The Krishnamurti Collection

171 • Saanen 1968 (2/17) • Talk 2: No System Will Help Man Be Free

Krishnamurti: In Complete Silence of the Mind Is LoveSaanen 1968, Public Meetings2/17: No System Will Help Man Be Free
To understand non-cooperation one must also learn what it means to cooperate. The central issue is complete, absolute freedom, first psychologically then outwardly. Conditioning makes us self-centred, isolated, separated, divided, which makes it impossible to cooperate. Is it possible to live in this world completely free, not only consciously but at the very roots of our being? No system outwardly or inwardly will free man from his misery.  Thought prevents looking. The search for security through systems is destroying man.
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The Krishnamurti Collection is an official podcast by Krishnamurti Foundation Trust.
Across this wide selection of events, Krishnamurti explores fundamental questions of human existence that touch our daily lives and relationships. Each episode of the podcast features a full-length Krishnamurti recording from the Foundation’s archives, with a new series released every week.
Krishnamurti is widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers and teachers of all time. For seven decades, he spoke to large audiences around the world, as well as with notable individuals and small groups. Krishnamurti stressed that ‘There is hope in humanity, not in society, not in systems, not in organised religious systems, but in you and in me.’
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172 • Saanen 1968 (3/17) • Talk 3: Freedom, Systems and Conditioning

Krishnamurti: In Complete Silence of the Mind Is LoveSaanen 1968, Public Meetings3/17: Freedom, Systems and Conditioning
Is it at all possible for man to be free?
Why do you want a system? Systems are tradition, discipline, habits, a groove which the mind follows.
Can a mind that is certain about anything psychologically ever be free?
Duality and conflict are in essence a complete waste of energy.
When the mind is seeking certainty it must inevitably create opposites.
Why does the mind hold on to formulas and systems; why can’t it live freely?
Can the mind uncondition itself?
Is the observer separate from the thing it observes?
Am I different from the thing I want to get rid of?
What happens when the mind sees there is only a conditioned state?
Questions from the audience followed the talk.
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The Krishnamurti Collection is an official podcast by Krishnamurti Foundation Trust.
Across this wide selection of events, Krishnamurti explores fundamental questions of human existence that touch our daily lives and relationships. Each episode of the podcast features a full-length Krishnamurti recording from the Foundation’s archives, with a new series released every week.
Krishnamurti is widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers and teachers of all time. For seven decades, he spoke to large audiences around the world, as well as with notable individuals and small groups. Krishnamurti stressed that ‘There is hope in humanity, not in society, not in systems, not in organised religious systems, but in you and in me.’
Established by Krishnamurti in 1968, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust is a non-profit charity based at Brockwood Park in the UK, which is also home to The Krishnamurti Centre and Brockwood Park School. To learn more about our activities and retreat programmes, and to donate, please visit: Krishnamurti Foundation Trust: kfoundation.orgThe Krishnamurti Centre: krishnamurticentre.org.ukBrockwood Park School: brockwood.org.ukNewsletter: kfoundation.org/newsletterDonations: kfoundation.org/donate
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173 • Saanen 1968 (4/17) • Talk 4: Looking at Conditioning Without Distortion

Krishnamurti: In Complete Silence of the Mind Is LoveSaanen 1968, Public Meetings4/17: Looking at Conditioning Without Distortion
A religious mind is not burdened with ideologies, dogmas or assumptions.
A religious mind is concerned with facts, with ‘what is’, and going beyond it.
Is there a looking that will reveal the whole content of our conditioning?
If I am aware that whatever I do, whatever movement of thought, whatever effort I make is within the limitation of conditioning, what takes place?
Am I aware of my conditioning as an outsider looking in?
Can I look at myself with eyes that have never been touched by experience?
Attention and freedom must go together. That is love and the quality of attention in which the observer is not.
Questions from the audience followed the talk.
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The Krishnamurti Collection is an official podcast by Krishnamurti Foundation Trust.
Across this wide selection of events, Krishnamurti explores fundamental questions of human existence that touch our daily lives and relationships. Each episode of the podcast features a full-length Krishnamurti recording from the Foundation’s archives, with a new series released every week.
Krishnamurti is widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers and teachers of all time. For seven decades, he spoke to large audiences around the world, as well as with notable individuals and small groups. Krishnamurti stressed that ‘There is hope in humanity, not in society, not in systems, not in organised religious systems, but in you and in me.’
Established by Krishnamurti in 1968, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust is a non-profit charity based at Brockwood Park in the UK, which is also home to The Krishnamurti Centre and Brockwood Park School. To learn more about our activities and retreat programmes, and to donate, please visit: Krishnamurti Foundation Trust: kfoundation.orgThe Krishnamurti Centre: krishnamurticentre.org.ukBrockwood Park School: brockwood.org.ukNewsletter: kfoundation.org/newsletterDonations: kfoundation.org/donate
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174 • Saanen 1968 (5/17) • Talk 5: Living Is the Beauty of Action and Love

