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can also be ordered as audio cassettes.
A listing of audio cassettes which are not on video can be found after the descriptions.
Many of the tapes have been translated and are available as bilingual recordings with
English on one stereo channel and the spoken translation on the other. Translations are
shown for each tape using the codes listed below.
Talks
AM81T1 - Thought and Time Are the Root of Fear
Amsterdam 1981 1st Public Talk - 19th September, 1981
89 min. Colour, Translations: Video: F P, Audio: F P
Observing the actuality of what living is and what it means to die. What is it that
continues in our daily life? Can one, while living with all the turmoil, have the energy,
capacity to end attachment? The necessity of being free of all that thought has
invented as religion to find out what a religious mind is. Contradiction, which is
division, is disorder and order is the foundation of a religious life. Enquiring into what
is meditation.
The art of listening, observing. Are you listening to the speaker or to his reputation?
Being sceptical so that your brain operates at its highest quality. What is the cause of
this appalling violence - is it the conflict and competition that exists in each of us?
What are problems, how do we meet them - only a free brain can solve problems.
Looking at the world globally. Knowledge the enemy of love. Do you love anybody?
The past meeting the present, a factor of conflict. Can you live not recording
inwardly? What is implied in asking "how"? The possibility of a state where the brain
isn't reacting. Is there an observer different from anger? Duality exists when there is
comparison. Remaining with the fact, what takes place? Is time the enemy of man? To
live religiously needs great intelligence.
Conflict is the essence of disorder. What is fear and how does it arise? The past is time
- is the root of fear, time-thought? What is the art of living so that one is not afraid of
death? Is there an end to sorrow? Attachment one of the causes of sorrow - to whom is
one attached? Order is to become aware of one's disorder. Isn't division the root of
disorder? While living can one find the significance of death?
Is love or freedom a matter of choice, a reaction? Freedom, goodness, love, beauty are
one. The possibility of an interval between seeing, contact, sensation, before thought
makes a shape of it. Conscious meditation is born of desire. Can the brain stop
measuring? Beauty is where the self is not. What is religion apart from beliefs? Where
there is space there is silence. When the brain is silent there is that which is nameless.
What is right action in a world that is crumbling? Can thought find an action totally
devoid of time? Insight into the movement of thought and the roots of fear. Can you
have a quick perception into the whole nature and structure of authority? Using words
without their emotional content. Are you caught in a network of words? Is the word
creating the sensation of fear? The observer is not different from the reaction.
You are disorder. Why is there this huge pressure of desire in us - is it one of the
factors of disorder? What is its nature, how does it arise, can it have its proper place
without suppression or control? Thought interferes with sensation, desire begins. Why
should the brain register an event which was painful or pleasurable? Registering only
things necessary to bring order. In attention is there registration?
Do our senses ever act as a whole? The beginning of meditation. What place have time
and control in meditation and can one live a life without control? Can consciousness,
which is the result of time, empty itself so that time comes to an end? Can thought
move away from the groove it is in? Hope is part of time. The possibility of living a
life in total anonymity and humility. Is there anything sacred, untouched by thought?
A relationship in daily life that is essentially good. Can we bring about a radical
change in ourselves? Being conditioned will I listen to another? Can I look at the fact
of my conditioning? What happens if I reject all authority and organizations? Can the
mind be free of the image I have created about myself and is it that image that is hurt?
Analysis maintains division. What takes place when actually the observer is the
observed?
Transforming the mind, not falling into other conditioning. Do we partially use the
senses or can we observe with all our senses? Thought dominates sensation, desire is
born. Observing without the old instrument of thought. Discipline means learning. We
have made an effort to discipline, suppress, and control desire. When you understand
desire is there effort? You can't love with effort.
Is the mind unwilling to look at fear as it arises? Are you different from fear? Fear
without the word. Is thought, which is time, the root of fear? Thought brings pleasure,
which is private. Pleasure may be the cause of isolation. Ending something
voluntarily, that is death. In ending, is there the beginning of something new? Isn't
intelligence to end? What is death? Eternal means out of time.
What is the meaning of life? To find out if there is something beyond time mustn't you
be free of problems? Isn't one with problems caught in time? Problems arise when our
relationships are not understood. Can the mind observe a fact without direction, and if
so, hasn't that mind pulled together all its energy? Desire is in time: meditation is the
ending of time and effort. Can all search come to an end?
Man's responsibility is a global one in this mad, rather insane world. Living in images
is the essence of a destructive way of life. The fragmentation brought about through
attachment, ideas and images must fall away if there is to be a totally different way of
living, with love and a great sense of compassion.
Desire is the movement of constantly trying to become. We are separate entities with
our images, trying to be related. The brain which is the most important factor in our
life needs to change completely. Insight into desire and relationship can only take
place when there is observation without any direction, and this can change the very
brain cells.
Man has divided himself religiously and through nationalism, in which lies the root of
disorder. World disorder is not different from our disorder; nor is this disorder
different from the observer who is observing it. Can one deal with disorder, pleasure,
fear, sorrow as a total movement of life, in a holistic way?
The need to live a tremendously diligent life and not banish the actual demand for
truth, to be free of non- facts and live with facts. Religion implies a mind that has no
escapes. The struggle to become wears out the brain cells. The need for the mind to be
free of hurt so that it keeps young and never grows senile. The mind is caught in time
because it moves away from the fact.
We are the rest of mankind. Realizing this, what is one to do. Is there an approach
uncontaminated by thought? The truth of relationship. The concept of the individual is
the root of division. We have to understand deeply and eradicate that which is false,
not the problems it creates - it is not important to solve problems.
Looking directly at our relationships with each other. Observing the content of
consciousness as a whole; realizing whatever we do is selfish. Thought and time are
factors of pleasure and fear. Is love the awakening of the whole brain?
Knowledge brings sorrow. What relationship has sorrow to love? The remembrance of
someone who is dead is an escape from actual pain. We are concerned with what
happens after death rather than before. Remaining with a fact, not translating it
according to your prejudices or wants. Ending all attachment, with its corruption, there
can be a new beginning.
When there is the absence of self there is beauty, not in the picture or painting. Seeing
the whole of consciousness at one glance is meditation, not the effort of practising,
controlling. Who is the controller and the thing controlled? The brain occupied with
knowledge and trained for a million years to measure, can it put aside all that and be
fresh? Listening with a brain that is quiet, absolutely still. Religion, a way of life built
on right order.
Not being committed to any ideology, what is one's response to what is happening in
the world? Is there anything ultimate, any existence without cause - perhaps that
enquiry will answer what one is to do. The analyser not separate from the analysed,
the analyser is the result of the past, his memories, experiences, knowledge. Analysis,
a dead process, observation is not. Having a cause in relationship brings conflict.
Living according to ideals breeds conflict; and as long as we are thinking in terms of
isolation there is conflict. Finding out the cause, the root of fear. Thought creating the
image and the birth of desire. The senses heightened and fully operating together.
Observation without the movement of thought or time.
Intelligence alone can bring about complete order and peace in one's life. Where there
is choice there is no freedom. Ending the vast structure of memories; memories cause
pain and how can one love when caught in this vast structure? Coming close to
sorrow, which means one is sorrow, one's clarity of perception will end that sorrow.
With no freedom from travail and agony, and the occasional sense of beauty, what is
death? Ending something without a cause. If one is frightened of death, which is
frightened of losing, to end that fear now - lose now. Living and dying are together.
Meditation is the ending of this movement of the inner and outer, not a becoming, or a
consciously willed process. Such an ending, because it has no cause, is endless.
The possibility of bringing about a mutation in the very brain cells themselves which
have been conditioned for thousands of years. Being aware without any choice that we
are conditioned; the nature of conditioning which is essentially experience and
knowledge. The self, the ego, is a series of memories based on knowledge.
Man, who has learned so much, cannot live in peace. Conflict as long as there is
separation, and the individual may be one of the causes why man does not live in
peace. Even in close relationships where there is a sense of affection, there is conflict,
the whole field of turmoil: observing this relationship without remembrances. Looking
at life, not as a problem, though problems exist, but having a mind that is free of
problems.
The movement from "what is" to "what should be"; the psychological process of time,
one of the causes of fear. Time-thought (not two separate things) the cause of fear.
The ending of "me" with all its memories, not only of my sorrow but mankind's
sorrow - sorrow is part of this continuity of memory. While living, without any cause
or future, to end something. If you go beyond time is there anything to experience?
The origin of all existence. The quality of brain needed to uncover the origin, a brain
where there is no self-interest. Meditation and order, a feeling of complete wholeness
and unity of life. The brain conditioned by language. Is there something, because it is
not manifested, that has no beginning and no end?
Insight into the causation of conflict. The division between what I am and what I
should be creates conflict. Thought creates conflict. What is the enormous energy of
thought - do you try to find out what is thinking, or do you listen to the question?
Thought cannot provide security; inwardly is there security at all?
No tomorrow because tomorrow is now. If all time is contained in the "now", what is
our relationship to each other and what is action? No security in time; the movement
of thought, time, causes fear. Who is the entity that stops thought - is it another
thought?
Freedom per se. "Morality" means behaviour according to a culture, but is there a
morality that is not time-binding? The desire to be helped is one of the causes of
suffering. If there is no ending of attachment instantly we will still be attached
tomorrow and therefore still suffering. If one is free from sorrow completely, what is
the effect of that on the world? No compassion if one is anchored in a particular sect
or belief.
Beauty is truth, like love is truth, and beauty is when the observer is not. Death means
you hold on to nothing; living with death and not keeping the two apart. Living in this
world daily with total freedom from all knowledge except where knowledge is
necessary. Religion, a quality of the mind that sets aside all man's endeavour.
Meditation is freedom from the network of thought.
Approaching a problem, a challenge. Can the brain, educated to live with problems,
have no problems at all, and therefore tackle them? Can the brain become aware of
itself, its thoughts, reactions, its way of living? Can it be free of self-interest which is
the beginning of corruption and the origin of conflict? The question, not the answer,
has tremendous significance. Can one remain quiet and watch? Are observation and
love related?
