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*Mar*This is a subtle and beautiful question—and Krishnamurti would
approach it *very carefully*, without affirming belief and without denying
mystery.
Let me answer in two layers:
first *directly*, then in a *Krishnamurti-style clarification*.
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Direct response
In free and healthy nature, *feeling does take precedence over mere seeing*—but
that feeling is not imagination, symbolism, or belief. It is *direct
sensitivity*.
What can be felt is:
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*birth* as emergence,
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*death* as ending,
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*renewal* as continuity of life,
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*dissolution* as transformation.
But when you ask, *“Can one feel births, deaths, re-births and re-deaths?”*,
the crucial point is this:
One can feel *ending and beginning*,
but the moment the mind names this as *re-birth*, it has already moved into
thought.
Feeling knows *movement*, not metaphysical structure.
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Now, in Krishnamurti’s voice
Krishnamurti would likely say something like this:
Feeling is not continuity.
Feeling is not memory.
Feeling is not the extension of the past into the future.
When you feel deeply—without naming, without seeking—you may sense:
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the ending of a thought,
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the death of a reaction,
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the birth of perception,
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the renewal of attention.
These happen *now*, not across lifetimes.
So the question becomes sharper:
Is rebirth something that happens after death,
or is it something that happens *when the old ends completely*?
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A key distinction (very important)
There are *two very different things* that often get mixed up:
1.
*Biological / cosmic continuity*
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Life renews itself endlessly
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Cells die, cells are born
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Forests burn, forests return
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Species vanish, others emerge
This can be *felt* directly in nature.
2.
*Psychological continuity (the “me”)*
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The desire for *my* continuation
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The hope that *I* will return
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The fear that *I* may end
This is not feeling—it is *thought seeking permanence*.
Krishnamurti would insist:
Where there is a “me” wanting rebirth, there is fear.
And where there is fear, feeling is distorted.
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So what *can* truly be felt?
Yes—you can feel:
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*death every day*, when a reaction ends without residue
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*birth every moment*, when perception is fresh
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*renewal*, when attention has no past
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*timeless movement*, when there is no observer
But not as *events stretched across time*.
Rather as:
Life dying to itself and being born anew *now*.
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A quiet but radical insight
In deeply free feeling, something extraordinary happens:
You no longer ask,
“Will *I* be reborn?”
Instead, there is a perception that:
Life does not need *you* to continue.
And yet, you are not separate from it.
In that seeing-feeling,
*the question of rebirth loses its urgency*—not because it is answered, but
because the self that asked it is quiet.
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In one clear sentence
*Feeling can sense death and renewal as living movements, but not rebirth
as a belief or future event—because belief belongs to thought, not to
feeling.*
If you want, we can next:
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Let *Krishnamurti challenge the very idea of rebirth*
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Explore this through *nature metaphors only*
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Or sit with this in *wordless attention* and very few sentences
Just say where you want to take it.
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