Can any problem be solved in isolation?

"Why does the mind try to solve each problem as though it was unrelated to other problems? The other day somebody asked, what about starvation, as though by itself, it is the result of human relationship, of human conditioning, of human education, of this constant division between people, both Economic, social, personal. So to understand this very, very deeply and so completely, we must ask, why do we do this?"

– J. Krishnamurti
Public Talk 4
Saanen, Switzerland - 23 July 1970

Dialogue 6
San Diego, California, USA
February 20, 1974

Q: Can the mind be free of fear?

Physical fears and psychological fears are interrelated. There are conscious as well as unconscious fears.

The racial fears, the fears that society has taught me, the fears that the family has imposed, all those crawling, ugly, brutal things that are hidden, how can they all come up naturally and be exposed so that the mind sees them completely?

What is the answer to this fact of fear which has been carried on from generation to generation?

Is there a way of dealing with fear, not the branches but the root of it?

Behind the words, the descriptions, the explanations, what is fear?

Brockwood Park, England
Question #1 from Q&A Meeting #1
1985

How can we know if mystical and spiritual experiences are illusions unless we know reality?