that imminent feeling of sacredness, began to take place.

‘To be free of authority, of your own and that of another, is to die to everything of yesterday, so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigour and passion.’ This little book, under the title, chosen by K himself, of Freedom from the Known, was published in 1969.

Scott or from your background, but listen to them very, very carefully … Can you be free of your background? That’s very difficult … That really demands all your energy … Background being all your American training, your American education and so-called culture … Discuss with it, weigh it, take counsel together.

Thought cannot formulate it. But there’s a sacredness, untouched by any symbol or word. It is not communicable.’

Thus education, in the true sense, is the understanding of oneself, for it is in each one of us that the whole of existence is gathered.’

Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is without motive; freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man but lies in the first step of his existence. In observation one begins to discover the lack of freedom. Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence.

This journal, under the title Krishnamurti’s Notebook, was published by Gollancz and Harper & Row in 1976.

while living, also live with death. Then death is not something far away, death is not something which is at the end of one’s life, brought about by some accident, disease or old age, but rather an ending to all the things of memory – that is death, a death not separate from living.

The burden of the past gives rise to its own continuity, and the worries of yesterday give new life to the worries of today.’