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How do I observe greed? Do I observe it as an outsider looking in, or do I observe it without the observer? Without the mind being free, you cannot live in order.

What is the relationship of the brain to the totality of the mind? Fear of not being, fear of isolation, fear of not having pleasure, fear of having no relationship, is the soil from which the stem of contradiction grows. I want to be free of this stem to see what happens if there is no attachment, no detachment, because I am not afraid. Is there a peace with no entity saying, ‘I am peaceful?'

What is the relationship to society of a man who has insight? What is his action with regard to war and the whole world?

Can the intellect, a fragment, ever be serious? Serious in the sense of a sustained observation without any distortion. Control. What is living? How does it happen that one can be completely harmonious? What does awareness mean.

Thought and the brain. Can the brain free itself from all self-delusion? Why has the self become important? Can there be only sensation, thought and no desire? Can desire—which brings illusion, self-deception and all the complications of changing desires—can the root of desire be dissipated? What prevents one from having a real insight? That is, seeing the truth of desire and therefore end it. Is it that we have never asked this question? When there is no desire whatsoever then there is a total revolution, and that will affect the consciousness of man.

Am I aware of the process of thinking? Can I see that thought is destructive, except where it is essential? Why is it that we don't see something immediately? Do you know when you are thinking? Is the thing that we call thinking thinking at all? Do you think from the background noise when a problem arises? When the mind becomes totally aware of the background, is there thinking when a problem arises? What happens when I am aware of this hum, this noise incessantly going on? Is the background noise different from the observer? How am I to live an everyday life with complete silence?

Inattention and attention. Observing without the word. What is the function of sleep? Is love a matter of culture, a thing of pleasure and therefore dependency? Attention Leads to Learning—21st March 1970.

Consciousness, because it is in constant movement, has never found an energy which is not contradictory, which is not produced by desire and thought.

Can the mind undergo a radical revolution? How do you observe the world? What solves our human problem is observing the whole process of ourselves without judging, condemning, translating or rejecting—just to observe.

A Complete Stillness - 25th August 1965. Is there a single movement that will completely transform my whole way of life? The passion is there, but the perfume doesn’t take place. What am I to do?

To communicate, we must know that the word is not the thing and also be in that state of mind whose quality is attention, care. That can only take place if we are serious. We are the world and the world is us. To bring about a radical transformation, which is so essential in society, there must be radical transformation in ourselves. Analysis of violence does not end violence, nor is violence ended by thinking of non-violence.

"A los Pies del Maestro" es un breve libro considerado una joya espiritual que presenta las enseñanzas esenciales de Jiddu Krishnamurti. Aunque se publicó en 1911, cuando Krishnamurti era solo un adolescente, el libro contiene sabiduría profunda sobre el camino espiritual. La obra presenta un diálogo entre un joven discípulo llamado Alcione y su maestro, donde se abordan temas fundamentales como la devoción, el servicio desinteresado, el amor, la sabiduría y la autorrealización.

Las enseñanzas que este libro desvelan, se centran en la necesidad de un cambio radical en relación a nuestras mentes. Como él explica, «para entender lo inmensurable, que equivale a penetrar en un mundo completamente diferente, debemos entender el mundo en el que vivimos, este mundo que hemos creado y del que somos parte: el mundo de la ambición, la codicia, la envidia, el odio, la separatividad, el miedo y el deseo. Eso significa que debemos comprendernos a nosotros mismos, tanto lo inconsciente como lo consciente. Eso no es muy difícil si fijamos la mente en ello».

The problems of life do not demand a method, because they are so vital and alive that if we approach with a method we totally misunderstand and don’t adequately meet that problem. Where there is efficiency there is ruthlessness. The means and the end are not separate. Reality or God is something that cannot come by a technique, a means, or through a long determined practice and discipline. Aloneness implies no means. You are not alone when you have a means.

There is no mind without idea, thought and verbalization. There is no experiencer and the experience; there is only a state of experiencing. One cannot think about immortality. If one can live in the state of only experiencing then there is a state in which ideation has stopped altogether. Is it possible to have direct experience of that which is not thinkable and which cannot be put into words?

Our education is concerned with the accumulation of knowledge. Very few of us are capable of living a life without the influence of specialists. What is the point of going to a university, getting a degree and disappearing into the vast structure of society? Q: How shall we approach the idea of study? If you express from something already accumulated it is a deadly bore, but if you are all the time watching, not only yourself but the world, you are learning.

A travers une compilation de conversations inédites qu’il a pu partager avec des personnes rencontrées au gré de ses voyages, Jiddu Krishnamurti, éminent philosophe du XXe siècle, explore les domaines de l’être et de la conscience, de l’éducation, ou encore de la méditation.