Without Passion You Cannot Do Anything Vital
Ask any working musician what carried them through the unglamorous decade — the empty rooms, the broken gear, the gigs that paid in beer — and almost none of them will say discipline. Discipline is the scaffolding. The thing that actually holds the building up is passion. Krishnamurti said without it you cannot do anything vital, and he chose that word, vital, with care. Not successful. Not impressive. Alive.
Jiddu Krishnamurti – Saanen 1976 – Video Series: “You are only aware now, or never”
Public Talk 1 – What will change a human being?
Why has man created the society and culture in which we live? Thought, being fragmentary, cannot possibly solve the things it has created. You can face the fact only if you are actually listening to the fact. If thought cannot change me, what will? One must find out if there is a totally different kind of energy not brought about through conflict. Can the mind, consciousness, empty itself of itself to find out if there is a totally different kind of energy? Questions from the audience followed the talk.