Krishnamurti writes in On Life and Death:
“There are three things that we must understand thoroughly if we want to capture the total movement of life: time, pain and death. Understanding this requires the clarity of love. Love is not a theory nor is it an ideal. Love cannot be taught. But one can enter into love spontaneously when he truly understands the significance of time, the depth of pain, the purity that comes with death.
«Life is something total. Pain, grief, anguish, joy, absurd ideas, possession, envy, love, painful loneliness ... all this is life. And to understand death we have to understand the totality of life, not just take a fragment of it and live with that fragment, as most of us do. "
Once again Krishnamurti is faced with the great issues of the human condition. On Life and Death is a book of astonishing clarity, a prodigy of depth and concisene...read more
