Krishnamurti Foundation of America

One of the greatest spiritual teachers and philosophers of all time, J. Krishnamurti challenges us to question all that we know and discover our true nature in the here and now.

In this expanded documentary on the life of Jiddu Krishnamurti, viewers are given incredible insight into one of the modern world's most original spiritual and philosophical figures.

In this great pairing between two spiritual thinkers in 1968, Huston Smith interviews Jiddu Krishnamurti on the question of how to live more lucidly in a world that seems determined to stifle inner clarity.

“First of all, sir, let us clear all the obvious things that bring about a conflict in man. War, nationalities, religious prejudices, racial prejudices."

In this archival video, spiritual teacher Jiddu Krishnamurti attempts to trace out for his audience how one might actually observe existence without the directive taint of constant thought.

When Krishnamurti's Notebook first became available in 1976, it was soon realized that it was a spiritually unique document giving his perceptions and experiences and describing his states of consciousness.

When the conscious mind looks at the unconscious, the conscious mind is already conditioned, already has its own desires, its own purposes, its own motives, its own anxieties, securities, and with that it looks; and what it looks at is its own self.

“Life is relationship, without relationship there is no life, living. And, in one’s relationship, there is a great deal of accumulated memory in that relationship between two people..."

J. Krishnamurti at Claremont College, 1968, Talk 3: "When you understand the nature and structure of pleasure in relation to love.."

Without self-knowledge we cannot go beyond the self-projected illusions of the mind. It’s only in relationship that one can know oneself as one is.