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    If We Had No Belief What Would Happen to Us?: Ojai 1949 - Public Talk 3
    Simplicity Cannot Be Found Unless One is Free Inwardly: Ojai 1949 - Public Talk 4
    Does Self-Knowledge Come Through Searching?: Ojai 1949 - Public Talk 1
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    Ojai 1949 Public Talk Series

    Written by Jiddu Krishnamurti

    Narrated by Jiddu Krishnamurti

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    About this series

    Simplicity comes into being when there is freedom from the desire to achieve

    • One who is sincere can never be simple because he who is trying to be sincere always has the desire to pattern or approximate himself to an idea.

    • Self-knowledge can be discovered more fully, deeply, widely, only when there is passive awareness, which is not the exertion of will.

    • In the search for self-knowledge we get caught in self-consciousness. Being caught we make the thing in which one is caught the most important thing.

    • To go beyond self-consciousness there must be freedom from the desire to achieve a result, because the achievement of a result is what the mind wants.

    • Q: Would you please explain what you mean by dying daily?

    • Q: How does a truth when repeated become a lie? What really is a lie?

    • Q: I think I can help, but whatever I say or do to another is interpreted as interference and as domineering. Why does this happen to me?

    • Q: What is aloneness? Is it a mystical state?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherM-Y Books Ltd.
    Release dateJun 21, 2022
    If We Had No Belief What Would Happen to Us?: Ojai 1949 - Public Talk 3
    Simplicity Cannot Be Found Unless One is Free Inwardly: Ojai 1949 - Public Talk 4
    Does Self-Knowledge Come Through Searching?: Ojai 1949 - Public Talk 1

    Titles in the series (9)

    • 1

      Does Self-Knowledge Come Through Searching?: Ojai 1949 - Public Talk 1
      Does Self-Knowledge Come Through Searching?: Ojai 1949 - Public Talk 1

      Does Self-Knowledge Come Through Searching?: Ojai 1949 - Public Talk 1

      Jiddu Krishnamurti
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      1. Does self-knowledge come through searching? - 16 July 1949 • What is it that most of us are seeking? • Does clarity come through searching and trying to find out what others say? • Can incessant search and longing give you the extraordinary sense of reality or creative being that comes when you really understand yourself? • Without knowing your background and the substance of your thought, where it comes from, surely your search is utterly futile and your action has no meaning. • The responsibility for any action depends on ourselves, not on others. • Q: Do I have to be at any special level of consciousness to understand you? • Q: The movement of life is experienced in relationship to people and to ideas.

      1. Does self-knowledge come through searching? - 16 July 1949 • What is it that most of us are seeking? • Does clarity come through searching and trying to find out what others say? • Can incessant search and longing give you the extraordinary sense of reality or creative being that comes when you really understand yourself? • Without knowing your background and the substance of your thought, where it comes from, surely your search is utterly futile and your action has no meaning. • The responsibility for any action depends on ourselves, not on others. • Q: Do I have to be at any special level of consciousness to understand you? • Q: The movement of life is experienced in relationship to people and to ideas.

    • 3

      If We Had No Belief What Would Happen to Us?: Ojai 1949 - Public Talk 3
      If We Had No Belief What Would Happen to Us?: Ojai 1949 - Public Talk 3

      If We Had No Belief What Would Happen to Us?: Ojai 1949 - Public Talk 3

      Jiddu Krishnamurti
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      If we had no belief what would happen to us? - 23 July 1949 • Without self-knowledge we cannot go beyond the self-projected illusions of the mind. • It’s only in relationship that one can know oneself as one is. • A mind that is filled with beliefs, dogmas, assertions and quotations is an un creative, repetitive mind. • Can we look at ourselves without beliefs? • A mind that is quiet because it understands fear and understands itself is creative. • Q: Our mind knows only the known. What is it in us that drives us to find the unknown, reality, or God?

      If we had no belief what would happen to us? - 23 July 1949 • Without self-knowledge we cannot go beyond the self-projected illusions of the mind. • It’s only in relationship that one can know oneself as one is. • A mind that is filled with beliefs, dogmas, assertions and quotations is an un creative, repetitive mind. • Can we look at ourselves without beliefs? • A mind that is quiet because it understands fear and understands itself is creative. • Q: Our mind knows only the known. What is it in us that drives us to find the unknown, reality, or God?

