The Life and Death of Krishnamurti

Called The Challenge of Change and directed by Michael Mendizza, with readings by the American actor Richard Chamberlain,

K asked whether there was an intelligence not born of knowledge and therefore free of self-interest.

Fear arises from the desire for security. ‘If there is complete psychological security there is no fear’, but there can never be psychological security ‘if one is wanting, desiring, pursuing, becoming

the observer and the observed, the experiencer and the experience. He will discover that this division is an illusion. Then only is there pure observation which is insight without any shadow of the past. This timeless insight brings about a deep radical change in the mind.

thought is the response of memory, the past.

Scott or from your background, but listen to them very, very carefully … Can you be free of your background? That’s very difficult … That really demands all your energy … Background being all your American training, your American education and so-called culture … Discuss with it, weigh it, take counsel together.

the bringing about of a radical transformation in the human mind. Without such a transformation there could be no real change in society, no real joy, no peace in the world.

This is probably K’s first mention of what was to him ‘real’ meditation – ‘making unexpected and amazing discoveries within oneself’ without any direction or purpose.

The burden of the past gives rise to its own continuity, and the worries of yesterday give new life to the worries of today.’

‘Is it possible,’ K asked, ‘for time to end – the whole idea of time as the past so that there is no tomorrow at all?’ If the brain remains in self-centred darkness it wears itself out with the resulting conflict.