Krishnamurti
The Core of the Teachings
Written by Krishnamurti in 1980 at the request of his biographer Mary Lutyens.
The core of Krishnamurti’s teaching is contained in the statement he made in 1929 when he said, “Truth is a pathless land”. Man cannot come to it through any organization, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, not through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the contents of his own mind, through observation and not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection.
| Man has built in himself images as a fence of security – religious, political, personal. These manifest as symbols, ideas, beliefs. The burden of these images dominates man’s thinking, his relationships and his daily life. These images are the causes of our problems for they divide man from man. His perception of life is shaped by the concepts already established in his mind. The content of his consciousness is his entire existence. This content is common to all humanity. The individuality is the name, the form and superficial culture he acquires from tradition and environment. The uniqueness of man does not lie in the superficial but in complete freedom from the content of his consciousness, which is common to all mankind. So he is not an individual. | ||||
Brockwood Park 1979 - Q1 | Brockwood Park 1980 - T1 | The Nature of the mind - 1 | The Nature of the mind - 2 | The Nature of the mind - 3 |
Saanen 1979 - T3 | A. Anderson - 10 | A. Anderson - 13 | A. Anderson - 14 | Ojai 1980 - T2 |
Saanen 1985 - T3 | Discussion with Teachers 2.1 | The Transformation of Man - 2 | The Transformation of Man - 5 | The Transformation of Man - 6 |
Brockwood Park 1978 - D2 | Seminar 2 | Brockwood Park 1979 - T1 | ||
| Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not a choice. It is man’s pretence that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is without motive; freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man but lies in the first step of his existence. In observation one begins to discover the lack of freedom. Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence. | ||||
New York 1971 - T4 | Brockwood Park 1985 - T3 | A. Anderson - 1 | A. Anderson - 2 | A. Anderson - 4 |
Eugene Schallert - 1 | Saanen 1984 - T2 | Ojai 1977 - T6 | ||
| Thought is time. Thought is born of experience, of knowledge, which are inseparable from time. Time is the psychological enemy of man. Our action is based on knowledge and therefore time, so man is always a slave to the past. When man becomes aware of the movement of his own consciousness he will see the division between the thinker and the thought, the observer and the observed, the experiencer and the experience. He will discover that this division is an illusion. Then only is there pure observation which is insight without any shadow of the past. This timeless insight brings about a deep, radical mutation in the mind. | ||||
Brockwood Park 1980 - Q2 | Saanen 1980 - T4 | New York 1971 - T2 | Ojai 1985 - T2 | Madras (Chennai) 1978 - 79 |
Bombay (Mumbai) 1984 - T2 | David Bohm 1983 - 1 | Brockwood Park 1985 - T2 | Huston Smith | Discussion with Small Group 4 |
Ojai 1980 - T3 | The Nature of the mind - 4 | Ojai 1983 - T1 | The ending of time - 10 | Saanen 1979 - T1 |
Saanen 1979 - T2 | San Diego 1970 - T1 | |||
| Total negation is the essence of the positive. When there is negation of all those things which are not love – desire, pleasure – then love is, with its compassion and intelligence. | ||||
New York 1971 - T4 | Ojai 1982 - Q4 | A. Anderson - 3 | Ojai 1985 - T3 | Saanen 1977 - T4 |
Saanen 1979 - D2 | San Diego 1970 - T3 | The ending of time - 12 | ||
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