09-16-2008, 12:01 AM
...to actually learn , requires a great deal of humility. Most of us, unfortunately, have conclusions, opinions, judgements, beliefs , dogmas, from which we
evaluate, from which we start, that is to say, a platform from which we live. If one has opinions , conclusions, definite dogmas, one is merely accumulating
, therefore resisting, and hence creating conflict in oneself and with another, which is society.
So , is learning a matter of time? Is humility to be cultivated? Humility is FREEDOM and it is only in FREEDOM you can learn, not with accumulation of
memories.
Obviously, a man who says, "I am humble" , is a most vain man......it is a matter of INSTANT PERCEPTION and that immediate perception is denied when
you make humility an IDEA. ....between idea and action there is conflict.
All ideas are always in the past , therefore when I am functioning according to ideas,dogmas, beliefs, conclusions, I am living in the past, therefore I am
DEAD. It is as if a man lived on dead memories.....there is no sensitivity if there is an idea, which is of the past, DOMINATING the present.
We are sorrowful human beings who have not a moment of bliss uncontaminated by thought, not a moment of real deep enjoyment untouched by any thought or memory.
(purpose of recapitulation?-my note)
...the moment thought enters , love goes away. What we know of love, as desire, pleasure and passion , which is lust , has nothing whatsoever to do with the
passion we are talking about , which passion is not the product of thought. Passion implies that thought and idea have been totally abandoned.
J Krishnamurti , 1968
evaluate, from which we start, that is to say, a platform from which we live. If one has opinions , conclusions, definite dogmas, one is merely accumulating
, therefore resisting, and hence creating conflict in oneself and with another, which is society.
So , is learning a matter of time? Is humility to be cultivated? Humility is FREEDOM and it is only in FREEDOM you can learn, not with accumulation of
memories.
Obviously, a man who says, "I am humble" , is a most vain man......it is a matter of INSTANT PERCEPTION and that immediate perception is denied when
you make humility an IDEA. ....between idea and action there is conflict.
All ideas are always in the past , therefore when I am functioning according to ideas,dogmas, beliefs, conclusions, I am living in the past, therefore I am
DEAD. It is as if a man lived on dead memories.....there is no sensitivity if there is an idea, which is of the past, DOMINATING the present.
We are sorrowful human beings who have not a moment of bliss uncontaminated by thought, not a moment of real deep enjoyment untouched by any thought or memory.
(purpose of recapitulation?-my note)
...the moment thought enters , love goes away. What we know of love, as desire, pleasure and passion , which is lust , has nothing whatsoever to do with the
passion we are talking about , which passion is not the product of thought. Passion implies that thought and idea have been totally abandoned.
J Krishnamurti , 1968