Krishnamurti: In Complete Silence of the Mind Is LoveSaanen 1968, Public Meetings5/17: Living Is the Beauty of Action and Love
Is there an action which is right under all circumstances, or is there only action, not right or wrong action?
What is one to do in a world that is appalling and brutal?
Is there a life of action which is never fragmentary, never exclusive, never divided? The intellect or thought cannot answer this.
Is it possible to live so completely, so wholly, so totally, that there is no fragmentary action?
Have you ever considered what love is?
Without love there is always right and wrong action breeding conflict, contradiction and opposition.
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The Krishnamurti Collection is an official podcast by Krishnamurti Foundation Trust.
Across this wide selection of events, Krishnamurti explores fundamental questions of human existence that touch our daily lives and relationships. Each episode of the podcast features a full-length Krishnamurti recording from the Foundation’s archives, with a new series released every week.
Krishnamurti is widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers and teachers of all time. For seven decades, he spoke to large audiences around the world, as well as with notable individuals and small groups. Krishnamurti stressed that ‘There is hope in humanity, not in society, not in systems, not in organised religious systems, but in you and in me.’
Established by Krishnamurti in 1968, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust is a non-profit charity based at Brockwood Park in the UK, which is also home to The Krishnamurti Centre and Brockwood Park School. To learn more about our activities and retreat programmes, and to donate, please visit: Krishnamurti Foundation Trust: kfoundation.orgThe Krishnamurti Centre: krishnamurticentre.org.ukBrockwood Park School: brockwood.org.ukNewsletter: kfoundation.org/newsletterDonations: kfoundation.org/donate
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175 • Saanen 1968 (6/17) • Talk 6: Pleasure, Love, Beauty and Loneliness

Krishnamurti: In Complete Silence of the Mind Is LoveSaanen 1968, Public Meetings6/17: Pleasure, Love, Beauty and Loneliness
When there is self-expression in any form, does it convey beauty?
What relationship has pleasure to beauty or love?
When there is a sense of the deep, unfathomable void of loneliness, is beauty possible?
What is loneliness?
As long as my activity is self-centred and self-expressive there must be the void of loneliness.
Filling the void is self-centred, so it becomes a wider and deeper emptiness.
When you say you will not be self-centred, you are already self-centred.
When you exercise will to deny the activity of the self, that very will is the factor of isolation.
Only when there is complete silence of the mind is there beauty and love, which may or may not express.
Beauty is something beyond self-expression.
Love is bliss, which is not pleasure.
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The Krishnamurti Collection is an official podcast by Krishnamurti Foundation Trust.
Across this wide selection of events, Krishnamurti explores fundamental questions of human existence that touch our daily lives and relationships. Each episode of the podcast features a full-length Krishnamurti recording from the Foundation’s archives, with a new series released every week.
Krishnamurti is widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers and teachers of all time. For seven decades, he spoke to large audiences around the world, as well as with notable individuals and small groups. Krishnamurti stressed that ‘There is hope in humanity, not in society, not in systems, not in organised religious systems, but in you and in me.’
Established by Krishnamurti in 1968, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust is a non-profit charity based at Brockwood Park in the UK, which is also home to The Krishnamurti Centre and Brockwood Park School. To learn more about our activities and retreat programmes, and to donate, please visit: Krishnamurti Foundation Trust: kfoundation.orgThe Krishnamurti Centre: krishnamurticentre.org.ukBrockwood Park School: brockwood.org.ukNewsletter: kfoundation.org/newsletterDonations: kfoundation.org/donate
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176 • Saanen 1968 (7/17) • Talk 7: The Ending of Fear

