Tag:  Death

• So, can you, while living, vigorous, active, end your attachment, end a particular habit voluntarily, easily, quietly? July 30, 2009

  Now, the question then is, what is death? Please ask this question: Are you just the vast reservoir of memory, words, pictures, symbols? Is your consciousness the rest of mankind, that you are not ...

• What is death? Surely, it is the complete cessation of everything that you have known August 23, 2009

  What is death? Surely, it is the complete cessation of everything that you have known. If it is not the cessation of everything you have known, it is not death. If you know death already, then you ...

• Most of us are so weighed down by the known, by the yesterday, by the memories, by the `me', the `self', which is but a bundle of memories accumulated yesterday, having no actual existence in itself. August 25, 2009

  If you are really serious, to find out the implications of death, then you have to come into contact with that fact of death, actually come into contact with it - not theoretically, not as somethin...

• It requires an intense energy to stand alone. September 03, 2009

  We discussed `need' the other day. We do need certain physical comforts, food and shelter; but to make psychological demands on life means that you are begging, that you are afraid. It requires an ...

• 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...

• When you lose your relationship with nature and the vast heavens, you lose your relationship with man. November 21, 2009

  The death of a tree is beautiful in its ending, unlike man's. A dead tree in the desert, stripped of its bark, polished by the sun and the wind, all its naked branches open to the heavens, is a won...

• We have divided life into dying and living. And this division has brought about great fear. And out of that fear we invent all kinds of theories, very comforting, may be illusory, but it is very comforting, illusions are comfortably neurotic. January 14, 2010

  So for us death is total ending, the ending of your attachment - right?-ending all that you have collected. You cannot take it with you. You may like to have it until the last minute, but you canno...

• We are saying: Be dead to love; it doesn't matter. Live entirely in your intellect and in your verbal manipulations, your cunning arguments. January 28, 2010

  Questioner: Of course we can go on endlessly analysing, describing the cause, but will that bridge the gap between the mind and the heart? That's what I want to know. I have read some of the psycho...

• In Asia they believe in reincarnation; that is, the believer is born over and over again until in time he becomes perfect. January 29, 2010

  You are brought up, as most of the world, to believe in a soul, in a spiritual entity which is constant; that is, you will be resurrected. And in Asia they believe in reincarnation; that is, the be...

• Death isn't some horrific thing, something to be avoided, something to be postponed, but rather something to be with day in and day out. January 30, 2010

  And one would like to help - no, that's the wrong word - one would like in education to bring death into some kind of reality, actuality, not of someone else dying but of each one of us, however ol...

• One has to find out the meaning of living, not merely giving an intellectual significance to it, but looking at what it means to live. January 31, 2010

  One has to find out the meaning of living, not merely giving an intellectual significance to it, but looking at what it means to live. And one has also to go into this question of what love is, and...

• Creativeness is not a process of becoming or achieving, but a state of being in which self-seeking effort is totally absent. February 05, 2010

  "Must not a definite practice be adopted to put an end to this deterioration, this inefficiency and laziness of the mind?", asked the government official. Practice or discipline implies an incen...

• It is one fact in life, we are all going to die. That is an absolute, irrevocable fact. March 23, 2010

  Question: When you are no longer physically with us among us what are those of us who understand your message, even if only intellectually, to do? Do we continue working on ourselves and forget th...

• 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...

• 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 ...

• Colour was god and death was beyond the gods. May 02, 2010

  The cold had been too severe, it had been below freezing; the hedge had been burned brown, the brown leaves had fallen off; the lawn was grey-brown, the colour of the earth; except for a few yellow...

• The Christians have taken comfort in the idea of resurrection, and the Hindus and the Buddhists in a future life. Future life of what? May 03, 2010

  Death comes to all of us, the young, the old,the middle-aged, it is inevitable, either through accident or through old age, with the disease, the discomfort, pain, agony, and the doctors giving you...

• In what manner should one live one's daily life?" May 16, 2010

  "May I ask just one question?" put in one of the others. "In what manner should one live one's daily life?" As though one were living for that single day, for that single hour. "How?" If y...

• What is death, what does it mean to die? - and that is an absolute certainty that we are all going to die, and what does that mean? May 17, 2010

  What is death, what does it mean to die? - and that is an absolute certainty that we are all going to die, and what does that mean? One has continued from childhood till the moment of death - conti...

• When you say to somebody `I love you', what does it mean? June 11, 2010

  I wonder if you have ever observed anything, that is, to see things actually as they are, not as you wish them to be, or you hope they should be, but actually as they are? Have you ever observed a ...

• 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...

• It seems to me that our problems, whatever they are, can be dissolved totally only by burning away the process of will - which may sound completely foreign to a Western mind, and even to the Eastern mind. June 23, 2010

  If one would find what it is to be religiously free, I think the whole problem of will, desire, with its intentions, its pursuits, its purposes, its innumerable projections - in all of which the mi...

• That which has continuity cannot possibly be innocent. July 13, 2010

  One of the major factors of fear is death; the older one grows, the more one is afraid of death. You know what is happening in the world; the older people are pretending to be very young because...

• We refuse to accept life as it is in fact. August 10, 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 ...

• The word 'innocence' means 'incapable of being hurt'. September 24, 2010

  The word 'innocence' means 'incapable of being hurt'. To have a mind that is not capable of being hurt, does not mean that it has built up a lot of resistance - on the contrary, such a mind is dyi...

• 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...

• Thought is the response of memory, experience, knowledge, the known, in the known is the 'me', though consciously I may not know the 'me' totally, the 'me' lives in this interval. October 04, 2010

  Thought is the response of memory, experience, knowledge, the known, in the known is the 'me', though consciously I may not know the 'me' totally, the 'me' lives in this interval. I wonder if you s...

• 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...

• Can you invite death? Which means to end that which you have experienced, that which you have gathered, psychologically, so that you become totally inwardly anonymous, so that you are inwardly absolutely nothing? October 09, 2010

  So can we while living, energetic, alive, aware of all the beauty and the ugliness of existence invite death? Not jump out of the thirtieth floor, not commit suicide, we don't mean that, invite de...

• 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 ...

• Some people believe that the "I" has had a birth in the distant past and will continue in the future. It is irrelevant to me, it has no significance at all. July 26, 2011

  Question: It is perfectly clear to me that the "I" consciousness is the result of environment, but do you not see that the "I" did not originate for the first time in this life? From what you say i...