“We are memories”
Friday 29th October 2022
“We are memories” or words to that effect are what stay with me after watching a video of Krishnamurti.
I am at the centre in Hampshire as part of ‘The Friends weekend’. I was gifted membership in June by a longstanding friend.
What I understood him to be saying “We are memories” was that many of us live out today based on the memories we have accumulated. Memories like it seems most things have a purpose, the insight is in knowing when the purpose is served and it can rest. It is not resting when we allow it to inform us who we are such as “I am a Protestant and a Northern Irish one at that.”
While ethnicity has also a purpose if it becomes our identity we have allowed it to become more than we are and in this regard, we can become trapped. Life is about remaining free, earthed yes but free.
If we allow ourselves to hanker after what we have known before, the familiar, the nostalgic, the sentimental we live in the past rather than free.
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