Inspired by the book The Ending of Time by J.Krishnamurti & David Bohm, this compositions delves into the illusion of the constructed self, the “me” shaped by thought and psychological time. Through the movement of sound, J. Krishnamurti asks: Man has taken a wrong turn? Why has he created the “I”? Is the illusion of the self, the “I,” the root cause of chaos and fragmentation, and can we transcend this to perceive the truth of oneness?
A multidisciplinary approach is not ornament. Sound alone cannot reveal wholeness. Uma Sharma’s hand-painted vision observes without the image; Gaëtane August’s poem is total attention and in that attention, silence speaks; 8-Bit Culprit’s remix dissolves the centre and reimagines.
Together, they invite the listener to see that “the observer is the observed” — that “the observer is the cause of division, because the observer is the past, the conditioned entity.” When this is seen, not as an idea but as an actual fact, the seeing itself brings freedom.
____breaking orbit
is this echo
or are we cause?
ask your ego.
who is I, anyway,
that flickering mask in the great play?
disguised as silence
slipping through selves
raging like thunder
bumping
thumping
bruising the source
feeding into fractures
until all of I is gone.
____flatlined
or fully aligned?
warped into
a wormhole
without spacetime
who breathes this?
it is not I.
I is problem
I is conflict
I am you.
I is survival
I is pulse
I am source.
I is division
the observer, the observed
I is illusion,
its intricate dissolution.
if there is no ego,
there is no survival
if there is no ego,
there is no conflict
if there is no ego,
there is just
this.
Artwork hand-painted by Uma Sharma.
Music by Hary Shanthi.
Poem written by Gaetene August.
Remix by 8-Bit Culprit.
Extract from The Ending of Time, Conversation 1, Ojai 1980 © Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Permission to quote from the works of J.Krishnamurti has been given on the understanding that such permission does not indicate endorsement of the views expressed in this media.