Saturday, June 17, 2023

We sacrifice the present for the future!

Jiddu Krishnamuti

Book of Life pg. 56

My Notes:

Most of us are living through our lives half-asleep - in a state of trance 

without attention to the present - 

always 'looking forward to' or 'looking backward'

The result - lack of care 

We are busy creating ideas, analyses and forecasts -

 of what might be? How to become?

and end up with a loitering mind  .

I look back at my life - most of it went like above!

a life of egocentricity, pride and acquiring possessions 

All matters of Gross! No subtlety whatsoever!

it was certainly not a life of attention!

JK calls it this way - 

"There is goodness only when , there is total attention 

An attention that has no motive- to be or not to be

When there is a motive for attention, is there attention?

If i pay attention to acquire something, 

the acquisition, whether it be good or bad - is not attention - its a distraction - A division! "

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