    • 4

      Simplicity Cannot Be Found Unless One is Free Inwardly: Ojai 1949 - Public Talk 4
      Simplicity Cannot Be Found Unless One is Free Inwardly: Ojai 1949 - Public Talk 4

      Simplicity Cannot Be Found Unless One is Free Inwardly: Ojai 1949 - Public Talk 4

      Jiddu Krishnamurti
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      Simplicity cannot be found unless one is free inwardly - 24 July 1949 • Only when the mind and heart are really simple is one able to solve the many problems that confront us. • A religious man is he who is inwardly simple. • Q: I have been a member of various religious organizations but you have destroyed them all. I am utterly bored and work because hunger forces me to it. I am afraid to commit suicide. What on earth am I to do? • Q: What have you to say to a person who, in quiet moments, sees the truth of what you say, who has a longing to keep awake but who finds himself repeatedly lost in a sea of impulse and small desires?

      Simplicity cannot be found unless one is free inwardly - 24 July 1949 • Only when the mind and heart are really simple is one able to solve the many problems that confront us. • A religious man is he who is inwardly simple. • Q: I have been a member of various religious organizations but you have destroyed them all. I am utterly bored and work because hunger forces me to it. I am afraid to commit suicide. What on earth am I to do? • Q: What have you to say to a person who, in quiet moments, sees the truth of what you say, who has a longing to keep awake but who finds himself repeatedly lost in a sea of impulse and small desires?

    • 2

      Relationship Has Significance Only When It is a Process of Self-Revelation
      Relationship Has Significance Only When It is a Process of Self-Revelation

      Relationship Has Significance Only When It is a Process of Self-Revelation

      Jiddu Krishnamurti
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      Relationship has significance only when it is a process of self-revelation - 17 July 1949 • Where there is authority there can be no discovery of something new. • Relationship based on an idea cannot be a self-revealing process. • Self-knowledge is understood, uncovered and its process revealed through relationship. • Is it possible to love without the interference of the mind? • When the mind becomes supreme, all-important, then there can be no affection. • Q: What is that thinking that must come to an end? What do you mean by thinking and thought?

      Relationship has significance only when it is a process of self-revelation - 17 July 1949 • Where there is authority there can be no discovery of something new. • Relationship based on an idea cannot be a self-revealing process. • Self-knowledge is understood, uncovered and its process revealed through relationship. • Is it possible to love without the interference of the mind? • When the mind becomes supreme, all-important, then there can be no affection. • Q: What is that thinking that must come to an end? What do you mean by thinking and thought?

    • 8

      Experiencing the State of Immortality Without Ideation: Ojai 1949 - Public Talk 8
      Experiencing the State of Immortality Without Ideation: Ojai 1949 - Public Talk 8

      Experiencing the State of Immortality Without Ideation: Ojai 1949 - Public Talk 8

      Jiddu Krishnamurti
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      8. Experiencing the state of immortality without ideation - 7 August 1949. • There is no mind without idea, thought and verbalization. • There is no experiencer and the experience; there is only a state of experiencing. • One cannot think about immortality. If one can live in the state of only experiencing then there is a state in which ideation has stopped altogether. • Is it possible to have direct experience of that which is not thinkable and which cannot be put into words? • Q: Is there a way of knowing what is the truth about myself, without illusion or self-deception? • Q: Is effort a necessary preliminary to tranquillity? • Q: I no longer suppress my thoughts and am I shocked by what sometimes arises. Can I be as bad as that? • Q: Why is it that certain undesirable conditions in oneself do not vanish as soon as they are observed? • Q: Is the artist or musician engaged in a futile thing?

      8. Experiencing the state of immortality without ideation - 7 August 1949. • There is no mind without idea, thought and verbalization. • There is no experiencer and the experience; there is only a state of experiencing. • One cannot think about immortality. If one can live in the state of only experiencing then there is a state in which ideation has stopped altogether. • Is it possible to have direct experience of that which is not thinkable and which cannot be put into words? • Q: Is there a way of knowing what is the truth about myself, without illusion or self-deception? • Q: Is effort a necessary preliminary to tranquillity? • Q: I no longer suppress my thoughts and am I shocked by what sometimes arises. Can I be as bad as that? • Q: Why is it that certain undesirable conditions in oneself do not vanish as soon as they are observed? • Q: Is the artist or musician engaged in a futile thing?

    • 5

      How is One to Be Aware?: Ojai 1949 - Public Talk 5
      How is One to Be Aware?: Ojai 1949 - Public Talk 5

      How is One to Be Aware?: Ojai 1949 - Public Talk 5

      Jiddu Krishnamurti
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      How is one to be aware? - 30 July 1949 • Does the understanding of ourselves demand a specialization? • What is it that we need capacity for? • How is one to be capable of meeting life as a whole? • How are we aware of something? • To understand relationship there must be an awareness which is not aggressively positive. • Q: All religions have insisted on some kind of self-discipline to moderate the instincts of the brute in man. You seem to imply that such disciplines are a hindrance to the realization of God. Who is right in this matter?