What is the nature of beauty and 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 end? Thought and time are the root of
fear. Can thinking in the deepest valleys of the brain ever stop? Is relationship, the
closeness, the feeling for each other, based on thought? Is it possible to end fear now,
so completely, that you are free?
Do we realize how little freedom we have? Are pleasure, fear, self- interest, time,
thought, all one movement? If we understand that all time is now, then is change
meaningless? Why has man always suffered? Is there an end to sorrow? When there is
an ending of sorrow there is love. Where there is love there is absolute freedom. Can
we live our daily life with that perfume?
Do we realize that we are the world and the world is us? Enquiring together into why
we want continuity. 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 be quiet, can it ever understand that which is limitless? Is
there a mind, which is not the brain, to understand that immensity?
Is one aware of the whole root of fear? What is the difference between the thought that
has created the pleasure of love, and love? Can there be love where there is suffering?
The disorder of consciousness, inwardly or outwardly, is the pursuit of an ideal. Why
are we frightened if things end? What has practice to do with meditation? Only in
absolute silence can the mind come upon that which is sacred.
MA7879T1 - Organizations Have Not Saved Man
Madras 1978 1st Public Talk - 31st December, 1978
85 min. Black&White
Outer and inner fragmentation. Who is going to change man? Have organizations of
any kind helped? One must begin very near to go very far. To bring a change in the
world, you must change. Is one aware of one's thoughts, feelings, fears, pleasures?
Listening without the interference of thought. Can you observe without any prejudice?
A brain not burdened by knowledge. What is action in your life? Can the brain only
register what is necessary?
Is there psychological time at all? Then how do we deal with a problem? Observing
without time. Is time involved in love? Can we change fundamentally, radically, not
through evolution, time? Can hurt be abandoned instantly? The possibility of a
perception which ends the image without allowing time. What takes place when you
observe the fact and do not invent the opposite? As long as there is a centre there must
be problems.
Our relationship with each other, is there order in it and how will you bring order
there? Is desire a factor of disorder? When pain is over can one totally forget it, non-
register it? When there is no relationship isn't there fear? Are you aware at the moment
of fear, not to let thought come into it? Why has there been so little beauty and
communication with nature in our lives? Registration of pleasure only after thought
takes over.
MA7879T5 - What Is a Religious Mind?
Madras 1979 5th Public Talk - 13th January, 1979
89 min. Black&White
Have the gods been created from our sorrow, fear? Investigation implies you must be
free to look. Freedom is observation without conclusion. Can you observe the whole
nature of sorrow without a motive: is it different from you? Revolution in the
psychological structure of man. A religious mind has no philosophy because it is with
that which is eternally sacred. The ending of sorrow to understand the religious mind.
If there is continuity there is nothing new. Death implies an ending to the continuity of
life. If attachment, which implies continuity, does not end, what happens to the whole
movement of consciousness of man? Is love within it, and has love a continuity?
When there is complete order in one's life that can look at cosmic order. Attention,
inattention and distraction. Does attention have continuity? In silence comes that
which is eternally sacred.
Finding the cause of corruption, deterioration, you have to act. Why don't we have the
blessedness of love? Is it to be cultivated? Is one of the causes of corruption our sense
of individuality? Are you a total, integrated human being, undivided, indivisible, not
broken up? Isn't understanding the cause of action? Where there is attachment there
must be corruption. When you live with the fact that you do not love there is passion
to change what is not true.
Is there an action not from experience? Only the mind that is confused chooses.
Fragmentation is the essence of corruption. Have you seen the danger, as clearly as
you see that of a tiger or a cobra, of this movement of thought? The division between
the psyche and thought. Are we programmed to think we are individuals? Is there a
movement which ends the programming? Critical scepticism is the essence of religion.
Our consciousness itself is in disorder and thought is responsible for it. What is the
relationship of thought to our daily life? Why don't we see that thought creates
disorder? Is living in disorder the greatest danger? As you listen is there order now in
your life? Can there be order without thought? How is one to end this movement of
creating images all the time? A learning through instant perception and action.
If the computer takes over, will we pursue pleasure endlessly or go inward? Is the
brain losing its sensitivity? Knowledge may be the cause of our disorder. Is there a
learning without time? The art of listening to oneself. Can one see without the word
interfering and observe without accumulating knowledge? When you try to change
"what is" aren't you caught in time? Does actual fear have any time or does thought
introduce it?
Is there a stop to time? Is there psychological time at all? Does a radical change,
enlightenment, demand time? The division, as "me" becoming something, is that very
division the process of time? How do you look at violence or greed? Can you look
without the word? Religions have said to suppress desire. Can there be an interval
between sensation and thought creating an image of it? Are time and thought the root
of fear? Can sorrow ever end?
Thought has built self-interest, division, conflict, duality. What is the origin of
thinking? Can one live a life without a single problem? Can a conditioned brain solve
problems? Is there duality or only facts? Dealing with the fact of what I am, not what I
should be. Thought and time the causation of fear. Is it possible to stop thought and
time? Passionate attention.
Can the brain be free of conflict, rational, sane? Without self- interest can one live in
the world? To enquire into beauty mustn't one understand why human beings are
absorbed by a thing? Can you be free of the self without being absorbed? When all the
senses are at their highest excellency, the self is not. Can sorrow in the world end? If I
end my sorrow what effect has it on the rest of the world? Will the world change
because I have changed? What is passion?
Death, love, religion, meditation. What is it that lives if I die? At death will my
consciousness die or continue? Ending something voluntarily. Can you live with death
while living, ending your experiences every day? Are we wasting our life? Meditation
is not something you practise. Will you end all your memories, pleasures, desires to
find out what love is? Will the accumulation of psychological knowledge bring about
that great state of sacredness?
Having lived on earth for millennia why are we as we are? What is the future of all of
us? Realizing we are the rest of mankind, what is one to do living in this corrupt
society? Will whatever I do affect society? Am I different from society? Is there an
action without motive, self-interest, or seeking gain, that is not dependent on the past
or a pattern of the future?
To enquire into love we must ask what is energy, what is its origin, how has it begun,
who created it? Energy which is not in the field of thought. Can love exist where there
is fear? What place in my life has death, suffering, pain, anxiety, loneliness?
Experience, knowledge, thought, are limited. Don't we live by thought? Consciousness
is made up of its content. Are we individuals at all? Is death the ending of all
attachment?
What is life, the origin of all this, the rivers, the valleys, the glory of the land? Hasn't
man always sought something through religion? Is the brain different from the mind;
can the brain communicate with the mind? What is creation and what is invention?
What gives life to a blade of grass? Is there meditation without effort, with no routine,
measurement, or comparison? Is there a brain that is not muddled up by environment,
tradition, society?
Sanity is disorder and comes about naturally if we understand disorder. How can one
bring about a radical revolution in the whole consciousness? Trying to bring order in
consciousness, but order can only exist at a different dimension. How is the disorderly
mind to come upon something totally different, at a different dimension? Is there
something not put together by thought, which is not measurable? Edited version on
video only 62 minutes.
Approaching the problem of conflict together - are you aware of it without choice?
You, not conflict, are the problem. Can one be free of the image one has built about
oneself? The possibility of being free of psychological knowledge and not identifying
technological knowledge psychologically. What place has thought which has made
this world what it is - immoral, ugly, brutal?
Why has thought invented marvellous things and also created wars, destroyed human
beings, made god and the image of god? The possibility of observing the fact without
an ideal of it. Is the fact of being violent different from me, my nature, my way of
looking? Can fear be ended immediately? To meditate is to observe yourself for you
are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
Observing the movement of desire, how it comes into being, and why it plays such an
extraordinary part in our life. Sensation, then thought creates the image, desire is born
- can thought not create images at all? Is it an action of will to end attachment or you
have an insight and it ends - and what happens when you end something? All our
cunning and experience has not resolved fear completely. Isn't fear the cause of the
"me"?
Is fear the very structure of the mind or has thought put fear there? The possibility of
thought, which transforms sensation into pleasure, not recording. Is suffering to end
by an act of will? To change society don't we have to change ourselves? Mutation
takes place in the psyche when we observe what we are, not what we have been or
what we should be. Ending belief, pleasure, desire effortlessly, can we come upon that
strange flower called love?
Is there an action which is not born out of time and knowledge? The possibility of
dying to all psychological knowledge and in living being free of attachment, which is
death. Can a mind desiring to create illusions go further? The word "know" is very
limited. Real yoga and the meaning of mantra.
Understanding the crisis by enquiring into the nature of thought. Can knowledge,
thought, ever be complete and whatever it does won't it bring disharmony? Is there a
totally different kind of instrument that is not fragmentary, that is whole? Aren't we
the result of a million years of common experience, knowledge, belief - are we
individuals at all? Consciousness is what you think, your desires, longings - isn't the
crisis in your consciousness?
The outward world is the result of what is happening inwardly. The crisis of
consciousness is in the very nature of thought. Seeking security inwardly the brain
atrophies - can it be free from problems yet resolve them? Is there anything to learn or
only to observe? Experience, knowledge, memory, thought and action - the chain we
live in. Life a movement of relationship and we have destroyed it by thought.
What is right, accurate, precise action that does not bring about conflict, that is right
under all circumstances? A crisis in our consciousness because we look at the world
from a limited point of view. Is thought sacred? To find what is sacred there must be
meditation, which without understanding the world and ourselves is meaningless. To
observe the totality of consciousness is to have an insight into action.
Who is the analyser who traces the origin of disorder? Order comes with
understanding disorder. With observation of our thoughts and reactions comes
discipline which constantly learns anew. Patience is timeless, impatience full of time.
Desire born from seeing, contact, sensation, then thought creates the image - can the
brain stop at sensation? Are desire and time factors of disorder? Doesn't order begin at
home, nearby?
