Freeing the mind of humanity

"So, what is one to do? Despair? Live for the present, enjoy oneself? Just let things go? You understand the issue? You cannot rely on the outside, you can't rely on yourself. Your self is the result of the outside world in which you have lived and which you have created. The society is you and you are the society; the two are not separate. If you reject that you reject also this, and you must. So what is it that is rejecting? You're following this? When you reject the outside world, the outside authority, the priest, the church, the whole structure, are you not also rejecting yourself, throwing it away? Because that which is outside of you is part of you. You're Christian, Catholic, Protestant, Buddhist, Hindu, Communist, this or that. You're conditioned and when you reject that you must also reject your own conditioning. And can one be free of one's conditioning? Not partly, in patches here and there, but entirely, completely, wholly, both the conscious as well as the unconscious. After all, that is freedom. And it is only in that freedom that there is right action, there is a total action, which will respond wholly to this vast phenomenon.

So that is the issue: to free the mind. The mind, not your mind or my mind, but the mind of man - which is you - from all its conditioning. Can one attack the problem that way? Because otherwise we are not free, and because we are not free there is chaos in the world. And freedom is this absolute unconditioning the mind. And if we don't, we shall always live in prison, decorate it more or less, become great technicians, go to the moon and further, put the flag on Venus, or the cross on Mars, or the red flag somewhere else, and so on. But we will always be in sorrow, in confusion."

– J. Krishnamurti
Public Talk
Rome, Italy - 04 November 1969
 

Public Talk 5
Saanen, Switzerland
July 20, 1976

What actually is our relationship to each other in our daily life, and what is it based on?

When there is no image-maker, no registration takes place; there is no ‘me’ who gets hurt.

When there is no image there is love.

Can the immense burden of loneliness, despair, hurts, come to an end – not gradually but now?

Can sorrow, which is part of human conditioning and consciousness, end, not in some distant happy future, but now? The now is the most important.

Q: Are emotions rooted in thought?

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Amsterdam, Netherlands
Public Talk 2
1981

Can we observe together what is living and what it means to die? 

Is it possible while one is living, with all the turmoil, with that energy, capacity, to end attachment? 

Why has religion played such a great part in our lives from the most ancient of times until today? 

A religious mind is completely without disorder. 

In meditation there is no system, no practice; but the clarity of perception of a mind that is free, that has no direction, no choice, and is free to observe. 

Conflict exists only when there is division. Where there is nationalistic, economic or social division there must be conflict. Inwardly, where there is the division between the observer, the one who witnesses, the one who experiences, different from that which he experiences, there must be conflict. 

A mind that is practising, struggling, wanting to be silent is never silent.