VISITING VOICES: J. Krishnamurti, on virtue and mutation

..“THOUGHT IS SLUGGISH, POSTPONES, TAKES SHELTER IN THE ILLUSION OF GRADUALNESS, IN IDEALS, IN TIME.

“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.”

“In this mutation there is a totally different kind of action. Such action does not become a habit, a repetition of a sensation, of an experience, of knowledge which dulls the brain, insensitive to a mutation.”

“Virtue then is not the better habit, the better conduct ; it has no pattern, no limitation ; it has not the stamp of respectability; it is not then an ideal to be pursued, put together by time. Virtue then is a danger, not a tame thing of society. To love then is destruction ; a revolution, not economic and social but of total consciousness.”

J. Krishnamurti
Krishnamurti’s Notebook
1961

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