You are only free in sexual expression | Krishnamurti

Added: 2026-05-10

[00:00:00]You are the product of your conditioning, you’re the product of your society, you’re the product of propaganda, religious and otherwise - for 2000 years; as in India, 10,000 or 5,000 years......they have been told......what to believe, what to think.

[00:00:25]You repeat what others have said.

[00:00:31]All your education is that, the repetition of what you have learnt from a book.

[00:00:45]And you’re that, you’re conditioned, you are not free, happy, vital, passionate human beings.

[00:01:00]You are frightened human beings and therefore second-hand, you’re full of authority of others; or your own particular little authority, of your own knowledge – you know something about something and you become an authority.

[00:01:19]So you’re not free.

[00:01:24]And intellectually – look – are you free?

[00:01:30]Not repeat what others have said, not what you’ve been taught in the university......or what you have learnt from a book.

[00:01:51]And what have you experienced?

[00:01:55]Go into it, you will see what you have experienced.

[00:02:03]You have experienced something......that you will always recognise, otherwise it is not an experience.

[00:02:13]Therefore your experience is always old, like thought is always old – thought is never new, because it is the response of memory.

[00:02:26]So you – if you will forgive my repeating it – you are second-hand human beings, intellectually, emotionally.

[00:02:41]You go to places to learn how to be sensitive.

[00:02:48]Lovely idea, isn’t it?

[00:02:53]Be taught by another how to think.

[00:03:02]So morally, intellectually, deeply, you are not free, and therefore you are only free in your sexual expression.

[00:03:22]And that is why it has become so extraordinarily important.

[00:03:30]There you are full, there you are free, though it has......its own problems and its own neurotic attitudes and actions.

[00:03:47]So sex becomes important......when everything else becomes unimportant, when life, the whole of it, not just sex, life includes living, life includes what love is, what death is, the whole movement of living, when that has no meaning, then one fragment which you call sex, becomes extraordinarily important and vital.

[00:04:31]When you are not passionate......about freedom, inwardly, then you are lustfully passionate about sex, that’s all.

[00:04:47]And with that you associate love, pleasure.

[00:04:59]And with that you associate tenderness, gentleness, you may be sexually very tender, very kind, considerate, but outwardly you destroy, you kill everything round you - animals to eat, to hunt.

[00:05:27]So your love is based on pleasure......and therefore is it love?

[00:05:41]Love, surely, is something none of all this; compassion means passion for everybody, not to your particular little desire.