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Ask Why Your Mind Is Not Free
The word ‘freedom’ has been greatly abused by tyrannical as well as democratic governments, and religions too, everywhere in...
End Of Violence
Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we...
Listening Is A Great Art
You know, listening is a great art. It is one of the great arts we have not cultivated: to listen completely to another. When you listen...
What Exactly Is Love?
Fear is not love, dependence is not love, jealousy is not love, possessiveness and domination are not love, responsibility and duty are...
When I Say I Know You
When I say I know you, I mean I knew you yesterday. I do not know you actually now. All I know is my image of you. That image is put...
Mass Movement
We see throughout the world extremes of poverty and riches, abundance and at the same time starvation; we have class distinction and...
How Can You Live In This World And Yet Be Innocent?
How can you live in this world and yet be innocent? First, be innocent and then you will live in this world, not the other way round. Be...
A Key To End Sorrow
The demand to be safe in a relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear. The seeking for security invites insecurity. Have you ever...
Bedrock On Which We All Stand
Do you realize, sir, that you are the world and the world is you? The world is not separate from you and me. There is a common thread of...
Does Life Have A Purpose?
Questioner: Why do you maintain that Life has no purpose? If Life has no purpose, the individual life, even in pure being, can have no...
Is There Righteous Anger Ever?
One of the most common expressions of violence is anger. When my wife or sister is attacked, I say I am righteously angry; when my...
Simplicity of the Heart
Simplicity of the heart is of far greater importance and significance ...
Awareness is Profound Interest
The man who wants to improve himself can never be aware, because improvement implies condemnation and the achievement of a result;...
Every Sensation Comes to an End
I wonder if you know what it means to be aware of something? Most of us are not aware because we have become so accustomed to condemning,...
He Who Accumulates Cannot Learn
It seems that communion is a very difficult art. To commune with one another over the many problems that we have requires listening and...
Why Do Social Work?
Q: "I want to do social work, but I don't know how to start." Krishnamurti: I think it is very important to find...
Where Skillfullness and Clarity Meet
We have become very skillful in dealing with our daily life; skillful, in the sense of being clever in applying a great deal of knowledge...
Fear: Its Beginning, Middle and End
Fear is never an actuality; it is either before or after the active present. When there is fear in the active present, is it fear? It is...
A Path to Truth
When you speak of a path to truth, it implies that truth, this living reality, is not in the present, but somewhere in the distance,...
Truth is a Pathless Land
Truth is a pathless land. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should...
What is Time?
Do you know what time is? Not by the watch, not chronological time, but psychological time? It is the interval between idea and action....
Creative Revolution
To revolt within society in order to make it a little better, to bring about certain reforms, is like the revolt of prisoners to...
Sorrow
Sorrow has to be understood and not ignored. To ignore it is to give continuity to suffering; to ignore it is to escape from suffering....
Be A Light Unto Yourself
To be aware is to watch your bodily activity, the way you walk, the way you sit, the movements of your hands; it is to hear the words...
What is meditation?
The question is not how to meditate, what system to follow, but what is meditation? The 'how' can only produce what the method...
Four Seasons In A Day
If you have lived an experience fully, completely, have you not found that it leaves no traces behind? It is only the...