or God is something that cannot come by a technique, a means, or through a long, determined practice...
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JIDDU KRISHNAMURT. The passages in this Study Book have been, taken directly from Krishnamurti's talks and books from 1933 through 1967. The compilers began by reading all the passages from this period, which contained the word action-the theme of this book. This would not have been possible without the use of a full text computer database, produced by the Krishnamurti Foundation Trust of England. Over 750 passages were, studied in all, and the aspects...
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Does learning require thinking, or only awareness?
• To be aware is to be conscious, to be in relationship with what you observe outwardly and also our inward reactions.
• Awareness reveals that I have a conclusion from which I act, which prevents the free flow of energy.
• You see that you have many opinions and conclusions.
• You don't know whyyou have them or how to be free of them. Start with not knowing.
• Knowledge is in the past...
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Can the brain free itself from all self-delusion? - 11 October 1975
• Thought and the brain.
• Can the brain free itself from all self-delusion?
• Why has the self become important?
• Can there be only sensation, thought, and no desire?
• Can desire - which brings illusion, self-deception and all the complications of changing desires — can the root of desire be dissipated?
• What prevents one from having a real insight? That is, seeing...
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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...
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Can insight be awakened in another? - 19 April 1980
• What is the relationship to society of a man who has insight? What is his action
with regard to war and the whole world?
• Q: What is the significance of mankind in the universe, or in the 'ground'?
• 'Y' is concerned with 'Show me, prove it to me, what benefit it has, will I get my future...
And he is looking at 'X' with the eyes that are so accustomed to this pettiness. He reduces that...
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The intelligence of love - 16 September 1980
• Can the mind, brain, the whole psychological structure ever be free from all conflict, from all shadow of disturbance?
• Thought is the outcome of psychological accumulation. That accumulation gives a sense of continuity, which is time.
• Why do all human beings throughout the world have the urge to become?
• In accumulation man has sought psychological security, and that security with its accumulation...
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Can the mind not be a slave to knowledge? 21 July 1974.
When consciousness invents a super-consciousness is it a part of thought aware of the past? Is there a part of the brain which has not been touched by the known? Is it our education to escape from 'what is' through ideals? Has the mind been trained to operate and function in the field of the known? Observing the movement of thought and its source, can one come upon something beyond thought?...
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If I don't change now what will the future be? - 10 September 1972
• Is thought responsible for fragmentation?
• Does fragmentation have its own activity?
• What is the energy that perceives the total and doesn't live in fragmentation?
• Does comparison bring about fear and pleasure?
• Is thought seeking security in belief and dogma?
• Can the mind learn instantly all the content of the unconscious in which there are deep, secret fears?
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Thought is not the instrument of change, 31 July 1974.
• How is thought to end completely? All cultures have given importance to thought.
• Is there another instrument besides thought?
• Can thought be silent when the mind is observing?
My concern is to observe and this is prevented when there is any movement or flutter of thought. Attention is given totally and thought does not enter into it. Can I look without thought? Observe the world,...
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8. Experiencing the state of immortality without ideation - 7 August 1949.
• There is no mind without idea, thought and verbalization.
• There is no experiencer and the experience, there is only a state of experiencing.
• One cannot think about immortality. If one can live in the state of only experiencing then there is a state in which ideation has stopped altogether.
• Is it possible to have direct experience of that which is not thinkable...
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The mind in the universe - 20 September 1980
• Is thought a material process?
• Is it possible to have a mind that is really completely empty of all the things that thought has put together?
• Only the insight into the nature of reaction ends psychological reaction.
• There is absolute stillness and in that stillness, or from that stillness, there is a movement which is everlastingly new.
• Can the silent movement of order affect my daily...
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Meditation means a life that is totally different every minute of the day - 14 March 1971
• A mind that inquires into this whole question of meditation must have tremendous discipline.
• When you observe 'what is' without the interference of the past, there is complete change of 'what is'.
• Is there a way of seeing the whole content of consciousness without analysis?
• When you give complete attention there is no centre from which you attend.
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Cleansing the mind of the accumulation of time - 2 April 1980
• Time is the enemy of man.
• Is there a beginning which is not enmeshed in time?
• We said nothingness is everything and so it is total energy. It is undiluted pure, uncorrupted energy. Is there something beyond that?
• Has man ever been free from the 'I'?
• That emptiness can only exist when there is death of the particular.
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The role of the teacher - 26 March 1971
• Q: There is much talk of a spiritual revolution among young people. Do you see in this very mixed phenomenon any hope of a new flowering for civilisation or possibility of growth?
• One can go into oneself at tremendous depths and find out everything. To go into oneself is the problem. Not being able to do it we ask for help.
• If there were no books, no gurus, what would you do?
• Q: You speak against...
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If thought cannot achieve, why should it suffer? - 18 July 1975
• How does science investigate the mysterious?
• If thought cannot achieve, why should it suffer?
• Can consciousness, which is filled with the things of thought, empty itself?
• Thought cannot possibly apprehend, comprehend or be aware of the whole.
• Time.
• Krishnamurti's early years.
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Death has very little meaning, 17 April 1980.
Is there a totally different way of approaching the whole turmoil of life? As long as the center is creating darkness, and thought is operating in that darkness, there must be a disorder, there must be everything as a society now is. To
move away from that you must-have insight. Insight can only come about when there is a flash that abolishes not only the
darkness but the creator of darkness.
Human beings...
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Why has man given supreme importance to thought? 8 April 1980.
Is the 'ground' indifferent to mankind, as the physical universe appears to be? How does one find out if there is something more than merely physical? Why is it that theories are necessary and useful in organizing facts about matter outwardly, and yet inwardly, psychologically they are in the way, of no use at all? Seeking security for myself, for my family, for my group, for my tribe,...
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