The Life and Death of Krishnamurti

doing everything it can to run away from it … So, don’t escape from sorrow, which does not mean that you become morbid. Live with it

the bringing about of a radical transformation in the human mind. Without such a transformation there could be no real change in society, no real joy, no peace in the world.

Man has built in himself images as a sense of security – religious, political, personal. These manifest as symbols, ideas, beliefs. The burden of these dominates man’s thinking, relationships and daily life. These are the causes of our problems for they divide man from man in every relationship.

Choice implies direction, an action of the will. K, as he explained it, was talking about awareness from moment to moment of all that was taking place inside oneself without any effort to change or direct it. It was a matter of pure observation, of looking, which would lead to self-transformation without effort.

The burden of the past gives rise to its own continuity, and the worries of yesterday give new life to the worries of today.’

Thought is the greatest hindrance to love.’

thought is the response of memory, the past.

while living, also live with death. Then death is not something far away, death is not something which is at the end of one’s life, brought about by some accident, disease or old age, but rather an ending to all the things of memory – that is death, a death not separate from living.

Thus education, in the true sense, is the understanding of oneself, for it is in each one of us that the whole of existence is gathered.’

K maintained that no social reform would ever end human misery; people would always transform any new system into what they themselves were;