There is the centre as the ‘me’ which has created a space around itself. That space can extend widely, expanded, but where there is a centre there is always a frontier, and within this frontier there can be no freedom at all. Though one can expand through various forms of mental tricks, drugs and so on, in that space of consciousness with a centre, there is no freedom. Death to most of us is the losing of that centre - the things that I have known, my family, friends, all the things I have accumulated, which is the known. The centre is the known and death is something of which I don’t know at all. I am frightened of losing the known, not of the unknown. Being afraid of that, we take to various forms of escapes, and the more romantically spiritual you are, the more fantastic your ideas. Now, is it possible to end that centre each day, to die to that centre every day, every minute? —Krishnamurti
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Public Talk 4 in Ojai, California, 6 November 1966
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