Krishnamurti Educational Centre of Canada

06/16/2026

Life as it is now, broken up, that life when it is not broken up, when life is treated as a whole, without any division as sorrow, as pain, as anxiety, as fear, pleasure, when there is no breaking up of life into these compartments, which means to live totally a harmonious life without a single shadow of conflict. If that doesn't exist how can you go beyond it?

So that's why the speaker has put religion, meditation, that which is, and perhaps there is something sacred, at the end of the talks because we must first put the house in order - your house. The house is you. If that is not in total, complete order, living a harmonious life, how can you know possibly what love is and what compassion is? With that compassion comes love, intelligence. And that intelligence is the complete, total security. That must be before you begin to meditate, because it is only through deep meditation that you find out for yourself whether there is something beyond all time, measure, nameless, timeless.

And meditation is not how to meditate - the Zen system, the recent gurus with their systems of meditation - what's the other? - the transcendental nonsense. It is merely coining money. 'Mantra', you know that word, unfortunately. The actual meaning of that word, it has got great beauty and significance in that word which has been traded for money as a means of meditation, which is nonsense. The word 'mantra' means, the root meaning of it, is to ponder, meditate upon not becoming. And it also means in Sanskrit, end all self-centred activity. That's the real meaning of that word - ponder over, meditate, on not becoming, in this world or in the psychological world, and end all self-centred activity. You understand the meaning of that word, the significance of it? And for that word, mantra, you pay dollars, and you think you are learning meditation. And the people who invented the transcendental nonsense coin money, rich, they have become immensely rich. So that is not meditation.

J. Krishnamurti
Public Talk 6 Ojai, California, USA - 17 May 1981

06/15/2026

Questioner: Are you dependent on anything?

Krishnamurti: Of course I'm dependent physically on food, clothes and shelter, but psychologically, inwardly, I'm not dependent on anything - not on gods, not on social morality, not on belief, not on people. But it is irrelevant whether or not I am dependent.

J. Krishnamurti
The Urgency of Change.

06/08/2026

There is no individual, and therefore you and I must become the individual - not the individual who is self-enclosed - to create this revolution in each of us, not tomorrow or the day after, nor in the days to come, but now. This thing must happen now, not tomorrow. And to happen now, you must be free from the influences that make you, that influence you into a pattern of action. You are merely patterns of action, not the actor who thinks clearly and sees and acts. You have to be both the master and the pupil. You have to become the architect as well as the player - you and I. We have done away with all leaders, all organizations. We have to restart the whole thing anew. Therefore, you and I have to become the whole thing, and we can only become the master and the pupil, builder and the architect when there is truth. But truth cannot come into being without freedom, and freedom means clarity.

When you love somebody, there is no individual, no you and me - there is only a state of being. That state of being is active; that state of being is action. And that alone is going to create a new world - not ideas, not plans, not systems. A state of being can only come when there is freedom, freedom from all that is false. And to see the false, there must be the true. You cannot see the false without truth - you can only see what is false when you see what is true.

J. Krishnamurti
How to find peace.

06/04/2026

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05/31/2026

We are brought up on ideals – the greater, the nobler, the better. The ideal has become more important than ‘what is’. ‘What is’ and the ideal are opposed and must breed conflict. Look what you are doing: the ideal is the creation of thought in order to overcome ‘what is’, or to use the future as a lever to change ‘what is’. You are using non-fact to deal with fact. Therefore there is no result; that way there can never be change. It is so simple once you see it. Discard the ideal because it is valueless and observe only the fact. The discarding of the ideal has changed the pattern of the brain cells; the brain has lived in that pattern and now the pattern is broken. One has lived in the hope that one will gradually change; then one sees that gradualness is really the same thing repeated, modified, repeated, modified, repeated – therefore there is no basic change. When you see that, the whole structure of the brain has changed: that is insight.⁠
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J. Krishnamurti⁠
Saanen, 4th Question & Answer Meeting - 26th July 1980⁠
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05/28/2026

