In this incredibly penetrating talk, Krishnamurti describes the psychological pressures of life and exactly how these stresses affect right living: ‘We were saying that any form of strain on the brain affects our whole way of life. We had been also saying that pressure impacts our actions, our attitudes, our personality, and our way of living. The pressure–economic, interpersonal, moral, and religious–invariably distorts not only our actions but the quality of the mind … ideals affect, oppress, and become pressure upon our day to day life. Is it possible not to possess any ideals but only deal with actually what is? –then there is no pressure whatsoever. Krishnamurti continues on to state that, unless the mind is free from pressure, there is no new approach to life. He states that this insight on freedom requires a great deal of investigation in to the whole character and movement of pressure.