Real Education
The mind creates through experience, tradition, memory. Can
the mind be free from storing up, though it is experiencing? You understand the
difference? What is required is not the cultivation of memory but the freedom
from the accumulative process of the mind.
You hurt me, which is an experience; and I store up that
hurt; and that becomes my tradition; and from that tradition, I look at you, I
react from that tradition. That is the everyday process of my mind and your
mind. Now, is it possible that, though you hurt me, the accumulative process
does not take place. The two processes are entirely different.
If you say harsh words to me, it hurts me; but if that hurt
is not given importance, it does not become the background from which I act; so
it is possible that I meet you afresh. That is real education, in the deep
sense of the word. Because, then, though I see the conditioning effects of
experience, the mind is not conditioned.
- J. Krishnamurti, The Book of Life
