The Krishnamurti Collection

214 • Amsterdam 1968 (5/5) • Talk 5: The Meaning of Life

Krishnamurti: Can Thought Become Quiet? Amsterdam 1968, Public Meetings 5/5: The Meaning of Life To act according to a principle, belief or ideology is the fundamental distortion of energy.  Is there action without formula?  You cannot possibly invite reality, the heavens and the beauty of the earth. All you have to do is to leave the window open and let that beauty and love come. To leave the window open you must have order and therefore deny the total disorder of this society.  Q: What is the best attitude towards hostility and brutality? Q: If we understand listening with our whole being, does that mean that we understand everything else you say? Q: Is it better not to do a kindness when it is done only for duty without love? - The Krishnamurti Collection is an official podcast by Krishnamurti Foundation Trust. Across this wide selection of events, Krishnamurti explores fundamental questions of human existence that touch our daily lives and relationships. Each episode of the podcast features a full-length Krishnamurti recording from the Foundation’s archives, with a new series released every week. Krishnamurti is widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers and teachers of all time. For seven decades, he spoke to large audiences around the world, as well as with notable individuals and small groups. Krishnamurti stressed that ‘There is hope in humanity, not in society, not in systems, not in organised religious systems, but in you and in me.’ Established by Krishnamurti in 1968, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust is a non-profit charity based at Brockwood Park in the UK, which is also home to The Krishnamurti Centre and Brockwood Park School. To learn more about our activities and retreat programmes, and to donate, please visit:   Krishnamurti Foundation Trust: kfoundation.org The Krishnamurti Centre: krishnamurticentre.org.uk Brockwood Park School: brockwood.org.uk Newsletter: kfoundation.org/newsletter Donations: kfoundation.org/donate Get in touch at podcast@kfoundation.org Please consider leaving a review, which helps the visibility of the podcast.

213 • Amsterdam 1968 (4/5) • Talk 4: This Light in Oneself

Krishnamurti: Can Thought Become Quiet? Amsterdam 1968, Public Meetings 4/5: This Light in Oneself To lay the foundation for meditation one must understand what living and dying are.  Truth can never be experienced, that is the beauty of it. It is always new, never what has happened yesterday. To follow implies not only the denying of one’s own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty, but it also implies that your motive in following is reward. Truth is not a reward.  In the denial of disorder there is order.  Beauty is not man-made. Beauty is where there is order.  There can be order only when there is total self-denial, when the ‘me’ has no importance whatsoever. The ending of the ‘me’ is the only meditation. - The Krishnamurti Collection is an official podcast by Krishnamurti Foundation Trust. Across this wide selection of events, Krishnamurti explores fundamental questions of human existence that touch our daily lives and relationships. Each episode of the podcast features a full-length Krishnamurti recording from the Foundation’s archives, with a new series released every week. Krishnamurti is widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers and teachers of all time. For seven decades, he spoke to large audiences around the world, as well as with notable individuals and small groups. Krishnamurti stressed that ‘There is hope in humanity, not in society, not in systems, not in organised religious systems, but in you and in me.’ Established by Krishnamurti in 1968, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust is a non-profit charity based at Brockwood Park in the UK, which is also home to The Krishnamurti Centre and Brockwood Park School. To learn more about our activities and retreat programmes, and to donate, please visit:   Krishnamurti Foundation Trust: kfoundation.org The Krishnamurti Centre: krishnamurticentre.org.uk Brockwood Park School: brockwood.org.uk Newsletter: kfoundation.org/newsletter Donations: kfoundation.org/donate Get in touch at podcast@kfoundation.org Please consider leaving a review, which helps the visibility of the podcast.

212 • Amsterdam 1968 (3/5) • Talk 3: In Acting Completely There Is No Fragmentation

