Krishnamurti Time ((hot)) — Jiddu
Insight is not a conclusion reached by logic over time. It is not the result of analysis, which takes time and is therefore always incomplete. Instead, insight is a sudden, direct perception of the truth of a situation. It happens in a flash, outside the field of time and thought.
“Is there a different kind of time?” jiddu krishnamurti time
You can only see, in a single flash of self-awareness, that psychological time is an illusion. You can see that your entire identity—your name, your history, your traumas, your hopes—is a story woven by thought. And you can see that the story has no reality outside the present moment. Insight is not a conclusion reached by logic over time
To live without psychological time is not to be lazy. It is to end the division between what you are and what you want to be. It is to see that the thinker is the thought. The fear is the fearful one. It happens in a flash, outside the field of time and thought
Krishnamurti argued that while chronological time is a fact, psychological time is an illusion. We use the future as a shield to avoid dealing with the present, saying "I will be kind tomorrow" instead of being kind now. This gap between the present fact and the future ideal is where conflict is born. The Burden of the Past
But change — real transformation — has nothing to do with time. It happens only in the .