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J. Krishnamurti discusses whether humanity has taken a wrong turn – a long time ago. Mankind has always tried to become something but instead of being constructive, people began plundering and taking slaves. The root of all this is in conflict, suggests J. Krishnamurti, and then delves into the question ‘what is the root of conflict?’. Is it that all religions insist that one has to become something instead of facing facts. Christians have the idea of original sin, Hinduism has Karma – whatever the faith, the spur is the idea of becoming better. Dr Bohm points out that this is natural in us – an instinct and that we have reason why we shouldn’t become better but J. Krishnamurti still probes the root cause. Is time the main factor? J. Krishnamurti points out that the conflict arises from the contradiction between what is and what one strives to be – inwardly, one builds up an ‘egotistic centre’. One’s brain perhaps becomes so accustomed to conflict that it rejects any other way of living – so conflict becomes accepted as inevitable. Dr Bohm sums this up as wanting simultaneously to be what we are AND to become something better – and therefore we are constantly in a state of turmoil.

ABOUT J. KRISHNAMURTI
Jiddu Krishnamurti (May 12, 1895?February 17, 1986) was a world renowned writer and speaker on philosophical and spiritual subjects. His subject matter included: the purpose of meditation, human relationships, the nature of the mind, and how to enact positive change in global society.
Krishnamurti was born into a Telugu Brahmin family in what was then colonial India. In early adolescence, he had a chance encounter with prominent occultist and high-ranking theosophist C.W. Leadbeater in the grounds of the Theosophical Society headquarters at Adyar in Madras (now Chennai). He was subsequently raised under the tutelage of Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater, leaders of the Society at the time, who believed him to be a “vehicle” for an expected World Teacher. As a young man, he disavowed this idea and dissolved the world-wide organization (the Order of the Star) established to support it. He claimed allegiance to no nationality, caste, religion, or philosophy, and spent the rest of his life traveling the world as an individual speaker, speaking to large and small groups, as well as with interested individuals. He authored a number of books, among them The First and Last Freedom, The Only Revolution, and Krishnamurti’s Notebook. In addition, a large collection of his talks and discussions have been published. At age 90, he addressed the United Nations on the subject of peace and awareness, and was awarded the 1984 UN Peace Medal. His last public talk was in Madras, India, in January 1986, a month before his death at home in Ojai, California.
His supporters, working through several non-profit foundations, oversee a number of independent schools centered on his views on education ? in India, England and the United States ? and continue to transcribe and distribute many of his thousands of talks, group and individual discussions, and other writings, publishing them in a variety of formats including print, audio, video and digital formats as well as online, in many languages.

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Continuing his discussion with Dr Bohm, J. Krishnamurti asks if human problems are insolvable. Although we have cultivated a mind that can solve almost any technological problem, we apparently have never solved any human problems. Human beings are drowned by their problems; the problems of communication; of knowledge, of relationship, of heaven and hell. J. Krishnamurti says that the whole of human existence has become a vast problem and it seems that it has been so throughout history. In spite of all his knowledge and in spite of his centuries of evolution, he has never been free of problems. So he goes on to ask whether it actually is possible to have no problems at all. Or is it just through our deep-rooted tradition that we accept things as they are?
ABOUT J. KRISHNAMURTI. Jiddu Krishnamurti (May 12, 1895?February 17, 1986) was a world renowned writer and speaker on philosophical and spiritual subjects. His subject matter included: the purpose of meditation, human relationships, the nature of the mind, and how to enact positive change in global society.
Krishnamurti was born into a Telugu Brahmin family in what was then colonial India. In early adolescence, he had a chance encounter with prominent occultist and high-ranking theosophist C.W. Leadbeater in the grounds of the Theosophical Society headquarters at Adyar in Madras (now Chennai). He was subsequently raised under the tutelage of Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater, leaders of the Society at the time, who believed him to be a “vehicle” for an expected World Teacher. As a young man, he disavowed this idea and dissolved the world-wide organization (the Order of the Star) established to support it. He claimed allegiance to no nationality, caste, religion, or philosophy, and spent the rest of his life traveling the world as an individual speaker, speaking to large and small groups, as well as with interested individuals. He authored a number of books, among them The First and Last Freedom, The Only Revolution, and Krishnamurti’s Notebook. In addition, a large collection of his talks and discussions have been published. At age 90, he addressed the United Nations on the subject of peace and awareness, and was awarded the 1984 UN Peace Medal. His last public talk was in Madras, India, in January 1986, a month before his death at home in Ojai, California.
His supporters, working through several non-profit foundations, oversee a number of independent schools centered on his views on education ? in India, England and the United States ? and continue to transcribe and distribute many of his thousands of talks, group and individual discussions, and other writings, publishing them in a variety of formats including print, audio, video and digital formats as well as online, in many languages.

