Can the Mind Be Quiet? by Krishnamurti, Jiddu -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Contents Explorations with Krishnamurti Foreword by Terence Stamp PART ONE: EXPLORATIONS INTO LIVING

1 We do not see, we do not hear 2 How can the centre end? 3 The stream of life 4 Ignorance of oneself is the cause of conflict 5 Why do we divide the outer and the inner? 6 Conflict in any form is destruction of energy 7 How do I bring up my children? 8 What can stop degeneration in the world? 9 You have made the mind a slave to words 10 Pleasure soon becomes pain 11 Comparison breeds discontent 12 What brings about perception? 13 Can my child’s brain cells be changed? 14 Choice exists only when the mind is confused 15 Control in any form is distortion 16 Solitude means freedom 17 Can the mind unburden itself? 18 We take a wrong turn and get lost 19 The intellect is very limited 20 The positive approach is destructive 21 Life cannot be ruled by ideas 22 Is creation different from expression? 23 How we waste our life! 24 All seeking is from emptiness and fear 25 Can I stop decline in myself? 26 At what depth do you want order? 27 Wisdom does not come through practice 28 The brain needs complete security 29 Intense watchfulness

PART TWO: EXPLORATIONS INTO LEARNING

30 Education is to bring about the extraordinary beauty of order 31 Teach through dialogue rather than merely impart knowledge 32 To learn cooperation is part of education 33 Thought divides 34 The intellect can never be free 35 Knowledge is detrimental to learning 36 Knowledge is static 37 Knowledge becomes an impediment to relationship 38 Freedom from the known is the highest intelligence 39 Sex becomes an obsessive god 40 What does virtue mean? 41 Only the undistorted mind can see truth 193

PART THREE: EXPLORATIONS INTO MEDITATION

42 What really is sacred? 43 Choiceless awareness and attention 44 Why do you meditate? 45 The religious mind is the meditative mind 46 Opinion is not truth 47 Meditation is intelligence 48 Meditation is the essence of energy 49 Life is an extraordinarily beautiful movement 50 What is it to be aware? 51 The strange sense of otherness 52 Meditation is to see the fact of distortion 53 We don’t see the whole 54 Meditation is the movement of great sensitivity 55 Can the brain ever be quiet? 56 Love is not an abstraction 57 Meditation is emptying the mind of word and symbol 58 The ending of time is the ending of change 59 Thought cannot empty the mind 60 Silence

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