The beginning of fear, meeting it and the possibility of being free of it at the conscious
as well as at the deeper layers. Thought and attachment factors of fear. When there is
actual pleasure is one conscious that it is pleasurable? Is it that you are sorrowful or
your whole being is in sorrow? Can one remain immovably with sorrow? The brain,
when it faces a fact silently, ends it.
Can man ever end suffering? Has love become merely excitement and pleasure? When
there is an ending of sorrow there is love. If your life is not in total order how can you
know what love, compassion is? Is there anything sacred, timeless, not bound by
thought, beyond all corruption? In ending is a great depth of silence in which is the
eternally sacred.
Observing together what man has become. Is the crisis outside or in us? Isn't the
external world a result of our psychological world? Is your consciousness yours or
common to all mankind? How shall we know the intricacies and contradictions, the
whole movement of consciousness? An action which comes out of holistic observation
of life. Where there is attention there is no centre.
Why has knowledge not protected us from sorrow? Approaching the problem without
direction, motive. What place has knowledge in the mutation or in the ending of
conditioning? The possibility of the content of consciousness ending. Have we been
educated to think that we are separate individuals? Life is a movement in relationship.
When you discover something for yourself psychologically you have immense energy.
Are we aware of the psychological movements that are born out of disorder? Is the
structure of thought itself disorder? Are becoming, time, thought, comparison factors
of fear? No division between observer and fear. Is accumulation of psychological
knowledge and thinking from that knowledge necessary? Is it possible not to record
psychologically?
Is the analyser different from the analysed and doesn't the very division create
conflict? Does pleasure exist now or only later, in memory? The consequences of
attachment. When you are whole you are completely safe. Does conflict deny the
sense of being whole? Truth the denial of all that is false - to deny all illusion is to live
in reality. Where there is love and beauty life is an extraordinary movement.
Why is there no end to individualistic, competitive drive that is destroying the world?
Has love continuity in pleasure and desire? The search for security and fulfilment in
relationship, is that love, and can it end? Can we end all that prevents change? Is the
"I" something permanent? The possibility of being with death all the time, and while
living end everything day by day.
Sensation, then thought creates the image, desire is born. Understanding desire is
intelligence which is discipline. Isn't the psyche the recording of incidents - why
should it record at all? Can there ever be an end to human misery; if I suffer, how can
I love? Chattering about silence and beauty you fail to understand both. Unless the
complexity of the "me" is understood is our attitude to death intelligent?
Does one approach a problem freely or with a solution that one would like?
Knowledge and thought being limited must bring about conflict - has thought any
place in relationship? The possibility of going beyond the word, the description. Love
and simplicity are the essence of austerity - can there be austerity without inward
clarity? Do we ever end anything or merely begin again in a different form?
Two friends talking over their problems. Can one live so that there is constant
learning? What is there to learn except technologically? Order only when the static
movement of memory ceases. Why has one sought pleasure and what is wrong with
it? Can fear ever end - is your brain passionate enough to find out? Computers may
bring about a withering state of the brain. How can I stop the movement of thought - is
that a right question?
Since all time is in the "now", what is action? What is action in relation to becoming?
When the brain is clear is there any choice? Time is now, so death is now. Apart from
the physical body what are you? The need for total psychological change now or
tomorrow will be the same as today. When time interferes, action breeds complication.
Dealing with facts, not ideas. Attention is the flame in which sorrow ends.
Freedom from and being free are two different things. Thought can never be free. Is
thought driven by desire? Looking at something with all your senses fully alive, alert.
When there is total attention is there a self? Can sensation and thought be kept apart?
To understand the depth, the flame of love, can jealousy, ambition, aggression,
violence end, not tomorrow but now? Meditation is to be totally free.
Is order brought about by ideologies or are they the cause of disorder? We accept
division and therefore conflict, which breeds disorder. If we had complete order in
ourselves would we kill another? Is each one so self-centred that that very concern
divides? Can one observe oneself without choice - is there choice when there is
clarity? Can one live without a single ideal or authority so that one lives in order now
not tomorrow?
Why do we have a sense of guilt, inadequacy, and what is its relationship to fear?
Thought and time the root of fear. Can the process which causes fear end? What is the
relationship of sensation to desire? Can there be an interval between sensation and
thought, sensation and the movement of desire? To watch every thought, not to let it
go by without understanding why it arose, its cause. Is there something thought has
not touched, the limitless, the nameless?
Is beauty a sensation? Beauty can only exist when the self is not. What is the root of
fear? The possibility of a holistic activity of all the senses. An end to sorrow rather
than what happens after sorrow. Can there be love with sorrow? Is love pleasure,
desire, thought, something you hold, possess, worship? Through negation of what is
not love, you come to that which is love. Death may be the meaning of creation.
Can there be complete, unbroken freedom? What is it to have a religious brain and can
it free itself of its conditioning? Doesn't thought create the thinker - who controls
thought? Nationalities one of the causes of disorder. Ending the continuity which you
cling to. What is death and what continues? Isn't death the ending of accumulated
memories - can psychological memories end without effort? A meditation which is not
deliberate?
Self-interest is the dominant note in our life. Where are we after two million years? Is
there a different approach to daily living that does not require thinking? Experience,
knowledge, memory, and therefore thought, are limited. Is there an action that is free
of limitation? What is experience, registered as knowledge? Why should I have
knowledge about myself? Aren't you what you think you are?
Seeing the tenderness of a leaf or the generosity of human beings, what is this quality
of beauty? Without being absorbed by something greater can one be free of oneself?
We live by sensations. When there is an interval between sensation and thought you
will understand desire. If there is no mutation now, tomorrow will be a repetition of
today. Time is a factor of fear which can be ended if you put your heart and brain into
it.
Struggle exists where there is division. Division exists between two people each with
their own ambitions, fulfilments, desires, and therefore conflict. Thought has created
the division between the "me" and the "not me". Observing this division without the
old instrument of thought.
The need to find a different way of living. Fear of letting go the old instrument of
thought. Desire, time, thought are responsible for fear. The future is the movement of
fear. What takes place when thought realizes it is the active principle in fear? Is there
freedom from fear when there is listening without analysis?
The possibility of one insight that will bring a total revolution in each of us, that frees
man completely from the psychological structure. Ignorance and knowledge always go
together; knowledge can never be whole. Intelligence is free from ignorance, not the
result of knowledge; with that intelligence goes love. Love is the solution to all our
problems.
There is constant strife and seeking - is it seeking for a superficial sensory experience,
or for something that is timeless, that thought has not touched? Observing without the
response of the past. When there is observation, does the thing observed undergo a
change? The possibility of a way of living without control - is not the controller the
movement of thought? When there is no conflict what takes place in the mind?
Thought and the demand for personal security are the cause of the chaos, confusion
and misery in the world. What has gone wrong with the brain, is it the result of time?
Thought, the cause of this spreading complex cruelty of man, his behaviour and his
vanity. Meditation comes naturally, uninvited when you have finished with all causes.
In analysing the thing called anxiety, how does one know it is anxiety, and is the
analyser different from the analysed? The very movement of thought has brought
about the present chaos in the world. Thought has built the psychological structure,
based on being something other than what it is. Thought has built a structure of
becoming in which there is competition, ruthlessness, violence-is it possible to live
without any movement of becoming?
Being tied to a belief any action will be according to that belief and therefore limited
and corrupt. Observing attachment and its consequences, allowing the fact to unfold
itself. Ending attachment, then there is correct action, an action not based on values.
Can one have a perception, without analysis, a seeing of the consequences and the
cause of this attachment, instantly, immediately?
The brain with its immense capacity has not solved its own problems. As long as you
are committed to something, there must be corruption. The possibility of breaking
down this pattern of disorder, the conflict between "what is" and "what should be".
There is only the fact, not its opposite. If there were no opposite there would be no
violence. Observing without the translator, the thinker, who remembers.
SA80T5 - The Relationship of Desire, Will, and Love
Saanen 1980 5th Public Talk - 15th July, 1980
84 min. Black&White, Translations: Audio: D F
The relationship of desire, pleasure, will, and love. Pleasure is pursued where there is
desire with its image, and conflict begins. The movement of thought and time brings
fear; moving away from "what is", is time. Is there an action which is complete,
without regret, without looking back or forward, without any strain?
Does listening with complete attention break down the pattern of the brain? Suffering
is common to all mankind, man has lived with sorrow and fear outwardly and
inwardly, never free. Sorrow, the concentration of man's isolating activities in life, can
this isolating process end - not at the moment of death - but the cause of the isolating
movement? Ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom and therefore intelligence.
Human beings, since time beyond measure, have lived according to symbols, images
and concepts. The possibility of the mind and heart, therefore the brain, this whole
consciousness, being radically changed. The mind must be totally free to meditate,
measurement must come to an end. Meditation, the most simple form of observation.
Better organizations and institutions have not solved human conflict which has many
factors - can the analytical mind end conflict? A perception born out of knowledge,
which sees the whole nature and structure of conflict - is that very perception the
ending of it? Once you see time is not a factor you begin to see cracks in the enclosure
of the brain. Looking at another and ourselves without naming, time or remembrance.
Possibility of living without the image which divides people. Constant recording of
every reaction begins to wither away the brain and this may be old age. The source of
desire and how it flowers - sensation, then thought creating the image, desire is born.
Beauty exists when the "me" is not.
Can the brain function wholly in spite of specialization, and be totally free? The
deterioration of the brain that is kept active with solving problems when computers
take over. The freedom from fear, pain, sorrow, death. Can the brain not register
yesterday's delight? The consequences of being hurt from childhood. In listening to
the speaker are you listening to yourself and thereby bringing about freedom in which
the whole brain can operate?
Sorrow, the essence of isolation, and our relationship to the sorrow of mankind.
Sorrow and love cannot possibly go together. Afraid of ending psychologically the life
we lead, with its pain and sorrow. Affecting the consciousness of mankind if a few
have brought about the ending of fear. Living in disorder, what happens when we
meditate?
