Urgency of Change • The Krishnamurti Podcast Krishnamurti on Being and Becoming
Aug 9, 2023
Explore the desire to become something and the limitations of thinking. Understand the role of time in fear and question the concept of psychological evolution. Discover the importance of observation and absence of control in meditation. Embrace integrity and the ebb and flow of action for true transformation.
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Becoming Mirrors Physical Ambition
- Most people extend the physical ladder of becoming into the psychological realm and plan to 'become' over time.
- Krishnamurti questions whether there is anything real to become, calling non-fact pursuits absurd.
Becoming Is Thought's Movement
- Krishnamurti links the movement of becoming to thought and the limits of knowledge.
- He asserts that comparison and ideals are thought-made processes that perpetuate conflict and limitation.
Fact Trumps Idea For Real Change
- Observing the fact of becoming matters more than abstract ideas about it, because ideas generate contention.
- Krishnamurti asks whether the movement of thought toward any goal can ever truly end.