The Notebook Is Written
Talks and travels take Krishnamurti to Bombay [Mumbai], Benares [Varanasi], New Delhi, Madras [Chennai], India; and Ojai, California
Kennedy elected President
French-owned African
colonies freed
Arnold Palmer wins USA
Open Golf Championship
U-2 plane shot down in USSR;
Francis Gary Powers confesses
to reconnaissance
American Heart Association:
smoking causes
higher death rates
Oscar Niemeyer builds Brasilia
Le Corbusier: La
Tourette Monastery
Failed summit in Paris
The Sino-Soviet split
South Korean President
Syngman Rhee resigns
Polaris missile invented
USS Enterprise launched
Student sit-ins protesting
segregation in Greensboro,
North Carolina
Talks held in New Delhi, Rishi Valley, Bombay [Mumbai], Madras [Chennai], Benares [Varanasi], India; London, England; Saanen, Switzerland; and Paris, France
Writing begins on a rare ‘inner diary’ describing ecstatic perceptions of ‘otherness’ and ‘immensity,’ which will be published later as Krishnamurti’s Notebook
J.F. Kennedy inaugurated as
President of United States
Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba
Soviets orbit Yuri Gagarin in space
Adolf Eichmann guilty of
crimes against humanity
Joseph Heller: Catch 22
Liberal Freedom Riders attacked
Kuwait gains independence
Peace Corps established
Kennedy-Khrushchev:
Vienna Summit
Berlin crisis
Rafael Trujillo, dictator of Dominican
Republic, assassinated
Tanganyika independent
Talks began in Saanen, Switzerland. A central location in Europe allowed world-wide audiences to gather yearly as they did until 1985
Cesar Chavez founds National
Farm Workers Association
John Glenn orbits Earth
Mississippi Riots: James Meredith
(a ‘negro’) attends university
Andy Warhol exhibits painting
of 33 cans of Campbell Soup
Color television invented
Rachel Carson: Silent Spring
Cuban missile crisis
Eleanor Roosevelt dies
Beatles: “Love Me Do”
Nelson Mandela imprisoned
in South Africa
Marilyn Monroe dies
Anthony Burgess:
“A Clockwork Orange”
Francois Truffaut:
“Jules and Jim”
Border war between
China and India
Burundi gains independence
Uganda gains independence
Algeria gains independence
Prayer found unconstitutional
in U.S. schools
Environment movement begins
Life Ahead is published
Public talks are organized in London, England; Saanen, Switzerland; New Delhi, Banares [Varanasi], and Rishi Valley in India
Birmingham, Alabama, riots
Martin Luther King: “I Have a
Dream” speech
Freedom March; 200,000
march in Washington protest
John F. Kennedy assassinated –
Lee Harvey Oswald shot
Montgomery church bombed,
4 children killed
Dr. Michael DeBakey:
artificial heart
Bob Dylan:
The times they are a’changin
J. Robert Oppenheimer:
Fermi Medal for atomic work
French veto common maket
South Vietnamese President
Ngo Dinh Diem assassinated
Kenya gains independence
Betty Friedan: Feminine Mystique
University of Alabama integrated
Civil rights leader Medgar Evers slain
Vaccine for measles becomes
available
Think on These Things and This Matter of Culture are published
Talks are given in Rishi Valley, Madras [Chennai], Bombay [Mumbai], New Delhi, Banares [Varanasi], India; Rome, Italy; London, England; Paris, France; and Saanen, Switzerland
Cigarettes linked to cancer
Poll tax abolished
Palestine Liberation Organization is formed
Martin Luther King: Nobel
Peace Prize
The Beatles: “A Hard Day’s Night”
USA attacks north Vietnam,
Tonkin Gulf
Brain drain scientists
emigrate to USA
Stanley Kubrick: “Dr. Strangelove:
Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying
and Love the Bomb”
Cassius Clay becomes
heavyweight boxing champion
Khrushchev ousted
Yasser Arafat leads Al Fatah
Cole Porter dies at seventy-two
Johnson swamps Goldwater
China explodes atomic bomb
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Civil Rights Act
Warren Report released
“It was the center of all creation, it was a purifying seriousness that cleansed the brain of every thought and feeling.
Its seriousness was as lightning which destroys and burns up; the profundity of it was not measurable, it was there, immovable, impenetrable, a solidity that was as light as the heavens.”
Krishnamurti’s Notebook
Audio Recordings of Public Talks in Saanen, 1961
There is a tree full of green bright leaves, very quiet in its purity and dignity, surrounded by houses that are ill proportioned with people that have never looked at it or one single leaf of it. But they make money, go to offices, drink, beget children and eat enormously. There was a moon over it last night and all the splendid darkness was alive. And waking towards dawn, meditation was the splendour of light for the otherness was there, in an unfamiliar room. Again it was an imminent and urgent peace, not the peace of politicians or of the priests nor of the contented; it was too vast to be contained in space and time, to be formulated by thought or feeling. It was the weight of the earth and the things upon it; it was the heavens and beyond it. Man has to cease for it to be.
Krishnamurti’s Notebook
“There’s a great and unutterable beauty in all this. There is only one movement in life, the outer and the inner; this movement is indivisible, though it is divided. Being divided, most follow the outer movement of knowledge, ideas, beliefs, authority, security, prosperity and so on. In reaction to this, one follows the so-called inner life, with its visions, hopes, aspirations, secrecies, conflicts, despairs. As this movement is a reaction, it is in conflict with the outer. So there is contradiction, with its aches, anxieties and escapes.
There is only one movement, which is the outer and the inner. With the understanding of the outer, then the inner movement begins, not in opposition or in contradiction. As conflict is eliminated, the brain, though highly sensitive and alert, becomes quiet. Then only the inner movement has validity and significance.”
