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...

• Questioner: Will you please talk about death? I do not mean the fear of death but rather the promise and hope which the thought of death must always hold for those who are aware throughout life that they do not belong. August 22, 2013

  Questioner: Will you please talk about death? I do not mean the fear of death but rather the promise and hope which the thought of death must always hold for those who are aware throughout life tha...

• Because we are as the dead we fear death; the living do not. November 26, 2013

  Because we are as the dead we fear death; the living do not. The dead are burdened by the past, by memory, by time, but for the living the present is the eternal. Time is not a means to the end, th...

• If death is truly a great problem for you, not merely a verbal or emotional issue nor a matter of curiosity which can be appeased by explanations, then in you there is deep silence. November 27, 2013

  If death is truly a great problem for you, not merely a verbal or emotional issue nor a matter of curiosity which can be appeased by explanations, then in you there is deep silence. In active still...

• if we were aware of what is, then the truth of sorrow, of impermanency, of imprisonment would liberate thought from its own ignorance. February 05, 2014

  Questioner: What happens to us at the end of the journey? Krishnamurti: Is it not important for the questioner to be aware of why he is asking this question? Is it not because of the fear of the...

• We have never understood the significance of Death. May 25, 2014

  In understanding fear we found that the desire to protect oneself projects the quality of fear, and that merely dealing with the symptom and not with the the cause is utterly futile. So, the questi...

• To us, God is the ultimate continuance and Death the ultimate denial of continuance. May 27, 2014

  Suicide is a part of death. A person who is committing suicide puts an end to his life when he is faced with a problem which he cannot solve, when his thoughts and feelings have come to a point whe...

• I think it is important that we should understand the whole question of death because, in that, there is renewal. June 01, 2014

  In discussing death, we found that, realising that everything comes to an end - relationship, things and ideas, not only physiological but psychological also - we are afraid of death, we are desiro...

• As one cannot think of the unknown, one can only think of the known, the outcome of the thought which is the result of the past. June 02, 2014

  As thought moves from the known to the known, there is no ending of thought; therefore, there is no renewal; and it is only in death there is renewal. A society can be renewed only when it throws o...

• Continuity implied through a belief or through the soul is the product of thought and therefore it is the result of the known, because thought can only think of something which it knows June 03, 2014

  Ordinarily, in the physical sense, we desire to continue through property, through our job and through our routine. Psychologically, we continue through our memory. All our systems are based on con...

• In order to bring about a renewal we must die; and that means we must start anew, putting away completely all memories of the past. June 07, 2014

  Every experience is leaving a residue and we call it memory. When we meet an experience anew, it will not leave any residue; that occurs when we meet the experience direct without a screen. When ne...

• 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...

• ... to understand the immortal, the imperishable, we have to understand the ending which we call death. June 30, 2014

  Question: Do you believe in immortality? Krishnamurti: ... What do we mean by immortality? We will perhaps understand it if we can understand what is continuity. If we can understand death perha...

• 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 ...

• We do not know what God is, what Death is, and what Love is. July 18, 2014

  We do not know what God is, what Death is, and what Love is. These are the three amazing principles in life, of which we do not know, though we talk about them. So, the wise man says that he would ...

• 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...

• The transitory cannot find the permanent; it must cease for the permanent to be. January 04, 2015

  Can the impermanent find the permanent? If I am blind can I see the light? If I am ignorant can I know enlightenment? There can only be enlightenment when ignorance ceases. The transitory cannot fi...

• 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...

• Memory is time, and time is not the door to reality; May 03, 2015

  .... This question as to whether Gandhiji continues means really , 'Do I continue?' - 'I', identified with him. You will continue, obviously, as long as there is identification, because memory c...

• A man who has a problem, who is continuously worried for a number of years, is dead, for him there is no renewal; he is of the living dead, he merely continues. June 19, 2015

  ... So, what is the 'I'? We have enquired into that, and you know what it is. Obviously, thought identifies itself with a belief, and that belief continues like an electric wave. Thought, identifie...

• Life and death are one, and the man who knows they are one is he who dies every minute. June 20, 2015

  Now, you will say that I have not answered the question whether there is reincarnation or not. Surely, I have answered your question. Sir, to the problems of life there are no categorical answers `...