Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning

By J. Krishnamurti

In existence forward, one of many maximum academics of our time offers a realistic philosophy of studying and realizing that strikes a ways past conventional rules of schooling. accrued from talks Krishnamurti gave to his scholars in India, existence forward bargains brief chapters dependent round life’s basic questions. It contains an advent written through Krishnamurti specifically for the publication.

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The seed needs to be sown now, so you start now to take the initiative. at the highway you might have usually handed villagers sporting heavy so much, have you ever now not? what's your feeling approximately them? these bad ladies with torn and soiled outfits, with inadequate foodstuff, operating each day for a pittance—do you've gotten any feeling for them? Or are you so anxious, so all in favour of your self, approximately your examinations, approximately your appears to be like, approximately your saris, that you just by no means pay any cognizance to them? Do you're feeling you're far better than they, that you just belong to a better type and accordingly desire haven't any regard for them? for those who see them cross by means of, what do you're feeling? Don’t you need to support them? No? That exhibits the way you are considering. Are you so dulled through centuries of culture, through what your fathers and moms say, so aware of belonging to a undeniable classification, that you just don't even examine the villagers? Are you definitely so blinded that you just don't know what's taking place round you? it truly is fear—fear of what your mom and dad will say, of what the academics will say, worry of culture, worry of life—that progressively destroys sensitivity, is it no longer? have you learnt what sensitivity is? To be delicate is to think, to obtain impressions, to have sympathy should you are pain, to have affection, to concentrate on the issues which are taking place round you. while the temple bell is ringing, have you learnt of it? Do you hearken to the sound? Do you ever see the daylight at the water? have you learnt of the negative humans, the villagers who've been managed, trodden down for hundreds of years through exploiters? if you happen to see a servant wearing a heavy carpet, do you supply him a supporting hand? All this means sensitivity. yet, you notice, sensitivity is destroyed whilst one is disciplined, whilst one is nervous or excited about oneself. To be anxious approximately one’s appears to be like, approximately one’s saris, to contemplate oneself all of the time—which so much folks do in a few shape or other—is to be insensitive, for then the brain and middle are enclosed and one loses all appreciation of attractiveness. To be quite loose implies nice sensitivity. there's no freedom while you're enclosed by means of self-interest or by way of quite a few partitions of self-discipline. so long as your lifestyles is a technique of imitation there will be no sensitivity, no freedom. it is important to, when you are right here, to sow the seed of freedom, that is to rouse intelligence; for with that intelligence you could take on all of the difficulties of existence. Questioner: Is it achievable for a guy to loose himself from all feel of worry and whilst to stick with society? Krishnamurti: what's society? a suite of values, a suite of ideas, laws, and traditions, is it no longer? you spot those stipulations from outdoors and also you say, “Can i've got a pragmatic courting with all that? ” Why now not? in spite of everything, if you happen to basically healthy into that framework of values, are you unfastened? And what do you suggest by way of viable? Do you suggest incomes a livelihood? there are numerous belongings you can do to earn a livelihood; and while you are unfastened, are you able to no longer select what you must do? Is that now not doable?

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