      How is one to be aware? - 30 July 1949 • Does the understanding of ourselves demand a specialization? • What is it that we need capacity for? • How is one to be capable of meeting life as a whole? • How are we aware of something? • To understand relationship there must be an awareness which is not aggressively positive. • Q: All religions have insisted on some kind of self-discipline to moderate the instincts of the brute in man. You seem to imply that such disciplines are a hindrance to the realization of God. Who is right in this matter?

    • 8

      Ideals And Ambition: Ojai 1949 - Public Talk 8
      Ideals And Ambition: Ojai 1949 - Public Talk 8

      Ideals And Ambition: Ojai 1949 - Public Talk 8

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      Ideals and ambition - 13 August 1949 • Q: In listening to you, I feel that the distinction or space between ideal and practice is illusory. Is this so? • Q: I am free from ambition. Is there something wrong with me?

      Ideals and ambition - 13 August 1949 • Q: In listening to you, I feel that the distinction or space between ideal and practice is illusory. Is this so? • Q: I am free from ambition. Is there something wrong with me?

    • 11

      Why Do We Want to Dominate Or Be Subservient to Another?: Ojai 1949 - Public Talk 11
      Why Do We Want to Dominate Or Be Subservient to Another?: Ojai 1949 - Public Talk 11

      Why Do We Want to Dominate Or Be Subservient to Another?: Ojai 1949 - Public Talk 11

      Jiddu Krishnamurti
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      "Why do we want to dominate or be subservient to another? - 20 August 1949 • Why is it that we dominate, consciously or unconsciously? • To submit oneself to another is the negative form of domination. We shall not be able to solve this problem by thinking in terms of opposites. • Is not domination a process of isolation, which denies relationship? • Can there be relationship between two people if there is any sense of domination or submissiveness? • Q: Is not the experience of the past a help towards freedom and right action in the present? • Q: Is my believing in survival after death a hindrance to liberation through self- knowledge? • Q: Why is it certain individuals identify themselves with you or with your state of being and thereby gain authority for themselves?"

      "Why do we want to dominate or be subservient to another? - 20 August 1949 • Why is it that we dominate, consciously or unconsciously? • To submit oneself to another is the negative form of domination. We shall not be able to solve this problem by thinking in terms of opposites. • Is not domination a process of isolation, which denies relationship? • Can there be relationship between two people if there is any sense of domination or submissiveness? • Q: Is not the experience of the past a help towards freedom and right action in the present? • Q: Is my believing in survival after death a hindrance to liberation through self- knowledge? • Q: Why is it certain individuals identify themselves with you or with your state of being and thereby gain authority for themselves?"

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      Simplicity Comes Into Being When There is Freedom From the Desire to Achieve: Ojai 1949 - Public Talk 13
      Simplicity Comes Into Being When There is Freedom From the Desire to Achieve: Ojai 1949 - Public Talk 13

      Simplicity Comes Into Being When There is Freedom From the Desire to Achieve: Ojai 1949 - Public Talk 13

      Jiddu Krishnamurti
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      Simplicity comes into being when there is freedom from the desire to achieve • One who is sincere can never be simple because he who is trying to be sincere always has the desire to pattern or approximate himself to an idea. • Self-knowledge can be discovered more fully, deeply, widely, only when there is passive awareness, which is not the exertion of will. • In the search for self-knowledge we get caught in self-consciousness. Being caught we make the thing in which one is caught the most important thing. • To go beyond self-consciousness there must be freedom from the desire to achieve a result, because the achievement of a result is what the mind wants. • Q: Would you please explain what you mean by dying daily? • Q: How does a truth when repeated become a lie? What really is a lie? • Q: I think I can help, but whatever I say or do to another is interpreted as interference and as domineering. Why does this happen to me? • Q: What is aloneness? Is it a mystical state?

      Simplicity comes into being when there is freedom from the desire to achieve • One who is sincere can never be simple because he who is trying to be sincere always has the desire to pattern or approximate himself to an idea. • Self-knowledge can be discovered more fully, deeply, widely, only when there is passive awareness, which is not the exertion of will. • In the search for self-knowledge we get caught in self-consciousness. Being caught we make the thing in which one is caught the most important thing. • To go beyond self-consciousness there must be freedom from the desire to achieve a result, because the achievement of a result is what the mind wants. • Q: Would you please explain what you mean by dying daily? • Q: How does a truth when repeated become a lie? What really is a lie? • Q: I think I can help, but whatever I say or do to another is interpreted as interference and as domineering. Why does this happen to me? • Q: What is aloneness? Is it a mystical state?

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    Jiddu Krishnamurti

    J. Krishnamurti (1895-1986) was a renowned spiritual teacher whose lectures and writings have inspired thousands. His works include On Mind and Thought, On Nature and the Environment, On Relationship, On Living and Dying, On Love and Lonliness, On Fear, and On Freedom.

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