Product Description

This popular series of dialogues, held in 1976 between Krishnamurti, Dr. David Bohm, and Dr. David Shainberg, delves deeply into the quintessential questions facing each individual who sees the need to bring about a radical, fundamental change in human consciousness. Each conversation is sixty minutes in length and is filmed in color.

Disc 1
Introduction
Conversation 1: Are We Aware that We are Fragmented?
Conversation 2: A Mechanical Way of Living Leads to Disorder.

Disc 2
Conversation 3: Why do Human Beings Live in Chaos and Misery?
Conversation 4: Why Human Beings do not Change.
Conversation 5: The Conscious and the Unconscious Mind.

Disc 3:
Conversation 6: The Transformation of Human Consciousness.
Conversation 7: Pyschological Death and the Emptying of the Mind.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #57150 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-07-01
• Format: NTSC
• Number of discs: 3
• Running time: 300 minutes

About the Actor
Jiddu Krishnamurti was born May 12, 1895, in Madanapalle, south India. From 1929 until his death in 1986 he traveled all over the world speaking spontaneously to large audiences. He engaged in dialogues with religious leaders, scientists, professors, authors, psychologists, computer experts, and people from many different backgrounds deeply questioning their daily life. His talks and dialogues have been compiled and published in more than fifty books and translated into as many different languages. His books include Think on These Things, Education and the Significance of Life, The Awakening of Intelligence, and The First and Last Freedom.

Krishnamurti claimed allegiance to no caste, nationality or religion and was bound by no tradition. He said man has to free himself of all fear, conditioning, authority and dogma through self-knowledge and this will bring about order and psychological mutation. The conflict-ridden violent world, he suggested, cannot be transformed into a life of goodness, love and compassion by any political, social or economic strategies, but only through this mutation in individuals brought about through their own observation, without the mediation of any guru or organized religion.

Customer Reviews

Lost and Found
It is easy for some to get lost in the work of David Bohm or J. Krishnamurti. Yet a mind which is unreceptive to this sort of openly vulnerable probing will likely find a slow, boring, and pretentious-appearing discourse. Such a passive perception is merely the unfortunate residue image, an assumption that these discussions between Bohm and Krishnamurti (and incidentally, the listener) are only intellectual entertainment. Of course, overlooking or misjudging these works is tragically unfortunate considering the uniquely rare sort of people Krishnamurti and Bohm were, with a penetrating clarity of thought and command of language. The problem with Krishnamurti's countless works isn't principally in anything which he says, but rather in the audience which happens to be listening, participating in his inquiry. There is little doubt that a patient mind will be easily absorbed and fascinated by what Krishnamurti has thought about the shattered rut in which mankind has found itself. However, a mind must be supremely patient to follow these discussions wherever they may go, which is frequently into the minutest of epistemological and linguistic details. For much of the western world, this thoroughness often poses a problem, of course appearing "aimless" or "unconstructive" by contrast to western thought.

Since the deaths of both Bohm and Krishnamurti, human minds appear to be moving ever more quickly today than ever before, the barrage of cultural influences bearing very strongly upon the individual, as there is an ongoing cultivation of a certain direction of thought. Bohm and Krishnamurti's interest is in the anatomy of thinking. The chatter of thought occurs so very fast, always gliding over deep assumptions, unpercieved notions that form the foundations of what we think we know. That is where Krishnamurti goes in the majority of his talks, he peers into the mechanism, into the structure. David Bohm, a uniquely articulate man, seems to make it all more open and accessible to minds of the west. Krishnamurti at times may seem to be a mysctic, an idealist, a nihilist- perceptions which are not precise.

One who has read David Bohm or J. Krishnamruti can easily understand that the intention of the talks are innately organic and human, deeply concerned with the pain of other people. Krishnamurtis' goal, I believe, was total freedom for mankind, which to him mean from the obtuseness, illogicalness and mortal dangers of human thinking. The areas traversed here are enormous, the wording itself often difficult, as limits of language and expression are apparrent. A capacity for unrestrained inward observation is core to understanding not only one's own pain, but the very structure and fallibility of thinking itself.

It is not for me to say whether or not these works are important or essential. One can only say that these talks help to break open one's inner assumptions, and see into the complex relationship of thinking and reality. Depending on one's state of mind, it is not very difficult to understand this material, and this DVD is certainly not only for the intellectual or "smart" person. In fact, this work will be often lost on the intellectual. No matter what one's education is, the capacity to hear Bohm and Krishnamurti lies in the status of one's sensitivity and concern.

This one is very enligtening
I have been enquiring in to nature of the self for last 10 years.I have read number of eastern religious books but nothing stands before calrity with which J.Krishnamurti solves many issues faced by serious religious person.
I would recommend this to any one intrested in knowing what is beyond limited human mind.

Transformation of Man
This is dialogue between three great minds, A spiritual Leader, a physicist and a psychiatrist about the conciseness of man. It's riveting, humorous and most of all enlightening. If you are just introduced to the subject it does require your attention and can seem a little slow but once you get the swing of it you must watch it over again. You must have an interest in the subject to watch it.