Krishnamurti: In Complete Silence of the Mind Is LoveSaanen 1968, Public Meetings7/17: The Ending of Fear
Psychologically, we refuse to follow the movement of life because our roots are deep in habit, tradition, in what has been told to us, in obedience and acceptance.
What is possible can be found out only when you go beyond the ‘impossible’.
Avoidance of fear only increases fear. Flight from fear is a form of fear.
One must give space for fear to flower, for it to come out into the open.
What is important is not to interpret dreams but to find out if there is a possibility of not dreaming at all.
To not dream is only possible if you are aware during the day of every movement of thought.
When the mind is completely still within its own freedom there is the ‘impossible’, which is love.
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The Krishnamurti Collection is an official podcast by Krishnamurti Foundation Trust.
Across this wide selection of events, Krishnamurti explores fundamental questions of human existence that touch our daily lives and relationships. Each episode of the podcast features a full-length Krishnamurti recording from the Foundation’s archives, with a new series released every week.
Krishnamurti is widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers and teachers of all time. For seven decades, he spoke to large audiences around the world, as well as with notable individuals and small groups. Krishnamurti stressed that ‘There is hope in humanity, not in society, not in systems, not in organised religious systems, but in you and in me.’
Established by Krishnamurti in 1968, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust is a non-profit charity based at Brockwood Park in the UK, which is also home to The Krishnamurti Centre and Brockwood Park School. To learn more about our activities and retreat programmes, and to donate, please visit: Krishnamurti Foundation Trust: kfoundation.orgThe Krishnamurti Centre: krishnamurticentre.org.ukBrockwood Park School: brockwood.org.ukNewsletter: kfoundation.org/newsletterDonations: kfoundation.org/donate
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177 • Saanen 1968 (8/17) • Talk 8: Looking at Sorrow With the Complete Abandonment of Silence

Krishnamurti: In Complete Silence of the Mind Is LoveSaanen 1968, Public Meetings8/17: Looking at Sorrow With the Complete Abandonment of Silence
Is it possible never to accept, but to examine and explore?
To examine ourselves actually as we are needs humility.
To think is to invite sorrow.
Why do we suffer?
Is one able to go beyond sorrow?
If the mind is not quiet how can you understand anything or be completely intimate with death, time or sorrow?
Can you look at yourself completely silently?
What is death?
When you die naturally, freely, happily to everything you know, there is death, innocency, freshness.
Living is to die every day to what you have fought against or gathered, to self-importance, self-pity, sorrow, pleasures and agonies.
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The Krishnamurti Collection is an official podcast by Krishnamurti Foundation Trust.
Across this wide selection of events, Krishnamurti explores fundamental questions of human existence that touch our daily lives and relationships. Each episode of the podcast features a full-length Krishnamurti recording from the Foundation’s archives, with a new series released every week.
Krishnamurti is widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers and teachers of all time. For seven decades, he spoke to large audiences around the world, as well as with notable individuals and small groups. Krishnamurti stressed that ‘There is hope in humanity, not in society, not in systems, not in organised religious systems, but in you and in me.’
Established by Krishnamurti in 1968, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust is a non-profit charity based at Brockwood Park in the UK, which is also home to The Krishnamurti Centre and Brockwood Park School. To learn more about our activities and retreat programmes, and to donate, please visit: Krishnamurti Foundation Trust: kfoundation.orgThe Krishnamurti Centre: krishnamurticentre.org.ukBrockwood Park School: brockwood.org.ukNewsletter: kfoundation.org/newsletterDonations: kfoundation.org/donate
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178 • Saanen 1968 (9/17) • Talk 9: Meditation Is the Understanding of the Nature of Life

Krishnamurti: In Complete Silence of the Mind Is LoveSaanen 1968, Public Meetings9/17: Meditation Is the Understanding of the Nature of Life
Is it possible for the whole of one’s being, in action, in thought, to be completely honest and non-hypocritical?
The very act of learning is discipline itself.
One must understand the necessity of freedom from all authority so that the mind, that highest form of supreme intelligence, is a light to itself.
Meditation is not an escape from life, is not your own particular, individual process.
Truth is a living, moving thing and therefore there can be no path to it.
Meditation is a mind that sees actually ‘what is’ without interpreting or translating it, without wishing it were not or accepting it.
As long as there is the observer there must be the conflict of duality. Is it possible to go beyond the observer?
To leave the door open is all that one can do. You cannot invite or seek reality but by some strange chance it may come and give its blessing.
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The Krishnamurti Collection is an official podcast by Krishnamurti Foundation Trust.
Across this wide selection of events, Krishnamurti explores fundamental questions of human existence that touch our daily lives and relationships. Each episode of the podcast features a full-length Krishnamurti recording from the Foundation’s archives, with a new series released every week.
Krishnamurti is widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers and teachers of all time. For seven decades, he spoke to large audiences around the world, as well as with notable individuals and small groups. Krishnamurti stressed that ‘There is hope in humanity, not in society, not in systems, not in organised religious systems, but in you and in me.’
Established by Krishnamurti in 1968, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust is a non-profit charity based at Brockwood Park in the UK, which is also home to The Krishnamurti Centre and Brockwood Park School. To learn more about our activities and retreat programmes, and to donate, please visit: Krishnamurti Foundation Trust: kfoundation.orgThe Krishnamurti Centre: krishnamurticentre.org.ukBrockwood Park School: brockwood.org.ukNewsletter: kfoundation.org/newsletterDonations: kfoundation.org/donate
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179 • Saanen 1968 (10/17) • Talk 10: A Religious Life

