Liberation from ignorance, from sorrow

"We listen with hope and fear; we seek the light of another but are not alertly passive to be able to understand. If the liberated seems to fulfill our desires we accept him; if not, we continue our search for the one who will; what most of us desire is gratification at different levels. What is important is not how to recognize one who is liberated but how to understand yourself. No authority here or hereafter can give you knowledge of yourself; without self-knowledge, there is no liberation from ignorance, from sorrow."

– J. Krishnamurti
Ojai, 9th Public Talk, 1945

Public Talk 2
Santa Monica, California, USA
March 19, 1972

What is the motive, the drive, the energy behind our action?

What is the difference between pleasure, enjoyment and joy?

What is total action?

When there is only the fact, you have total energy to deal with that fact. Then that fact undergoes a radical change. When you look at the fact, at ‘what is’ with a conclusion, an image, a prejudice, then you are dissipating energy in contradiction.

Q: I would like to understand why love or hatred in the story of St Paul is immaterial.

The pursuit of pleasure divides people.

What is relationship?

Q: I am working for the Women’s Lib and we are trying to raise women’s consciousness to a higher level. What do you say about this?

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Public Talk 2
Brockwood Park, 1975

Isn't the only energy of thought we know that which comes in contradiction and duality?

How does desire arise? Is it seeing, sensation, contact, then desire?

Why is there a sense of wanting, lack, pursuing something all the time, which is desire?

Does desire, the wanting of something create fear?

Is there a centre from which all fear springs?

When you look without naming, is there fear?

Have we invented psychological time?

To uncover the unconscious must you analyse? If you don't analyse what are you to do?

Is there a different kind of energy altogether?