Tag:  Time

• Actually we have no love; we have sentiment; we have emotionality, sensuality, sexuality July 26, 2009

  You know, actually we have no love - that is a terrible thing to realize. Actually we have no love; we have sentiment; we have emotionality, sensuality, sexuality; we have remembrances of somethin...

• The moment you divide up life and think of its goal as something to be attained eventually in some distant future, the sweet purpose of this realisation is lost - August 15, 2009

  Do not think that what I say applies to the young and not to the old, or vice-versa. I am emphasizing this because a friend of mine said the other day, "Why have you taken up this work? You are t...

• If you and the speaker are the result of forty thousand years or more, and we have come to this peculiar state that we are in, will we, give me another forty thousand years, change? September 23, 2009

  So one may ask: time may be the enemy of man, psychologically. There is no psychological evolution. If you and the speaker are the result of forty thousand years or more, and we have come to this p...

• Breaking through is not a matter of time. October 07, 2009

  ... the religious man is he who, through self-knowledge, begins to discover his conditioning and to break through it; and the breaking through is not a matter of time.

• Except for the human beings, it was a new day; nothing was like yesterday. October 08, 2009

  The sky was heavy with clouds and the day was warm, though the breeze was playing with the leaves. There was distant thunder, and a sprinkling of rain was laying the dust on the road. The parrots w...

• A mind that is capable of measuring is capable also of illusion October 18, 2009

  Questioner: "I understand what you say verbally, but I can't stop groping and longing, for deep within me I do not believe that there is no way, no discipline, no action that will bring me to the o...

• It would be foolish - would it not? - to deny evolution. October 29, 2009

  Questioner: Do you believe in evolution? You have often said that understanding is immediate, the act of learning is on the moment; where does evolution play a part in this? Are you denying evoluti...

• Why have we created psychological time? October 31, 2009

  Perhaps man has developed this idea of evolution through watching a little bush grow into an enormous tree, the baby into manhood, the developing of a muscle, that muscle is weak but practice and e...

• Personally, to the speaker, there is no psychological evolution; November 05, 2009

  After a million years, of fifty thousand years, have we changed deeply? Aren't we very primitive, barbarous? So I am asking if you will consider whether there is psychological evolution at all? I q...

• What is the relationship of attention to inattention, and to awareness? November 12, 2009

  K: ...we are asking now, what is the relationship of attention to inattention, and to awareness? Right? They are all related. Why is the mind inattentive - not, can the mind be continuously attenti...

• Meditation is seeing the constant touching the ever-changing movement of life. November 29, 2009

  Meditation is seeing the constant touching the ever-changing movement of life. The man who has progressed through being a sinner to being a saint has progressed from one illusion to another. This ...

• Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment. December 18, 2009

  So, a man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions. Again, this is not a matter of time. There is no end to self-knowledge...

• Can thought be aware of its own movement? Can thought see itself, see what it is doing, both in the outer and the inner? February 06, 2010

  Can thought be aware of its own movement? Can thought see itself, see what it is doing, both in the outer and the inner? There is really no outer and inner: the inner creates the outer, and the out...

• You cannot brush the past aside. It is there. February 12, 2010

  The past can never be put aside. There is a watching of the past as it goes by, but not occupation with the past. So the mind is free to observe and not to choose. Where there is choice in this mov...

• Will you please explain what you mean by awareness? February 15, 2010

  Question: Will you please explain what you mean by awareness? Krishnamurti: Just simple awareness! Awareness of your judgments, your prejudices, your likes and dislikes. When you see something, ...

• The religious mind does not depend on time for its development. February 18, 2010

  You may be treating the talks we have been having as an exchange of ideas, as a process of accepting new ideas and discarding old ones, or as a process of denying new ideas and holding on to the ol...

• As long as you think time and thought are necessary, in the psychological world, in the world of the self, in the world of psyche, in the world of inside the skin, then you will be perpetually in fear. March 05, 2010

  Thought is necessary, time is necessary. To go from here to there time is necessary. And thought is necessary to drive a car, to take a bus or train. Thought is necessary, time is necessary at that...

• Conflict at any level, at any depth, indicates immaturity. March 08, 2010

  Crossing the bridge, up in the sun-speckled wood, meditation was quite a different thing. Without any wish and search, without any complaint of the brain, there was unenforced silence; the little b...

• There is no essential difference between the old and the young, for both are slaves to their own desires and gratifications. March 11, 2010

  There is no essential difference between the old and the young, for both are slaves to their own desires and gratifications. Maturity is not a matter of age, it comes with understanding. The arden...

• Any change within the field of time is the same movement modified and continued. March 27, 2010

  To discover what is true, all conclusions, every form of comparison and condemnation must be put aside, and that is a very difficult thing for most of us to do because we are educated, conditioned ...

• It is we human beings who are always concerned about death - because we are not living. March 31, 2010

  Do you think a leaf that falls to the ground is afraid of death? Do you think a bird lives in fear of dying? It meets death when death comes; but it is not concerned about death, it is much too occ...

• Creative emptiness is not possible so long as there is the thinker who is waiting, watching, observing in order to gather experience, in order to strengthen himself. April 11, 2010

  It is only when the mind is empty that there is a possibility of creation; but I do not mean this superficial emptiness which most of us have. Most of us are superficially empty, and it shows it...

