As each experience arises, live it out as fully and deeply as possible

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Is it not essential that there should be a constant

renewal, a rebirth? If the present is burdened with the

experience of yesterday there can be no renewal. Renewal

is not the action of birth and death; it is beyond the

opposites; only freedom from the accumulation of memory

brings renewal, and there is no understanding save in the

present. The mind can understand the present only if it

does not compare, judge. The desire to alter or condemn

the present without understanding it gives continuance to

the past. Only in comprehending the reflection of the

past in the mirror of the present, without distortion, is

there renewal. ...If you have lived an experience fully,

completely, have you not found that it leaves no traces

behind? It is only the incomplete experiences that leave

their mark, giving continuity to self-identified memory.

We consider the present as a means to an end, so the

present loses its immense significance. The present is

the eternal. But how can a mind that is made up, put

together, understand that which is not put together,

which is beyond all value, the eternal? As each

experience arises, live it out as fully and deeply as

possible; think it out, feel it out extensively and

profoundly; be aware of its pain and pleasure, of your

judgments and identifications. Only when experience is

completed is there a renewal. We must be capable of

living the four seasons in a day; to be keenly aware, to

experience, to understand and be free of the gatherings

of each day.

 

J. Krishnamurti, The Book of Life