Guest guest Posted November 19, 2006 Report Share Posted November 19, 2006 JK quotes from JKrishnamurti.org - Daily Quotes: Only One Hour to Live If you had only one hour to live, what would you do? Would you not arrange what is necessary outwardly, your affairs, your will, and so on? Would you not call your family and friends together and ask their forgiveness for the harm that you might have done to them, and forgive them for whatever harm they might have done to you? Would you not die completely to the things of the mind, to desires and to the world? And if it can be done for an hour, then it can also be done for the days and years that may remain... Try it and you will find out. Die Every Day What is age? Is it the number of years you have lived? That is part of age; you were born in such and such a year, and now you are fifteen, forty or sixty years old. Your body grows old - and so does your mind when it is burdened with all the experiences, miseries and weariness of life; and such a mind can never discover what is truth. The mind can discover only when it is young, fresh, innocent; but innocence is not a matter of age. It is not only the child that is innocent - he may not be - but the mind that is capable of experiencing without accumulating the residue of experience. The mind must experience, that is inevitable. It must respond to everything - to the river, to the diseased animal, to the dead body being carried away to be burnt, to the poor villagers carrying their burdens along the road, to the tortures and miseries of life - otherwise it is already dead; but it must be capable of responding without being held by the experience. 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. Feel the State of Death We are afraid to die. To end the fear of death we must come into contact with death, not with the image which thought has created about death, but we must actually feel the state. Otherwise there is no end to fear, because the word death creates fear, and we don't even want to talk about it. Being healthy, normal, with the capacity to reason clearly, to think objectively, to observe, is it possible for us to come into contact with the fact, totally? The organism, through usage, through disease, will eventually die. If we are healthy, we want to find out what death means. It's not a morbid desire, because perhaps by dying we shall understand living. Living, as it is now, is torture, endless turmoil, a contradiction, and therefore there is conflict, misery and confusion. The everyday going to the office, the repetition of pleasure with its pains, the anxiety, the groping, the uncertainty - that's what we call living. We have become accustomed to that kind of living. We accept it; we grow old with it and die. To find out what living is as well as to find out what dying is, one must come into contact with death; that is, one must end every day everything one has known. One must end the image that one has built up about oneself, about one's family, about one's relationship, the image that one has built through pleasure, through one's relationship to society, everything. That is what is going to take place when death occurs. The Book of Life Fear of Death? Why are you afraid of death? Is it perhaps because you do not know how to live? If you knew how to live fully, would you be afraid of death? If you loved the trees, the sunset, the birds, the falling leaf; if you were aware of men and women in tears, of poor people, and really felt love in your heart, would you be afraid of death? Would you? Don't be persuaded by me. Let us think about it together. You do not live with joy, you are not happy, you are not vitally sensitive to things; and is that why you ask what is going to happen when you die? Life for you is sorrow, and so you are much more interested in death. You feel that perhaps there will be happiness after death. But that is a tremendous problem, and I do not know if you want to go into it. After all, fear is at the bottom of all this - fear of dying, fear of living, fear of suffering. If you cannot understand what it is that causes fear and be free of it, then it does not matter very much whether you are living or dead. To Die Without Argument Do you know what it means to come into contact with death, to die without argument? Because death, when it comes, does not argue with you. To meet it, you have to die every day to everything: to your agony, to your loneliness, to the relationship you cling to; you have to die to your thought, to die to your habit, to die to your wife so that you can look at your wife anew; you have to die to your society so that you, as a human being, are new, fresh, young, and you can look at it. But you cannot meet death if you don't die every day. It is only when you die that there is love. A mind that is frightened has no love - it has habits, it has sympathy, it can force itself to be kind and superficially considerate. But fear breeds sorrow, and sorrow is time as thought. So to end sorrow is to come into contact with death while living, by dying to your name, to your house, to your property, to your cause, so that you are fresh, young, clear, and you can see things as they are without any distortion. That is what is going to take place when you die. But we have a limited death to the physical. We know very well logically, sanely, that the organism is going to come to an end. So we invent a life which we have lived of daily agony, daily insensitivity, the increase of problems, and its stupidity; that life we want to carry over, which we call the "soul" - which we say is the most sacred thing, a part of the divine, but it is still part of your thought and therefore it has nothing to do with divinity. It is your life! So one has to live every day dying - dying because you are then in contact with real life. ----The Book of Life The Book of Life - November 12 --------------Jiddu Krishnamurti ------ananda sunkanpally Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 20, 2006 Report Share Posted November 20, 2006 About death and dying: One question to be asked is, "Are we afraid to die or afraid of the manner in which we might die?" This IMPORTANT question must be pondered upon silently, deeply, personally, and not necessarily shared publicly! If we were absolutely assured of a painless death, like passing away in our sleep without suffering, in a second, would death still be so formidable, so scary, such a cause for global concern?? vedic astrology, gaya sar'nath <aghorabhairav wrote: > > JK quotes from > > JKrishnamurti.org - Daily Quotes: > > Only One Hour to Live > > If you had only one hour to live, what would you do? Would you not > arrange what is necessary outwardly, your affairs, your will, and so