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Continuing his discussion with Dr Bohm, J. Krishnamurti asks ?what is materialism?? By this he does not mean the philosophical movement by that name, which claims that matter is all there is ? although that sense has some relevance. All nature, he says, all human beings react physically. This reaction is sustained by thought. And thought is a material process. So reaction as in nature, in animals, in human beings, is the materialistic response. Or more accurately, the two agree, ?The Response of Matter?. J. Krishnamurti goes on to extend this thought, saying that, ?We are talking about having an empty mind and we have come to that point when the wall has been broken down and this emptiness and what lies beyond it, or through it, and so on, we will come to that, but before we begin with that, as I said: is all reaction matter?? Furthermore, he suggests that matter and movement are the reactions that exist in all organic matter ? and Dr Bohm agrees citing the law that every action has a corresponding reaction. And when J. Krishnamurti talks of going beyond that he says that the philosophy of materialism would say there is no meaning to go beyond it. So it seems that thought is a material process ? although some might argue that it is both material and something beyond material.
ABOUT J. KRISHNAMURTI. Jiddu Krishnamurti (May 12, 1895?February 17, 1986) was a world renowned writer and speaker on philosophical and spiritual subjects. His subject matter included: the purpose of meditation, human relationships, the nature of the mind, and how to enact positive change in global society.
Krishnamurti was born into a Telugu Brahmin family in what was then colonial India. In early adolescence, he had a chance encounter with prominent occultist and high-ranking theosophist C.W. Leadbeater in the grounds of the Theosophical Society headquarters at Adyar in Madras (now Chennai). He was subsequently raised under the tutelage of Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater, leaders of the Society at the time, who believed him to be a “vehicle” for an expected World Teacher. As a young man, he disavowed this idea and dissolved the world-wide organization (the Order of the Star) established to support it. He claimed allegiance to no nationality, caste, religion, or philosophy, and spent the rest of his life traveling the world as an individual speaker, speaking to large and small groups, as well as with interested individuals. He authored a number of books, among them The First and Last Freedom, The Only Revolution, and Krishnamurti’s Notebook. In addition, a large collection of his talks and discussions have been published. At age 90, he addressed the United Nations on the subject of peace and awareness, and was awarded the 1984 UN Peace Medal. His last public talk was in Madras, India, in January 1986, a month before his death at home in Ojai, California.
His supporters, working through several non-profit foundations, oversee a number of independent schools centered on his views on education ? in India, England and the United States ? and continue to transcribe and distribute many of his thousands of talks, group and individual discussions, and other writings, publishing them in a variety of formats including print, audio, video and digital formats as well as online, in many languages.

