It is becoming more and more important in a world that is destructive and degenerative that there should be a place, an oasis, where one can learn a way of living that is whole, sane, and intelligent. education in the modern world has been concerned with the cultivation not of inteligence, but intellect, of memory and its skills. in this process li

Here is an extract of pupul jayakar biography on krishnamurti and i think it can explain why krishnamurti was saying k. when he was speaking of himself. "i" in the extract is pupul jayakar. i asked, “now i have observed you listening to your own response, with the same awareness as you listen to a question. do you listen to your responses?” “

This is an interesting text of krishnamurti on technological habit with student at brockwood. i would like to share with you - conversation with 4 students at brockwood 9 june 1985 “k: you are learning to drive a car. d: yes. k: and the instructor tells you how to hold the wheel, what are the pedals, all the rest of it, he informs you. and then h

What is action and what is reaction? when you see something beautiful, it must react; oherwise you are not alive, you are insentive. it is not you that react but seeing beauty has is own action. but when you like what you see, you are capturing beauty into memory, you are continuing memory or memory is continuing. when i say something to you and yo

We are all so selfish. we are all spending most of the time thinking at ourselves. we are facing every challenge from our past experience, either we have a negative experience and we face the new experience in trying to avoiding the past experience to come again or we have a positive experience and we propose this past experience to be a guideline,

I met a men once who told me that i did not understand why krishnamurti was so emphasysing in his talks the ending of thought. for him, it was very simple to end thought. whenever he wanted to end thought he was going for a ride with his bicycle and there was no more thought. a bit later, in the conversation, he told me that it was difficult in win

Q: sir, we have to find out where comparison has its place, where it is necessary and where it isn't. k: no, forgive me again. we must start by saying, 'can one live without comparison?' not 'it helps sometimes and doesn't help at other times', 'comparison is necessary', or 'comparison is not necessary'. when the right question is asked, and answer

Life is a challenge. whatever you do, you have to face the challenge of life, and you have to respond. your response is the challenge; it is not separate from the challenge. this process of challenge and response is what we call an experience. from this experience, there is a residure which is memory. memory is the result of experience. and thought

I would like to talk about polarity management that was presented to me in my job. people who promote polarity management say that they are some question which cannot be answered by a problem to solved approach. the problem to solve approach can only have independent right answers. the others ones are problems with more than two opposite answers th

“cogito ergo sum” - “i think therefore i am.” descartes i think therefore i am the results of my thoughts, i am memory which is the results of the movement of thinking. these memories, the thoughts are much more statics than thinking itself. therefore, memories are reacting from the movement of thinking and i have the illusion that there is