DROP EVERYTHING,
... AND BE AS NOTHING
... AND BE AS NOTHING
"When death comes, it does not ask your permission;
it comes and takes you; it destroys you on the spot.
In the same way, can you totally drop hate, envy, pride of possession,
attachment to beliefs, to opinions, to ideas, to a particular way of
thinking?
Can you drop all that in an instant?
There is
no “how to drop it”, because that is only another form of continuity.
To
drop opinion, belief, attachment, greed, or envy is to die
—to die every
day, every moment.
If there is the coming to an end of all
ambition from moment to moment,
then you will know the extraordinary
state of being Nothing,
of coming to the abyss of an eternal movement,
as it were, and dropping over the edge—which is death.
I want to
know all about death, because death may be reality;
it may be what we
call God
—that most extraordinary something that lives and moves
and yet
has no beginning and no end."
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti ~
The Collected Works vol XI
The Collected Works vol XI
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