The mind is crowded with the known

"To see something whole, the fragmentary process must come to an end. The fragmentary process of a mind that seeks success - I do not know if you follow. I want to be free from fear in order to achieve something else. I will follow certain systems of meditation in order to arrive at enlightenment. I will discipline, control, shape myself in order to see something most extraordinary. Such ways of thinking, living and acting is fragmentary. I don't know if we see all that clearly."

– J. Krishnamurti
Public Discussion 4
Saanen, Switzerland - 5 August 1970

Public Talk 2
Saanen, Switzerland
July 14, 1981

Are we programmed to believe that consciousness is individual? What will happen if I am not individual? Something totally different may happen.

The response of thought is experience, knowledge, memory. Then thought acts and from that you learn more and repeat the cycle. Is there another form of learning?

There is group consciousness, national, linguistic, professional and racial consciousness, with fear, loneliness, pleasure, sorrow, love and death. If you keep acting in that circle you maintain the human consciousness of the world.

Can you move away from this? Then you affect the whole consciousness of humanity.

Brockwood Park, England
Question #4 from Q&A Meeting #2
1985

'What do you say to people who seem to pick parts of what you say that fits their problems or interest and then discard the rest?'