Life Is Impermanent, J. Krishnamurti

ENGLISH, CHINESE, FRENCH, JAPANESE, and SPANISH subtitles This is an excerpt from the 4th Public Talk given by J. Krishnamurti in Paris, France, 1965 Questioner: Doesn t the knowledge that life is impermanent bring suffering Krishnamurti: Right, sir. But it is a fact that life is impermanent, isn t it Your relations are impermanent, your thoughts are impermanent, your selffulfillment, your ambitious drive, and achievements are impermanent, because there is death. And why should one suffer because of impermanency The fact is that there is impermanency. It is so. But you don t want to accept that fact, you say, There must be something permanent. You have a picture of what permanency is, and therefore, when you are faced with impermanency, there is a feeling of despair. You put death, which is the essence of impermanency, in the distance, so there is an interval, a gap between you and that which you call death. Here you are, living every