What is Memory ?

[Guest guest]

K:

What do we mean by thought? When do you think? Obviously, thought is

the result of a response, neurological or psychological, is it not?

It is the immediate response of the senses to a sensation, or it is

psychological, the response of stored-up memory. There is the

immediate response of the nerves to a sensation, and there is the

psychological response of stored-up memory, the influence of race,

group, guru, family, tradition, and so on-all of which you call

thought. So, the thought process is the response of memory, is it

not? You would have no thoughts if you had no memory, and the

response of memory to a certain experience brings the thought process

into action.

 

What, then, is memory? If you observe your own memory and how you

gather memory, you will notice that it is either factual, technical,

having to do with information, with engineering, mathematics,

physics, and all the rest of it-or, it is the residue of an

unfinished, uncompleted experience, is it not? Watch your own memory

and you will see. When you finish an experience, complete it, there

is no memory of that experience in the sense of a psychological

residue. There is a residue only when an experience is not fully

understood, and there is no understanding of experience because we

look at each experience through past memories, and therefore we never

meet the new as the new, but always through the screen of the old.

 

Therefore, it is clear that our response to experience is

conditioned, always limited.

 

J. Krishnamurti

[Guest guest]

--- Werner Woehr <wwoehr a écrit :

 

 

 

Patty,

 

You missed the point. Have you really read that text ?

 

There is factual or sensual memory and psychological

memory.

 

Psychological memory is only created when conflicts

and problems are

not finished, when they are carried along. Those

psychological

memories in the course of time more and more become a

burden and get

the source of further problems and suffering.

 

Solve every problem as it comes.

 

Werner

 

oh yeah, I did miss that point. Thank-you, i`ll keep

the house swept.

 

Patricia

 

 

 

 

 

 

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