Thought, stillness and time

Thought, stillness and time

Six Small group Discussions Gstad 1965

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1. Is thought detrimental? - 15 August 1965

Duration: 63 minutes

• Are we twisting everything to our core of pleasure?

2. Am I aware of the process of thinking? - 18 August 1965

Duration: 60 minutes



• How am I to live an everyday life with complete silence?

3. What will make me see that thought breeds frustration? - 21 August 1965

Duration: 78 minutes



• To function without prestige, without frustration, that itself is an extraordinary

state, meaning to function without self-centred activity.

4. From where do attachment and detachment come? - 24 August 1965

Duration: 65 minutes

• What is the relationship of the brain to the totality of the mind?

• Fear of not being, fear of isolation, fear of not having pleasure, fear of having

no relationship, is the soil from which the stem of contradiction grows.

• I want to be free of this stem to see what happens if there is no attachment, no

detachment, because I am not afraid.

• Is there a peace with no entity saying, 'I am peaceful'?

5. A complete stillness - 25 August 1965

Duration: 65 minutes



• Is it possible to look at everything without thought, therefore without time, J. KRISHNAMURTI

and so walk with silence?

6. When the mind is completely quiet, how can there be time? - 29 August 1965

Duration: 85 minutes

• Time exists only when there is an observer.