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Continuing his discussion with Dr Bohm, J. Krishnamurti asks what makes the mind and why is it always following a certain pattern; always seeking. As he says, one can always find explanations such as for protection, for safety, for slackness, indifference, a certain amount of callousness, total disregard for one?s own flowering and so on. But these are not satisfactory explanations. So he asks, ?why do human beings, however intelligent, however learned, however philosophical and religious, they always fall into this groove??. The two of them discuss whether this ?groove? arises from the accumulation of knowledge and J. Krishnamurti points out that in certain philosophies, certain concepts and so on in India, there is this philosophy that knowledge must end – the Vedanta. But apparently very, very, very few people do end knowledge and talk from freedom. ?I have been watching this many years,? he says, and still he wonders why human beings think or attempt to become free from certain things. And yet this is the root of it. This accumulation, psychological accumulation becomes psychological knowledge and so it divides and all kinds of things happen around it and within it. And yet the mind refuses to let go.
ABOUT J. KRISHNAMURTI. Jiddu Krishnamurti (May 12, 1895?February 17, 1986) was a world renowned writer and speaker on philosophical and spiritual subjects. His subject matter included: the purpose of meditation, human relationships, the nature of the mind, and how to enact positive change in global society.
Krishnamurti was born into a Telugu Brahmin family in what was then colonial India. In early adolescence, he had a chance encounter with prominent occultist and high-ranking theosophist C.W. Leadbeater in the grounds of the Theosophical Society headquarters at Adyar in Madras (now Chennai). He was subsequently raised under the tutelage of Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater, leaders of the Society at the time, who believed him to be a “vehicle” for an expected World Teacher. As a young man, he disavowed this idea and dissolved the world-wide organization (the Order of the Star) established to support it. He claimed allegiance to no nationality, caste, religion, or philosophy, and spent the rest of his life traveling the world as an individual speaker, speaking to large and small groups, as well as with interested individuals. He authored a number of books, among them The First and Last Freedom, The Only Revolution, and Krishnamurti’s Notebook. In addition, a large collection of his talks and discussions have been published. At age 90, he addressed the United Nations on the subject of peace and awareness, and was awarded the 1984 UN Peace Medal. His last public talk was in Madras, India, in January 1986, a month before his death at home in Ojai, California.
His supporters, working through several non-profit foundations, oversee a number of independent schools centered on his views on education ? in India, England and the United States ? and continue to transcribe and distribute many of his thousands of talks, group and individual discussions, and other writings, publishing them in a variety of formats including print, audio, video and digital formats as well as online, in many languages.

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Continuing his discussion with Dr Bohm, J. Krishnamurti asks Can the mind really, mind, brain, the whole psychological structure, ever be free from all conflict, from all shadow of any disturbance? Self-disturbance, and all that. Can it ever be free? Or the idea of complete freedom is an illusion. He goes on the say that many of the great philosophers have stated that the human condition is so determined by the past, by its own conditioning that it can never free itself. Non-sectarian religious people, he says, agree with this proposition. Assuming, of course, that there is such as thing as the non-sectarian religious, those people free from all organized religions and beliefs, rituals and dogmas, they say it can be done. Here, Dr Bohm points out that this is usually said to be achieved through reincarnation ? and it will take a very long time. J. Krishnamurti agrees but goes on to say that, ?You must go through various lives and suffer and go through all kinds of miseries and ultimately you come to that. But we are not thinking in terms of time. We?re asking, a human being granting, knowing or aware that he is conditioned, deeply, profoundly, so that his whole being is that, can it ever free itself? And if it does, what is beyond? That?s what we were coming to.? They discuss the way in which the mind, being deeply conditioned, can free itself through insight.
ABOUT J. KRISHNAMURTI Jiddu Krishnamurti (May 12, 1895?February 17, 1986) was a world renowned writer and speaker on philosophical and spiritual subjects. His subject matter included: the purpose of meditation, human relationships, the nature of the mind, and how to enact positive change in global society.
Krishnamurti was born into a Telugu Brahmin family in what was then colonial India. In early adolescence, he had a chance encounter with prominent occultist and high-ranking theosophist C.W. Leadbeater in the grounds of the Theosophical Society headquarters at Adyar in Madras (now Chennai). He was subsequently raised under the tutelage of Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater, leaders of the Society at the time, who believed him to be a “vehicle” for an expected World Teacher. As a young man, he disavowed this idea and dissolved the world-wide organization (the Order of the Star) established to support it. He claimed allegiance to no nationality, caste, religion, or philosophy, and spent the rest of his life traveling the world as an individual speaker, speaking to large and small groups, as well as with interested individuals. He authored a number of books, among them The First and Last Freedom, The Only Revolution, and Krishnamurti’s Notebook. In addition, a large collection of his talks and discussions have been published. At age 90, he addressed the United Nations on the subject of peace and awareness, and was awarded the 1984 UN Peace Medal. His last public talk was in Madras, India, in January 1986, a month before his death at home in Ojai, California.
His supporters, working through several non-profit foundations, oversee a number of independent schools centered on his views on education ? in India, England and the United States ? and continue to transcribe and distribute many of his thousands of talks, group and individual discussions, and other writings, publishing them in a variety of formats including print, audio, video and digital formats as well as online, in many languages.

