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2010-02-08

what is it that makes the mind superficial?

Now, what is it that makes the mind superficial? Please don't merely listen to me, but observe, be aware of your own thinking when a question like that is put to you. What makes the mind superficial? Why cannot the mind experience something that is true, beyond its own projections? Is it not…

2010-02-07

How does one deny?

How does one deny? Does one deny the known, not in great dramatic incidents but in little incidents? Do I deny when I am shaving and I remember the lovely time I had in Switzerland? Does one deny the remembrance of a pleasant time? Does one grow aware of it, and deny it? That is not dramatic, it…

2010-02-06

Peace within

A mind that has understood the nature of pleasure and fear is no longer violent and can therefore live at peace within itself and with the world.

2010-02-05

Can we stop war by praying for peace?

Question: Can we stop war by praying for peace?

Krishnamurti: I do not think that war can be stopped by prayer. Isn't praying for peace merely a particular form of emotional release? We think that we are incapable of preventing war and so we find in prayer a release from this horror…

2010-02-04

What is the Central Core of Your Thinking?

What is the Central Core of Your Thinking? Is it not, therefore, an obvious fact that what I am in my relationship to another creates society and that, without radically transforming myself, there can be no transformation of the essential function of society? When we look to a system for the transformation…