Krishnamurti on Sensitivity
Summary
This episode explores Krishnamurti's teachings on sensitivity as fundamental to intelligence, love, and beauty, contrasting it with widespread insensitivity and conditioning. He challenges the idea that psychological change takes time, arguing it must be instantaneous. The talk delves into true meditation as choiceless awareness and emptying the brain of the past, leading to a quiet, highly sensitive state free from illusion and conflict, enabling immediate action and creation, distinct from conventional practices.Episode description
‘Without sensitivity there is no intelligence, and therefore no love. And where there is no love, there is no beauty.’
This episode on Sensitivity has three sections.
The first extract (2:38) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk at Rajghat in 1967, and is titled: Most of Us Are Insensitive.
The second extract (22:47) is from the second talk at Brockwood Park in 1969, and is titled: Extraordinary Sensitivity.
The final extract in this episode (34:00) is from Krishnamurti’s eighth talk in Saanen 1963, and is titled: The Highly Sensitive Brain.
Each episode of the Krishnamurti podcast is based on a significant theme of his talks. Extracts have been carefully selected to represent Krishnamurti’s different approaches to these universal and timeless topics. This episode’s theme is Sensitivity. Upcoming themes are The Scientific and Religious Mind, Organisations, and The Heart.
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