J. Krishnamurti

1. Attention implies the total abandonment of the ‘me’ - 6 March 1971
Duration: 100 minutes
• Can the mind undergo a radical revolution?
• How do you observe the world?
• What solves our human problem is observing the whole process of ourselves
 without judging, condemning, translating or rejecting – just to observe.
 Question topics following the talk include: being disturbed in order to know,
 being confused, transcendental meditation

2. Violence, pleasure and fear - 7 March 1971
Duration: 89 minutes
• We have accepted violence as a way of life and yet at the same time we want
 peace.
• Can one live a life in which there is no comparison at all?
• Pleasure is the continuance of an experience that is never finished.
• We are living in the past.
• How can the conscious mind investigate the total hidden mind?

3. Is pleasure love? - 13 March 1971
Duration: 96 minutes
• Can thought ever solve the whole problem of existence?
• What is the function of thought?
• Why has sex become so extraordinarily important?
• Chastity is the freedom from all image.
• Is love desire?
• A new thing can take place only when there is an ending of the old.
 Question topics following the talk include: getting better, controlling thought,
 the process of invention, vegetarianism, images.

4. Meditation means a life that is totally different every minute of the day -
14 March 1971
Duration: 94 minutes
• A mind that inquires into this whole question of meditation must have 
 tremendous discipline.
• When you observe ‘what is’ without the interference of the past, there is 
 complete change of ‘what is’.
• Is there a way of seeing the whole content of consciousness without analysis?
• When you give complete attention there is no centre from which you attend.
• The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is never hurt, scarred.
• Meditation is the sense of complete silence and quietness of the mind.
 Question topics following the talk include: gurus, meditation, effort, escaping
 from ‘what is’

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