The short quotation below is taken from Krishnamurti’s statement written October 21, 1980 by himself for “Krishnamurti: The Years of Fulfillment” by Mary Lutyens, the second volume of his biography, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1983. © Mary Lutyens.
‘Thought is time. Thought is born of experience and knowledge which are inseparable from time and the past. Time is the psychological enemy of man. Our action is based on knowledge and therefore time, so man is always a slave to the past. Thought is ever-limited and so we live in constant conflict and struggle. There is no psychological evolution.
When man becomes aware of the movement of his own thoughts he will see the division between the thinker and the thought, the observer and the observed, the experiencer and the experience. He will discover that this division is an illusion. Then only is there pure observation which is insight without any shadow of the past or of time. This timeless insight brings about a deep radical mutation in the mind.”
Krishnamurti saw the world in a fundamentally different way than the average person, and his statements are difficult to decipher. I believe what he was saying is that we are not different from what we ‘see’, the world is us and we are the world. You?
