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2013-03-29

Through comparison you hope to evolve

If you do not compare yourself with another you will be what you are. Through comparison you hope to evolve, to grow, to become more intelligent, more beautiful. But will you? The fact is what you are, and by comparing you are fragmenting the fact which is a waste of energy. To see what you actually...

2012-02-26

Human Evolution

Must we know drunkenness to know sobriety? Must you go through hate in order to know what it is to be compassionate? Must you go through wars, destroying yourself and others, to know what peace is? Surely, this is an utterly false way of thinking, is it not? First you assume that there is evolution,...

2010-12-04

Looking at the world together

From the beginning we must be very clear that you are not being told what to do, or what to think. We have been programmed enough. But in this talk, and tomorrow's talk, we should think together, look at the world as it is, what is actually going on, together, without any bias, without any prejudice, ...

2010-12-01

Why have we created psychological time?

Perhaps man has developed this idea of evolution through watching a little bush grow into an enormous tree, the baby into manhood, the developing of a muscle, that muscle is weak but practice and exercise and it gets strong. So this idea of evolution, growing, psychologically thought has taken it over ...

2010-11-29

Do you believe in evolution?

Questioner: Do you believe in evolution? You have often said that understanding is immediate, the act of learning is on the moment; where does evolution play a part in this? Are you denying evolution? Krishnamurti: It would be foolish - would it not? to deny evolution. There is the bullock cart and the ...

2010-10-29

There is no psychological evolution.

So one may ask: time may be the enemy of man, psychologically. There is no psychological evolution. If you and the speaker are the result of forty thousand years or more, and we have come to this peculiar state that we are in, will we, give me another forty thousand years, change? You understand the...