21/03/2025
The time process cannot bring the new; time is not the way of creation. I do not know if any of you have had a moment of creativity. I am not talking of putting some vision into action; I mean that moment of creation when there is no recognition. At that moment, there is that extraordinary state in which the "me," as an activity through recognition, has ceased. If we are aware, we shall see that in that state, there is no experiencer who remembers, translates, recognizes, and then identifies; there is no thought process, which is of time. In that state of creation, of creativity of the new, which is timeless, there is no action of the "me" at all.
Our question, surely, is: Is it possible for the mind to be in that state, not momentarily, not at rare moments, but—I would rather not use the words "everlasting" or "forever" because that would imply time—but to be in that state without regard to time? Surely, that is an important discovery to be made by each one of us, because that is the door to love; all other doors are activities of the self. Where there is action of the self, there is no love.
Love is not of time. You cannot practise love. If you do, then it is a self-conscious activity of the "me," which hopes, through loving, to gain a result. Love is not of time; you cannot come upon it through any conscious effort, through any discipline, through identification, which is all of the process of time. The mind, knowing only the process of time, cannot recognize love. Love is the only thing that is eternally new.
J. Krishnamurti
The First and Last Freedom.