Beyond Windows
It's a travel day.
And although I am thinking thoughts,
I will not have the time.
Here's an oldie from the first year of EfA,
based on the thoughts of J Krishnamurti.
"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 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."
A deep, radical mutation of the mind.
I have been thinking of this sentence all day.
What constitutes a deep, radical mutation of the mind?
What does it look like?
Let's start with love
"What is love?
The word is so loaded and corrupted that I hardly like to use it.
Everybody talks of love ,
every magazine and newspaper and every missionary
talks everlastingly of love.
I love my country,
I love my king,
I love some book,
I love that mountain,
I love pleasure,
I love my wife,
I love God.
Is love an idea?
If it is,
it can be cultivated, nourished, cherished,
pushed around, twisted in any way you like.
When you say you love God what does it mean?
It means that you love a projection of your own imagination,
a projection of yourself clothed in certain forms of respectability
according to what you think is noble and holy;
so to say, `I love God',
is absolute nonsense.
When you worship God you are worshipping yourself,
and that is not love. "
This a deep radical mutation of the mind.
It may be the basis of a new operating system
for the human biocomputer,
And the Earthfamily
Beyond Windows.
Labels: personal philosophy
1 Comments:
May 20th
I love it.
Krishnamurti, Eckhard Tolle and a gorilla named Ishmael all using words to say what words cannot say. I would love to be able to do that. A kid will eat ivy too wouldn't you.
Dan
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