Can there be a knowledge which no longer reiterates the past?
2015/07/04 1 Comment
Memory Negates Love
2014/09/18 4 Comments
Is it possible to love without thinking?
What do I mean by thinking? Thinking is a response to memories of pain or pleasure. There is no thinking without the residue which incomplete experience leaves.
Love is different from emotion and feeling. Love cannot be brought into the field of thought; whereas feeling and emotion can be brought. Love is a flame without smoke, ever fresh, creative, joyous.
Such love is dangerous to society, to relationship.
So, thought steps in, modifies, guides it, legalizes it, puts it out of danger; then one can live with it. Do you not know that when you love someone, you love the whole of mankind? Do you not know how dangerous it is to love man? Then, there is no barrier, no nationality; then, there is no craving for power and position, and things assume their values.
Such a man is a danger to society.
For the being of love, the process of memory must come to an end. Memory comes into being only when experience is not fully, completely understood. Memory is only the residue of experience; it is the result of a challenge which is not fully comprehended. Life is a process of challenge and response. Challenge is always new but the response is ever old. This response, which is conditioning, which is the result of the past, must be understood and not disciplined or condemned away. It means living each day anew, fully and completely. This complete living is possible only when there is love, when your heart is full, not with the words nor with the things made by the mind. Only where there is love, memory ceases; then every movement is a rebirth.
J. Krishnamurti, The Book of Life
Can we break free from inner and outer blockages through Art?
2013/11/14 1 Comment
Nothing is definitively said or done.
To dare consider everything anew, to “seize” the moment
as an inspired improvisation – to question and examine it all out of a sense
of freedom and not going by the rule.
Life is about jazz, nay, LIFE IS JAZZ, yet very few seem to see or want to understand this.
Sadly, everyone wants to play it safely, and the consequence is that true expression
has become almost anarchic in our days.
Heidi:
Conformity is safety… I want to ‘play jazz’ yet how can I when I do not where the notes start, how the tune goes…? 
I have been more aware, and as you say, aiming for true expression recently… it is harder than it seems, when you are consciously aware of behaviour/thoughts/feelings, because past patterns are so tightly held that is hard to see past them, to understand where and how to break free.
First we must see, before we can change.
Me:
Take the Change and in the process you begin to see – that´s the way it goes.
Who in you wants “to understand”?…Give it thought…
It is in actual fact the “inner authority”, this thief in you which is the past, the ubiquitous conditioning, the societal voices keeping you captive, hating change, preventing you from letting go and finding out.
These patterns are terribly difficult to break, I know that well.
Please listen!
YOU HAVE TO STOP BEING “AWARE”…WHAT WE IMAGINE BEING AWARENESS IS AN ILLUSION. That because “True Awareness” is beyond any conscious pursuit, it actually belongs to the so-called unconscious mind.
So…DO IT FIRST AND UNDERSTAND AFTERWARDS!
Write first and analyze after! – that´s the way it goes.
Trust your gut feeling IN THE SECOND! Only in total spontaneity you can fathom something…
You don´t need to know HOW THE TUNE STARTS, or how it goes…just start.
Hum if you have to, hear the sounds around you, talk senselessly, hit any rhythm with
your fingers…
This is the ultimate truth: LIFE OBEYS NO PREDICTABLE PATTERN…simply dare admit that.
Don´t try to break free – you are actually free. You just are finding out this now.
Too much benevolence scares them
2013/10/25 Leave a comment
Punishment and retribution – this entrenched conditioning is what people
take for life.
Consequently what is easily given is not taken seriously, it is hardly accepted. If you don´t believe me, ask what women think of men who give themselves too easily…
That is so, most humans suppose they always have to fight, to strife; indeed to break their necks in order to reach a valuable result is the thing.
Twisted and paradoxical human nature:
The worse the fight, the more desirable the outcome…
Ask me, I´ve been there: it is really counterproductive to be all too nice and gracious with people – as they think you are an easy catch and thus might not appreciate you. In fact, they most likely will disregard you, taking you for a fool.
So don´t sell yourself too cheaply, put a high price on yourself and give moderately. Above all, don´t forget to punish them, otherwise they won´t endorse you. 😉
What if there was nothing to problematize on?
2013/10/06 Leave a comment
Arindam:
What if you woke up and saw that there were no ‘problems’?
It points to the attachment to problematize, which is another form of conditioning. Closely related to ‘seeking’.
It is simply attachment.
Me:
Having nothing to “problematize” on, can be very disruptive.
Indeed, for many, the absence of problems would be devastating. 
It´s obvious: seeking reinforces the ego.
That´s why, almost no one is interested to find…or find out…
Can we grasp Reality in a direct, immediate, unconditioned way?
2013/10/04 10 Comments
Every opinion, no matter how “right”, is a just a fragment of reality. Can a fragment ever understand the whole picture?
Can we see clearly that, without exception, every definition or explanation deprive us of our freedom to explore?
I could give you “explanantions” as to why Life shuns all definitions, but that won´t bring you any real benefit as you will most likely begin to compare with what you already know, and this creates more confusion. I think is far more important fo find out for yourself.
If you read this, you may have come to the point of realizing that all definitions are senseless, and this is a good sign. You seem to heed your inner urge for real answers.
The quest is about emptying the mind, as only a clear mind is able to have a direct experience.
How can we have a clear mind when education, school, society has had us follow and conform only to given patterns?The whole idea of teaching and learning is built on conditioning, can you see that?
Real answers will come to you only if you start to question your conditioning, if you have the guts…
Only when conditioning is understood Love can arise
2013/05/10 1 Comment
Sue Vincent:
It is a difficult thing to do, to not give a damn about being accepted or not, and yet harbour no bitterness and still care for and about others.Yet it is possible.
It all boils down to Love in the end. If we can accept ourselves as we are, and Love the whole ‘work in progress’ that we are… if we can Love others without expectation of return or acceptance, so that it is the Love that matters, not what we get back, we can let go of so many of the layers and concepts we ‘think’ we have to conform to.
Me:
As long as there is Illusion, that is, searching for inner security – there is conformity.
Conformity breeds concept. It is so easy to get stuck in concepts.
I for one am afraid of the word “Love”.
Really, love seems to be like a ghost…everybody speaks about it,
but very few – if any! – have ever seen it. Lived it for real. Known the reality behind
the word…
We can of course imagine that we “accept” ourselves as we are, that we give without expectation; but without having tasted the ultimate reality – love – we go on deluding ourselves, thinking that we understand, we “accept”, we give, we this and that…yet everything remains naught but another verbal deception…
The fact of the matter is that very few “manage” to leave behind conditioning. To step out into REAL INNER RENEWAL breaking the chain, is a hell of an undertaking as what we usually do is often changing one illusion for another.
So I say that only when Mind understands wholly and “frees itself” from conditioning and illusion, Love can arise.
Julien Matei
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