Love
"…live each day, each minute, as completely, as fully, and as newly as possible. And you do that when you love, when your heart is full; you cannot do it with words, with things made by the mind…" K.
In this time of fear and hate this feels like something that needs to be repeated….
Don't you know? When you love somebody, you love the whole of mankind - not just one person, you love man. And it is dangerous to love man, is it not? Because, then there is no barrier, no nationality, there is no craving for money, for position, for things - and such a man is dangerous to society, is he not? But 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. For love to be, memory, with all its complex processes, has to come to an end. That is, memory arises only when experience is not fully, completely understood. Memory is only the residue of experience; memory is the result of a challenge which is not fully comprehended. Life is a process of challenge and response, the challenge always being new and the response always being old. So, one has to understand the old, the conditioned response, which means that thought must free itself from the past, from time, from yesterday; it must live each day, each minute, as completely, as fully, and as newly as possible. And you do that when you love, when your heart is full; you cannot do it with words, with things made by the mind, but only when you love. Then memory the thought that is merely the response of memory, ceases; then every minute is a new minute, every movement is a rebirth, and to love the one is to love the whole.
J. Krishnamurti
Bombay 6th Public Talk 22nd February, 1948
In this time of fear and hate this feels like something that needs to be repeated….
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you CAN make words mean so many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty," who is to be boss, that's all."
There is something that supersedes thought. If this becomes a clear force and not merely another "thought", then thought learns its place, that's all. Right now, it doesn't know its place, it sprawls over everything. It hasn't been shut down profoundly enough to see its limited place. But after something intercedes and puts thought in its place (insight, mind, god, honesty, etc), then thought can function when it's necessary for communication and go quiet when it's not needed. In our culture, thought is used compulsively because the absence of thought is feared. So thought gets misused as a device to keep reality away. It's the misuse of thought that is the problem. So we need what Krishnamurti calls "an ending to time" and an "ending to thought." But he didn't mean that thought has to be erased from existence. I think he meant it much like Humpty Dumpty: "Thought as a Boss" has to end, that's all.