Time

 


Time implies distance. Time implies movement. Time implies changing ‘what is’ into ‘what should be’. 

( When a sensory experience is registered in our memory, the memory begins to respond in the form of thoughts. When thought begins, psychological time begins, simultaneously creating space and distance). 

Another factor of time is the essence of disorder. Look at it, observe it. That is, you want to change ‘what is’ into ‘what should be’.

( 'what-is' is the actual situation before memory starts responding, the response of memory is unaware of actual, starts thinking something different - what should be). 

If you are violent, you want to change that into non-violence, requiring time. That is your idea of time – give me a few years or a few weeks and during that interval I will control my violence and arrive at non-violence. That has been the trick you ( I - our response of memory) have been playing for the last umpteen years. 

To change ‘what is’ into ‘what should be’ requires time. One of the factors of disorder is time. Moving away from ‘what is’ is a waste of energy. You ( our I itself is an illusion) don’t know how to deal with ‘what is’ – if you knew what to do with ‘what is’, you wouldn’t move away and time would not be necessary. If I know how to deal with violence, the ideal of non-violence has no meaning. Because I do not know how to deal with violence, I invent non-violence as an idea. Therefore I say I must have time. During the interval between violence and becoming non-violent there are other factors entering which distort, so there is never a state of non-violence.

J Krishnamurti, From Public Talk 1, Bombay (Mumbai), 8 January 1977


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