Where to begin, seeing all that is going on in the world - dangerous, destructive,
degenerating, vulgar. Thought seeking security in isolation because it is fragmented,
but if one is very clear why should there be a demand for security? Cause implies
movement of the past, which may alter the future - can the cause be dissolved without
a future effect?
If one ends the cause what is beyond the cause? Intelligence has no cause; it is not the
movement of time-thought with its cunning, its capacity to adjust itself. The
possibility of observing one's disorder and its ending without any cause. Intelligence is
total security, love beyond cause, then the universe, being total order, is open. Can
intelligence, which has no cause, act in our relationship?
Living in time there is no change in the condition of man. Observing without the old
instrument of thought. Observing the cause without wanting to transform it. Looking
at the cause with intelligence which has no cause. Desire, time, thought as one
movement causes fear. With no escape and focusing attention on the cause, what
happens?
The cause of suffering is isolation. With the ending of cause, is there peace?
Remaining with suffering. Will the energy of desire, thought, end sorrow? The
possibility of freeing our limited, mechanical brain from its conditioning. Living in
this appalling, destructive world with intelligence and love, which has no cause.
Meditation is freedom from all measurement and the total denial of the self.
Laying the foundation of peace, psychologically, and building on that. You are a
movement of memory. The necessity of freedom from memory to live with a sense of
abundance, flowing peace. The future is non-fact; a fact is that which is happening and
that which has happened. Can there be a mutation in the brain cells, or are we
condemned to live with conditioning in perpetual conflict, and so no peace at all?
Man is basically concerned with himself. With tremendous experiences of every kind,
the brain has not resolved conflict. The brain lives on memories, not facts, and is
therefore very limited. What is the quality of a brain that can penetrate to find its deep
function? Is your brain, consciousness, separate from the rest of humanity? The effect
on society if there is a fundamental mutation in my brain.
Man has sought security in the nation, in belonging to something, in the psyche, in
illusions, in god-who has created that god? Unless the brain is totally secure,
unconfused, it must be in turmoil. Seeing the false as the false, illusion as illusion, the
brain becomes clear; it is intelligence that sees it is false. Is enlightenment,
understanding, perception, a matter of time?
Computers, ultra-intelligent machines, are acting from the outside on the human brain
- what will happen to the brain if we don't change from the inside? The effect on the
whole consciousness of man if a few are fundamentally free of conditioning. The basic
factors of fear, biological or psychological, and the relationship of fear to time,
thought, comparison.
The possibility of total order only with the freedom from fear, hurt, the pursuit of
pleasure, and from becoming. The art of listening to the sound of the word, and
understanding the words "better" and "more". Not asking "how", you exert your own
capacity. The possibility of a mutation when the brain ends its accustomed outward
and inward measuring.
Perception is denied when you have problems. If I don't fundamentally change, the
future is what I am now. No psychological becoming. If I understand that all time is
now, what then is action? The past is so formidable that it controls, shapes our action,
or you have a future ideal, theory, and act according to that. Action based on thought
is limited. Is there an action which is so complete now that it is not fragmentary?
Inwardly why are we so limited, so concerned with ourselves? Does the brain seek
security while creating division? Is thought creating division in relationship? Can
there ever be complete experience? The experiencer is all the accumulated memories.
Is love thought, time, pleasure, desire? When thought shapes sensation through image,
at that moment desire is born. Can thought slow down and not capture sensation?
Each of us lives in disorder, what is its cause? Will time solve that disorder? It is futile
if we exercise thought to change what we are now. If there is perception that all time is
contained in the "now", then what takes place? The very activity of self-centredness is
producing loneliness. As long as you think time and thought are necessary in the
world of the self, of the psyche, you will be perpetually in fear.
Only a free brain can end problems. The art of listening. Our consciousness is
perpetually in conflict with its own reactions. It is shared by all human beings. Can
this consciousness cease entirely? To live with suffering and to find out why you
suffer. If you are suffering how can you love another? With the ending of sorrow there
is passion, energy, love and intelligence.
Why, after thousands of years, has man not found tranquillity, a sense of quietness,
peace? Why am I hurt, is it possible to end all hurts and never be hurt again? Why
have human beings put death as far away as possible from their life? Can your daily
life be living with ending, which is death? What is the religious mind, brain? Religion
and meditation are free of knowledge, therefore the religious brain is in a state of
creation.
Is there a cause for mankind's unceasing conflict? Why are human beings all over the
world in perpetual conflict, with the environment, with their governments? What is the
cause for this conflict, not only outwardly but also most deeply, inside the skin as it
were? Realizing that consciousness is the consciousness of mankind, conflict ceases.
The art of living. Seeing - where gathering is not necessary.
What is it to be good? Searching for order, living in disorder. Should we not instead
understand why it exists and whether it is possible to be free of it. Does conflict exist
when there are opposing factors in life, the good and the bad? Experience being
limited, can I experience the immensity of order of the universe? Is there something
else as active, clear, precise and energetic as thought?
Self-interest must bring division, conflict. Is it a fence of self- protection to ward off
any hurt? Can you look at yourself without the word? Are you aware that hurts make a
barrier of fear? If you see something clearly, you don't have to decide, choose, or ask
for help, you act. If you see the cause, that very perception ends the cause. If thought
creates fear, then how am I to stop thinking?
Is there beauty when there is conscious endeavour, or only when the self is not?
Psychologically is it necessary to have any kind of self-interest? Where there is self-
interest there must be fragmentation. Self-interest hides behind austerity. Is there an
austerity that is not a sensation? When does sensation become desire? Does sorrow
exist as long as there is self-interest, is it engendered, cultivated by memory?
Desire is the result of sensation. Thought gives sensation a shape, an image. Is love
put together by thought? If there is no time, is there death? Can one be free of
attachment completely without waiting for death? Is there an absolute, irrevocable
truth, independent of time, environment, knowledge? Meditation is not a conscious
act. When there is this immense silence there is that which is unnameable.
Seeing all this division and chaos what is one to do? Not being dependent on some
saviour or authority, where do we look for light? Being broken up with contradictory
desires, having no love, how are we to observe? Does one fragment observe the rest?
The observer is violence. Can you observe at the moment of violence or anger without
the censor? Is there dullness if I don't compare? Do you understand anything through
comparison?
Isn't our actual daily life disorder? In pleasure there is frustration, pain, dependency -
is that love? Why has sex become so important? Can the mind be so awake that it
needs no experience, no challenge? Through the negation of what is not love, you
come to that which is love. Without understanding living, love, death, meditation is
merely an escape, a form of self-hypnosis.
Every form of search must come to an end in meditation. Order comes with
understanding disorder. Is control necessary for order, do we need it when there is
understanding of "what is"? Without love that is not touched by pleasure, meditation is
self-hypnosis. The mind must be quiet to observe. If you have this extraordinary thing
going on in your life, it is everything; you are the teacher, the student, the beauty of
the cloud and that is love.
Man has not lived peacefully. Organizations have not brought peace to man. The
effect on mankind if we have the vitality, the energy to end conflict within ourselves,
and to realize, not theoretically but actually, the consequences of being programmed.
Man is trapped in a psychological movement, without ending this it is not possible to
see something afresh.
The world is in perpetual conflict; we are the world. Humanity has accepted fear as a
way of life. The relationship of fear to time and thought. A total mutation now in our
way of living, thinking, feeling. The place of memory and thought: if there were no
experiencer, would there be experience?
The relationship of order and disorder to action. With the ending of suffering there is
passion. Death is the ending of all our memories, everything that man has put together.
Living now, not at the end of one's life, with death all the time. The effect on the
human brain of practising a system of meditation day after day. There must be
freedom to enquire into religion and meditation which is not determined.
Conversations
BR76CTM1 - Are We Aware that We Are Fragmented?
Brockwood Park 1976 1st Conversation with Dr. Bohm & Dr. Shainberg - 17th
May, 1976
72 min. Colour, Translations: Video: D F, Audio: D F
Do human beings not radically transform because they are frightened not to belong to
a group, to something definite; are they afraid to stand completely alone? Alone is all
one, no fragmentation; that is total order. Can we step out of the stream of this utter
confusion, disorder, sorrow, hope, travail, despair? Societies, religions, cultures are
based on thought - does thought realize it has made this chaos? When the movement
of thought ends there is total action.
Is there such a thing as the unconscious? The fragmented mind divides the conscious
from the unconscious. Every human being has an image of himself of which he is
unconscious. What is the origin of such images? Images prevent peace and love in the
world, they prevent relationship. Our consciousness is our images, conclusions, ideas -
if there is no image-making, what is consciousness? If one remains with the fact there
is a transformation.
What will bring about a radical transformation in the total consciousness of human
beings? My consciousness is the consciousness of the world. The maker of images is
the past, the observer, the "me", which is in essence the image. The moment you see
the observer is the observed, is the maker of images, it is finished. When there are
none of the things that create division what comes into being?
Does death have a meaning beyond the death of the image? Ending of sorrow brings
compassion - do you understand what compassion is, do you have that sense of
astonishing energy? Without compassion human beings are destroying themselves.
Have an insight into sorrow, not the sorrow of thought, but the sorrow of mankind, of
ignorance, and out of that insight is compassion. Is there something sacred, untouched
by man?
Brushing aside all organized religions. What is death? Is there life after death - if not,
what is the point of living? Identification process is the essence of the self - without
identification is there the self? Can thought end while living? The possibility of living
a daily life with death, which is the ending of the self. The moment you have an
insight it is finished.
What is the origin of will? We say free will exists because we can choose - apart from
material things, is there choice? Possibility of an action in which there is no effort of
will and therefore no choice. What is the origin of thought, how did it begin in me?
Why does thought enter into action? The mind is limited while it is functioning within
the field of thought. Is there an action which is total, whole, not partial? Can I see
humanity in myself?
BR79CBS1 - Can Truth Be Perceived Through Time?
