The Real Revolution
1965 – 1974
What we are trying, in all these discussions and talks here, is to see if we cannot radically bring about a transformation of the mind. Not accept things as they are. Nor revolt against it – but to understand it, to go into it, to examine it; give your heart and your mind with everything that you have to find out a way of living differently.
“Love is not attachment. Love does not yield sorrow. Love has no despair or hope. Love cannot be made respectable, part of the social scheme. When it is not there, every form of travail begins.”
J. Krishnamurti
Meetings and talks in Madras [Chennai], Rishi Valley, Bombay [Mumbai], New Delhi, Benares [Varanasi], India; Rome, Italy; London, England; Paris, France; and Saanen, Switzerland
Watts race riots in Los Angeles
Malcolm X shot
Black Panther movement begins
Daniel Ellsberg releases top
security papers regarding Vietnam
Voting rights march: Selma to
Montgomery, Alabama
War escalates in Vietnam
Singapore becomes independent
Gambia gains independencefrom Britain
Rhodesia gains independence
War on poverty begins
Nat King Cole dies
Voting Rights Act
Immigration Act
US troops in Dominican Republic
First commercial satellite launched
Ferdinand Marcos seizes power
in Philippines
Small Group Discussions in Gstaad, 1965
“Real Revolution” – 8 part television series is filmed and broadcast in US; Krishnamurti travels and speaks in Madras [Chennai], Rishi Valley, New Delhi, Bombay [Mumbai], India; Rome, Italy; London, England; Paris, France; Saanen, Switzerland; New York City, and Ojai, USA
Mao: The Cultural Revolution
Indira Gandhi: Prime
Minister of India
Surveyor I lands on Moon
Kashmir crisis
Botswana independent
Lesotho independent
Nigerian civil war
Miranda decision
National Organization of Women
Direct dial phones
The miniskirt
“We must be clear on this matter from the very beginning. There is no belief demanded or asked, there are no followers, there are no cults, there is no persuasion of any kind, in any direction, and therefore only then can we meet on the same platform, on the same ground, at the same level.
Then we can together observe the extraordinary phenomena of human existence.”
Saanen, Switzerland, July 6, 1980
Public talks are organized in Banares [Varanasi], Rishi Valley, Bombay [Mumbai], New Delhi, Madras [Chennai], India; Rome, Italy; Paris, France; Amsterdam, Holland; Saanen, Switzerland; London, England
The Six Day War
Che Guevara killed
China explodes hydrogen bomb
Mickey Mantle hits 500th home run
Christiaan Barnard performs
first heart transplant
Shah of Iran crowns Empress
Farah and himself at Tehran
Film: “Bonnie and Clyde”
Film: “In the Heat of the Night”
Military coup in Greece
War protests in U.S.
U.S. President Johnson meets
Soviet Prime Minister Kosygin
The Real Revolution TV Series. These eight programmes were produced and broadcast in America by the National Educational Television Network. They represent the earliest sound films of Krishnamurti speaking to audiences – it was the first time that he had allowed his talks and discussion groups to be filmed. The principle settings are the Oak Grove in Ojai, California, and the Thacher School in the Ojai Valley.
Talks and Dialogues, Saanen 1967 is published
Meetings and talks in Rome, Italy; Paris, France; Amsterdam, Holland; Saanen, Switzerland; Madras [Chennai], Bombay [Mumbai], India; Marcelo Rio, Piedras, Puerto Rico; New York City, Waltham, Massachusetts, Claremont, and Malibu, USA
A new group in England is formed to support the work, the Krishnamurti Foundation Trust. Brockwood Park School is founded.
Gabriel García Márquez:
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Martin Luther King slain
in Memphis
Race riots in Washington,
Boston, Detroit and Los Angeles
Eero Saarinen: Gateway
Arch in St. Louis dedicated
My Lai atrocity discovered
USA crimes of violence increase
57% since 1960
Student uprising in Paris
John Lennon:
“Give Peace a Chance”
78 million television sets in USA
Helen Keller dies
Soviets invade Czechoslovakia
Tet offensive
Robert Kennedy assassinated
Film: “2001: A Space Odyssey”
Rioting in France and Czechoslovakia
USS Pueblo captured by
North Koreans
Violence during Presidential
convention: Nixon wins
Conversation with Huston Smith – Claremont, 1968
Discussion with Students – Claremont, 1968
Krishnamurti Foundation of America (KFA) founded in Ojai
Freedom from the Known is published
Travels and talks in Malibu, Berkeley, Sausalito, Stanford, Santa Cruz, USA; London, Brockwood Park, England; Paris, France; Amsterdam, Holland; Schoenried and Saanen, Switzerland; Rome, Italy; New Delhi, Benares [Varanasi], Bombay [Mumbai], Madras [Chennai], India
Belfast: Britain sends 600 troops
to quell rioting
100,000 protest war in Vietnam
Neil Armstrong walks on the Moon
Gaddafi in power in Libya
Duke Ellington: receives
Medal of Freedom
Hurricane Camille strikes
Mississippi and Gulf coast
Film: “Easy Rider”
King Juan Carlos succeeds