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In the third of four talks with four students from France, The Phillippines, India and Argentina he recaps the main thrust of the previous talk, which was our relationship to what is happening in the world. By this he means terror, terrorism and every other form of slaughter of innocent people. He refers to the troubles in Bangladesh, Beirut, The Falklands ? and even to US President Reagan?s ?Star Wars? project. Then he asks the students what is their reaction to all this ? to these national, economic and racial divisions. The general feeling seems to be that they try and keep away from it; not to discriminate on the basis of where people come from and not to contribute to ?the mess?. But J. Krishnamurti pushes them further, asking what they are going to do about all this bombing, this killing, the wars. Aside from the fact that when you pay for your air ticket home your money contributes to the arms industry, he asks if they really will do it. Whether they really will say ?I will not be violent? and mean it. He goes on to explain how this relates to the remainder of the discussion: ?No, I am asking you, will you take the responsibility, seriously, passionately, and say, let?s go into the question of violence and I will see I will not be violent, and therefore you will not elect a violent leader ? right? ? a politician ? that is what has happened the world over. Therefore I am asking you as human beings, will you stop your own violence??
ABOUT J. KRISHNAMURTI
Jiddu Krishnamurti (May 12, 1895?February 17, 1986) was a world renowned writer and speaker on philosophical and spiritual subjects. His subject matter included: the purpose of meditation, human relationships, the nature of the mind, and how to enact positive change in global society.
Krishnamurti was born into a Telugu Brahmin family in what was then colonial India. In early adolescence, he had a chance encounter with prominent occultist and high-ranking theosophist C.W. Leadbeater in the grounds of the Theosophical Society headquarters at Adyar in Madras (now Chennai). He was subsequently raised under the tutelage of Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater, leaders of the Society at the time, who believed him to be a “vehicle” for an expected World Teacher. As a young man, he disavowed this idea and dissolved the world-wide organization (the Order of the Star) established to support it. He claimed allegiance to no nationality, caste, religion, or philosophy, and spent the rest of his life traveling the world as an individual speaker, speaking to large and small groups, as well as with interested individuals. He authored a number of books, among them The First and Last Freedom, The Only Revolution, and Krishnamurti’s Notebook. In addition, a large collection of his talks and discussions have been published. At age 90, he addressed the United Nations on the subject of peace and awareness, and was awarded the 1984 UN Peace Medal. His last public talk was in Madras, India, in January 1986, a month before his death at home in Ojai, California.
His supporters, working through several non-profit foundations, oversee a number of independent schools centered on his views on education ? in India, England and the United States ? and continue to transcribe and distribute many of his thousands of talks, group and individual discussions, and other writings, publishing them in a variety of formats including print, audio, video and digital formats as well as online, in many languages.

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In the final of the four meetings in Santa Monica, J. Krishnamurti proposes that they talk about and share together naturally, the question of how to have not only abundant physical energy but also a quality of energy that?s not purely physical, brought about through friction, struggle; a quality of energy that is totally different. Why? Because, he answers, ?Because we need energy, not only to change ourselves in the light of our own understanding of ourselves, but also we need a great deal of energy to change the social structure in which we live.? The energy off which he speaks is no of any one group, country, religious belief or dogma but it is an energy that is totally outside of all human conflict; it is a new quality of energy; energy of a totally different dimension. In some way, J. Krishnamurti is talking about an entirely new form of religion (because as he points out, he is chiefly concerned with religion here). But what form does this take? ?I?m not talking about the religion which the priests have invented throughout the world, organised, with their vested interest in property, in God, in rituals, but a religion that has nothing whatsoever to do with any dogma, belief, ritual, that is not the product of a cunning thought, contriving to shape the man?s behaviour. We are talking of another religion in which there are no saviours, masters, accepting some authority, in which the priest doesn?t intervene, in which there is direct perception. And that very perception brings about its own order, its own vitality, its own energy.? J. Krishnamurti goes on to discuss the nature of consciousness and the ways in which mankind might use this new form of religion; of energy to change the way we live.
ABOUT J. KRISHNAMURTI
Jiddu Krishnamurti (May 12, 1895?February 17, 1986) was a world renowned writer and speaker on philosophical and spiritual subjects. His subject matter included: the purpose of meditation, human relationships, the nature of the mind, and how to enact positive change in global society.
Krishnamurti was born into a Telugu Brahmin family in what was then colonial India. In early adolescence, he had a chance encounter with prominent occultist and high-ranking theosophist C.W. Leadbeater in the grounds of the Theosophical Society headquarters at Adyar in Madras (now Chennai). He was subsequently raised under the tutelage of Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater, leaders of the Society at the time, who believed him to be a “vehicle” for an expected World Teacher. As a young man, he disavowed this idea and dissolved the world-wide organization (the Order of the Star) established to support it. He claimed allegiance to no nationality, caste, religion, or philosophy, and spent the rest of his life traveling the world as an individual speaker, speaking to large and small groups, as well as with interested individuals. He authored a number of books, among them The First and Last Freedom, The Only Revolution, and Krishnamurti’s Notebook. In addition, a large collection of his talks and discussions have been published. At age 90, he addressed the United Nations on the subject of peace and awareness, and was awarded the 1984 UN Peace Medal. His last public talk was in Madras, India, in January 1986, a month before his death at home in Ojai, California.
His supporters, working through several non-profit foundations, oversee a number of independent schools centered on his views on education ? in India, England and the United States ? and continue to transcribe and distribute many of his thousands of talks, group and individual discussions, and other writings, publishing them in a variety of formats including print, audio, video and digital formats as well as online, in many languages.