Brockwood Park 1979 1st Conversation with Buddhist Scholars - 28th June, 1979
93 min. Black&White
Is there a difference between reality and truth? All that thought has put together is
reality - literature, poetry, painting, illusions, gods, symbols. The beauty of the earth is
not created by thought. Truth is not perceivable through time. Psychological time may
be an illusion. Is truth measurable by words? Truth is timeless, thought is of time, the
two cannot run together. Truth can only exist when the self is not.
Is there life after death? The consciousness of human beings, the loneliness, despair,
sorrow, fear, is its content. Each person goes through the same tragedies, misfortunes -
humanity is one. Then what is death, who is it that dies? The stream of sorrow, of
consciousness, goes on when I die. To find out what death is I have to be with death -
to end beliefs, attachment, everything I have collected. Insight is not of the stream of
consciousness.
What is education? It should be preparation for the whole of life instead of limiting it
to earning a livelihood. Are we trying to change human character from the outside or
the inside? Or is there no such division, but a constant moving, outer and inner?
Relationship with the student - being concerned about his dress, the way he walks,
talks, the language he uses, cultivating taste, manners, the whole of it, helping him to
be free of fear, to be free.
Relationship between teacher and student when both realize they are conditioned.
Human beings, wherever they live, are conditioned by society, culture, religion and
ambition expressing itself in the desire for success. Is conditioning self-centredness?
Prejudice, a certain point of view which I stick to, prevents listening. If you are
passionately involved, not verbally, but wholly, in what you are saying, your very
passion makes me listen to you.
Is there an order which is universal? Is there a ground of all human movement? Nature
is order unless man interferes. Isn't the "me" and the attempt of the mind to measure
itself, the source of disorder? The man-made mind is limited, illusory. Will emptying
the consciousness of its content end that limitation? Can there be an insight that
transforms the man-made mind, that will alter my whole structure, that will clear away
all attachment?
Is it possible to have a mind that is completely empty of all the things which thought
has put together? Is this emptiness within the mind itself, or beyond it? Emptiness has
no centre, and in it there is a movement of timeless energy. Is the mind capable of that
extraordinary stillness? Is the movement out of stillness the movement of creation?
There is the universal mind, and the human mind can be of that when there is freedom.
Why have human beings not been able to solve their problems? Do we think together
by sharing opinions? No people, in any country, work together. How do I help my
brother? Becoming breeds inattention. Through discussing inattention can we discover
what is attention? Is attention the new factor necessary for change? Making the mind
go very deeply into itself and then perhaps it comes upon compassion, love, and
intelligence.
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? To love somebody
means no thought, and it brings about a totally different relationship, a different
action. Where there is love thought can be used, not the other way round. Ending
attachment. Can I be free from the fear of death and live with it?
BR82CPJ1 - How Does One Enquire into the Source of All Life?
Brockwood Park 1982 1st Conversation with Pupul Jayakar - 21st June, 1982
91 min. Black&White
What is the source of all existence, all life, all action? How does a mind enquire into
something extra-ordinary, that must have a quality not only of the universal, cosmic,
but of supreme order? Enquiring into oneself is to enquire into the origin of life. Start
with the impossible. What is the state of mind that has put away something man has
carried for a million years? Such a mind has no bondage, no dependence or attachment
of any kind.
Is it possible to keep the mind very young, and yet ancient? Can the brain, which has
been conditioned for millions of years, wipe away its conditioning and have a quality
of pristine freshness? The conditioned brain has the inherent quality of its own
deterioration. Can the brain be young, fresh, alive, original? Can the content which
makes up consciousness end itself so that there is a totally different dimension?
All man's problems, psychologically as well as in other ways, are the result of thought.
We are pursuing the same pattern of thought and thought will never solve any of these
problems. The whole structure of the "me", which is my consciousness, name, form,
the various experiences, all that is put together by thought. Whatever action is born of
limited thought must inevitably breed conflict. The "me" is divisive.
The future of mankind is determined through action in time. Thought cannot bring
change. The brain is conditioned physically, chemically. Psychological conditioning is
centred in the self. The conditioning which determines the self is creating the damage.
Can conditioned brain cells change? The conditioned brain's relationship to the mind
is limited: when not conditioned is it the instrument of the mind?
Is there an outside agency that will bring change in the brain cells? There is only
thought, not Eastern or Western thought. What do we mean by culture and how does it
come into being? Is it that which is contained in the brain cells? Man has lived on this
earth for a million years and we are as primitive now as we were before. What will
make human beings change, bring about a radical mutation in themselves? Is culture
preventing this?
Is there a movement which is not of time, which is eternal? The brain is conditioned
by time and thought. As long as that conditioning remains, insight is not possible. Pure
insight is the perception of completeness. That insight is part of the brain which is in a
different dimension. The psyche is a bundle of dead memories. If I have an insight
into that there is nothing. Compassion is nothing and that nothingness is supreme
intelligence.
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Can love be experienced? Love is not desire, pleasure, it is not the opposite of hate, it
has no relationship to jealousy, it is not attached, it can never bring conflict. Watching
without judgement. Watching a precious, intricate jewel. You watch it without any
thought interfering with your watching. That requires a great deal of attention, not
concentration, real attention in which the self is not.
My way of life, way of thinking, my action is compar- atively like the rest of mankind.
Deeply I am the rest of mankind. Why are we fragmented, what has gone wrong with
us? After millions of years man still fights, kills - why do we accept this way of
living? Is thought itself fragmented? Silence is not the product of thought. Quietness
not cultivated. What is the value of your quietness if your daily life is not affected, is
not without conflict?
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Is conditioning centuries and centuries of tradition that has been handed down from
generation to generation, the whole background of civilization, culture, the social
impacts and the many, many experiences that one has? Does all this contribute to the
conditioning of the brain? Can the brain ever be free from all the programmes it has
received? In watching, the brain becomes more sensitive and that watchfulness makes
it extraordinarily acute, sharp, clear. This clarity is freedom.
Why do human beings after this tremendous evolution still live with fear? Can we
look at fear and in the very looking discover the origin of fear? It is part of our
tradition to bring about a fragmentation of fear, but can we see not a particular branch
or leaf of fear but the whole nature, the structure, the quality of fear? Time is a basic
factor of fear. The conditioned brain has the inherent quality of its own deterioration.
What is religion? Is it the search of human beings for something outside their own
daily lives, something other than their petty self- centred activity, beyond their cruelty
and vulgarity? The religious mind or religious activity of a human being that is not
something outside our usual activity. Religion is an enquiry, putting aside authority,
without a motive, which has no path, no direction, so it becomes extraordinarily
subtle.
The significance of life. Our whole way of living has become a movement of fear, fear
of losing a job, fear of my wife or husband, of not being successful, all leading to the
ultimate fear of death. Is it possible to end fear, not a particular fear, but end the whole
tree of fear? Why does thought enter the realm of the psyche? Is there a state of mind,
brain, where there is a complete ending of knowledge? That is creation.
What were your parents like, how did they treat you? What was your relationship to
your mother, father, brothers, sisters, and what did you feel? Was there a great deal of
affection, care, responsibility? What was your relationship to the whole of life, to the
trees, the grass, the flowers and to your parents? Have you discovered for yourself
what your background is, your conditioning, why you think this and not that? That is
where you begin to learn about yourself.
Do you see the difference between acquiring knowledge, memorizing and learning,
not only to pass exams but to have a certain skill, to earn a livelihood? You are being
programmed when you are learning history, mathematics, accumulating information,
learning how to dance, to play football or cricket. 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.
Will you stop your own violence? What is non- violence? Aren't you psychologically
violent, don't you compete? Hasn't your brain been programmed to compare, to react -
which is mechanical? Observing the whole movement of comparison. How do you
react to what is happening in the world? Can you look without the word? Isn't learning
observing without the word? Don't say, I'm stuck, nobody is going to help.
Why is man not capable of clear perception and action? Is clarity a matter of
intellectual perception, or a perception with your whole being? In this confused world
is it possible to find a clarity that is constant and true? One of the major blocks to
clarity is this total acceptance of authority. Man is the result of time. New experiences
break through only when there is an absence of the past. To understand something
new I must look with clear eyes.
What is the nature of "what is"? The whole history of man is part of our
consciousness. Do you see the truth that you are the result of that vast complex book
of the story of man? What is the instrument with which I read that book? What is the
mind and the brain? Can thought ever be free of its limitation? Is there an action, a
state, which is not the movement of thought? Looking at the beauty of the sea with all
your senses and eyes.
What is psychological disorder? Isn't self-centred activity the origin of all disorder?
Disorder is the very nature of the self - have psychologists tackled this problem? Is to
struggle, to suffer, to live in disorder, a natural way of living? I am society, the result
of all its conditioning, also my individualistic activity has created this society. Do we
accept this conditioning - is it possible to be free of it?
Is it possible to live a life free from disorder? What is security? Not being hurt and not
hurting. Ideas, emotions, reactions - all this is me. The possibility of not having
images. Identifying and wanting to become. Avoidance of "what is" is an escape but to
look at it is not. If I see the fact that responsibility is order, I am responsible. In
division we think there is security. No security or order in isolation.
Is there such a thing as absolute psychological security, and why do I want it? Is it to
feel content, without fear, anxiety, agony? Is it that unconsciously we know the self is
unstable? If the content of our consciousness can be changed, would there be need for
security? The content of one's consciousness is unclear, messy, but we don't recognize
this mess is me. To empty the content of consciousness so that the self is not.
The importance of attention. Attention implies a great deal of care, affection, love, not
just mental but with all your being. Thought thinks what it has created is holy - can we
understand that there is nothing holy about thought? To find out if there is anything
sacred I must start very near - with me. Is attention an act of will? In attention is the
mind silent? When there is a great silence, then that which is eternal is.
Very few people are really concerned, committed to discovering if there is a different
way of living, to find out if we can live on this earth globally, peacefully, without
killing each other endlessly. Can the individual, conditioned, shaped, influenced by
society, language, literature, newspapers, ever step out of it? Seeing oneself not
theoretically but in the mirror of relationship. Compassion cannot be put together by
thought.
