Can one experience the infinite?

"The question arises, can one actually experience something which is not experienceable? We use the word 'experience' so easily - 'realise', 'experience', 'attain', 'self-realisation', all these things - can one actually experience the feeling of supreme ecstasy? Let's take that for the moment, that word. Can one experience it? Wait sir, wait.

As you say, the infinite, can one experience the infinite? This is really quite a fundamental question, not only here but in life. We can experience something which we have already known. I experience meeting you. That's an experience, meeting you, or you meeting me, or my meeting X. And when I meet you next time I recognise you, don't I? I say, 'Well, by Jove, I met him at Gstaad'. So there is in experience the factor of recognition."

– J. Krishnamurti
Dialogue 2 with Swami Venkatesananda
Gstaad, Switzerland - 26 July 1969
 

Public Talk 2
Santa Monica, California, USA
March 19, 1972

What is the motive, the drive, the energy behind our action?

What is the difference between pleasure, enjoyment, and joy?

What is total action?

When there is only the fact, you have total energy to deal with that fact. Then that fact undergoes a radical change. When you look at the fact, at ‘what is’ with a conclusion, an image, a prejudice, then you are dissipating energy in contradiction.

Q: I would like to understand why love or hatred in the story of St Paul is immaterial.

The pursuit of pleasure divides people.

What is relationship?

Q: I am working for the Women’s Lib and we are trying to raise women’s consciousness to a higher level. What do you say about this?

Note: a total of 15 seconds of missing video is replaced by audio only.
 

Saanen, Switzerland
Question 2 from Q&A Meeting 3
1983 

I feel it is necessary to have opinions about such serious things as Nazism, Communism, the spread of armaments, the use of torture.

Mustn't one say something or do something?