The COVID-19 Pandemic has brought my relationship to time into focus. We sit at our desks, ready to write, because we believe we can harness our time.
But I’ve been thinking a lot about this quote by J. Krishnamurthi. I don’t believe I fully understand it, but it helps me when I get preoccupied or ashamed about a so-called “sub-optimal” use of time.
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.
I hope this spurs some neural connections and gets your fingers tapping.
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