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Reincarnation On Trial
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Jiddu Krishnamurti affirms the assessment of Dr. Peebles: once we find the life within, we will no longer crave experience; meaning, the very psychological impetus of reincarnation is extinguished.
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In the previous article, we learned of Dr. Peebles’ assertion that those who have found God within have no desire to reincarnate.
Jiddu Krishnamurti, in his January 13, 1971 lecture, offers a comment philosophically akin:
Virtue is a living thing like humility; you cannot cultivate humility. So when all this is done the mind becomes extraordinarily clear, unconfused, and therefore it is alone. Out of this aloneness comes a quality of silence, which is not the result of practice, which is not the opposite of noise. That silence is without cause, and therefore it has no beginning and no end. And to such a mind, absolutely orderly, and therefore completely alone, and therefore innocent - which means that it can never be hurt - comes a marvellous silence.
What happens in that silence, there are no words to describe. If you describe what happens, then those words are not the thing - what is described. The description is not the described. Therefore, truth, that blessedness, that extraordinary silence, and the movement of that silence has no words, and if you have gone that far, then you are enlightened, you do not seek anything, you do not want any experience, then you are a light, and that is the beginning and the ending of all meditation.
In this sacred silence of enlightenment, of “going within,” one discovers one’s true self, linked to Universal Consciousness. It is the silence of knowing the sacredness of one's own soul.
When this occurs, the influence of the dysfunctional ego is deactivated. One no longer craves experience as a mean to fill up the inner neediness of “I don’t have enough” because “I am not enough.” In this moment of cosmic clarity, all psychological impetus toward reincarnation’s many lives evaporates.
What then of experience? Will we no longer seek for it? Yes, and the more; however, when we do, a desire for experience will issue as a function of the joy of living and the thrill of knowledge acquisition, with no hint or taint of inner neediness. A very great existential difference.
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20.July.1967. Maturity has nothing to do with age and time, but only a deep knowing of oneself. One can be mature only immediately, or not at all. Can we look at fear, very attentively, watching every movement, without reaction, like living with a serpent in the room? An artist in ancient China, before painting a tree, sat in front of it for days, months, years, until there was no space between observer and observed, no experience as the observer of beauty.
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10.Feb.1965 lecture:
Society is not transformed through any revolution, economic or social. We have seen this through the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution. The everlasting hope of man that by altering the outward things the inward nature of man can be transformed, has never been fulfilled, and it will never be. The outward change, the economic change, which is bound to come to this country which is so poor - that is not going to change man's attitude, the ways of life, his misery, his confusion….
You know, for most of us, change implies a bargaining process. I would like to change; and so I begin to bargain with myself whether it is profitable or not, whether it is worthwhile or not; so change implies a bargaining. Please think about it and feel how extraordinarily our mind works with regard to change. We change if it is profitable, if it is pleasurable; or we change when it is painful. But any change, with bargaining, is no change at all. So our mind that wishes to find the reality, must begin with itself.
01.August.1965. The beauty I am talking offers no stimulation. It is a beauty not to be found in any picture, in any symbol, in any word, in any music. That beauty is sacredness, a mind that is clear in its self-knowing. One comes upon this beauty only when all desire for experience has come to an end. A mind that is seeking experience will interpret experience by past conditioning.
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