The Complete Jiddu Krishnamurti video archive part 4

1) Jiddu Krishnamurti, Conversation with Dr. Allan W. Anderson, San Diego, California, 1974 - 18 videos - running time 18 hours approx.

Q: Is there freedom in knowledge? K: It is our business as human beings to realize the enormous suffering misery, confusion there is in the world. Do we realize with all seriousness our responsibility to the whole of mankind? Do we see the basic factor that we are the world that the world is not separate from us? What place has knowledge, human experience in changing the quality of a mind that has become brutal violent, petty, selfish, greedy, ambitious? What place has knowledge in that? What are the limits of knowledge? Can the mind be free from the known not verbally, but actually?

2) The Challenge of Change - The Biographical Film of J. Krishnamurti

The Challenge of Change is the compelling story of a great religious teacher of the 20th century, from his childhood discovery in 1909 to his lifelong talks with large audiences in most parts of the world until his death in 1986. Through the Theosophical Society of which she was the President, Annie Besant, who had adopted him and his brother, proclaimed Krishnamurti to be the World Teacher who had been historically foretold and expected by the Society. Krishnamurti rejected any special status when he dissolved the Order of the Star that had been set up around him, declaring that "Truth is a Pathless Land", and denying that there could be any authority in religious matters. This remarkable story, told through archival film and photographs, is a valuable introduction to Krishnamurti's life and teaching. There are excerpts from his many talks, as well as an interview made for the film. He spoke not as a guru, saviour or master but as one who called for the awakening of intelligence in all human beings.

3) San Diego, Lecture, 6th April, 1970

Can we get to the root of fear and end it—and without analysis, which involves time and thought and merely escapes from facing the fact? Is there an observation of all this without an observer preventing direct perception of the reality of the conditions in which we live and which we are? In awareness, listening with attention, can we discover what meditation is and see life as a whole that includes death as well as love?

4) The Nature of the Mind, Ojai, 16-17th April 1982, Conversations with Drs. Bohm, Sheldrake & Hidley

Psychological Suffering - Q: Is it possible to live a life free from disorder? Q: What is security? - We are hurt by parents, school, university. Is it possible not to be hurt and not to hurt? A lot of ideas, emotions, reactions, all that is me. Is it possible not to have images at all? I identify with my nation because that gives me a certain strength, status, security. Why do we want to identify with something? And why do we want to become? Avoidance, of "what is" is an escape, but to say, look, this is what I am, let`s look at it, is not. If I see the fact that responsibility is order, I am responsible for keeping this house clean, as we all live on this earth it is our earth, not the British , or French or German earth. And we have divided ourselves because in this division we think there is security. In isolation there is neither security nor order.

5) Freedom and Authority - Beyond Myth and Tradition Series

Beyond Myth and Tradition is a twelve-part series made by the Krishnamurti Foundation of America in 1997. Each programme focuses on a particular aspect of life and presents relevant excerpts from Krishnamurti's Talks and Discussions filmed at different times around the world. Produced and Directed by Evelyn Blau and Michael Mendizza (The Challenge of Change), this series offers a very good introduction to Krishnamurti's teachings, whilst also conveying their scope, depth and relevancy in today's world.

6) Krishnamurti on Freedom - An Introduction to the Teachings of Jiddu Krishnamurti

This video is an introduction to the teachings of J. Krishnamurti, who as a young man declared that his concern was to set mankind unconditionally free. This programme takes freedom as the basis for an examination of Krishnamurti's teaching and offers a glimpse of his approach to the resolution of the many problems that burden humanity.

7) The Transformation of Man - Are We Aware that We Are Fragmented?

K: Knowledge, psychologically I use knowledge. 'I know myself', when I really don't know, because I am changing, moving. Or I use knowledge for my own satisfaction. For my position, for my success, for becoming a great man in the world. I am a great scholar, I have read a million books and I can tell you all about it. It gives me a position, a prestige, a status. So is that it, that fragmentation takes place when there is a desire for security, psychological security, which prevents biological security...

8) What Makes One Control? - Small Group Discussion in Malibu, 1970

Violence: Why do you control? Security means to be in a state in which there is no choice at all. The mind has become sensitive because it has observed, not because it has experienced. Either you see the fact with the past or you see the fact as it is now. The word is the past, is the past. The film contains several excerpts from Krishnamurti's public talks and a brief description of his life story.