Observing without division, without the "me" interfering in the observation. Listening
without interpretation - absolutely listening. Why should I have ideals? If I have no
image of you, then I'm always seeing you anew. Our relationship is actually between
these two images. When you empty the content, your consciousness as the "me" is not
and you're listening with quite a different elan, at a different dimension.
What is the function and quality of the educator? Can he establish a relationship with
the student which is not authoritarian, but one of mutual enquiry, study? The love of
what I'm doing explodes everything else; that very love is the highest form of
excellence. Meditation generally means an escape, but in its deepest sense it is non-
clinical, non-analytical, seeing things as they are, self- knowing.
Inwardly we are all in a state of confusion. How is it possible for a human to bring
about a total psychological revolution? Watching "what is" and moving from there. It
is a living thing. First understand what it means to live, not what it means to die.
Death is perfect order because it is the ending of disorder. The ending of disorder is to
be aware of disorder choicelessly. Then you can find out what is the immeasurable.
What place has knowledge in relationship? There must be freedom from the known,
otherwise the known is merely the repetition of the past, tradition, the image. When
the observer observes he is observing with memories, experience, hurts, despairs,
hopes, with all that background of knowledge. Wherever there is the operation of the
observer, who is the past, who is knowledge, in that activity there is division and
therefore conflict in relationship.
What does it mean to be serious? In the word "communication" is implied the art of
listening, which demands a quality of attention in which there is a real sense of having
an insight as we go along each second. There is communion only when there is
communication at the same moment, with the same intensity, passion. Responsibility
means total commitment. Delegating responsibility I become irresponsible.
What is your responsibility for human growth, culture, goodness? What is your
responsibility to the earth? When you feel responsible for a child, there is a flowering
of real affection, care, you don't train him to kill for his country. Human beings are
conditioned to be irresponsible. What are serious people to do with irresponsible
people? In total responsibility, in which freedom and care go together, the mind has no
images.
How has the phenomenon of disorder come about and what is order? Is it something
imposed, a discipline, acceptance? Consumerism is now the pattern of the world. A
mind caught in measurement can never find truth. Is it possible to look without
measurement? Is it possible to live a life, the whole of life - living, acting, laughing,
crying - without a shadow of comparison?
Can the mind be free of fear? Physical and psychological fears are interrelated.
Conscious as well as unconscious fears that the mind has produced, cultivated. Can all
these fears be exposed so that the mind sees them completely? Is there a way of
dealing with fear, not with the branches of it, but with the root of it? Behind the
words, the descriptions, the explanations, what is fear?
What is pleasure? What is desire? We are not condemning pleasure, but observing it.
To go into the question of pleasure one has to look into desire. How is very strong
desire born, how does it take place in each one of us? Must it be controlled at all?
Why has pleasure become so important in life? It is an extraordinary thing. To see a
beautiful thing and to enjoy it, what is wrong with that?
What is pleasure, what keeps it going? What is the pursuit, the constant direction of it?
Seeing something really beautiful, breathtaking, then thought comes along and says,
how extraordinary it was, what a delight. Isn't there then desire for repetition? Thought
gives nourishment, sustains it and gives a direction to pleasure. Why should thought
come into it at all? Being attentive means diligently watching.
What is beauty? Has man lost touch with nature? Must beauty be expressed, does it
need the word, the stone, colour, paint? Or is it something that cannot be put into
words, buildings, statues? Understanding action. The seeing is the doing. Without
passion you can't have beauty. Remaining with suffering brings passion. Passion
means the complete abandonment of the self, and therefore the austerity of great
beauty.
What is a religious life? Religion is a gathering of all energy, at all levels. The
religious mind is so attentive, the unnameable comes into being. What is the quality,
structure, nature of a mind that can perceive something beyond the measurement of
thought, something that is not only sacred and holy in itself but that is capable of
seeing something immense? A mind that is hurt is not an innocent mind. Can our hurts
be healed so that not a mark is left?
Can a man who is ambitious love? Is love pleasure or the expression of desire? Is it
the fulfilment of sexual appetite or a thing that can be cultivated? Why have we made
sex such an enormous affair? What is the relationship of joy, enjoyment and pleasure
to love? To come upon this thing called love you must negate this whole thing and
understand the place of pleasure. The mind being alone is pure. Compassion comes
with intelligence.
What actually is living, this whole field of man's endeavour to better himself, not only
in the technological world but also psychologically? Man wants to be different, he
wants to be more than he is. Is there a way of living without conflict? As a human
being am I ever conscious? What is consciousness? Is it its content? What is death? Is
it a continuity of that consciousness? Or is death the ending of consciousness with its
content?
What is death? You cannot understand death unless you are free of fear. Death
becomes part of living when the content of consciousness comes to an end. Can that
content be emptied, empty itself? Observing the whole content, the hidden as well as
the open, the collective, the personal, the racial, the transitory. Immortality is not what
thought has invented. You can be reborn, regenerated totally if you die to the content.
So living is dying.
What is religion? In the world of Islam and in the world of Buddhism the same
principle goes on, worshipping an image which has been created by human beings.
Can the mind observe this phenomenon and see its own demand for security, comfort,
safety, permanency and deny all that? Why does the mind accept the authority and
tyranny of a petty little guru and deny it politically? What is behind the acceptance of
authority?
What is religion, God, immortality, beauty? Can the mind be free of authority and put
aside totally all the structure of thought with regard to religion, God? Can wisdom be
sought through a book, a teacher, through sacrifice, torture, renunciation? Can this
mind, which is the mind of the world, empty itself of all the things that man has said
about reality, and be free of all the things that are born of fear, desire and pleasure?
Control, direction, will, have no place in meditation. Can you be choicelessly aware of
this movement of desire, control, will, action - can you watch it? What is space? Can
the mind have space? When the mind is occupied with daily living, is there space?
When knowledge occupies the whole field of the mind there is no space. Outward
space will not give inner space. No silence when there is direction. When the mind is
utterly silent what is the immeasurable?
Being free of self-centred activity. Is there a real self apart from the self-created
image? Will the practice of yoga bring spiritual awakening, awaken the deeper energy
called Kundalini? Can there be absolute security for man in this life? Our emotions
and attachments are strong - how does looking reduce their strength and power? Why
does the mind so readily accept trivial answers to such deeply felt questions?
BR79Q2 - Questions on:
Brockwood Park 1979 2nd Public Question & Answer Meeting - 30th August,
1979
86 min. Black&White
Is K's teaching only for the few? Difference between insight and intuition. You say
organizations will not help man to find salvation - why do you have your own
organization? Is sex incompatible with a religious life? Can thought be aware of itself
as it is taking place or does awareness come after? Can consciousness be aware of its
whole content? Is there one thing that I can do that will end my seeking and my
confusion?
Krishnamurti Foundations and schools. Enlightenment and the enlightened man. Why
am I responsible for the whole world? My urgency to change fades when I go home. Is
suffering necessary to make us face the necessity to change? My problem is I have a
ten- foot wall around me - what can I do? I derive strength from concentrating on a
symbol - is this an illusion?
Is it not a contradiction to say that no one can show the way to truth and that
Krishnamurti schools help their members to understand themselves? Do Krishnamurti
schools create an elite? What is it in the human mind that wants to follow a leader, a
system, a belief? Meeting pain totally rather than partially. Why not talk about
beautiful things, not pain?
The fear of violence and meeting life as it is today. Is man's search for something truly
religious simply an extension of his acquisitiveness, or is it a deep fundamental
movement towards an ultimate reality? The right action to meet everything in life. The
right relationship to money. Liberating insight has been the unique achievement of
individuals like the Buddha, Christ, how can it be a matter for the whole of humanity?
83 min. Black&White
The relationship between group and individual consciousness. How can an individual
undergo a total psychological change while the group consciousness has not changed
totally? Action born of violence is violent. If action should have no cause, in what way
does compassion act without being a cause of action? How to approach the
tremendous chaos without and within oneself.
Can a marriage or relationship, begun for all the wrong reasons, ever be a positive
force? A security that is not the opposite of insecurity. Is the search for security valid
or neurotic? Brain, mind and consciousness. Can intervention when you see
aggressiveness towards another be just, or is it a reaction of the self? An awareness
deeper than intellectual awareness. Here many feel something of immeasurable
importance, but when we leave it dissipates - what can we do?
How do we know what you are saying is true? Functioning without desire. Controlling
thought. Difference between the desire to buy something and the desire to look for
truth. Jealousy and mistrust. Understanding intellectually what a habit is, how does
one break free of habit?
Is awareness beyond time? The relationship between consciousness, mind, brain and
thought. Group discussions and learning from another. Approaching the problem of
livelihood. You say very little about law - why is that?
Attention that has nothing to do with thought. If the whole of life is one movement
with its own order, why is man so disorderly? The quality of mind that allows the
fullness of what you are saying to act in us. Is there such a thing as good or evil in the
world? In the animal kingdom the tiger eats the goat - does the goat look upon the
tiger as a baddy?
No path to truth outside myself - what will give me the energy to move in this
direction? Fear of change and what will happen afterwards. Meeting aggression and
psychological attack from a close relative from whom one cannot escape. People who
pick part of what you say that fits their problems or interest and discard the rest.
Accounts of people following a particular discipline who come upon the
immeasurable - are they self-deluded?
The difference between the mind and brain. Understanding K's words the message
remains vague - what shall I do to understand the message fully? What it is to be
transformed. If one individual can transform the world why has the world gone from
bad to worse? Teaching poverty- stricken children. The source of thought and how
does one go to the very source of it?
Why we are not serious enough to change. The image being hurt - can we avoid
recording the hurt, can we get rid of the image? When I love someone I find myself
deeply attached - how can we be intensely concerned yet not attached? Miracles - do
you deny you have performed them? Looking at things totally, observing without
motive. Is there any survival after death? When man dies full of attachments, what
happens to this residue?
