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"Seeing without thought, without the word, without the response of memory is wholly
different from seeing with thought and feeling...Seeing without thought is
total seeing. Seeing a cloud over a mountain, without thought and its responses, is the
miracle of the new; it’s not 'beautiful,' it’s explosive in its immensity; it is something that has
never been and never will be."
Krishnamurti’s Notebook, p.55 |
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"It is tradition, the accumulation of experience, the ashes of memory, that make the mind
old. The mind that dies every day to the memories of yesterday, to all the joys and sorrows
of the past--such a mind is fresh, innocent, it has no age; and without that innocence, whether
you are ten or sixty, you will not find God."
Think on These Things |
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"Mind is memory, at whatever level, by whatever name you call it; mind is the product of the past,
it is founded on the past, which is memory, a conditioned state. Now with that memory we meet life,
we meet a new challenge. The challenge is always new and our response is always old, because it is
the outcome of the past. So experiencing without memory is one state and experiencing with memory
is another."
The First and Last Freedom, p.209 |
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"The memory of technical things is essential; but the psychological memory that maintains the self,
the 'me' and the 'mine,' that gives identification and self-continuance, is wholly detrimental to
life and to reality. When one sees the truth of that, the false drops away; therefore there is no
psychological retention of yesterday's experience."
The First and Last Freedom, p.212 |