Talks and travels take Krishnamurti to Bombay [Mumbai], Benares [Varanasi], New Delhi, Madras [Chennai], India; and Ojai, California
Kennedy elected President
French-owned African
colonies freed
Arnold Palmer wins USA
Open Golf Championship
U-2 plane shot down in USSR;
Francis Gary Powers confesses
to reconnaissance
American Heart Association:
smoking causes
higher death rates
Oscar Niemeyer builds Brasilia
Le Corbusier: La
Tourette Monastery
Failed summit in Paris
The Sino-Soviet split
South Korean President
Syngman Rhee resigns
Polaris missile invented
USS Enterprise launched
Student sit-ins protesting
segregation in Greensboro,
North Carolina
Talks held in New Delhi, Rishi Valley, Bombay [Mumbai], Madras [Chennai], Benares [Varanasi], India; London, England; Saanen, Switzerland; and Paris, France
Writing begins on a rare ‘inner diary’ describing ecstatic perceptions of ‘otherness’ and ‘immensity,’ which will be published later as Krishnamurti’s Notebook
J.F. Kennedy inaugurated as
President of United States
Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba
Soviets orbit Yuri Gagarin in space
Adolf Eichmann guilty of
crimes against humanity
Joseph Heller: Catch 22
Liberal Freedom Riders attacked
Kuwait gains independence
Peace Corps established
Kennedy-Khrushchev:
Vienna Summit
Berlin crisis
Rafael Trujillo, dictator of Dominican
Republic, assassinated
Tanganyika independent
“It was the center of all creation, it was a purifying seriousness that cleansed the brain of every thought and feeling.
Its seriousness was as lightning which destroys and burns up; the profundity of it was not measurable, it was there, immovable, impenetrable, a solidity that was as light as the heavens.”
Krishnamurti’s Notebook
Talks began in Saanen, Switzerland. A central location in Europe allowed world-wide audiences to gather yearly as they did until 1985
Cesar Chavez founds National
Farm Workers Association
John Glenn orbits Earth
Mississippi Riots: James Meredith
(a ‘negro’) attends university
Andy Warhol exhibits painting
of 33 cans of Campbell Soup
Color television invented
Rachel Carson: Silent Spring
Cuban missile crisis
Eleanor Roosevelt dies
Beatles: “Love Me Do”
Nelson Mandela imprisoned
in South Africa
Marilyn Monroe dies
Anthony Burgess:
“A Clockwork Orange”
Francois Truffaut:
“Jules and Jim”
Border war between
China and India
Burundi gains independence
Uganda gains independence
Algeria gains independence
Prayer found unconstitutional
in U.S. schools
Environment movement begins
Life Ahead is published
Public talks are organized in London, England; Saanen, Switzerland; New Delhi, Banares [Varanasi], and Rishi Valley in India
Birmingham, Alabama, riots
Martin Luther King: “I Have a
Dream” speech
Freedom March; 200,000
march in Washington protest
John F. Kennedy assassinated –
Lee Harvey Oswald shot
Montgomery church bombed,
4 children killed
Dr. Michael DeBakey:
artificial heart
Bob Dylan:
The times they are a’changin
J. Robert Oppenheimer:
Fermi Medal for atomic work
French veto common maket
South Vietnamese President
Ngo Dinh Diem assassinated
Kenya gains independence
Betty Friedan: Feminine Mystique
University of Alabama integrated
Civil rights leader Medgar Evers slain
Vaccine for measles becomes
available
Audio Recordings of Public Talks in Saanen, 1961
There is a tree full of green bright leaves, very quiet in its purity and dignity, surrounded by houses that are ill proportioned with people that have never looked at it or one single leaf of it. But they make money, go to offices, drink, beget children and eat enormously. There was a moon over it last night and all the splendid darkness was alive. And waking towards dawn, meditation was the splendour of light for the otherness was there, in an unfamiliar room. Again it was an imminent and urgent peace, not the peace of politicians or of the priests nor of the contented; it was too vast to be contained in space and time, to be formulated by thought or feeling. It was the weight of the earth and the things upon it; it was the heavens and beyond it. Man has to cease for it to be.
Krishnamurti’s Notebook
Think on These Things and This Matter of Culture are published
Talks are given in Rishi Valley, Madras [Chennai], Bombay [Mumbai], New Delhi, Banares [Varanasi], India; Rome, Italy; London, England; Paris, France; and Saanen, Switzerland
Cigarettes linked to cancer
Poll tax abolished
Palestine Liberation Organization is formed
Martin Luther King: Nobel
Peace Prize
The Beatles: “A Hard Day’s Night”
USA attacks north Vietnam,
Tonkin Gulf
Brain drain scientists
emigrate to USA
Stanley Kubrick: “Dr. Strangelove:
Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying
and Love the Bomb”
Cassius Clay becomes
heavyweight boxing champion
Khrushchev ousted
Yasser Arafat leads Al Fatah
Cole Porter dies at seventy-two
Johnson swamps Goldwater
China explodes atomic bomb
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Civil Rights Act
Warren Report released
“There’s a great and unutterable beauty in all this. There is only one movement in life, the outer and the inner; this movement is indivisible, though it is divided. Being divided, most follow the outer movement of knowledge, ideas, beliefs, authority, security, prosperity and so on. In reaction to this, one follows the so-called inner life, with its visions, hopes, aspirations, secrecies, conflicts, despairs. As this movement is a reaction, it is in conflict with the outer. So there is contradiction, with its aches, anxieties and escapes.
There is only one movement, which is the outer and the inner. With the understanding of the outer, then the inner movement begins, not in opposition or in contradiction. As conflict is eliminated, the brain, though highly sensitive and alert, becomes quiet. Then only the inner movement has validity and significance.”