[MD] Experience, essentialism, physicalism

[LARAMIE LOEWEN]

"So there is that sacred thing, not in the things that man has put together, but which comes into being when man cuts himself off entirely from the past, which is memory.  This does mot mean that man becomes absent-minded, he must have memory in a certain direction, but that memory will be found to be part of this whole state in which there is no relation with the past.  And that cessation of the past can only be when you see things as they are and come directly in contact with them as with that marvelous sunset.  Then out of this order, discipline, virtue, there comes into being love.  LOVE IS TREMENDOUSLY PASSIONATE AND THEREFORE IT ACTS IMMEDIATELY.  IT HAS NO TIME INTERVAL BETWEEN THE SEEING AND THE DOING.  (emphasis added by Larz)  And when you have that love you can put away all your sacred books, your gods.  And you HAVE to put away your sacred books, your gods, your everyday ambitions, to come upon that love.  That is the only sacred thing there is.  And to come upon it, goodness must flower.  Goodness--you understand, Sirs?--goodness can only flower in freedom, not in tradition.  The world needs change, you need tremendous revolution in yourself; the world needs this tremendous revolution (not economic, Communist, bloody revolution that man has tried throughout history, that has only led him to more misery).  But we do need fundamental, psychological, revolution, and this revolution IS order.  And order is peace; and this order, with its virtue and peace, can only come about when you come directly into contact with disorder in your daily life.  Then out of that blossoms goodness and then there will be no seeking any more.  For that which IS, is sacred."       

J. Krishnamurti - THE AWAKENING OF INTELLIGENCE