Krishnamurti: In Complete Silence of the Mind Is LoveSaanen 1968, Public Meetings10/17: A Religious Life
We live in a world of misunderstanding, interpreting according to motive, background and desire.
What is religion?
Can you completely put aside every form of religious organisation and belief?
Religion is an action which is complete, total and covers all of life.
A religious way of life is of total action with no fragmentation at all.
The world of everyday life is within the field of the known. We are afraid to move out of that dimension.
Can one be free of fear and be with the unknown?
It is love only that can possibly bring about a complete sense of unity.
Can we come upon a life that has no death, a life that is timeless?
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The Krishnamurti Collection is an official podcast by Krishnamurti Foundation Trust.
Across this wide selection of events, Krishnamurti explores fundamental questions of human existence that touch our daily lives and relationships. Each episode of the podcast features a full-length Krishnamurti recording from the Foundation’s archives, with a new series released every week.
Krishnamurti is widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers and teachers of all time. For seven decades, he spoke to large audiences around the world, as well as with notable individuals and small groups. Krishnamurti stressed that ‘There is hope in humanity, not in society, not in systems, not in organised religious systems, but in you and in me.’
Established by Krishnamurti in 1968, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust is a non-profit charity based at Brockwood Park in the UK, which is also home to The Krishnamurti Centre and Brockwood Park School. To learn more about our activities and retreat programmes, and to donate, please visit: Krishnamurti Foundation Trust: kfoundation.orgThe Krishnamurti Centre: krishnamurticentre.org.ukBrockwood Park School: brockwood.org.ukNewsletter: kfoundation.org/newsletterDonations: kfoundation.org/donate
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180 • Saanen 1968 (11/17) • Discussion 1: Can I Look Out of Silence at My Contradictory Life?

Krishnamurti: In Complete Silence of the Mind Is LoveSaanen 1968, Public Meetings11/17: Can I Look Out of Silence at My Contradictory Life?
To communicate we must use words but words are heavily loaded. 
Words create in us a form, a design, a content, which is actually the ‘me’, the thinker, the observer.
Am I aware that I lead a fragmentary life?
I am afraid and so I become aggressive.
Contradictory lives exist everywhere you go.
When I look at the fact that my life is contradictory, what is the relationship between the observer and the thing I am looking at?
If one is looking at the fact silently, there is only the fact.
If you are not silent, how can you commune with contradiction?
We have accepted there is a “how” but there is no “how”, no method.
Methods will not give you silence.
If you cannot look without the observer there can be no communion with the thing observed.
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The Krishnamurti Collection is an official podcast by Krishnamurti Foundation Trust.
Across this wide selection of events, Krishnamurti explores fundamental questions of human existence that touch our daily lives and relationships. Each episode of the podcast features a full-length Krishnamurti recording from the Foundation’s archives, with a new series released every week.
Krishnamurti is widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers and teachers of all time. For seven decades, he spoke to large audiences around the world, as well as with notable individuals and small groups. Krishnamurti stressed that ‘There is hope in humanity, not in society, not in systems, not in organised religious systems, but in you and in me.’
Established by Krishnamurti in 1968, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust is a non-profit charity based at Brockwood Park in the UK, which is also home to The Krishnamurti Centre and Brockwood Park School. To learn more about our activities and retreat programmes, and to donate, please visit: Krishnamurti Foundation Trust: kfoundation.orgThe Krishnamurti Centre: krishnamurticentre.org.ukBrockwood Park School: brockwood.org.ukNewsletter: kfoundation.org/newsletterDonations: kfoundation.org/donate
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