• The thinker is a fictitious entity, an unreal state. There is only thought; and the bundle of thoughts creates the 'I', the thinker. April 22, 2010

  Pursue a thought completely, go through with it to the end, think it out fully, and you will see what happens. You will find that there is no thinker at all, because it is the thought which creates...

• To control thought-feeling for a greater reward, for a greater result, is to make it petty, ignorant and sorrowful. May 15, 2010

  Simple life does not consist in the mere possession of a few things but in the freedom from possession and non-possession, in the indifference to things that comes with deep understanding. Merely t...

• Patience is not time. Impatience is time. Patience has no time. May 29, 2010

  I realize my life is wrong. Nobody has to point that out; it is so. That is a fact and you come along and tell me that you can do something instantly. I don't believe you. I feel it can never happe...

• I feel that a radical change can come only when there is no effort, when the mind is not trying to become something, not trying to be virtuous - which does not mean that the mind must be nonvirtuous. June 06, 2010

  Most of us are idealists; we have some form of ideal which we have established through habit, through custom, through tradition, through our own volition, and we hope that by conforming to this ide...

• Space and time are real for the man who is yet imperfect and space is divided for him into dimensions, time into past, present and future. June 25, 2010

  Neither time nor space exists for the man who knows the eternal. Space and time are real for the man who is yet imperfect and space is divided for him into dimensions, time into past, present an...

• 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...

• If action is conditioned by an idea, by a formula, by a concept, action then is not important, but the idea is important, and therefore, there is a conflict between action and idea. June 27, 2010

  For me there is no action if it is preceded by an idea. If action is conditioned by an idea, by a formula, by a concept, action then is not important, but the idea is important, and therefore, ther...

• Time is merely the outcome of our not meeting the fact without knowledge. June 30, 2010

  We say that we need time to free the mind from all accumulative, self-protective knowledge, to unburden ourselves of all sorrow, misery, strife. But I do not think time is necessary at all. On the ...

• As long as the mind is a slave to time, there must be the fear of death, the fear and the hope of a future life, and a constant inquiry into that question. July 11, 2010

  As long as the mind is a slave to time, there must be the fear of death, the fear and the hope of a future life, and a constant inquiry into that question. That is, where there is fear there is alr...

• A fundamental question cannot be answered by somebody else. July 30, 2010

  When we ask this question, whether thought can have a stop, whether thought which is in time can come to an end, we are asking a most fundamental question. A fundamental question cannot be answere...

• A constant battle is going on within us, wearing us out in the process. August 17, 2010

  Now what do we mean by time? It involves not only the interval, the movement from one point to another point, but it also involves, does it not, the movement from the present to the tomorrow, to th...

• Is there time to overcome death; or is death always in harmony with life, with love, with pain; or is death something to be put far away, one day we have to face it but not now? October 08, 2010

  Is there time to overcome death; or is death always in harmony with life, with love, with pain; or is death something to be put far away, one day we have to face it but not now? And therefore we a...

• Time is a movement invented by thought. October 14, 2010

  Time is a movement invented by thought. Psychological time is invented by thought, and thought itself is the product of time. Thought is the product of time because man has acquired knowledge throu...

• Life is not what we would like it to be; life is not permanent at all. November 01, 2010

  We cling to our children, to our traditions, to our society, to our names and our little virtues, because we want permanency; and that is why we are afraid to die. We are afraid to lose the things ...

• What I have to say concerns the hindrances which prevent in you the instantaneous recognition of truth. December 10, 2010

  What I have to say concerns the hindrances which prevent in you the instantaneous recognition of truth. I say that there is an ecstasy of life, and eternity, an immortality, which is in the complet...

• Consider the working of your own mind and heart and you will see that in the pursuit of achievement and progress you are living in the past and in the future and never fully in the present. December 30, 2010

  Consider the working of your own mind and heart and you will see that in the pursuit of achievement and progress you are living in the past and in the future and never fully in the present. Your ac...

• You must realize with your heart as well as with your mind that the cause of emptiness is craving. January 30, 2011

  You must realize with your heart as well as with your mind that the cause of emptiness is craving, which results in choice, and prevents true discernment. When you become aware of this, there is th...

• Man in general sees life only through the tradition of time which he bears in his mind and his heart; whereas to me life is fresh, renewing, moving, never static. February 22, 2011

  Man in general sees life only through the tradition of time which he bears in his mind and his heart; whereas to me life is fresh, renewing, moving, never static. Man's mind and heart are burdened ...

• If you perceive and live completely in the very thing that you are experiencing, then this idea of change from the unessential to the essential disappears April 10, 2011

  As I have said, to me perception or discernment is timeless. Time does not give you discernment of experiences; it makes you only more clever, more cunning, in meeting experiences. But if you perce...

• I say that time does not bring you understanding; when you look to time as a gradual process of unfoldment you are creating a hindrance. April 13, 2011

  We hold to the idea that time will give us understanding. To me this is but a prejudice, a hindrance. Now suppose you think about this idea for a moment - not accept it, but think it over and desir...

• The very inquiry into the future shows that you are already dying. May 30, 2011

  As long as the mind is a slave to time, there must be the fear of death, the fear and the hope of a future life, and a constant inquiry into that question. That is, where there is fear there is alr...

• What is living fully in the present? September 17, 2011

  Question: When a person I love, without attachment or longing, comes into my thoughts and I dwell on them pleasantly for a moment, is this what you decry as not living fully in the present? Kris...