When the observer is the observed, there is only the observed, not the observer. When there is division as the observer and the observed, there is conflict and the desire to control, suppress, conquer. That is a waste of energy. When there is only the observed, not the observer observing that which he is seeing, there is energy to go beyond the observed, beyond what is. So it is very important to find out how to observe. Don’t go to classes or some community to learn how to observe or how to become sensitive. For God’s sake be simple. It is very important to understand this for yourself, not from my explanation. See it for yourself. Then the conflict in yourself comes to an end, and you have no violence. The truth, the understanding, not intellectual but the fact that the observer is the observed, brings about a totally different freedom in which there is no conflict whatsoever.

J. Krishnamurti
Public Talk 1 in San Francisco, California, 20 March 1975

05/25/2026

Hillary Rodrigues has spent decades exploring religious traditions, philosophy, and the teachings of Krishnamurti. A retired professor of Eastern religious traditions and former teacher at Wolf Lake School, he joins KECC as our facilitator and support person for May.

In this short clip, Hillary reflects on the spirit of KECC — that Krishnamurti’s teachings are not about authority or following ideas, but about self-observation, inquiry, and seeing directly for oneself.

He also speaks about the importance of place. Krishnamurti felt that schools and centers should be breathtakingly beautiful — spaces where nature helps quiet the mind, draws attention beyond our habitual thinking, and creates room for insight.

“Nature has this quality of pulling us out of ourselves.”

KECC, with its trails, Garry oaks, mountains, and water, offers not only resources for learning, but space to observe, reflect, and inquire.

05/24/2026

The good is not the opposite of the evil. It has never been touched by that which is evil, though it is surrounded by it. Evil cannot hurt the good but the good may appear to do harm and so evil gets more cunning, more mischievous. It can be cultivated, sharpened, expansively violent; it is born within the movement of time, nurtured and skilfully used. But goodness is not of time; it can in no way be cultivated or nurtured by thought; its action is not visible; it has no cause and so no effect. Evil cannot become good for that which is good is not the product of thought; it lies beyond thought, like beauty. The thing that thought produces, thought can undo but it is not the good; as it is not of time, the good has no abiding place. Where the good is, there is order, not the order of authority, punishment and reward; this order is essential, for otherwise society destroys itself and man becomes evil, murderous, corrupt and degenerate. For man is society; they are inseparable. The law of the good is everlasting, unchanging and timeless. Stability is its nature and so it is utterly secure. There is no other security.⁠
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Krishnamurti's Journal

05/22/2026

To bring about order in this confused world, there must be right thinking which will lead to right action. There can be right thinking only when we are aware of the process of our thinking, i.e. when we know what we are thinking, the way we are feeling, etc. We all know how our mind is constantly vagrant and restless and how it is difficult for it to complete any particular thought and follow it out fully, because another thought precipitates itself upon the one which we want to think out. The mind can be understood only when it is slowed down so that each thought, as it arises, can be followed out with care and deep understanding, without effort, without compulsion, without interference and with a sense of freedom; the mind has to dedicate itself to that understanding.

J. Krishnamurti
Madras 10th Group Discussion 10th November, 1947

05/17/2026

Why do you want a friend? Is it because you are lonely? Is it because you depend or rely on them? Is it to have companionship? Is it out of your insufficiency, depending on another to fulfil or to fill that emptiness, and therefore you are using another, exploiting another to cover your insufficiency and utter emptiness, and so call that person a friend? Most of us are lonely, and the older we get, the more lonely. We discover our emptiness, what it means to be lonely, to have no friend at all because you have led a superficial life and depended on others, exploited others, invested your thought, your feelings in another. And when they go away or die you feel so lonely and empty. Out of that emptiness, there is self-pity, and then you again begin the game of seeking somebody to fill that loneliness. Can you see all this and learn from it? Learn what it means to be lonely and not escape from it; look at it, live with it, see what is implied, so that psychologically you depend on nobody. Then only will you know what it means to love.

J. Krishnamurti
Public Talk 2 in Santa Monica, California, 17 March 1974