Tradition and Revolution Dialogues with J. Krishnamurti
K: I see the flower, I name it. The name, the form, the verbalization is the memory; because the flower has been seen before, th ...
C: Recognition means seeing a thing without the process of thought. K: I recognize you because I have met you yesterday. If I di ...
different meaning altogether. So I have to test it. Can the mind look without past memory? Can I look at that flower without pas ...
THE GURU, TRADITION AND FREEDOM Dialogue 21 K: Could we relate the whole field of tradition to what we are talking about to see ...
SW: To the problem of understanding, tradition gives a formal and verbal approach. In the breakaway tradition, this is not so. T ...
you get water according to the size of your bucket; whatever vessel you carry, that is the amount of water you get. You have rea ...
to talk like this? And when we analyse what he says, it is so scientific, rational and so full of meaning. K: You know the story ...
K: You understand, sir, that there is never any accumulation from which he speaks. So the question: How do you say such things? ...
K: Can we cut across these levels or are there processes by which we can transcend the levels? R: Tradition says that a long pro ...
K: I say that my mind is confused, is disturbed; I do not understand. You tell me to understand by doing these things. So you ha ...
them away. I do not know. Knowledge is the means of getting hurt and tradition is the instrument by which I get hurt. I do not w ...
FREEDOM AND THE PRISON Dialogue 22 K: I wonder if we could discuss this morning what perception means. Apart from what the tradi ...
K: When I have all these accumulated—conscious and unconscious—images, my mind is loaded. Where is the place for sensitivity? A: ...
SW: How is there safety in the past? Am I really safe? K: Do not question it yet. Look at it. Without memory you would not know ...
A: Will you examine the inbuilt incapacity of the brain to see and its tendency to distort the new? K: Wait, sir. Unless the dan ...
ideal, he has to invent mokṣa, a heaven. And then there is safety in the future. He invents God, he pursues truth and enlightenm ...
and unifying. In knowledge there is the bondage of time. But man also knows that in this there is no freedom. And he wants freed ...
K: Is there security in thought? Thought has created all this. Is there security here? SW: It is thought which has produced all ...
STABILITY AND KNOWLEDGE Dialogue 23 SW: I perceive a tree. Then an idea arises from memory which says: This is a mango tree. Thi ...
R: There is a feeling of relationship when there is a movement towards something. K: If both of us are moving towards an ideal, ...
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