Two more Krishnamurti Quotes

Hello Folks, here are two more interesting quotes...

Excerpt of Brockwood Park, England - September 1st 1985 (by Krishnamurti)

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The computer is something extraordinary. It is going to probably take over our lives, that is probably the new industry. The computer will shape our lives. It is already doing it quietly, slowly, we are unaware of it. We have talked to a great many of these experts – computer experts – who are building it. They are not concerned with what happens to the human brain. You understand my question? They are concerned with creating it – Ah, not creating, building it – that’s a better word. When the computer takes over our lives what happens to our brains? They are better, far quicker, so rapid, in a second they will tell you a thousand memories. So when they take over what is going to happen to our brains? Gradually wither? Or be thoroughly employed in amusement? In entertainment? Please face all this, for God’s sake, this is happening! All the long sports record on the television, it is getting longer and longer. They spend ten minutes over cricket, and two minutes over what is happening in South Africa. So the entertainment industry is taking over. Please face all this. And religious entertainment, that has taken over too. So we are being entertained all the time. And we treat meeting here as part of that. I assure you it is not. It is terribly serious, all this. (...)

MADRAS 3RD PUBLIC TALK 4TH JANUARY 1986

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So, genetic engineering and the computer, when the two meet together - they're going to presently, in a couple of years - what are you? You understand what I'm asking, sir? What are you; as a human being what are you? Your brains are going to be altered. Your way of behaviour is going to be changed. Right? They may altogether remove fear, remove sorrow, remove all your gods. They're going to, sir, don't fool yourself. Because it all ends up either in war or in death. Right? So, this is what is happening in the world actually. Genetic engineering on the one side and computer on the other and when they meet, as they're inevitably going to meet, what are you as a human being? Actually, your brain now is a machine. You are born in India and say: 'I'm an Indian'. You are encased in that. Or you're born in Russia, back again. And so on. You are a machine. Please don't be insulted. I'm not insulting you. You are a machine who repeats, repeats, or says it different - you know a machine, like a computer. Right? Don't imagine there is something divine in you - that would be lovely - something holy that is everlasting. The computer will say that to you too.
So, what is becoming of a human being? What's becoming of you? And we have also to enquire - this is a very serious subject, don't agree or disagree, just listen, you can't, probably you can't take part in it - what is creation? You understand my question? You understand my question at least - creation. Not the creation of a baby, that's very simple, or the creation of a new something or other. Invention is totally different from creation. Invention is based on knowledge. Right? I can improve, the engineers can improve the jet; the improvement is based on knowledge and the invention is also based on knowledge. So we must separate invention from creation. Will you? No, no, sir, don't agree. This requires your total energy, your capacity to penetrate, not just say: yes, yes. The difference between creation and invention, you understand the difference? Invention is essentially based on knowledge. Right? I improve the clock; I have a new gadget, because the old gadgets I have used, I have found something new and I invent something else. So all invention is based on knowledge, right, on experience. Inventions are inevitably limited because they're based on knowledge. Oh, for god's sake, somebody wake up. So, knowledge being ever limited, inventions must always be limited. In the future they may have no jets, but something else and that will go from Delhi to Los Angeles in two hours, that's an invention based on previous knowledge which has been improved step by step by step, but that's not creation. Right? I get rather fed up looking at those faces which say nothing.
So what is creation? So what is life? You understand? Life in the tree, life in the little grass, life in the scientist, life, not what they invent, what they do, but the beginning of life. I don't know if you understand, life, the thing that lives. You may kill it but it's still there in the other.
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