Ep. 9 - The Depth of Beauty

Discussing how passion is derived from being able to remain with sorrow, J. Krishnamurti describes the depth of beauty.

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This time on Freedom from the Known, J. Krishnamurti and Dr. Allan W. Anderson discuss:

• Austere beauty and total abandonment of the self
• The deep relationship between suffering and beauty 
• Humility and the beauty of not knowing 
• Becoming aware of global suffering and less self-absorbed
• How people rationalize sorrow in the east and are able to remain with it
• Our lack of an intimate relationship with nature  
• How artificiality has become supremely important in our modern world 
• Losing the delicacy of the mind, heart, and body 
• The misguided purpose of education and what students should be learning
• Considering the true definition of action in order to understand sorrow

This talk was originally recorded in 1974 at San Diego State University and curated by the Krishnamurti Foundation of America

“Passion won’t come out of sorrow. And, without passion, how can you see beauty? You can intellectually appreciate a painting, poem, or statue, but you need this great sense of inward bursting of passion that creates in itself a sensitivity that can see beauty. It is, I think, rather important to understand sorrow. I think it is related: beauty, passion, sorrow.” – J. Krishnamurti

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