“Death is total nothingness. It must be there for out of that, life is, love is. For in this nothingness creation is. Without absolute death, there’s no creation.”
“Death and love always go together; they never separate. You can’t love without death; you can’t embrace without death being there. Where love is there is also death, they are inseparable.”
“There is no creation if death does not sweep away all the things that the brain has put together to safeguard the self-centred existence.”
“Death is the flowering of the new; meditation is the dying of the known.”
“Freedom from the known is the ending of thought; to die to thought, from moment to moment, is to be free from the known. It is this death that puts an end to decay.”
“Thought cannot go beyond itself; it may function in narrow or wide fields but it will always be within the limitations of memory and memory is always limited. Memory must die psychologically, inwardly, but function only outwardly. Inwardly, there must be death and outwardly sensitivity to every challenge and response. The inward concern of thought prevents action.”
J. Krishnamurti
‘Everybody is going to die perhaps me also,’ is how a human being usually thinks. He always seeks continuity in some form or other and forgets that he is going to die someday. Human beings are afraid of death and put it at the very end of their life. Desire for continuity sustains our problems, our sorrows our whole psychological makeup. But can death be part of our day-to-day life? Is it possible to die to our experiences, our attachments, our pleasures and pains; die to everything that we have gathered psychologically? Krishnamurti calls it psychological death. What is the significance of such death in our daily life? What does it mean to die psychologically while still being alive physically? What has death got to do with love and creation? What is living and dying from moment to moment? What is reincarnation? What is it that reincarnates? Is it possible psychologically to reincarnate now? Is there continuity after death? What is it that continues? All such and many more related questions will be explored during this workshop. Krishnamurti’s dialogue with death as mentioned in his biography will also be the part of this study. Understanding the significance of death while still living will be the intent of this workshop. It is expected that the participants will at least understand the place of psychological death in day-to-day life and no longer be afraid of it. 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.