Series - KFA

What is real freedom?

Public Talk 1

Why are we in conflict?

Public Talk 1 San Francisco, California
May 05, 1984

What is real freedom? To observe and inquire into the psychological world requires passion. The major cause of external conflict is division. We are broken up, fragmented, thinking we are separate from each other. Can division end? Have you ever observed anything completely? We are conditioned, and our consciousness is the knowledge we have acquired. Thought is a material process; there is nothing sacred thought has created. Can the recording processes of the brain in relationship stop?

Public Talk 2

Fear, sorrow, death and meditation

Public Talk 2 San Francisco, California
May 06, 1984

Man has had a fear of living and dying for millennia. Time becomes the enemy of man if there is no radical change now. Thought-time is the root of fear. Is there psychological becoming at all? Hold sorrow as you hold something precious and look at it. Give all your being to live with sorrow. Can you voluntarily, easily, happily, without any causation end something which you hold most dear? Any form of deliberate meditative practice is like any other form of desire. Is there meditation which is not conscious or deliberate?

About the Portal

Welcome to the Krishnamurti Portal! As the word suggests, a portal is a door or entrance, an approach to a bridge, an organism’s communicating part or area, and, in the context of a website, a guide or point of entry to material that includes a search engine to content typically arranged by topic. Indeed, the K-Portal is all this and more with respect to the content of the talks, discussions and writings of Krishnamurti.

This K-Portal is an initiative of the of the Krishnamurti Foundations, spearheaded by the KFA to enter, wander through and explore the teachings and insights of J. Krishnamurti. Its content is authentic; it is freely available to everyone; there is no charge for its use; and the content is downloadable.

The content accessed through this portal includes a significant number of Krishnamurti’s published works to date (starting in 1933 and ending at the time of his death in 1986), along with transcripts of several hundred of his audio and video recordings. An exhaustive listing of the various topics that were addressed by Krishnamurti is provided, which are embedded in brief quotes, which then in turn are embedded in the complete transcript of the text or audio/video recording in which they are contained. You, the user, are able to seamlessly jump between different quotes on a given topic, and also across different topics. You can access these topics via the comprehensive and alphabetized list that is provided, or via the search engine that also is provided here. You also can “like” and comment on these quotes and share them with others on your own social media platforms.

Topic Posts

Introduction to Krishnamurti’s teachings

J. Krishnamurti (1895-1986) did not expound any philosophy or religion but rather talked of the things that concern all of us in our everyday lives

Anxiety

The anxiety, the guilt, the fear, the responses that is all we know, is it not? And what is the totality of the mind, as we know it?

Relationship

I want a permanent relationship with my friend, with my wife, with my whatever it is, and the demand for a permanent relationship is the system…

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