Thought For Today 21 July 2022, J Krishnamurti

Why do you demand experience? You want experience. Have you ever questioned why there is this craze for experience? Whether going somewhere on an aeroplane or taking LSD – why? The word ‘experience’ means to go through something to reach something else. It means propel, expel, go through, and also something that is thrown at you as a challenge. If you meet the challenge rightly, there is no conflict; you have answered it totally. But most of us don’t answer the challenge completely and hence there is conflict. To escape from that conflict, we take shortcuts. And so we are always demanding more and more experiences. We never ask why we want experience.

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