Have you not noticed that if you sit quietly on the banks of the river you hear its song—the lapping of the water, the sound of the current going by? There is always a sense of movement, an extraordinary movement towards the wider and the deeper. But in the little pool there is no movement at all, its water is stagnant. And if you observe you will see that this is what most of us want: little stagnant pools of existence away from life.

On Goodness
J KRISHNAMURTI

ne of the last things Krishnamurti said was, “Keep the teachings clean and look after the land,” a statement as remarkable for what it leaves out as it is for the two things he mentions expressly. No mention, for instance, of education or of that broad field he cultivated so carefully, and of whi…

The world crisis
The current state of the world is marked by a series of global challenges whose gravity turns them into veritable crises. These crises are not due to natural phenomena but are the direct result of human action. They are the outcome of our conflicted relationships with nature, wit…

Ridiculous the waste sad time
Stretching before and after.
—TS Eliot, Burnt Norton

Over the years as one of the KFT editors, I have naturally read or listened to a great deal of K material, though very far from anything like the total of it—estimated as equal to four hundred average-sized books—only half of which is available electronically. Any attempt to summarise this massive…

W e are concerned with the whole existence of man and whether a human being can ever be free from his travail, his efforts, his anxieties, violence and brutality, and whether there is an end to sorrow. Why have human beings, throughout the ages, sustained and put up with suffering? Can there be a…

It was 1975. I was seventeen years old.
I stood before our family deity, Goddess Shantadurga, in the inner sanctum of her temple in Dhargal, Goa, our family home, along with my Dad.
The priest placed four petals on each shoulder and arm of the heartbreakingly beautiful idol carved in black stone,…

In 2016, I was at The School to give a talk at the annual teachers’
conference of the Krishnamurti schools. My talk was scheduled after the morning tea break. When I arrived, it was tea time.
I caught up with many people whom I had not seen in some time. The feelings were warm and affectionate. Th…

My introduction to Krishnamurti came while I was at art school studying photography in the late 1960s.
This was a wonderful time to be young; there was a feeling that everyone should re-invent themselves, and the world at large. It was OK to make mistakes but not to follow in other people’s footst…

If one listens…without effort, with clarity, then I think that very listening is the vehicle of action.
You do not have to do anything about it – the very act of listening is action. It is like seeing something, it is like looking at a flower. We never actually look at a flower, because we look …

Is it possible to live without relying psychologically on authority—either on external authority or even on the authority of one’s own past experience? For Jiddu Krishnamurti that, suitably qualified, is the key question. His answer is that it is possible and that only in this way can one connect …

For the last two decades I have taught as a professor of philosophy at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz,
Germany. Throughout my academic career I have mostly specialized in the area of analytical philosophy of mind and cognitive science. This has mainly involved working on theories of consc…

Although I am a professor of Religious Studies, my fondness for Krishnamurti’s teachings is not solely academic. About forty years ago, I worked with passion at a Krishnamurti school in Canada, before going on to a career in academia, during which I have written books and articles on Krishnamurti’…

W hen asked in 1974 by his biographer, Mary
Lutyens, to define his teachings Krishnamurti wrote the following:
The core of Krishnamurti’s teaching is contained in the statement he made in 1929 when he said Truth is a pathless land.
Man cannot come to it through any organization, through any creed…

I first encountered Krishnamurti when I was eighteen years old, studying Psychology at Delhi University. I was a young undergraduate, in search of another way of life, filled with confusion and yearning to be part of ‘something else’ which might help me understand what life is all about. I was clue…

This brief article is the product of a perspective that incorporates a number of streams through which I have experienced Krishnamurti’s message—as a beneficiary of
Krishnamurti’s life and teachings, a member, now President, of the Theosophical Society, and one who has recently participated in the…