The following statement, which contains the essence of the teachings, was written by Krishnamurti
                     himself on October 21, 1980.

                     "The core of Krishnamurti's teaching is contained in the statement he made in 1929 when he said:
                     'Truth is a pathless land'. Man cannot come to it through any organization, through any creed,
                     through any dogma, priest or ritual, not through any philosophic knowledge or psychological
                     technique. He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the
                     contents of his own mind, through observation and not through intellectual analysis or introspective
                     dissection. Man has built in himself images as a fence of security—religious, political, personal.
                     These manifest as symbols, ideas, beliefs. The burden of these images dominates man's thinking,
                     his relationships and his daily life. These images are the causes of our problems for they divide
                     man from man. His perception of life is shaped by the concepts already established in his mind.
                     The content of his consciousness is his entire existence. This content is common to all humanity.
                     The individuality is the name, the form and superficial culture he acquires from tradition and
                     environment. The uniqueness of man does not lie in the superficial but in complete freedom from
                     the content of his consciousness, which is common to all mankind. So he is not an individual."

                     "Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not a choice. It is man's pretence that because he has
                     choice he is free. 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 and activity. Thought is time. Thought is
                     born of experience and knowledge which are inseparable from time and the past. Time is the
                     psychological enemy of man. Our action is based on knowledge and therefore time, so man is
                     always a slave to the past. Thought is ever-limited and so we live in constant conflict and struggle.
                     There is no psychological evolution."

                     "When man becomes aware of the movement of his own thoughts he will see the division between
                     the thinker and thought, the observer and the observed, the experience and the experiencer. He
                     will discover that this division is an illusion. Then only is there pure observation which is insight
                     without any shadow of the past or of time. This timeless insight brings about a deep radical
                     mutation in the mind."

                     "Total negation is the essence of the positive. When there is negation of all those things that
                     thought has brought about psychologically, only then is there love, which is compassion and
                     intelligence."

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