The Biology of Enlightenment
Enlightenment is often described in psychological terms, as an act of knowing or as understanding, when in fact it is the cessation of the very demand or need to know that which cannot be known.
First and Last Public Talk of U.G Krishnamurti
There is a constant demand on your part to experience everything that
you look at, everything that you are feeling inside. If you don't do
that, 'you' as you know yourself and as you experience yourself is
coming to an end.
The Biology of Enlightenment
'Each individual is unique, unparalleled; there is not another one
like you in the whole universe. That is your natural state.' But we
ignore that fact and try to put everybody in a common mould and create
what we call the greatest common factor. Our education, religion and
culture are geared towards producing copies of acceptable models, and,
in the process, destroying that unique, living quality in a child,
in every human being, which is yearning to blossom and express itself.
Otherwise, there would be more human flowers. But, given its nature,
society cannot be interested in such human flowers. At best, it can put
them on a pedestal, domesticate them and make them a part of its
structure.
The Biology of Enlightenment
The body has to change. The body has to undergo a mutation. It is not
the mind. Every human cell carries the knowledge built from thousands of
years; rather, the whole 14 million years of the past is embedded in
the individual. So the human being is not different from the social
consciousness. All the thoughts and feelings you talk about are not part
of you, it is the society functioning in you. If that comes to an end,
then there'll be an explosion and there'll be the radical mutation in
the body. When the explosion takes place the whole structure of thought
collapses and it affects the whole human consciousness. This seems to be
the only way we can affect the world, by bringing about a structural
change within oneself. That is the only way.
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