Fwd: J. Krishnamurti - is there an end to sorrow?

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ThePowerOfSilence , " viorica weissman "

<viorica wrote:

 

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is there an end to sorrow? Put this question seriously to yourself.

Because where there is sorrow there cannot be love. There can be

sympathy, pity, tolerance, empathy but generosity, pity, sympathy is

not love. Love may contain all that or have all that but the parts

don't make the whole. You can collect all the sympathy, empathy,

kindness, generosity, friendship but that is not love.

 

So is there an end to sorrow? And this requires immense, a great

deal

of energy to go into it, not just say, `Well, I will think about

it.'

Thinking may be the factor of sorrow. My son is dead and I have got

his photograph on the mantelpiece or on the piano in a silver frame,

I remember. Remembrance is a process of thought. Of course. Thinking

how we enjoyed the sunset together, how we walked in the forest,

laughing, skipping, and he is gone. But the remembrance of him goes

on. And that remembrance may be the factor of sorrow. I don't want

to

admit my son is dead, gone. To admit such a fact is to admit utter

loneliness. And we don't want to face this fact of being utterly by

oneself. And so I look for another. I rely for my happiness,

satisfaction – sexually or otherwise – look to another. And I play

the same game over and over again. But I have not ended sorrow, not

I, the speaker, but we have not ended sorrow. Sorrow is not only

self

pity, self-interest, but also the loss of that which I have had, the

loss, the failure to fulfil, to achieve, to gain something which I

have worked for, not only physically but psychologically, inwardly.

All this is implied in sorrow and much more. And we are asking of

ourselves, nobody is putting this question, or demand this challenge

to you but you are asking this of yourself, whether sorrow can end.

Not only the sorrow of oneself, where it is there in oneself but

also

the sorrow of mankind, of which you are. That means no killing of

another, no psychologically wounding another. Yes sirs! As we said,

where there is sorrow there cannot be love, which is a fact.

.............

 

J. Krishnamurti

 

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