LDLV013 JK Learning has no past

Book of Life by Jiddu Krishnamurti.
January 13. Learning has no past.
Wisdom is something that has to be discovered by each one, and it is not the result of
knowledge. Knowledge and wisdom do not go together. Wisdom comes when there is the
maturity of self-knowing. Without knowing oneself, order is not possible, and therefore
there is no virtue.
Now, learning about oneself, and accumulating knowledge about oneself, are two
different things...A mind that is acquiring knowledge is never learning. What it is doing is
this: it is gathering to itself information, experience as knowledge, and from the
background of what it has gathered, it experiences, it learns; and therefore it is never
really learning, but always knowing, acquiring.
Learning is always in the active present; it has no past. The moment you say to yourself,
“I have learned,” it has already become knowledge, and from the background of that
knowledge you can accumulate, translate, but you cannot further learn. It is only a mind
that is not acquiring, but always learning-it is only such a mind that can understand this
whole entity that we call the “me,” the self. I have to know myself, the structure, the
nature, the significance of the total entity; but I can’t do that burdened with my previous
knowledge, with my previous experience, or with a mind that is conditioned, for then I
am not learning, I am merely interpreting, translating, looking with an eye that is already
clouded by the past.