Public Talks 1. Complete freedom from thought - 9 September 1972 Duration: 76 minutes Learning is instant perception and action. What place has thought in learning? To learn about freedom must thought be completely silent? Does insight into freedom take time? Can thinking, however rational, bring about a psychological revolution in us? Is thought always conditioned? Is freedom the non-existence of thought? My very being is related to thought. If you want to see something new, what do you do? To have insight, let go of the old and listen. Learning is not memorizing. Q: Is feeling another way of thinking? Q: Isn't the need to love and be loved essential? Needing love is love of self 2. If I don't change now what will the future be? - 10 September 1972 Duration: 86 minutes Is thought responsible for fragmentation? Does fragmentation have its own activity? What is the energy that perceives the total and doesn't live in fragmentation? Does comparison bring about fear and pleasure? Is thought seeking security in belief and dogma? Can the mind learn instantly all the content of the unconscious in which there are deep, secret fears? Does analysis imply time and division? Is consciousness separate from its content? To get at the root of fear means learning about not being. Q: What about guilt? 3. If freedom is responsibility, how do I act? - 16 September 1972 Duration: 78 minutes Q: What is the action that will be a total response to the world around us? Can one respond totally without learning about love and death in relation to daily life? Do we live, or do we tolerate living? Do we live according to ideas and conclusions based on belief, dogma and memory? Is there an action which dissipates all images? Is love relationship in which there is no image? Is disorder relationship in which there is the image? Can a mind seeking comfort learn about death? Find out whether death is something to be avoided or to be lived with naturally. Can the mind free itself from the known? Q: What relationship has literature, beauty and art to our daily life? Q: Were you conditioned by the Masters? Q: Can one help someone in distress? 4. To come upon the new, thought must be quiet - 17 September 1972 Duration: 66 minutes If one is serious, one must learn for oneself if there is such a thing as the im measurable. Thought cannot find the immeasurable because thought is measurement and time. Can thought, realizing its limitations, be quiet? Can the mind without effort see its content clearly, and the limitation, lack of space and time-binding quality of its consciousness? When you say, 'I do not know,' does the content have importance? There are various systems of meditation, gadgets, yoga, to make the mind quiet. These are unimportant. Is truth the very perception of the false? When the mind has perceived the truth of something, what is time? Is there a different dimension which thought cannot touch? Public Discussion 5. You can learn only if you do not know - 12 September 1972 Duration: 90 minutes Q: Does learning require thinking, or only awareness? To be aware is to be conscious, to be in relationship with what you observe outwardly and also our inward reactions. Awareness reveals that I have a conclusion from which I act, which prevents the free flow of energy. You see that you have many opinions and conclusions. You don't know why you have them or how to be free of them. Start with not knowing. Knowledge is in the past whilst learning is vital, in the present. In learning, which is a constant movement, can opinion and conclusion ever be formed? Can thought be slowed down naturally? In learning about the function of thought, slowing down takes place without control or effort.

J. KRISHNAMURTI Jiddu Krishnamurti (May 12, 1895February 17, 1986) was a world renowned writer and speaker on philosophical and spiritual subjects. His subject matter included: the purpose of meditation, human relationships, the nature of the mind, and how to enact positive change in global society. Krishnamurti was born into a Telugu Brahmin family in what was then colonial India. In early adolescence, he had a chance encounter with prominent occultist and high-ranking theosophist C.W. Leadbeater in the grounds of the Theosophical Society headquarters at Adyar in Madras (now Chennai). He was subsequently raised under the tutelage of Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater, leaders of the Society at the time, who believed him to be a "vehicle" for an expected World Teacher. As a young man, he disavowed this idea and dissolved the world-wide organization (the Order of the Star) established to support it. He claimed allegiance to no nationality, caste, religion, or philosophy, and spent the rest of his life traveling the world as an individual speaker, speaking to large and small groups, as well as with interested individuals. He authored a number of books, among them The First and Last Freedom, The Only Revolution, and Krishnamurti's Notebook. :" In addition, a large collection of his talks and discussions have been published. At age 90, he addressed the United Nations on the subject of peace and awareness, and was awarded the 1984 UN Peace Medal. His last public talk was in Madras, India, in January 1986, a month before his death at home in Ojai, California. His supporters, working through several non-profit foundations, oversee a number of independent schools centered on his views on education in India, England and the United States and continue to transcribe and distribute many of his thousands of talks, group and individual discussions, and other writings, publishing them in a variety of formats including print, audio, video and digital formats as well as online, in many languages.