I want to share with you today an extraordinary excerpt from
the great teacher J. Krishnamurti
on death and why we fear it. In addition, I want to suggest a particular experiment on death, which I feel was incredibly helpful in my own spiritual evolution. I hope this experiment will be of great value to you as well.
the great teacher J. Krishnamurti
on death and why we fear it. In addition, I want to suggest a particular experiment on death, which I feel was incredibly helpful in my own spiritual evolution. I hope this experiment will be of great value to you as well.
This experiment, which I call the Death Experiment will help you
understand what the spiritual masters have been trying to teach you about
living moment to moment, and will give you a taste of the freedom that comes
with such enlightened living.
First is the excerpt from Krishnamurti's book "Think of These Things", and following that is the experiment he proposes for you
and my thoughts on it.
Questioner: What makes us fear death?
Krishnamurti:
Do you think a leaf that falls to the ground is afraid of
death? Do you think a bird lives in fear of dying? It meets death
when death comes; but it is not concerned about death, it is much too occupied
with living, with catching insects, building a nest, singing a song, flying for
the very joy of flying. Have you ever watched birds soaring high up in
the air without a bear of their wings, being carried along by the wind?
How endlessly they seem to enjoy themselves! They are not concerned about
death. If death comes, it is all right, they are finished. There is
no concern about what is going to happen; they are living from moment to
moment, are they not? It is we human beings who are always concerned
about death - because we are not living. That is the trouble; we are
dying, we are not living. The old people are near the grave, and the
young ones are not far behind.
You see, there is a preoccupation with death because we are
afraid to lose the known, the things that we have gathered. [...].
We don't want to leave the known; so it is our clinging to the known that
creates fear in us, not the unknown. The unknown cannot be perceived by
the known. But the mind, being made of the known, says, "I am going
to end," and therefore it is frightened.
Now, if you can live from from moment to moment and not be
concerned about the future, if you can live without the thought of tomorrow -
which does not mean the superficiality of merely being occupied with today; it,
being aware of the whole process of the known, you can relinquish the known,
let it go completely, then you will find that an astonishing thing takes place.
Try if for a day - put aside
everything you know, forget it, and just see what happens. Don't carry
over your worries from day to day, from hour to hour, from moment to moment;
let them all go, and you will see that out of this freedom comes an
extraordinary life that includes both living and dying. Death is only the
ending of something, and in that very dying there is renewing.
Death Experiment:
I want you to try this experiment for 1
full day. Here are 3 things you should try to do during this day.
1. STOP WORRYING ABOUT EVERYTHING:
This is the key. Just stop worrying... completely.
Don't worry about anything. Drop all your worrying, fretting and obsessing
about the future and past. Leave everything to life and put yourself in
her care. Just tell yourself whatever issues come up in the future, you
will deal with them then.
Worrying is not just a huge waste of precious energy, it is the
also one of the activities that binds you to psychological time and prevents
you from cherishing the moments of your life. Worrying creates other
problems as well, such as stress, suffering and fear, so just for this one day let
it all go and live without any worry to see what happens. I assure you it
will be quite a liberating experience.
2. GO WITH THE FLOW:
Throughout this one day experiment, go with the flow of life
completely. Just doing what needs to be done and allowing life to carry
you forward. Don't try to control or manipulate the day, just relax and
go with it. Do the task that is presented to you and just let yourself be
simple and spontaneous.
3. DROP YOUR SELF-IMAGE:
For this one day, don't try to live according to who you think
you are. Don't be anything at all, in fact just be nobody. Drop all
that you know about yourself and just be empty, letting your natural
personality and self come through. Don't try to live according to all the
beliefs and ideas you have been conditioned with, instead drop them all and
just live innocently from moment to moment.
Final Thought on Death Experiment:
The object of this experiment is to completely break away from
the past and future. You need to drop all that you know and all that you
are trying to become. This is the art of dying while still living.
This is the way to the Now - into the unknown, where resides Truth and
God. So for this 1 day I want you to experience what that is like, and it
may very well lead you to living everyday just like that :-).
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Worth to try, so absolutely. I try to live my life this way, but can see, that I need to try a little more, and I will. Thanks for sharing this.
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Good Luck! Please let me know if it works for you.
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