Saturday 28 February 2009

1081 Krishnamurti

Today, Friday May 4th, 2007, has been a rare day of great excitement, not from physical pleasures, or an emotional experience in the conventional sense, but from the emotions of the mind. Less than a month ago I was contacted by someone, living at the other end of my world space. How this individual and who has just created her MySpace site came across me out of the millions of other members, will remain one of those extraordinary inexplicable experiences of life, being far stranger than any fiction. She faced one of the most impossible situations and choices that any human being can face and it was my privilege to be able to share something of those moments before her future and that of her family was put into the hands of others. Then I heard from her husband of challenges that had been met and today I heard directly from her through the wonder of the wireless lap top, of the amazing and unexpected progress that had occurred. I have always believed the in power of mind over matter and on tapping into the accumulation of the energy of good will which generation upon generations of unrecorded human beings have contributed against the tyranny of evil and the darkness of the abyss.

The previous evening as I was one of nine in an audience celebrating the life of Annie Besant in India, and today I decided to explore further the life and writings of her adopted son, Jiddu Krishnamurti, and my first jump through the portal into his dimension was yet another epiphany of experience to be treasured during my remaining self conscious awareness of being. For many decades I have understood my life as a compulsion to seek to climb the highest mountain to enjoy the perspective on my own life and of those making similar journeys, or content with their lives in some secure valley. I have been aware that every time I come to believe I have reached the foremost top, there is always a higher point in the distance with many others looking down at me. Sometimes as the body ages, I have nearly decided to settle where I have reached, and sometimes I become lost for a time and seem to be going further and further down than up, and then unexpectedly you are shown the quickest available route to the highest summit within any lifetime, and it is time to rejoice and give thanks.

"The teachings are not something out there in a book; what the teachings say is, 'Look at yourself, go into yourself, inquire into what is there, understand it, go beyond it', and so on. The teachings are only a means of pointing, explaining, but you have to understand, not the teachings, but yourself."

"Man has to be his own guru to bring about psychological transformation"

"Surely a school is a place where one learns about the totality, the wholeness of life. Academic excellence is absolutely necessary, but a school includes much more than that. It is a place where both the teacher and the taught explore not only the outer world, the world of knowledge, but also their own thinking, their behaviour."

"We must be very clear on this matter from the very beginning. There is no belief demanded or asked, there are no followers, there are no cults, there is no persuasion of any kind, in any direction, and therefore only then we can meet on the same platform, on the same ground, at the same level. Then we can together observe the extraordinary phenomena of human existence"

“Truth is a pathless land. Man cannot 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 relationships, 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 a 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 choice less 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 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."

Words which according to the official information site sum his 30 books, records of spontaneous speeches made around he world and from teaching discussions.
http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/About_J_Krishnamurti

This does not mean that I need to stop the quest for further knowledge, to strop remembering that previously learnt or not understood and then fully integrated into being, or to cut away the inhibitors and constraints upon being in every experience. Nor does it mean that having received this reinforcement of what I independently concluded but was unsure to proclaim because my lack of formal training in the higher levels of philosophy and psychological and spiritual sciences. But is does mean I have reached an equilibrium between what I am doing and need in order to progress the being and become better equipped to be ready for that moment of ultimate understanding when willing to yield the last breath releasing all that one has accumulated into endless time for others to experience in their own individual way if they wish. For such is the nature of freedom, we may chose to live in ignorance of ourselves and of others.

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