Jiddu Krishnamurti : the all quote here

• .... I have said that death is an ending - like ending attachment. When something ends, like attachment, something totally new begins. When one has been accustomed to anger all one's life, or greed or aggression and one ends it, something totally new happens. One may have followed a guru, with all the gadgets he has given one; one realizes the absurdity of it, and one ends it. What happens? There is a sense of freedom from the burden which one has been uselessly carrying. Death is like ending an attachment*.




• What is it that has continued through life? One puts death in opposition to living. One says death is at the end of life; an end that may be ten or fifty years away - or the day after tomorrow. One hopes it will be ten years or more, but this is one's illusion, one's desire, a kind of momentum. One cannot understand how to face death without understanding or facing living, for death is not the opposite of living.




• Much more important than asking the question: how to face death or, what is immortality or, whether that immortality is a state in which one can live, is the question of how to face life, how to understand this terrible thing called living? Because living as one does, is meaningless. One may try to give meaning to life, as most people do, saying life is this, or life must be that, but putting aside all these romantic, illusory, idealistic nonsenses, life is one's daily sorrow, its competition, despair, depression, agony - with the occasional flash of beauty and love.

A question : do we miss life by refusing death , death which means the body has a beginning so an end, so the mind and we refuse to end up dead...I really deeply wonder if this is not the main wrong doing of us..
If I answer that , I say yes by refusing death we miss life , by doing this it sticks the brain into a corner which is false , so the analytical brain will then spend a whole life in a permanent conflict between what is and what should be, when the what should be cannot be..

the pain has two effects one by understanding it may show a right way in life , the other one is the darkness and misery of permanent conflict inside and outside , where even the smiles are false..

Dan.....

This post was last updated by Muad dhib (account deleted) Sun, 02 Oct 2011.

Muad dhib wrote:
If I answer that , I say yes by refusing death we miss life , by doing this it sticks the brain into a corner which is false , so the analytical brain will then spend a whole life in a permanent conflict between what is and what should be, when the what should be cannot be..

Yes, you are right, the refusal to acept the death for what it is ,it is painfull and pathatic to every one involved and faceing the event of death at its final movement.But Jk says that death need not be like that,if only the individual understands the time and thought, and ends them.

I am that Iam.

kamarajugadda Mallik ArjunaRao wrote:
if only the individual understands the time and thought, and ends them.

' In your mind, my son, you made a new chariot without wheels, which had only one shaft but can travel in all directions. And unseeing, you climbed into it.

'My son, when you made the chariot roll forth from the priests, there rolled after it a chant that was placed there upon a ship.'

Who gave birth to the boy? who made the chariot roll out? Who could tell us today how the gift for the journey was made?

How was the gift for the journey made? The beginning arose fro it: first they made the bottom, and then made the way out.

This is the dwelling place of Yama, that is called the home of gods. This is his reed pipe that is blown, and he is the one adorned with songs.

gb

We are watching, not waiting, not expecting anything to happen but watching without end. JK