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In the first of a series of talks at Wolf Lake School, J. Krishnamurti begins by asking what does it mean to be educated and then considers how that question relates to the nature of freedom. He says that the root meaning of the word ?school? is the same as for the word ?leisure?. The meaning of leisure is a mind that is unoccupied, not filled up with lots of worries. This means that in order to learn, the mind must be free; must have time to learn; must have leisure to learn. In short, he says that it is only when you have a great deal of leisure that you can learn. This is the heart of the matter for this talk ? and he goes on to ask what exactly do we mean by leisure and what do we mean by learning. Firstly he does not mean leisure in the sense that ?you pick up a book or wander off into the woods and read something to be occupied?. From this he leads into a provocative discussion on the nature of freedom, suggesting that there are two kinds: physical freedom and inward freedom. This leads to an examination of what ?order? and ?disorder? really mean and onward into all manner of questions designed to penetrate to the heart of the human psyche.
ABOUT J. KRISHNAMURTI
Jiddu Krishnamurti (May 12, 1895?February 17, 1986) was a world renowned writer and speaker on philosophical and spiritual subjects. His subject matter included: the purpose of meditation, human relationships, the nature of the mind, and how to enact positive change in global society.
Krishnamurti was born into a Telugu Brahmin family in what was then colonial India. In early adolescence, he had a chance encounter with prominent occultist and high-ranking theosophist C.W. Leadbeater in the grounds of the Theosophical Society headquarters at Adyar in Madras (now Chennai). He was subsequently raised under the tutelage of Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater, leaders of the Society at the time, who believed him to be a “vehicle” for an expected World Teacher. As a young man, he disavowed this idea and dissolved the world-wide organization (the Order of the Star) established to support it. He claimed allegiance to no nationality, caste, religion, or philosophy, and spent the rest of his life traveling the world as an individual speaker, speaking to large and small groups, as well as with interested individuals. He authored a number of books, among them The First and Last Freedom, The Only Revolution, and Krishnamurti’s Notebook. In addition, a large collection of his talks and discussions have been published. At age 90, he addressed the United Nations on the subject of peace and awareness, and was awarded the 1984 UN Peace Medal. His last public talk was in Madras, India, in January 1986, a month before his death at home in Ojai, California.
His supporters, working through several non-profit foundations, oversee a number of independent schools centered on his views on education ? in India, England and the United States ? and continue to transcribe and distribute many of his thousands of talks, group and individual discussions, and other writings, publishing them in a variety of formats including print, audio, video and digital formats as well as online, in many languages.