Thought has created the division between Hindu and Muslim. Thought brings about
war. Having created the problem, thought then says, "I must solve it." Thought has its
place. Where do you draw the line when thought is necessary and when it is not? One
must find another instrument which is not thought. Freedom needed to enquire. A boat
in a harbour, that must sail, must remove the anchor and then move. To end division
you must have love.
How to get at what you are saying without any stress, strain or effort. What is
"myself" and its relationship to the cosmos? No gradation for the attainment of truth
but how do you question the usefulness of self-preparation for the right kind of body,
mind, harmony? Is not psychological time a fact?
Significance of history in educating the young. Does awareness lead to analysis? What
is psychological knowledge? Why knowledge is always incomplete. When one is
observing is one aware that one is observing, or only aware of the thing being
observed? Eliminating the image. Does thought originate as a defence against pain?
What did Christ say?
Is there truth apart from personal opinion? Taking responsibility in the world and
functioning in daily life. Right action in the face of violence. The hope that tomorrow
will solve our problems prevents our seeing the absolute urgency of change. Are there
psychological needs for which we are responsible? Perceiving the totality of the "me".
Is there a state which has no opposite?
OJ80Q3 - Questions on:
Ojai 1980 3rd Public Question & Answer Meeting - 13th May, 1980
80 min. Colour
What is true creativity? Seeing and acting without time. For image- making to end,
must thought also end? Is the ending of image-making the very essence of truth and
love? Reincarnation - the ending of conflict is more important than reincarnation.
Seeing we are the world, what does it mean to step out of the stream and who steps
out?
What is the substance of fear; what am I to look at when I look at fear itself? Can this
looking take place when fear is not immediately present? Moving from lack of justice
to an idea of justice. Dying to the self - to observe we must have died to the "me".
How can I observe in my fragmentation? The relationship of attention to thought - is
there a gap between attention and thought?
You talk about the ill effects of conditioning - many psychologists and philosophers
say that only through proper conditioning can man think and act clearly. The
relationship between the brain and the mind. I have been deeply hurt in childhood. In
spite of trying to understand what happened, the hurt remains - what am I to do?
I know that I act neurotically in spite of psychotherapy - what can I do? Giving
something new to the world. Love is not attachment, but it seems to create a boundary
within which there are moments of love. Why is there conflict in relationship? Giving
complete attention to a problem, it flowers and withers away.
Attention where thought has its place. Right action where there is limited
understanding. The role of questioning in life. Is death or separation the end of
relationship? Is there love between people only when they are physically present?
Essential response to conflict is a revolution in consciousness, but are all lesser actions
useless? Society is me. What is my relationship to it? How to deal with violence.
Helping our children to face the world they live in, of violence, crime, wars, nuclear
danger. Great leaders have been on earth: Buddha, Jesus. Will there be less conflict,
more understanding, when you depart, or are we moving in an unalterable direction?
My behaviour indicates fear: how do I reach it and deal with this deep- rooted but
unconscious emotion?
Only a small part of one is seriously interested in maintaining attention - what can one
do to nourish it? An action and state of being that is completely pure? Enlightenment
through words? Are we seduced by illusions of enlightenment? Change and
transformation. The meaning of holiness and its place in the modern world.
Krishnamurti schools. Work and fulfilment. Is political action necessary for change?
Compassion, love and self-expression. Do levels of spirituality or consciousness exist?
Can psychic healing, astral projection, the ability to see auras interfere with our ability
to see clearly? Seeking something beyond the self.
OJ82Q4 - Questions on:
Ojai 1982 4th Public Question & Answer Meeting - 14th May, 1982
82 min. Colour
The necessity of deep, fundamental human change and the issue of active political
involvement. How does one negate the "I" without suppression, denial or conflict, and
who does the negating? Observing the movement of the self. An action that includes
all action. Freedom from the content of consciousness. Humility and modesty.
The role of the artist, and significance of art in our relationship to each other and the
world. Using thought to observe thought. Marriage and relationship. Quietness,
silence, comes unsought but can we live in ways that will allow it to come more
readily? Is there such a thing as a true guru? Is there a right use of mantras?
Why aren't you more practical and not so abstract in what you are saying? The energy
and time needed to earn a living and an intelligence that is not a wastage of energy.
How to have a global vision. Fear is not something separate from you. The energy
needed to go to the very end of a problem. The nature of intelligence which manifests
itself when perception takes place.
All people have a similar consciousness but it seems a vast jump to say that all share
the same consciousness. Have you designated anyone to carry on your teachings after
you have gone? Observing thoughts to their very roots - there seem to be an endless
chain. What ends this? What do you mean by saying that if one perceives truth and
doesn't act, it acts as poison? Silence important in the seeking of truth.
The mechanism of guilt, its relation to the ego. Evolution has produced physical
differences - are there inherited psychological differences or are they only acquired
conditioning? If the Foundations receive the income from your books, how do you
live? Is there psychological evolution? Living peacefully needs great intelligence.
What do we all desire?
The difference between shyness and fear. The whole of nature is in competition to
survive - is it not innate in us to struggle, is it not against our nature to change? Why
has mankind sought god - is it out of fear, a need for security, or a religious instinct?
What prevents observation and insight? What is the responsibility to ourselves and
others?
You have no intention to help us but when we are here we find that you help us - how
does this happen? If a boy in class is naughty, should the teacher punish him, which
means violence? Why there is variety in nature. The bondage of pain, psychological
pain. Will the teachings of K meet the same fate as those of the Buddha and Christ?
The speaker acting as a mirror.
Moving in the direction of self-knowledge without the operation of desire and will. Is
not a ground of austerity, sensitivity, integrity, necessary before a total transformation
can take place? How is one to know if the gurus are speaking the truth?
As a teacher I am in conflict with the system of the school, and the pattern of society -
is there a way of living that does not perpetuate conflict? Being so completely awake
at the moment of perception that the mind does not recall the event. You have said that
death is total annihilation and you have also said there is immortality, a state of
timeless existence - can one live in that state?
What you talk about makes me more discontented - what is wrong with what you are
saying, or is something wrong with me? Must there be a Krishnamurti to keep us
alert? The gap between understanding and immediate action. Since I am a fragmented
human being, if I talk about your teachings won't I create more confusion? What is
meant by thinking together? Why does sex play such an important part in life?
Is sitting quietly daily to observe the movement of thought a practice and therefore
without value? Identifying with pain. Physical illness. Is it possible to heal cancer? Is
enlightenment a matter of time? Are experiences beyond the senses a part of
enlightenment? The nature of insight.
Educating children to live differently. Can you share something that is measureless to
man? Emptying the content of consciousness. Why are most human beings, apart from
their talents and capacities, mediocre? Attachment brings warmth, detachment
coldness - something seems wrong in this approach. Being uncertain we seek certainty
- is there an absolute, irrevocable certainty? Are there different paths to truth?
A difference between insight and intuition? Recognizing you are the world and are
responsible for the whole of mankind. Why is psychological time the source of
conflict? The difficulty of understanding psychological time. Recording knowledge -
what is it that decides which must be retained and which abandoned? What is
necessary to go beyond intellectual acceptance of a fact?
Educating children rightly. Can one prevent the world corrupting them? If we are not
individuals, where is the individual's responsibility for his actions? Awakening of
intelligence - does it imply process? Does the capacity of awareness from moment to
moment get stronger in endurance? Is there something profoundly mysterious and
sacred in religions?
In a relationship of conflict and pain, can it be resolved, or must it end? For a good
relationship mustn't both change? Reading the "book" of oneself at a glance. Are there
steps towards illumination? The art of questioning - what is a wrong question? Finding
out who you are. Time, measurement and space.
Can one slow down the ageing process of the mind? Conflict is a factor in the
deterioration of the brain. Can the active, mechanical brain slow down? How can one
face an incurable disease with all the physical pain and agony? The central factor in
the question of the brain keeping young and of pain is intelligence. What is
intelligence? It is not the clever activity of thought. Its quality is love, compassion.
My son and husband have died. I find it difficult to let go the memory of their utter
desperation. Ending means to live with death. Posing a fundamental question. Is
holding, observing a question a thought process? How to live in the outer world
without becoming part of its competition, brutality, violence and cruelty.
SA82Q3 - Questions on:
Saanen 1982 3rd Public Question & Answer Meeting - 27th July, 1982
83 min. Black&White
Does the seeing and listening of which you speak imply the awakening of a totally
new perception? Can the few affect the consciousness of mankind? Feeling lost
without the guidance of a guru. Is there something sacred in life and can we all come
to that? Is this god? The meaning and focus of education. What is the future of
mankind?
To have a deep insight thinking must stop, but for it to stop there must already be a
deep insight. Can the programmed, repetitive brain stop its mechanical habit so that
there is a way of living which is not the continuation of the past? Insight is seeing
something true and acting from it. I long to be loved. What am I to do? Dependence
means one has no love. If you ask to be loved it means you have no love in yourself.
Right education, which is not only academic training. You seem to say that mind has
its place outside the brain but where does the movement of pure perception take place
if not in the brain? How can mutation take place in the brain cells if pure perception
has no connection in the brain? In spite of every effort, guilt is like a wound that never
heals.
Is there desire without an object? Are opinions necessary - I feel they are about things
such as Nazism, spread of armaments, torture, mustn't one say or do something? Is not
K's consciousness put together by thought? What death means - living with death all
the time. Not just solving problems but radically bringing about a change in my life.
What is a spiritual life?
The difference between observing ourselves in your sense and merely thinking about
ourselves. What is the action of not letting memory intrude in our relationship with
another - is it to see it as it arises, or is it a state to be in? Inner silence cannot be
practised or sought after, but what is the ground in which it may come about? How
can one reconcile the demands of society with a life of total freedom? Society is
created by us.
Art is merely the product of thought and therefore not creation, but cannot creation
include thought? What thought creates is limited. Asking for help - how can one be
helped to freedom? Educating children to be intelligent, free and responsible human
beings. A holistic approach. The relationship of the speaker to those attending the
talks - relationship only when we are free.