Krishnamurti: Can Thought Become Quiet? Amsterdam 1968, Public Meetings 3/5: In Acting Completely There Is No Fragmentation When pleasure becomes the dominating demand of life then there is constant breaking up of life into compartments, fragments and divisions. To be related means to be active in the present, otherwise there is no relationship. Why does the human heart carry this burden of sorrow?  Innocence is not of time, it is the ending of the yesterday. When this ends there is love in relationship. - The Krishnamurti Collection is an official podcast by Krishnamurti Foundation Trust. Across this wide selection of events, Krishnamurti explores fundamental questions of human existence that touch our daily lives and relationships. Each episode of the podcast features a full-length Krishnamurti recording from the Foundation’s archives, with a new series released every week. Krishnamurti is widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers and teachers of all time. For seven decades, he spoke to large audiences around the world, as well as with notable individuals and small groups. Krishnamurti stressed that ‘There is hope in humanity, not in society, not in systems, not in organised religious systems, but in you and in me.’ Established by Krishnamurti in 1968, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust is a non-profit charity based at Brockwood Park in the UK, which is also home to The Krishnamurti Centre and Brockwood Park School. To learn more about our activities and retreat programmes, and to donate, please visit:   Krishnamurti Foundation Trust: kfoundation.org The Krishnamurti Centre: krishnamurticentre.org.uk Brockwood Park School: brockwood.org.uk Newsletter: kfoundation.org/newsletter Donations: kfoundation.org/donate Get in touch at podcast@kfoundation.org Please consider leaving a review, which helps the visibility of the podcast.

211 • Amsterdam 1968 (2/5) • Talk 2: Is It Possible To End Thought?

Krishnamurti: Can Thought Become Quiet? Amsterdam 1968, Public Meetings 2/5: Is It Possible To End Thought? Life is something that’s constantly new, challenging us all the time with new demands and new phases. To that challenge we respond according to our old pattern and so there is a contradiction.  The fundamental question is not how to get rid of fear or violence but whether thought as time can come to an end, so that there is no tomorrow psychologically.  Can there be a total mutation so that we live at a different dimension altogether?  You can look only when the mind is completely quiet.  To look is the greatest of miracles. Do nothing else but give complete attention to looking, at your wife or your husband, your belief, opinions, judgements or evaluations. - The Krishnamurti Collection is an official podcast by Krishnamurti Foundation Trust. Across this wide selection of events, Krishnamurti explores fundamental questions of human existence that touch our daily lives and relationships. Each episode of the podcast features a full-length Krishnamurti recording from the Foundation’s archives, with a new series released every week. Krishnamurti is widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers and teachers of all time. For seven decades, he spoke to large audiences around the world, as well as with notable individuals and small groups. Krishnamurti stressed that ‘There is hope in humanity, not in society, not in systems, not in organised religious systems, but in you and in me.’ Established by Krishnamurti in 1968, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust is a non-profit charity based at Brockwood Park in the UK, which is also home to The Krishnamurti Centre and Brockwood Park School. To learn more about our activities and retreat programmes, and to donate, please visit:   Krishnamurti Foundation Trust: kfoundation.org The Krishnamurti Centre: krishnamurticentre.org.uk Brockwood Park School: brockwood.org.uk Newsletter: kfoundation.org/newsletter Donations: kfoundation.org/donate Get in touch at podcast@kfoundation.org Please consider leaving a review, which helps the visibility of the podcast.

210 • Amsterdam 1968 (1/5) • Talk 1: Can One Establish a Relationship With Reality?

Krishnamurti: Can Thought Become Quiet? Amsterdam 1968, Public Meetings 1/5: Can One Establish a Relationship With Reality? A person who would find reality must be completely free of the influence of the word, propaganda and the symbol.  When you believe, there is fear behind that belief.  A mind that is afraid can never find light. It may invent a thing called light out of fear, imagine a heaven or hell out of its own darkness, but fear still remains.  Can thought, which is the very structure of our brain, become quiet? - The Krishnamurti Collection is an official podcast by Krishnamurti Foundation Trust. Across this wide selection of events, Krishnamurti explores fundamental questions of human existence that touch our daily lives and relationships. Each episode of the podcast features a full-length Krishnamurti recording from the Foundation’s archives, with a new series released every week. Krishnamurti is widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers and teachers of all time. For seven decades, he spoke to large audiences around the world, as well as with notable individuals and small groups. Krishnamurti stressed that ‘There is hope in humanity, not in society, not in systems, not in organised religious systems, but in you and in me.’ Established by Krishnamurti in 1968, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust is a non-profit charity based at Brockwood Park in the UK, which is also home to The Krishnamurti Centre and Brockwood Park School. To learn more about our activities and retreat programmes, and to donate, please visit:   Krishnamurti Foundation Trust: kfoundation.org The Krishnamurti Centre: krishnamurticentre.org.uk Brockwood Park School: brockwood.org.uk Newsletter: kfoundation.org/newsletter Donations: kfoundation.org/donate Get in touch at podcast@kfoundation.org Please consider leaving a review, which helps the visibility of the podcast.