Tag:  Continuity

• Imitation is a form of stealing: you are nothing but he is somebody, so you are going to get some of his glory by copying him. February 03, 2010

  Student: Why do grown-up people steal? Krishnamurti: Don't you sometimes steal? Haven't you known of a little boy stealing something he wants from another boy? It is exactly the same throughout...

• Is death merely the ending of the physical organism? Is that what we are afraid of? Is it the body that we want to continue? Or is it some other form of continuance that we crave? April 26, 2010

  Questioner: What is death? Krishnamurti: This is a question for the young and for the old, so please put it to yourself. Is death merely the ending of the physical organism? Is that what we are ...

• In the desire to attain there is subtle craving for self-continuance, glorified self-continuance; and every struggle, every effort to attain liberation indicates an escape from the present. June 13, 2010

  As I said, liberation is not an end, it is not a goal: it is the understanding of right values, eternal values. Intelligence is ever becoming, it has no end, no finality. In the desire to attain th...

• It is a stupid person that wants to continue - no man who understood the rich feelings of life would want continuity. June 15, 2010

  What do you know of life? Very little. You do not know your relationship to property, to your neighbor, to your wife, to ideas. You know only the superficial things, and you want to continue the su...

• You see, death is destruction, it is final; you can't argue with it, you can't say, 'Nay, wait a few days more.' June 26, 2010

  A mind that would understand time and continuity must be indifferent to time and not seek to fill that space which you call time with amusement, with worship, with noise, with reading, with going t...

• Do we know what love is? Never knowing it is the wonder of it, the beauty of it. September 26, 2010

  Do we know what love is? Never knowing it is the wonder of it, the beauty of it. Never knowing, which does not mean remaining in doubt nor does it mean despair; it's the death of yesterday and so...

• One sees that life has an ending, a sudden ending, what lived yesterday may not live today, and what lives today may not live tomorrow. October 07, 2010

  One sees that life has an ending, a sudden ending, what lived yesterday may not live today, and what lives today may not live tomorrow. Life has certainly an ending. It is a fact, but we won't ad...

• Immortality is not egotistic continuance at all. March 12, 2012

  Question: If, as you say, immortality exists, we assume that, without desiring it, we shall inevitably realize it in the natural course of experience, thus not creating exploiters. But if we desire...

• Consciousness is composed of many layers of memories, which come into being, or remain present, where there is ignorance, craving, want. July 27, 2012

  Life is every moment in a state of being born, arising, coming into being. In this arising, coming into being, in this itself there is no continuity, nothing that can be identified as permanent. Li...

• The thing that the mind clings to as the permanent is in its very essence the transient. November 22, 2012

  Conflict is not only between various resistances, but also within itself, within the permanent and the impermanent quality of resistance itself. Is there anything permanent within this resistanc...

• We are not concerned with physical continuity. What we are primarily concerned about is whether through things there is psychological continuity; June 12, 2014

  Our process of thought is based on time - yesterday, today and tomorrow. Yesterday coming in contact with today creates the present. Yesterday's memory continuing today in a modified or transformed...

• Surely death is as lovely as the real is, because both are the unknown, but a mind that is merely functioning within the known can never understand the unknown. July 02, 2014

  What happens to anything that continues? It decays, or it becomes a routine and therefore merely functions as a machine. Continuity is a guarantee of decay, but the moment you think you will cease ...

• The 'I' is non-existent without memory, its tendencies, gifts and so on, i.e. non-existent without continuity, the racial, the traditional, the past in conjunction with the now, the past flowing through the present to the future which is hope. August 01, 2014

  Why does the mind separate itself from the stream of continuity and say 'I remember'? The 'I' is non-existent if its qualities are removed. The 'I' is non-existent without memory, its tendencies, g...

• Why does the mind separate itself from the stream of continuity and say 'I remember'? August 02, 2014

  Why does the mind separate itself from the stream of continuity and say 'I remember'? The 'I' is non-existent if its qualities are removed. The 'I' is non-existent without memory, its tendencies, g...

• If we really go into it, if we are aware of its significance, we will find that, that which is spiritual is timeless and therefore beyond our reach and therefore beyond continuity; August 29, 2014

  Question: What are your views about the implications of the belief in reincarnation? Krishanamurti: ... what is it that continues? You, that is, your thinking, your memories, your day to day exp...

• When you treat impermanency as impermanent then there is nothing; but when you are seeking permanency as an opposite to transitory, the permanency itself is transitory. January 05, 2015

  Property is impermanent. Relationship is impermanent. Belief is impermanent. Therefore, seeing everything around as impermanent and as transitory, the mind says that there must be something permane...

• That which is spirituality, truth, godliness, is beyond time; therefore it is not the continuity we know of as tomorrow and the future. April 30, 2015

  As I am full of anxiety, full of hope, full of desire for continuity, I am obviously clouded; therefore, I cannot comprehend the new challenge, 'Is there continuity?'. To understand it now, immedia...

• There is no renewal through memory, through continuity - there is renewal only when there is an ending, there is freshness only when there is a death, when idea ceases. May 02, 2015

  Through continuity, is there ever renewal? Do you understand? The 'I' continues from memory to memory - the memory of my achievements, my faculties, my properties, my family, my ideation, my though...

• To be free from the background, from the conditioning influences, from memory, there must be freedom from continuity; and, there is continuity as long as thought and feeling are not ended completely. May 07, 2015

  Question: When I listen to you, all seems clear and new. At home, the old, dull restlessness asserts itself. What is wrong with me? Krishnamurti: What is actually taking place in our lives? Ther...

• Surely, change is a modified continuity, I am this, and I want to become that; that is, I want to become the opposite of what I am. May 11, 2015

  So, what is suffering? Is it not the desire to become, with its varying frustrations? Is not sorrow the outcome of the desire to be other than what one is? Do not actions based on that desire lead ...

• If you have a very strong feeling of nationalism, what happens? You give it a name, the thought arises of idealism, love, 'my country; that is, you term it and thereby give it a continuity. June 10, 2015

  ... what happens if you don't term, if you don't give a name to an experience? If you are not naming the various sensations, if you have no background, where is the 'you'? That is, when it is not n...

• And now you will say 'I have learned a very good trick. I know how to deal with unpleasant feelings, how to make them come to an end quickly: I won't term them' June 11, 2015

  ... And now you will say 'I have learned a very good trick. I know how to deal with unpleasant feelings, how to make them come to an end quickly: I won't term them'. But will you do the same with r...

• You may have understood the verbal expressions of what I have explained, but the living significance, the inward meaning, you will understand only through experimentation. June 12, 2015

  Question: Will the sexual urge disappear when we refuse to name it? ... Now, the question is, "will the sexual urge disappear when we refuse to name it?" It will disappear, obviously; but if you...

• So, I want to know if the 'I' continues. The 'I', which is a total process, a psychological as well as physiological process, which is with the body and also apart from the body - I want to know if that 'I' continues, if it comes into being after this physical existence ends June 18, 2015

  Question: What is true and what is false in the theory of reincarnation? .... So, I want to know if the 'I' continues. The 'I', which is a total process, a psychological as well as physiological...