Can Thought Be Silent?

1. Can the mind be free? - 3 February 1969Duration: 99 minutes The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state. Where there is fear there is aggression. For most of us, freedom is something that we don't want. Inaction is total action. What is the machinery that builds images?Questions from the audience followed the talk. 2. Thought sustains fear and pleasure - 4 February 1969Duration: 67 minutes To understand relationship and to end the conflict in it is our entire problem. Can man live at peace, within himself and outwardly? In relationship one becomes aware of the actual state of oneself. The man that has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free man, a peacefulman. What is fear? Can thought be silent? Conduct becomes virtuous only when thought doesn't cultivate what itconsiders virtue. How is it possible to look at the sunset without thought weaving pleasure orpain around it?Questions from the audience followed the talk. 3. Life, death and love - 5 February 1969Duration: 69 minutes What is it that we call living? How can a confused mind find somebody who will tell the truth? When there is no comparison, no opposite, you are actually faced with the factof anger, then is there anger? Without knowing what sorrow is, understanding its nature and structure, weshall not know what love is. What is it to die? One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to anend. It is only the mind that has shed all its burdens every day, ended every problem,that is an innocent mind. Then life has a different meaning altogether. Then onecan find out what love is. 4. True revolution - 6 February 1969 J. KRISHNAMURTIDuration: 67 minutes What is a religious mind? Must one go to an expert to tell us what the unconscious is or can one find it foroneself? Through the negation of disorder, order comes into being. It is only the meditative mind that can find out, not the curious mind or themind that is everlastingly searching. To meditate implies to see very clearly. It is not possible to see clearly whenthere is space between the observer and the thing observed. It is only in silence that there is quite a different dimension.