Aug 9, 2012

Passages from Mind is a Myth

Mind is a Myth - U.G. Krishnamurti
 

Life has to be described in pure and simple physical and physiological terms. It must be demystified and depsychologized. Don't talk of "higher centers" and chakras. It is not these but glands that control the human body. It is the glands that give the instructions for the functioning of this organism. In your case you have introduced an interloper -- thought. In your natural state thought ceases to control anything; it comes into temporary function when a challenge is put before it, immediately falling into the background when it is no longer needed.



Mind is a Myth - U.G. Krishnamurti
 

Forget about the ideal society and the ideal human being. Just look at the way you are functioning. That is the important thing. What has prevented the organism from fully flowering into its own uniqueness is culture.



Mind is a Myth - U.G. Krishnamurti

I never ask myself how I am functioning. I never question my actions, before, during, or after they occur. Does a computer ask how it is functioning ?.



Mind is a Myth - U.G. Krishnamurti

When hoping and attempting to understand is not there, then life becomes meaningful. Life, your existence, has a tremendous living quality about it. All your notions about love, beatitude, infinite bliss, and peace only block this natural energy of existence. How can I make you understand that what I am describing has absolutely nothing to do with all that religious stuff? You see hundreds of bodies carried off in the van after death, and yet you can't possibly imagine your own death. It is impossible, for your own death cannot be experienced by you.

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