“Time is the enemy of man.”
“Through time mutation is not possible. The very denial of time is mutation; mutation takes place where the things which time has brought into being, habit, tradition, reform, the ideals, are denied. Deny time and mutation has taken place, a total mutation, not the alteration in patterns nor the substitution of one pattern by another. But acquiring knowledge, learning a technique, require time which cannot and must not be denied; they are essential for existence. Time to go from here to there is not an illusion but every other form of time is illusion.”
“Time can only give birth to more time. Destruction of time is not a process; all methods and processes prolong time. Ending of time is the ending of total thought and feeling.”
“Word is time, indicating space; word is of the past or the future but the active present has no word. The dead can be put into words but the living cannot. Every word used to communicate about the living is the denial of the living.”
“Time and thought are inseparable; put an end to one, you put an end to the other. Thought cannot be destroyed by will for will is thought in action.”
“Time is thought in consciousness and consciousness is held within its frame. There is always fear and sorrow within the network of thought and feeling. The ending of sorrow is the ending of time.”
“What you are now is the result of the past. And tomorrow, or a thousand tomorrows, is what you are now, so the future is now. In the now all time is contained. This is a fact too, an actuality, not a theory. What you are is the result of the past and what you will be tomorrow is what you are now. If I am violent now” tomorrow I’ll be violent. So, tomorrow is in the now, in the present, unless I radically, fundamentally bring about a mutation. Otherwise, I’ll be what I have been.”
J. Krishnamurti
Time is a very important factor of human life. It has been responsible for all the technological progress and also for the human problems and suffering. Human beings seem to live always in the memories of the past or hopes of the future but never in the fact of the present. Every happening in the present is interpreted in terms of the past and continued in the future in a modified form. Therefore, present is never understood as it is but only as it appears through the screen of the past and the future. This creates lot of conflict in human life and makes it mechanical, programmed and dull. There is no energy in it. What is time? What role does it play in our life? What is psychological time? How is it enemy of human beings? What does it mean to live in the present? What is the significance of now? What is evolution? Is there a psychological evolution? What do relationship, change, action and death mean in the context of living in the present? Is there a timeless state? How does one come upon it? All these questions and many more related issues will be taken up for exploration during this workshop. Understanding the significance of time and the timelessness will be the intent of this workshop. It is expected that the participants will at least understand the place of time in day-to-day life and no longer be deceived by psychological time. Various selections from Krishnamurti’s works relevant to the theme of this workshop will be provided as a reading material to each participant. Also links to the relevant videos of Krishnamurti will be provided. Each participant is expected to devote these two days fully to the study in order to benefit maximum from this workshop.