There is no Eastern thinking or Western thinking, there is only thinking. Truth is not yours or mine. It has no path to it. A mind that is religious does not belong to any nationality, has no belief, but such a mind has exercised the quality of doubt so that it questions, doesn't obey the edicts of any religion, sect, or guru. We have banished reli…

Why is there this inward disorder which naturally must express itself in outward disorder? Can there be absolute order? What is the cause of the division in us as well as in the world? Detachment is attachment. If I try to become detached I am attached to that detachment. When there is complete attention there is no confusion. When there is fear we…

Can the brain change itself completely? Doubt purges the mind. Desire has significance and vitality only when thought creates the image. Insight can only take place when knowledge has come to an end and there is merely a pure observation, without any direction. Is it possible to live together without a single image? Can there be discontent by itsel…

Psychologically, we are the world. And the world is us, each one of us. Our responsibility is something global, not just for one's family, for one's children; those are important, but we are responsible for the whole of mankind because we are mankind. Can one actually be free of all attachment? What will persuade you, what will make you, what will …

Can we observe together what is living and what it means to die? Is it possible while one is living, with all the turmoil, with that energy, capacity, to end attachment? Why has religion played such a great part in our lives from the most ancient times until today? A religious mind is complete without the disorder. In meditation there is no system,…

The crisis is not in the economic world nor in the political world, but in our consciousness. We have been trained, educated, religiously as well as scholastically, that we are separate souls, individuals, striving for ourselves, but that is an illusion because our consciousness is common to all mankind. We are mankind. We are not separate individu…

There is no psychological evolution | J. Krishnamurti Extract from Public Talk #3, Madras (Chennai), India, 1979