Passages from First and Last Public Talk

First and Last Public Talk of U.G Krishnamurti

There is no death. You are never born. You are not born at all. [Laughter] I am not trying to mystify. Because life has no beginning, it has no end. Has it a beginning, has it an end? What creates the beginning is your thought. Why are you concerned about death? There is no such as death at all. Your birth and your death can never become part of that experiencing structure. If you want to experience death, you are not going to be there. [Laughter] Somebody else will be there. It will be somebody else's misery.



First and Last Public Talk of U.G Krishnamurti
 

You want comfort. You want affection from the person you are living with. You want this, that and the other. But what you want to get -- the GET of all the 'gets' -- you are not going to. That [what you want to get] is in relationship with your enlightenment, your freedom, transformation and all that kind of thing. There is nothing to get from me or from anybody. You want to be at peace with yourself. You will not get anything from anybody. All this is disturbing the peace that is already there. Your idea of peace is altogether different.

First and Last Public Talk of U.G Krishnamurti

Thoughts are there. They are not your thoughts or my thoughts. They come and go. They are neither holy nor unholy. You have to use thoughts to achieve something, to accomplish something. Here [in my case], I can't use thoughts. Wanting is thinking. They go together. My wants are [limited to] my physical needs. The moment a thought arises there, the action is complete. You may feel the time-lag between what I call an 'action' here and the completion of that 'action' out there. But, to me there is no timelag. For example, there is thirst. You have to say to yourself that you are thirsty. Thought has got to come into operation and separate itself from that sensation of what you call 'thirst'. Then the action is complete. That is what I mean by 'action.'