“This consciousness is the consciousness of the rest of mankind because every human being in the world, everyone from the most primitive, from the most uneducated, to the most highly sophisticated, educated, they go through all this—faith, fear, longing, depression, anxiety, sorrow, pain, every human being in the world goes through it, whether he is a Communist, Socialist, Capitalist, or Democrat, or doesn’t belong to any group.

We say there is a way of observing without analysis, which reveals the total content, not through time – instantly. That is, to observe…

I am going to find out for myself what I am, why I behave like this, what is beyond all this?

We have sentiment; we have emotionality, sensuality, sexuality; we have remembrances of something which we have thought as love. But actually, brutally, we have no love.

The problem is our consciousness: the way you think, the way you live, the way you believe, the way you react, your behavior, all that is your consciousness, which is your life.

It is not put together by the mind because what the mind has put together, the mind can undo.

Krishnamurti said that what he was talking about was very simple, and, being simple, the audience would miss it.

I regard this element in the ego series as the core of the discussion. This part is where the ego is delineated and its dynamics are explored.

Krishnamurti stated that we are nothing, that the self is not real, in the sense of it not being a thing. What does brain science have to say about this very radical position?