Tag:  Feeling

• We are all accustomed to name every reaction and refer it to the frame of references, memory, almost instinctively. But if you experiment with it and refuse to name a feeling when it arises in you, you will see that there is a time-lag, between the feeling and the naming. October 21, 2014

  Now, suppose a reaction arises and you do not name it. Then, you do not absorb it into consciousness, but you are merely aware of it; the feeling and the response or reactions would cease after run...

• When we do not put a feeling in the framework of references, the feeling comes to an end, withers away. October 25, 2014

  Just as the word, 'God' is not God, so the term for a feeling is not the feeling. When we do not put a feeling in the framework of references, the feeling comes to an end, withers away. When we do ...

• I wonder how far you have been experimenting with what we have been discussing, namely, the problem of conflict and effort which brings about duality, the opposite, and the problem of terming a feeling. November 12, 2014

  I wonder how far you have been experimenting with what we have been discussing, namely, the problem of conflict and effort which brings about duality, the opposite, and the problem of terming a fee...

• If you are not naming a quality or terming a feeling, then the feeling dies away. November 13, 2014

  What is your relationship to property or things, if you do not name or give a term to a feeling, whether pleasant or unpleasant? You all own property. You all have titles, B.A., M.A., Judge, Doctor...

• Should not a wise man be indifferent to flattery and insult? November 14, 2014

  Naming a feeling is giving it continuity whether it is pleasurable or painful. How do you relate it to your property? If you change your name into "Swami something," it means only that name is more...

• If I am not a scoundrel and somebody calls me a scoundrel I want to find out, I want to discover whether he is correct. November 15, 2014

  If I am not a scoundrel and somebody calls me a scoundrel I want to find out, I want to discover whether he is correct. If I am a scoundrel and somebody calls me as such, and if I do not want to be...

• ... feeling is always the new, though it is out of an old conditioning; if you treat it as new, then you will understand the old. February 21, 2015

  There is, at present, chaos in most of the countries and a revolution is taking place - economic, social as well as religious. This revolution is thoughtless and mostly chaotic. Why not acknowledge...

• You all want many things. You want fame, you build around yourselves a hood of ideas, of exclusions, and that is why a man who loves is dangerous to society; and so society, which is you, begins to build a thought process, which soon destroys love. June 04, 2015

  Question: We know that thought destroys feeling. How to feel without thinking? Krishnamurti: Obviously, we know that rationalizing, calculating, bargaining, destroys feeling, love, affection. Ha...