The Krishnamurti Collection

Krishnamurti: Conversation with Huston Smith
Claremont 1968
1/1: Authority Is Destructive

Q: In this confused and confusing world, torn by conflicting voices without and within, with hearts that seem star-crossed and tensions that never go, is it possible to live with total lucidity? 

To have clarity, the first essential thing is freedom, freedom from authority.

To be a light to yourself you must deny every other light, however great that light be.

As long as man accepts violence and lives a way of life which is violent, he perpetuates fear and accepts authority.

The moment you bring in the ‘how’ you move away from the central fact of learning.

To learn about something you must be in complete contact with it. I want to learn about fear, therefore I must look at it, face it.

At the moment of fear there is neither the observer nor the observed.

Thought can never be free because thought is the response of memory, response of the past.

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The Krishnamurti Collection is an official podcast by Krishnamurti Foundation Trust.

Across this wide selection of events, Krishnamurti explores fundamental questions of human existence that touch our daily lives and relationships. Each episode of the podcast features a full-length Krishnamurti recording from the Foundation’s archives, with a new series released every week.

Krishnamurti is widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers and teachers of all time. For seven decades, he spoke to large audiences around the world, as well as with notable individuals and small groups. Krishnamurti stressed that ‘There is hope in humanity, not in society, not in systems, not in organised religious systems, but in you and in me.’

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Krishnamurti: If You Fundamentally Change You Affect the Whole Consciousness of Man
Calcutta 1982, Public Meetings
3/4: What Is the Nature and the Structure of Disorder?

What is disorder?

Why do we have ideals?

One of the major factors of a life which is disorderly is trying to change ‘what is’ into ‘what should be’.

Psychologically, inwardly, why do we accept authority?

When you follow somebody, your brain becomes dull, routine, mechanical, which is the destructive nature of the human brain.

When sorrow comes with the loss of somebody, can one remain with that pain, look it, hold it?

To understand the nature of love, is it possible to be totally free from attachment?

Intelligence is the activity of the wholeness of life.

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The Krishnamurti Collection is an official podcast by Krishnamurti Foundation Trust.

Across this wide selection of events, Krishnamurti explores fundamental questions of human existence that touch our daily lives and relationships. Each episode of the podcast features a full-length Krishnamurti recording from the Foundation’s archives, with a new series released every week.

Krishnamurti is widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers and teachers of all time. For seven decades, he spoke to large audiences around the world, as well as with notable individuals and small groups. Krishnamurti stressed that ‘There is hope in humanity, not in society, not in systems, not in organised religious systems, but in you and in me.’

Established by Krishnamurti in 1968, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust is a non-profit charity based at Brockwood Park in the UK, which is also home to The Krishnamurti Centre and Brockwood Park School. To learn more about our activities and retreat programmes, and to donate, please visit:
 
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Krishnamurti: If You Fundamentally Change You Affect the Whole Consciousness of Man
Calcutta 1982, Public Meetings
2/4: Is There a New Instrument Totally Different from Thought?

What place has knowledge in human relationship?

You have accepted thought as the only instrument man has. That instrument has created havoc in the world.

Is there a new instrument totally different from thought, which thought has not touched at all?

Have you ever tried to observe without the word?

Have we destroyed our senses?

What is desire? Why have people said to suppress it or deny it, if you cannot identify it with something greater?

What is the cause of fear?

Is there actually, factually, psychological time at all?

When you are comparing, trying to become something else, you will never understand yourself as you are.

Where there is a becoming, you must have psychological time. That becoming is illusory.

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The Krishnamurti Collection is an official podcast by Krishnamurti Foundation Trust.

Across this wide selection of events, Krishnamurti explores fundamental questions of human existence that touch our daily lives and relationships. Each episode of the podcast features a full-length Krishnamurti recording from the Foundation’s archives, with a new series released every week.

Krishnamurti is widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers and teachers of all time. For seven decades, he spoke to large audiences around the world, as well as with notable individuals and small groups. Krishnamurti stressed that ‘There is hope in humanity, not in society, not in systems, not in organised religious systems, but in you and in me.’