on? > Would you not call your family and friends together and ask their > forgiveness for the harm that you might have done to them, and forgive them > for whatever harm they might have done to you? Would you not die > completely to the things of the mind, to desires and to the world? And if it > can be done for an hour, then it can also be done for the days and years > that may remain... Try it and you will find out. > > > Die Every Day > > What is age? Is it the number of years you have lived? That is part of > age; you were born in such and such a year, and now you are fifteen, > forty or sixty years old. Your body grows old - and so does your mind > when it is burdened with all the experiences, miseries and weariness of > life; and such a mind can never discover what is truth. The mind can > discover only when it is young, fresh, innocent; but innocence is not a > matter of age. It is not only the child that is innocent - he may not be - > but the mind that is capable of experiencing without accumulating the > residue of experience. The mind must experience, that is inevitable. It > must respond to everything - to the river, to the diseased animal, to > the dead body being carried away to be burnt, to the poor villagers > carrying their burdens along the road, to the tortures and miseries of life > - otherwise it is already dead; but it must be capable of responding > without being held by the experience. 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. > > > Feel the State of Death > > We are afraid to die. To end the fear of death we must come into > contact with death, not with the image which thought has created about death, > but we must actually feel the state. Otherwise there is no end to fear, > because the word death creates fear, and we don't even want to talk > about it. Being healthy, normal, with the capacity to reason clearly, to > think objectively, to observe, is it possible for us to come into > contact with the fact, totally? The organism, through usage, through disease, > will eventually die. If we are healthy, we want to find out what death > means. It's not a morbid desire, because perhaps by dying we shall > understand living. Living, as it is now, is torture, endless turmoil, a > contradiction, and therefore there is conflict, misery and confusion. The > everyday going to the office, the repetition of pleasure with its > pains, the anxiety, the groping, the uncertainty - that's what we call > living. We have become accustomed to that kind of living. We accept it; we > grow old with it and die. > > To find out what living is as well as to find out what dying is, one > must come into contact with death; that is, one must end every day > everything one has known. One must end the image that one has built up about > oneself, about one's family, about one's relationship, the image that > one has built through pleasure, through one's relationship to society, > everything. That is what is going to take place when death occurs. > > The Book of Life > > Fear of Death? > > Why are you afraid of death? Is it perhaps because you do not know how > to live? If you knew how to live fully, would you be afraid of death? > If you loved the trees, the sunset, the birds, the falling leaf; if you > were aware of men and women in tears, of poor people, and really felt > love in your heart, would you be afraid of death? Would you? Don't be > persuaded by me. Let us think about it together. You do not live with > joy, you are not happy, you are not vitally sensitive to things; and is > that why you ask what is going to happen when you die? Life for you is > sorrow, and so you are much more interested in death. You feel that > perhaps there will be happiness after death. But that is a tremendous > problem, and I do not know if you want to go into it. After all, fear is at > the bottom of all this - fear of dying, fear of living, fear of > suffering. If you cannot understand what it is that causes fear and be free of > it, then it does not matter very much whether you are living or dead. > > To Die Without Argument > > Do you know what it means to come into contact with death, to die > without argument? Because death, when it comes, does not argue with you. To > meet it, you have to die every day to everything: to your agony, to > your loneliness, to the relationship you cling to; you have to die to your > thought, to die to your habit, to die to your wife so that you can look > at your wife anew; you have to die to your society so that you, as a > human being, are new, fresh, young, and you can look at it. But you > cannot meet death if you don't die every day. It is only when you die that > there is love. A mind that is frightened has no love - it has habits, it > has sympathy, it can force itself to be kind and superficially > considerate. But fear breeds sorrow, and sorrow is time as thought. > > So to end sorrow is to come into contact with death while living, by > dying to your name, to your house, to your property, to your cause, so > that you are fresh, young, clear, and you can see things as they are > without any distortion. That is what is going to take place when you die. > But we have a limited death to the physical. We know very well > logically, sanely, that the organism is going to come to an end. So we invent a > life which we have lived of daily agony, daily insensitivity, the > increase of problems, and its stupidity; that life we want to carry over, > which we call the "soul" - which we say is the most sacred thing, a part > of the divine, but it is still part of your thought and therefore it > has nothing to do with divinity. It is your life! > > So one has to live every day dying - dying because you are then in > contact with real life. > > ----The Book of Life > > The Book of Life - November 12 > > --------------Jiddu Krishnamurti > > ------ananda sunkanpally > > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 24, 2006 Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 dear members, My broadband connection wasnt functioning for the last 7days due to the area server getting burnt . anyway it has been restored. I fully concur with Mr. Ranjan, all of us arent blessed to leave this world during sleep. At times even great saints arent spared, but because of their sadhana,they attain such heights as to shed their physical body even when they are alive. Eg: His holiness Sri Ramana maharashi was operated on cancer without administering any anaesthesia. As we grow old by age our prayers shud alos be for a peaceful departure from this world. with good wishes, k.gopu Everyone is raving about the all-new Mail beta. http://new.mail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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