J. Krishnamurti - First Public Talk Wolf Lake School

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	Author :	J. Krishnamurti
	Narrator :	J. Krishnamurti

	Length :	1 hour 10 minutes (Unabridged)

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In the first of a series of talks at Wolf Lake School, J. Krishnamurti begins by asking what does it mean to be educated and then considers how that question relates to the nature of freedom. He says that the root meaning of the word ‘school’ is the same as for the word ‘leisure’. The meaning of leisure is a mind that is unoccupied, not filled up with lots of worries. This means that in order to learn, the mind must be free; must have time to learn; must have leisure to learn. In short, he says that it is only when you have a great deal of leisure that you can learn. This is the heart of the matter for this talk – and he goes on to ask what exactly do we mean by leisure and what do we mean by learning. Firstly he does not mean leisure in the sense that ‘you pick up a book or wander off into the woods and read something to be occupied’. From this he leads into a provocative discussion on the nature of freedom, suggesting that there are two kinds: physical freedom and inward freedom. This leads to an examination of what ‘order’ and ‘disorder’ really mean and onward into all manner of questions designed to penetrate to the heart of the human psyche.
ABOUT J. KRISHNAMURTI
Jiddu Krishnamurti (May 12, 1895–February 17, 1986) was a world renowned writer and speaker on philosophical and spiritual subjects. His subject matter included: the purpose of meditation, human relationships, the nature of the mind, and how to enact positive change in global society.
Krishnamurti was born into a Telugu Brahmin family in what was then colonial India. In early adolescence, he had a chance encounter with prominent occultist and high-ranking theosophist C.W. Leadbeater in the grounds of the Theosophical Society headquarters at Adyar in Madras (now Chennai). He was subsequently raised under the tutelage of Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater, leaders of the Society at the time, who believed him to be a "vehicle" for an expected World Teacher. As a young man, he disavowed this idea and dissolved the world-wide organization (the Order of the Star) established to support it. He claimed allegiance to no nationality, caste, religion, or philosophy, and spent the rest of his life traveling the world as an individual speaker, speaking to large and small groups, as well as with interested individuals. He authored a number of books, among them The First and Last Freedom, The Only Revolution, and Krishnamurti's Notebook. :” In addition, a large collection of his talks and discussions have been published. At age 90, he addressed the United Nations on the subject of peace and awareness, and was awarded the 1984 UN Peace Medal. His last public talk was in Madras, India, in January 1986, a month before his death at home in Ojai, California.
His supporters, working through several non-profit foundations, oversee a number of independent schools centered on his views on education – in India, England and the United States – and continue to transcribe and distribute many of his thousands of talks, group and individual discussions, and other writings, publishing them in a variety of formats including print, audio, video and digital formats as well as online, in many languages.

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