Description

Jiddu Krishnamurti – Washington Talk (1985)Although Krishnamurti had spoken for many years in the United States, he had never given public talks in Washington, D.C. In 1985 he agreed to do so and met on two days in April of that year with large audiences from diverse backgrounds.There is a feeling in these two talks that Krishnamurti was communicating as much as possible of the teachings which he had been giving in many parts of the world for over sixty years. Once more he invited his audiences to ‘walk together, investigate together, look together at the world we have created’. In a revealing manner unique to Krishnamurti the talks go into the various factors of human conciousness playing a dominant role in our daily life. At the age of ninety, Krishnamurti spoke from the fullness of his insight and teaching.1st Talk – In the Present Is the Whole of TimeWhy are we, after this long evolution perpetually in conflict?Being absorbed in a poem, a face is that beauty?Why has humanity, each one of us accepted fear as a way of life?Why do we live, act on the basis of thought? What is the relationship to time of thought?Can there be total mutation now in all our behaviour, way of living, thinking, feeling?If you had no memory at all could you think?Memory arises from knowledge, experience. Is experience different from the experiencer?If there is no experiencer, is there experience?2nd Talk – At the End of Sorrow Is PassionWhat is order and what is disorder and what is their relationship to action? Can disorder end in our daily life?Concerned as we are with our own suffering how can there be love?Is sorrow brought about by self-pity?What happens after death? Does one carry the memories of one’s own life?If we don’t cling to a thing, then what is death?Not at the end of life but with all my energy, vitality, can I live with death all the time?If there is real order in one’s life what then is meditation?Following a system, practising day after day what happens to the human brain?Is there a meditation which is not determined?Through one’s own understanding of oneself there is that which is eternal.Video: DivXSize: 720×532 & 720x528Duration: Each around 1 hour 30 Minutesframe Rate: 25Data Rate: 112 kbpsSample size 24 BitAudio:Format: Lame Mp3Bit Rate: 128 kbpsJiddu Krishnamurti was born on 11 May 1895 in Madanapalle, a small town in south India. He and his brother were adopted in their youth by Dr Annie Besant, then president of the Theosophical Society. Dr Besant and others proclaimed that Krishnamurti was to be a world teacher whose coming the Theosophists had predicted. To prepare the world for this coming, a world-wide organization called the Order of the Star in the East was formed and the young Krishnamurti was made its head.In 1929, however, Krishnamurti renounced the role that he was expected to play, dissolved the Order with its huge following, and returned all the money and property that had been donated for this work.From then, for nearly sixty years until his death on 17 February 1986, he travelled throughout the world talking to large audiences and to individuals about the need for a radical change in mankind.Krishnamurti is regarded globally as one of the greatest thinkers and religious teachers of all time. He did not expound any philosophy or religion, but rather talked of the things that concern all of us in our everyday lives, of the problems of living in modern society with its violence and corruption, of the individual’s search for security and happiness, and the need for mankind to free itself from inner burdens of fear, anger, hurt, and sorrow. He explained with great precision the subtle workings of the human mind, and pointed to the need for bringing to our daily life a deeply meditative and spiritual quality.Krishnamurti belonged to no religious organization, sect or country, nor did he subscribe to any school of political or ideological thought. On the contrary, he maintained that these are the very factors that divide human beings and bring about conflict and war. He reminded his listeners again and again that we are all human beings first and not Hindus, Muslims or Christians, that we are like the rest of humanity and are not different from one another. He asked that we tread lightly on this earth without destroying ourselves or the environment. He communicated to his listeners a deep sense of respect for nature. His teachings transcend man-made belief systems, nationalistic sentiment and sectarianism. At the same time, they give new meaning and direction to mankind’s search for truth. His teaching, besides being relevant to the modern age, is timeless and universal.Krishnamurti spoke not as a guru but as a friend, and his talks and discussions are based not on tradition-based knowledge but on his own insights into the human mind and his vision of the sacred, so he always communicates a sense of freshness and directness although the essence of his message remained unchanged over the years. When he addressed large audiences, people felt that Krishnamurti was talking to each of them personally, addressing his or her particular problem. In his private interviews, he was a compassionate teacher, listening attentively to the man or woman who came to him in sorrow, and encouraging them to heal themselves through their own understanding. Religious scholars found that his words threw new light on traditional concepts. Krishnamurti took on the challenge of modern scientists and psychologists and went with them step by step, discussed their theories and sometimes enabled them to discern the limitations of those theories. Krishnamurti left a large body of literature in the form of public talks, writings, discussions with teachers and students, with scientists and religious figures, conversations with individuals, television and radio interviews, and letters. Many of these have been published as books, and audio and video recordings.Everyone who knows Jiddu Krishnamurti’s video’s knows that the video quality is not superb..Enjoy..