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In the first of four meetings in Santa Monica, J. Krishnamurti begins by pointing out that these meanings are not a form of entertainment but a journey of exploration on which he and his audience are about to embark together. Although most of like to be entertained, informed, told a certain theory or dogma, he intends to avoid all this. On the contrary, he says that together they will, ?share the many problems, such as love, death, and the utter madness that is going on in the world ? we are going to understand these problems together, sharing, and therefore it is very important from the very beginning that we should understand each other, and what it means to observe the problems into which we are going ? to observe, to listen.? The problem with this prefernce for being entertained and informed is that it engenders a certain form of listening ? in J. Krishnamurti?s view, the wrong one. The problem as he sees it is that we listen according to our fancy, comparing what is being said with what we already know and then translating and interpreting, This prevents us from truly listening. With this in mind J. Krishnamurti proposes that the first of their enquiries together should be into, ?what it means to listen, to observe, whether it is at all possible to observe actually ?what is? without any interpretation, without any categorising, putting it into a certain groove, into a certain path, but to merely observe.? This, as he admits, is a difficult concept to grasp ? as are many others in this intriguing journey into the human psyche and all its ramifications.
ABOUT J. KRISHNAMURTI
Jiddu Krishnamurti (May 12, 1895?February 17, 1986) was a world renowned writer and speaker on philosophical and spiritual subjects. His subject matter included: the purpose of meditation, human relationships, the nature of the mind, and how to enact positive change in global society.
Krishnamurti was born into a Telugu Brahmin family in what was then colonial India. In early adolescence, he had a chance encounter with prominent occultist and high-ranking theosophist C.W. Leadbeater in the grounds of the Theosophical Society headquarters at Adyar in Madras (now Chennai). He was subsequently raised under the tutelage of Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater, leaders of the Society at the time, who believed him to be a “vehicle” for an expected World Teacher. As a young man, he disavowed this idea and dissolved the world-wide organization (the Order of the Star) established to support it. He claimed allegiance to no nationality, caste, religion, or philosophy, and spent the rest of his life traveling the world as an individual speaker, speaking to large and small groups, as well as with interested individuals. He authored a number of books, among them The First and Last Freedom, The Only Revolution, and Krishnamurti’s Notebook. In addition, a large collection of his talks and discussions have been published. At age 90, he addressed the United Nations on the subject of peace and awareness, and was awarded the 1984 UN Peace Medal. His last public talk was in Madras, India, in January 1986, a month before his death at home in Ojai, California.
His supporters, working through several non-profit foundations, oversee a number of independent schools centered on his views on education ? in India, England and the United States ? and continue to transcribe and distribute many of his thousands of talks, group and individual discussions, and other writings, publishing them in a variety of formats including print, audio, video and digital formats as well as online, in many languages.

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In this second of the three-part series, the eminent panel move on from the question whether thought can help us understand the brain to discuss with J. Krishnamurti whether it is possible for the brain not to have psychological recording. From the outset, J. Krishnamurti points out that theories and speculations, whether psychological or spiritual, have no meaning to him. The only significant thing to him is dealing with facts; facts being that which has happened, that which is happening and not what will happen. The first question, then, is ?So is the brain a fact now??. ?Of course?, replies J. Krishnamurti, ?because it is functioning. Functioning in the sense
That it wants to communicate something verbally and also perhaps non-verbally.? The debate goes on to provide challenging insights and explorations from J. Krishnamurti as well as from this illustrious panel of experts.
ABOUT J. KRISHNAMURTI Jiddu Krishnamurti (May 12, 1895?February 17, 1986) was a world renowned writer and speaker on philosophical and spiritual subjects. His subject matter included: the purpose of meditation, human relationships, the nature of the mind, and how to enact positive change in global society.
Krishnamurti was born into a Telugu Brahmin family in what was then colonial India. In early adolescence, he had a chance encounter with prominent occultist and high-ranking theosophist C.W. Leadbeater in the grounds of the Theosophical Society headquarters at Adyar in Madras (now Chennai). He was subsequently raised under the tutelage of Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater, leaders of the Society at the time, who believed him to be a “vehicle” for an expected World Teacher. As a young man, he disavowed this idea and dissolved the world-wide organization (the Order of the Star) established to support it. He claimed allegiance to no nationality, caste, religion, or philosophy, and spent the rest of his life traveling the world as an individual speaker, speaking to large and small groups, as well as with interested individuals. He authored a number of books, among them The First and Last Freedom, The Only Revolution, and Krishnamurti’s Notebook. In addition, a large collection of his talks and discussions have been published. At age 90, he addressed the United Nations on the subject of peace and awareness, and was awarded the 1984 UN Peace Medal. His last public talk was in Madras, India, in January 1986, a month before his death at home in Ojai, California.
His supporters, working through several non-profit foundations, oversee a number of independent schools centered on his views on education ? in India, England and the United States ? and continue to transcribe and distribute many of his thousands of talks, group and individual discussions, and other writings, publishing them in a variety of formats including print, audio, video and digital formats as well as online, in many languages.

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