The benediction of meditation

"So in attention there is freedom. A free mind is only capable of attention in which there is no achievement or gaining or losing or fear. And that is necessary because it is only a quiet attentive mind that can understand this immense problem of living. And it is only the quiet meditative mind that can come upon what is called love. And so we are going to attend, and we are going to learn together what it means to attend. And it is only that attentive mind that is the meditative mind. We are going to learn, not accumulate knowledge - accumulating knowledge is one thing and learning is another. And we are going to learn together about this problem of living, which is relationship, which is love, which is death."

– J. Krishnamurti
Talk 3 with students 
Claremont, California - 17 November 1968

Dialogue 2
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
April 21, 1978

What is implied in being together in this school?

How will you help the student to understand the necessity of learning a subject without any pressure?

By talking over with the student we begin to explore.

What will make me listen to you?

What is the relationship between the educator and the student when neither is putting pressure on the other?

To live under pressure is destructive and creates disorder.

Reward and punishment both create fear, and fear becomes a tremendous pressure. Can we avoid reward and punishment?

Note: a total of 11 minutes and 5 seconds of missing video is replaced by audio only.

Bombay (Mumbai)
Question #4 from Q&A Meeting #1
1984

'Is it necessary to marry in life? What is the physical relationship between man and woman?'