This reminds me of a story from John Cage’s “Silence”[1] Sometime in the 60s or 70s Krishnamurti came to the US and gave some lectures. Cage was at one of thes

This reminds me of a story from John Cage’s “Silence”[1] Sometime in the 60s or 70s Krishnamurti came to the US and gave some lectures. Cage was at one of these. Krishnamurti started the lecture saying something along the lines of “Please don’t take notes. Just listen, and take away whatever you take away. Anything you forget didn’t matter to you anyway.”. The woman next to John Cage was writing notes and the person on the other side of her turned to her and said “What did he just say? I couldn’t hear.” To which the woman replied “He said not to take notes. See? I have it written here in my notes.” [1] Which is a really cool book btw.