How does one go to the very source of thought? | J. Krishnamurti

Published 2014-12-14
Subtitles available in: ENGLISH, PORTUGUESE

Madras 1980/1981 - Question #8 from Question & Answer Meeting #1

'How does one go to the very source of thought so that there is a possibility of silencing the thinking process itself?'

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All Comments (21)
  • @jaygohel1657
    "We are so full of other people's knowledge. We are second hand people." Brilliant
  • @SitaWelsh
    If everyone will listen to this man,what a wonderful world it will be.
  • @funstuff8147
    Listening to sir J krishnamurti without contemplating is like eating without digesting
  • @EmilHeart160
    He walked on this earth. What a spectacular human being. Thank You from the deepest of my heart J. Krishnamurti for reminding us to find out for ourselves.
  • @kostaftp
    What a powerful ending. "Your Gods are matter" "There is nothing sacred in what thought has created. It is the mind, that is beyond thought, beyond time, that knows what is to be sacred."
  • @durwhat
    I was a determined seeker 50yrs ago and read most of Krishnamurti's books of the day line by line thinking that in the next paragraph Ï was going to get .It.!! Tonight listening is happening. Thank you Krishnamurti.
  • @beamboy420
    Years ago I once was about to leave the house. I saw an umbrella.. and I thought hmm may be I should take it. But looked outside and it was clear as a day and I left home. It started pouring that day and I wished I took the umbrella. To this day I still don’t know out of countless things why my brain noticed the umbrella and thought of it for a second and some part of mind rejected it. I don’t believe we have just one system of thought. We have got many systems conflicting with each other. The things that you want to do but the things that you choose to do etc. To this day I haven’t found the answer on how some of the thoughts come to my mind. It’s so strange it comes on different topics. Sometimes I can tell the source of it like tv or a dream or socials media But sometimes I have no idea where it comes from. Sometimes it feel it’s external like it’s connected to the worlds. I want to decipher and differentiate these thoughts but my day to day life keeps me so busy. But am here to watch this video trying to still understand. I still have no answer. But now atleast if I notice something out of ordinary when I leave the house I don’t question it. I take it. It’s always worked. I never ignore something that comes to my attention but without explanation.. i still am amazed that there’s a part of your brain that can foresee things a little bit that your conscious mind cannot. It’s difficult to explain how this works.
  • @RsharmilaRavi
    Salute to this wonderful man and to everyone who have watched and commented.
  • @waynerogers5485
    "Not knowing" and "not needing to know" is a tremendous state. I first found it in the interlude between asking aa honest question and waiting for an answer I didn't have. My mind was no longer trying to reason it out and I just waited. What a wonderful place to come to.
  • @return60
    This is what I understand Krishnamurti was saying. The human body with its brain is a machine, a marvelous one with incredible capabilities but it is still a machine, made of matter (molecules and atoms), fundamentally not unlike any other machines built by humans such as cars, computers, etc. Being material, the human brain does not have consciousness except for what is stored in its memory, just like a computer, no matter how complex, does not have consciousness. Being of matter, the human brain cannot understand or reach the immaterial. It is the immaterial that operates through living entities including humans, and in the process an ego is formed that is intimately associated with the body. So the ego along with its body thinks it is a unique entity with its own intelligence that is separate from others. But actually there is only the (immaterial) intelligence that operates through machines (e.g. human bodies) just as people operate their computers. Thus there is only intelligence, not your intelligence or my intelligence, because you and I are basically machines. Without the intelligence operating through our bodies, we don't even know we exist, not any more than a computer being aware of its existence.
  • @yeshajariwala
    Thanks for the basic knowledge about thought processes. J.K is the world teacher.
  • @3dulimited952
    We are so full of 'other people's knowledge -second hand people ' how true !!!!!!
  • @AsifChauhan
    Anything that thought creates is matter... Your Gods are matter. ❤️
  • @yogidreams3912
    17 dislikes!!! How can someone in his conscious mind dislike this beautiful human being (who was/is/will always be a phenomenon in his own personality)?
  • @BDBD05
    "Its a wrong question" at 0:59. And then what an explanation!!! Deep into the essence.
  • @braigetori
    "there is nothing sacred in what thought has created"