Coming with a desire to listen to you, how does one live without motives? To begin
with most of us must be consciously attentive, but does attention become a constant,
spontaneous state of action? Tell us something about this vast intelligence of which
you speak - is it an untapped capacity within the brain, or some disembodied force?
What will make us change?
Various gurus say that essentially they are giving the same teaching as you are - what
do you say? What is guilt? It seems its actions can never be eradicated. What do you
mean by creation? Creation is when there is death and love.
When one understands something must one act on it, or does it act of itself? Violence -
would you allow a friend to be attacked in front of you? What is intelligence? Does
physical illness have any benefit? Difference between the brain and the mind.
Thought is responsible for confusion, yet in going into it more thought is generated,
and there is no end to it. Death - time, thought and death are one. Is it not violence and
corruption to have physical security while others are starving? How can the limited
brain grasp the unlimited? The ground of compassion and intelligence.
A learning which is not mechanical. Start with not knowing. Is it possible to be aware
at the same time that one is acting? We learn through various events which become
accumulated knowledge, from this we act, which is always the past. Our relationships
are based on images, memory. When there is an image there is division, which means
conflict. Can you be so attentive that there is no centre which records? Then, there is
no "me".
How does psychological conflict arise? One feels secure in being attached to opinions,
judgements - facts need not have opinions. The pursuit of non-fact is a wastage of
energy. No entity who breaks the programme; no attempt to break it down, only the
fact that I observe the whole complication of being programmed. The effect of a few
who can live without conflict. Pursuing entertainment or turning in a different
direction.
What is intelligence? There is outside authority, but inwardly there is the authority of
one's own experience, convictions, opinions - do you accept that authority? How do
you look without authority? The art of questioning - not saying it is right or wrong, but
enquiring, doubting, asking, then you will begin to awaken your own intelligence.
What will you do when asked to become a soldier? Must we kill to be secure - why
seek security?
The role of governments in our life. In history only very few individuals bring about a
change. Will you have the energy, capacity, drive, the love to bring about a different
world? Awareness of division and its consequences, why it has existed, why man has
accepted it and how it has come into being. Observing without the past intruding - is
there then no observer, only observation?
Have tradition and culture any part in a religious life? Religion means to gather all
your energy to enquire into what is truth and reality, if there is an end to sorrow, what
is love, and whether one can live without any effort and control. Why does the brain
form habits of ten days or ten thousand years? The brain can only function in security
- is there such security? Will you throw away your habits because you see the reason,
the logical consequences of forming habits?
What it means to watch. If I prejudge you, I can't see you directly. Watching very
carefully so it never becomes routine. Are you thinking while watching? Do you
watch only with your eyes or altogether? When you watch you begin to learn. Are you
sensitive to people, to their suffering? What is your relationship to what is happening
in the world? The use of education.
RV84DS3 - It Doesn't Matter If You Die for It
Rishi Valley 1984 3rd Dialogue with Students - 20th December, 1984
75 min. Colour, Translations: Video: F, Audio: F
Discover your own talent, not that imposed on you by your parents or society, and
stick to it. What is the cause of corruption? If you are interested in yourself, greedy,
envious, harsh, brutal, then there is corruption. The real cause of corruption is inside
you. Unless you find that out and change that, you will be a corrupt human being.
What do you mean by fear? What is the feeling that you have when you are
frightened? What starts fear, what is its cause? People kill each other on account of
fear, there is division, nationalism. If you have no nationality, then what do you
identify with? Fear is involved in time. Our life is entangled with time. The past
controls the present, the present is shaping the future, so the future is now. Is there a
way of being free of time?
What is the brain? You are always living in a circle; a circle of what you have learned
and acquired as information, which becomes knowledge. My brain is full of
knowledge, absurdities, imagination, illusions, all this is "me". The origin of thought:
are its roots in experience? Why is the brain so occupied with thought? Is there a way
of thinking without all the memories of the past? Can our mind ever be quiet?
Q: What is it that we should or should not do to bring about a totally different human
being? Parents want their children to be secure, to be married and settled down. To be
secure in this society you must have a degree. Holistic education. We need a different
kind of brain, a different outlook, a different way of living, feeling. Unless we
establish a real relationship we can't work together.
To communicate things which are very serious there must be affection, love, care.
Through the negation of what is not love you come to that which is love. Love is not
desire, pleasure, possession, attachment or jealousy. It is not me and my ambition, my
fulfilment. Everything that thought has created is not love. Compassion, love and
intelligence go together, without intelligence there is no compassion.
Thought has its own place. It is the process of thinking, which is the movement of
memory, experience and knowledge. Love is free from thought. Where love is the
"me" is not. There is a meditation, which must be totally undesired, completely free of
thought. To find it one has to find out what is reality and truth. First you have to be
good, if you have no love in your heart your meditation will be destructive.
How is a human being to have clarity about politics, work, about relationship with
wife, husband, the world? How am I to be clear when I am so confused? There is
uncertainty in relationship. Is it because we are conditioned, educated that way, or
because we are only concerned about ourselves? A way of living in which there is no
confusion, when the mind is able to observe without direction.
In this forty-five minute film, Krishnamurti discusses with the students at Brockwood
Park School, touching on many subjects relevant to young people: Why are you
capable of being hurt? Be honest, don't pretend. Is it possible to live without any
image or concept but to live? When asked why he gave talks, Krishnamurti replies, "I
really don't know; not out of habit, out of affection perhaps." The whole film is
interspersed with activities at Brockwood Park - yoga, gardening, cooking, maths,
etcetera.
Life is really very beautiful. A tragedy that human beings live in constant conflict. Joy
is different from pleasure. Fear and pleasure - as long as they operate, there is constant
struggle to become, to achieve. Not escaping, just watching - in the very act of
attention the struggle comes to an end. The meditative mind contains all the varieties
and movements of silence. Love and life go together, as love and death go together.
BR75FPL is combined on one audio/video cassette with SY70IV An Interview with
Ross Saunders, Sydney, 1970
How can one be a light to oneself? Most of us are slaves, either to religious concepts,
beliefs, symbols, or to some kind of experience, institution, images. Being caught in a
routine prevents freedom. Question the way you live your life - question the whole
thing. Differentiating the word from the fact. How can one approach something
without any knowledge? Can we find out the right way of questioning so that out of
that intelligence can arise?
BR78S3 - Can You Face the Fact That You Are Absolutely Nothing?
Brockwood Park 1978 3rd Seminar Meeting - 14th September, 1978
103 min. Black&White
What is the root of fear? When we observe thought is in operation. When there is no
observer, who is the very essence of thought which is the past, there is only actually
what is happening. Can that actuality be observed without the movement of thought?
Ending of thought and conflict. Only when there is inattention fear comes. What is the
quality of the brain when there is total attention? Is there any registration at all?
Q: What is it that flowers? Can a mind that is committed flower at all? The total mind
is in a self-created trap; it is aware of this when there is pain and to escape from that
pain it creates another trap. Thought in its very seed is limited. Can thought,
consciousness, the totality of it, be aware of itself? If there is insight, there is
intelligence and thought then has its place.
Approaching the question of what to do. In the world there is disorder, disintegration,
confusion: I may be having difficulties with my family, keeping a job, earning a
livelihood, so I am not concerned with what is happening in the world. Do I see the
fact of this terror, violence, disintegration? Do I see that there is actually no division
between me and the world? Or do I see it as something which has nothing to do with
me?
What takes place in the mind that sees that it is part of the whole? Is individual action
right action? As an individual whatever I do must be destructive, pleasurable, violent.
When we discover the truth that we are an integral part of this enormous humanity
what place has individuality? When you drop the illusion of individuality do you still
carry the memories, the past, in your mind, or have you lost the remembrance of
sorrow?
Can the individual that thinks it is separate, which is an illusion, love? If individuality,
separative effort, is gone, then I am the world and the world is me. The possibility of
having an insight into the nature of action which is not individualistic. An action
without the actor who has always acted. When there is love there is care, attention,
responsibility. An action will arise from your new state of mind which is a state of
compassion.
Is it possible that thought can understand the activities and complexity of one's own
brain? What is thought, what is thinking? Observing one's brain without seeking
externally. Does watching to learn something new imply that to observe there must be
no conditioning, no observer, who is the outside? Can one observe the cause without
the observer? Realizing all time is contained in the now, what is action?
Is there an intelligence which is not bound to time, or the product of thought? How
does one come upon this intelligence? Is intelligence born of some totally different
time, of a different state, cultivable? For thousands of years people have asked if
thought, however much space it may have, can be silent. For the brain to have space
mustn't there be no self?
This interview takes place mostly at Brockwood Park in England during the annual
gathering when thousands assembled to hear Krishnamurti speak. An interview with
Krishnamurti is interspersed with other interviews with a variety of people. The salient
points of his life are traced through a conversation with Mary Lutyens, who knew him
since childhood. Other interviews with Basil Gossage, Brockwood Park staff, and
others attending the talks. Krishnamurti touches briefly on all aspects of his teaching.
How can an individual, who is part of the system, get outside the system to observe it
and himself? How do you get people to be aware in your sense? Have you a religious
view of life? Are you saying that man has no need of any power outside himself to
bring change? What do you make of death? Are you not setting yourself up as a great
teacher? Where do you find truth? SY70IV is combined on one audio/video cassette
with BR75FPL Film - Problems of Living.
This film, of one hour twenty minutes, documents Krishnamurti's life from the early
Theosophical days to his mid-80's, when he was still travelling, giving talks and
holding dialogues. Rare film and photographs are used, with an actor reading
Krishnamurti's words, as well as more recent footage of Krishnamurti.
This film of approximately one hour and forty minutes is based upon a series of
interviews with many people who had contact with Krishnamurti. These interviews are
all interesting and some of them are remarkable in conveying the impact that he had
on people. The film also includes historical footage of Krishnamurti's early years,
culminating in his break in 1929 with the organization that had fostered him.
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