He Who Accumulates Cannot Learn

first step: regular meditation, to live in contact with nature, to keep cosmic laws - regulations. Try to  enjoy , experience present moment  and breath....... Who accumulates is not happy, is not free./behind accumulating is fear and Ego/. Soon he is owned by accumulated books, informations and things.......to be happy we need space in our head, heart = innerly and in outside  ........try to keep in harmony body, mind and soul with spirit, in hawaien healing is important to keep in harmony body, nature and akua /creator/, that energy could flow. Thanks to this harmony we have better attitude to "mana" - spiritual energy. Enough spiritual energy means also enough  health - ola, inner happiness.   Learning is important if it ieads to selfknowledge, without selfknowledge we can hardly understand the life and others.........Learning brings us not only broader perception, but also flexibility of mind,. Who is learning without accumulating remains all the time  young. Who is not able to learn  is "dead."......... 

When I was in high school, I enjoyed "acting'  (as in Drama Club).  From day one, up until opening night, of any given production, we learned our character, our words, our music,  how our character related to others in the story, the time period, the mood, the dress, our steps . . . ect. ect. ect.  (This was our required "homework")   
Understanding came when "getting INSIDE my character" . . . "communing" with my character.  When the line separating me from my character disappeared, I felt confident the audience would, too, not "see me" but rather the person I played.  
The mind that learns, as the article states, truly IS the mind that  "is not committed . . . does not belong to anything . . .  is not limited . . . "  To BECOME someone else (a different "character" on a stage) requires full emptying of self to become that "someone else".      
To put oneself 110% into another person's shoes, for any given time, allows one a profoundly new learning/perspective/understanding .

My favorite idea  from this article:  "In communing, we learn and search out.  From this inquiry comes the movement of learning, which is never accumulative."  

Blessings 

I don't think this passage deals with factual, objective knowledge as the one needed for daily living like professional learning, professional competence, etc. There experience and thereby knowledge are fully needed. And there experience adds to knowledge and knowledge to efficiency. I think  the author is speaking about quite a different type of knowledge, the kind of knowledge that says: 'I have met this person yesterday she was rude to me' or 'I took this road yesterday I know all about it'. The kind of knowledge that does not really help meeting that same person today or doesn't make that road trip across a beautiful landscape much of an exhilarating experience. The kind of knowledge that diminishes your aliveness as well as that of everybody and everything you happen to encounter in the present.  etc. There is truth in this passage but  I may miss its factuality if I don't take in the psychological factor. My humble point of view.

 The difference between learning and accumulating knowledge -- Krishnamurti says it well.  Learning is more than anything being open.  It's having the beginner's mind, seeing what is there and hearing what is being said rather than seeing and hearing my thinking/expectations/assumptions/prejudices.  It's seeing what is rather than imposing my training, preconceived notions, agenda, or belief system.  Accumulating knowledge that gets in the way of learning is holding onto a bit of knowledge while searching through what's presenting to filter out what is not compatible with the knowledge being held onto.  When doing that, a lot gets missed, a lot goes unlearned.  "Acceptance or denial of what is being said puts an end to learning" is a profound statement.  It means to me to simply be with the experience, open, and not do anything with it.  We make the shift by practicing being present, practicing hearing, seeing, smelling, touching what is, and keeping our thinking out of it. 

The author addresses the people who have come to attend a talk. A talk not meant to communicate information, satisfy curiosity or  entertain. The talk is about the 'difficult art of communion'. The author says communion can only come about if people are capable to listen and to learn.
He says people deny themselves this capacity when their concern is to add further knowledge to what they know or when they are 'caught up' in the process of accumulating knowledge. The author equates knowledge with experience and says 'it doesn't bring perception and the beauty of understanding'.
To dissociate learning from knowledge is, at first sight, a bit of a quiz for the conceptual mind. Aren't the things happening in the present automatically registered in the brain, imprinted on the mind? It is precisely the process of knowledge and if one is not aware of it one gets 'caught up' in it. In the field of relationship can one prevent the past obscuring the present and dulling sensitivity?
Learning then is the movement by which one knowingly relinquishes knowledge so as to be able to perceive the newness, the freshness and the depth of the present. Learning itself sees that it ceases to be movement the moment it accumulates and thus it is ceaselessly on the look out, vitally alert, seeking to commune with the environment.
Knowledge evaluates, compares, criticizes. This is its normal function and it definitely has its place. But when it is brought over in the field of relationship it brings in dis-function and dulls our capacity to commune with life.

 with computer we have access to knowledge of whole library and many subject at our finger tip,world   in sharing knowledge with information technology is simple and available to people all over the world,someone said if you want to be a big bodybuilder ,you need to worke hard at it,you can not be bodybuilder merely staying with bodybuilder .same way all good information we get,if we don't implement it in our daily living then we are just collecting knowledge . all inspirational articles we get from awakin.org or karma tube ,or ted.com is useless ,unless we apply that in our daily life,true meaning of learning to me is how much change I become .howmany positive virtues knowledge nurtured in me. I think mind likes to be entertained with what information tech. offers us,one must be sincere of what one feeds to mind[also be vigilant ,discriminate what is truth] true knowledge will make us good loving ,caring,happy human being,it will liberate us from ignorance .all good this web side offers if we apply 10 percent in our life, world will be much peaceful and joyful .one of J.Krishnamurtis book title  YOU ARE THE WORLD. Introspection ,meditation ,helps to understand where we are. always love navin.c

 There is a range of learning from learning nonsense syllables to one's  learning  that which one is looking for is that which is looking.. I was disrupted with his statement: "experience never flowers into the beauty of understanding."   Being aware of the beauty of understanding is an experience.  One way of looking at the difference between accumulating knowledge and learning is to notice that Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein accumulated much knowledge.  One could also notice that they had not learned. Present day schooling and much University teaching often relates to accumulating knowledge rather than high quality learning.  It seems to me that high-quality learning needs a freer, ungraded environment where one can explore what one finds to be remarkable, interesting, and important.  Coercive school learning often prevents that from happening and the coercion tends to destroy curiosity.  If we allow ourselves to be curious we can become open-minded self-directing lovers of learning.  When that occurs we are often compassionate and notice that we are more connected than disconnected to everyone and everything.  Thank you for the opportunity to respond.  Warm and kind regards to everyone.