ganjavi@uunet.UU.NET (Ray Ganjavi) (06/21/91)
The following is posted just to share something great with you. It is by
no means intended to propogate a certain idealogy (which would be absurd).
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The following statement was written by Krishnamurti:
The Core Of Krishnamurti's Teaching
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The core of Krishnamurti's teaching is contained in the statement he made
in 1929 when he said: "Truth is a pathless land". Man can not come to it
through any organization, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or
ritual, not through any philosophic knowledge or psychological technique.
He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the
understanding of the contents of his own mind, through observation and not
through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection. Man has built in
himself images as a fence of security--religious, political, personal.
These manifest as symbols, ideas, beliefs. The burden of these images
dominates man's thinking, his relationship and his daily life. These images
are the causes of our problems for they divide man from man. His perception
of life is shaped by the concepts already established in his mind. The
content of his consciousness is his entire existence. This content is
common to all humanity. The individuality is the name, the form and
superficial culture he acquires from tradition and environment. The
uniqueness of man does not lie in the superficial but in complete freedom
from the content of his consciousness, which is common to all mankind. So
he is not an individual.
Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not choice. It is man's pretence that
because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without
direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is without
motive; freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man but lies in the
first step of his existence. In observation one begins to discover the lack
of freedom. Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily
existence and activity.
Thought is time. Thought is born of experience and knowledge which are
inseparable from time and the past. Time is the psychological enemy of man.
Our action is based on knowledge and therefore time, so man is always a
slave to the past. Thought is ever-limited and so we live in constant
conflict and struggle. There is no psychological evolution.
When man becomes aware of the movement of his own thoughts he will see the
division between the thinker and the thought, the observer and the
observed, the experiencer and the experience. He will discover that this
division is an illusion. Then only is there pure observation which is
insight without any shadow of the past or of time. This timeless insight
brings about a deep radical mutation in the mind.
Total negation is the essence of the positive. When there is negation of
all those things that thought has brought about psychologically, only then
is there love, which is compassion and intelligence.
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Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986) is regarded internationally as one of the
great religious teachers of all time. For over sixty years he travelled
throughout the world, and gave public talks to increasingly large
audiences. He has published over thirty books and founded schools in
England, the United States and India. Information about his publications
and recordings can be obtained from:
Krishnamurti Foundation America
P.O.Box 1560, Ojai, CA 93024 Tel: (805)646-2726