September 25th ~ Mind is held in a pattern; its very existence is the frame within which it works and moves. The pattern is of the past or the future, it is despair and hope, confusion and Utopia, the what has been and the what should be. With this we are all familiar. You want to break the old pattern and substitute a “new” one, the new being the modified old…you want to produce a new world. It is impossible. You may deceive yourself and others, but unless the old pattern is broken completely there cannot be a radical transformation. You may play around with it, but you are not the hope of the world. The breaking of the pattern, both the old and the so-called new, is of the utmost importance if order is to come out of this chaos. That is why it is essential to understand the ways of the mind…
Is it possible for the mind to be without a pattern, to be free of this backward and forward swing of desire? It is definitely possible. Such action is living in the now. To live is to be without hope, without the care of tomorrow; it is not hopelessness or in-difference. But we are not living, we are always pursuing death, the past or the future. Living is the greatest revolution. Living has no pattern, but death has: the past or the future, the what has been or the Utopia. You are living for the Utopia, and so you are inviting death and not life.
Eckhart Tolle is a fan of Krishnamurti. That is not bad company. Maybe the fact that K is talking here about living in the now reminded me of Tolle’s book “The Power of Now.”
The other thing is opposites. When you pursue Utopia, you have death or the hell realm. You pursue happiness, you invite suffering or sadness. You can’t have one without the other. K talks about pleasure and pain going together. You pursue pleasure and you invite pain. When success is experienced in business, not far behind is that feeling in your gut that this won’t fill that emptiness in your heart. I learned that early on. It motivated me to search for more meaning.
Here I am. Here we are…