strings: Krishnamurti: What is actually taking place in our lives ? There is constant challenge and response. That is existence, that is life, is it not ?—a constant challenge and response. The challenge is always new and the response is always old. I met you yesterday and you come to me to-day. You are  different, you are modified, you have changed, you are new ; but I have the picture of you as you were yesterday. Therefore I absorb the new into the old. I do not meet you anew but I have yesterday's picture of you, so my response to the challenge is always conditioned. Here, for the moment, you cease to be a Brahmin, a Christian, high-caste or whatever it is—you forget everything. You are just listening, absorbed, trying to find out. When you resume your daily life, you become your old self—you are back in your job, your caste, your system, your family. In other words, the new is always being absorbed by the old, into the old habits, customs, ideas, traditions, memories. There is never the new, for you are always meeting -the new with the old. The challengg is new but you meet it with the old. The problem in this question is how to free thought from the old so as to be new all the time. When you see a flower, when you see a face, when you see the sky, a tree, a smile, how are you to meet it anew? Why is it that we do not meet it anew? Why is it that the Old absorbs the new and modifies it; why does the new cease when you go home ?