Spanish dictator Francisco Franco
Non-proliferation Agreement
Violence in Northern Ireland
Okinawa island returned to Japan
after U.S. occupation
Clashes on Soviet-Chinese border
Israeli-Egyptian War of Attrition
Woodstock
War between Honduras
and El Salvador
First 747 flight
The Awakening of Intelligence
The Only Revolution is published
Krishnamurti Foundation India founded to arrange Talks in India, to care for the schools and to translate publications
In California talks are given in Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, San Diego State College, Malibu, Los Angeles, and Ojai
He spoke internationally in Brockwood Park and London, England; Saanen, Switzerland; Perugia, Rome and Florence, Italy; Sydney, Australia; and New Delhi, India
Apollo 13 launched from
Cape Kennedy
Soccer: Brazil defeats Italy
Peru: The Shining Path
Troopers kill 4 student protestersat Kent State University
Salvador Allende:
president of Chile
Mike Nichols films “Catch-22”
War spreads to Cambodia
End of civil war in Biafra
Aswan Dam built
India invades Pakistan
Arab commandos hijackthree jets bound for New York
Interview by Ross Saunders in Sydney – Australia, 1970
The Urgency of Change and Flight of the Eagle are published
Talks in New York at Town Hall; Paris, France, where he spoke on French television; in Madras [Chennai], Rishi Valley, Bangalore, Bombay [Mumbai], India; Santa Monica, Los Angeles, and Malibu, USA; Brockwood Park, England; Amsterdam, Holland; Rome, Italy; and Saanen, Switzerland
Pentagon Papers released
Vietnam: USA bombing
spreads to Laos and Cambodia
U.N. seats Peking – expels Taipei
Cigarette ads banned
from television
Pablo Neruda: Nobel
Prize for literature
Pakistan surrenders;
India cease-fire
Rolls Royce declares bankruptcy
Film: “Fiddler on the Roof”
Kubrick films “A Clockwork Orange”
Communist China joins UN
Idi Amin seizes power in Uganda
U.S. explodes hydrogen bomb
beneath Amchitka Island, Alaska
Dialogue with Alain Naudé – Malibu, 1971
The Impossible Question, You Are The World and Tradition & Revolution are published
Overflowing crowds attend talks in Carnegie Hall, New York City
Complaint filed in Superior Court to recover assets from Krishnamurti Writings, Inc. headed by Rajagopal
Talks are held in Ojai, Malibu, San Diego, and Santa Monica, USA; Brockwood Park, England; Rome, Italy; Saanen, Switzerland; New Delhi, Benares [Varanasi], Rishi Valley, and Madras [Chennai], India
North Vietnam ports mined
Watergate: 5 arrested in
Democratic Headquarters
break-in
USA and Soviets: Nuclear Arms Accords
Richard Leakey:
discovery of 2.5 million
year old skull in Kenya
Supreme Court bars death penalty
Munich Olympics:
11 Israeli athletes killed
Film: “Cabaret”
Film: Coppola – “The Godfather”
Bosporus Bridge
Yom Kippur War
Britain controls Northern Ireland
Nixon visits China
Managua, Nicaragua:
leveled by earthquake
Bangladesh (East Pakistan)
becomes sovereign state
Public Talks in New York, 1971
The Awakening of Intelligence and Beyond Violence are published
“The School” opens in Madras [Chennai], India
Decision to start school in Ojai
Talks at Masonic Auditorium, San Francisco, and Ojai, USA; Rishi Valley, Bangalore, Bombay [Mumbai], New Delhi, Madras [Chennai], India; Brockwood Park, England; and Rome, Italy
Cease fire in Vietnam:
USA: 58,000 dead
Vietnam: 2,500,000 dead
Nixon: Watergate – White
House releases tapes with ‘gaps’
Nixon aides Haldeman,
Ehrlichman and Kleindienst
forced to resign
Pentagon Papers:
charges dismissed
Vice President Spiro Agnew
resigns; pleads ‘nolo contendere’
to income tax evasion
Bruce Lee stars in “Enter the Dragon”
Archibald Cox named Watergate
special prosecutor
USA withdraws from Vietnam
CAT scan invented
Severe drought in Africa
Bahamas gain independence
President Salvador Allende killed
Krishnamurti on Education is published
Krishnamurti and Alan Anderson record eighteen dialogues in San Diego, California
Lawsuit settled in favor of KFA
Talks are given at Carnegie Hall in New York; Malibu, Santa Monica and Ojai, USA; in Bangalore, Bombay [Mumbai], Benares [Varanasi], Rishi Valley, Madras [Chennai], India; Brockwood Park, England; Saanen, Switzerland
Federal Grand Jury indicts seven
Nixon aides
Israel and Syria agree to
cease fire on Golan Heights
Nixon resigns presidency
Bob Woodward and Carl
Bernstein write All the
President’s Men
Vice President Ford becomes
President of USA – pardons Nixon
Polanski films “Chinatown”
West German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigns
Military government of
Greece resigns
Coup in Portugal
Revolt in Cyprus, Turkey invades
India explodes a nuclear device
Guinea-Bissau granted
independence
South Africa forced to
turn over Protectorate of Namibia
Civil War in Lebanon
Emperor Haile Selassie deposed
Soyuz- Apollo Mission
“Learning is the very essence of humility, learning from everything and from everybody. There is no hierarchy in learning. Authority denies learning. A follower will never learn.”
Krishnamurti’s Notebook