Established by Krishnamurti in 1968, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust is a non-profit charity based at Brockwood Park in the UK, which is also home to The Krishnamurti Centre and Brockwood Park School. To learn more about our activities and retreat programmes, and to donate, please visit:
 
Krishnamurti Foundation Trust: kfoundation.org
The Krishnamurti Centre: krishnamurticentre.org.uk
Brockwood Park School: brockwood.org.uk
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Krishnamurti: If You Fundamentally Change You Affect the Whole Consciousness of Man
Calcutta 1982, Public Meetings
1/4: Your Consciousness Is the Consciousness of All Humanity

Where there is division, as the Arab and the Jew, the Hindu and the Muslim, there must be conflict.

Why has man become what he is in spite of great experience, great knowledge and vast technological advancement?

The future of man is at stake. The crisis is not only physical but in consciousness, in our being.

You are the world and the world is you. Your consciousness is not yours, it is the ground on which all human beings share and think. You are actually not an individual.

If there is a change in a particular person, how will it affect the whole consciousness of mankind?

Life is relationship; action is relationship; what you think brings about relationship or destroys relationship.

Where there is an image about another, there must be conflict.

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The Krishnamurti Collection is an official podcast by Krishnamurti Foundation Trust.

Across this wide selection of events, Krishnamurti explores fundamental questions of human existence that touch our daily lives and relationships. Each episode of the podcast features a full-length Krishnamurti recording from the Foundation’s archives, with a new series released every week.

Krishnamurti is widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers and teachers of all time. For seven decades, he spoke to large audiences around the world, as well as with notable individuals and small groups. Krishnamurti stressed that ‘There is hope in humanity, not in society, not in systems, not in organised religious systems, but in you and in me.’

Established by Krishnamurti in 1968, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust is a non-profit charity based at Brockwood Park in the UK, which is also home to The Krishnamurti Centre and Brockwood Park School. To learn more about our activities and retreat programmes, and to donate, please visit:
 
Krishnamurti Foundation Trust: kfoundation.org
The Krishnamurti Centre: krishnamurticentre.org.uk
Brockwood Park School: brockwood.org.uk
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Krishnamurti: If You Fundamentally Change You Affect the Whole Consciousness of Man
Calcutta 1982, Public Meetings
4/4: Time, Death and Meditation

Psychological time is invented by thought.

What is your daily life?

If you are the rest of mankind then what is your responsibility to man and to what is happening in the world?

When you say you want to be born next life, that you believe in reincarnation, what is it that is going to be reborn? What are you?

What is death?

You are a vast reservoir of memories, words, pictures and symbols. Your consciousness is the rest of mankind. You are not an individual. What does death mean then?

Can you, while living, end your attachment, end a particular habit voluntarily, easily, quietly? Where there is an ending, there is a totally different beginning.

What is a religious life?

Meditation is not the practise of any system. When you practise a system your brain becomes atrophied and dull, not alive and active.

What does it mean to be aware? What does it mean to concentrate? What does it mean to attend? All this is implied in meditation.

Note: a total of 18 minutes and 7 seconds of missing video is replaced by audio only. Poor picture quality from original recording

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The Krishnamurti Collection is an official podcast by Krishnamurti Foundation Trust.

Across this wide selection of events, Krishnamurti explores fundamental questions of human existence that touch our daily lives and relationships. Each episode of the podcast features a full-length Krishnamurti recording from the Foundation’s archives, with a new series released every week.

Krishnamurti is widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers and teachers of all time. For seven decades, he spoke to large audiences around the world, as well as with notable individuals and small groups. Krishnamurti stressed that ‘There is hope in humanity, not in society, not in systems, not in organised religious systems, but in you and in me.’

Established by Krishnamurti in 1968, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust is a non-profit charity based at Brockwood Park in the UK, which is also home to The Krishnamurti Centre and Brockwood Park School. To learn more about our activities and retreat programmes, and to donate, please visit:
 
Krishnamurti Foundation Trust: kfoundation.org
The Krishnamurti Centre: krishnamurticentre.org.uk
Brockwood Park School: brockwood.org.uk
Newsletter: kfoundation.org/newsletter
Donations: kfoundation.org/donate

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