The Mystique of Enlightenment - U.G. Krishnamurti
The 'how' has got to go -- that is the only way. The 'how' has got to go because the 'how' implies that there is a way, that there is a method, that there is a technique, that there is something you can do to bring about this total change in your chemistry, this alchemy. But any such method defeats its purpose. When you find yourself in a situation where there is no way of finding any answer to that question, that is the moment when something can happen, that is the moment when the triggering apparatus that is there helps to trigger the whole thing. When the question "How?" freed from the desire to understand or bring about a change, remains there.... It is a thought you see, and thought is after all a vibration. It has a built-in atomic structure: there is an atom embedded in that thought. And when that thought cannot move, when it cannot make a move in any direction, then something has got to happen to that thought.
The Mystique of Enlightenment - U.G. Krishnamurti
There is no continuity of thought, because thoughts are disconnected, disjointed things; but something is linking them up. What you call the 'I' or the 'self' or the 'center' is illusory. I can say it is illusory, because is the knowledge you have about the self that creates the self when you look at the self. So all the talk of 'self-knowledge' or 'self- knowing' has no meaning to me. It is within the framework of knowledge. It is playing tricks with itself.
The Mystique of Enlightenment - U.G. Krishnamurti
Q: Is there somebody or something witnessing this process ?
UG: That somebody, that artificial, illusory identity is finished. Then, you see, and even now, there is nobody who is feeling the feelings there, there is nobody who is thinking the thoughts there, there is nobody who is talking there; this is a pure and simple computer machine functioning automatically. The computer is not interested in your question, nor in my question. The computer is not interested in trying to understand how this mechanism is operating, so all those questions that we have as a result of our logical and rational thinking have no validity any more; they have lost their importance. So, the mechanism is functioning in an automatic way, but with an extraordinary intelligence that is there. It knows what is good for it. Don't call it 'divine'; there is an extraordinary, tremendous intelligence which is guiding the mechanism of the human body, and its interest is protection. Everything it does is to protect its survival -- that's all it is interested in. Then, the senses become very important factors: they begin to function at their peak capacity without the interference of thought except when there is a demand for thought.
The Mystique of Enlightenment - U.G. Krishnamurti
Thought is not self-initiated; it
always comes into operation on demand. It depends upon the demands of
the situation: there is a situation where thought is necessary, and so
it is there; otherwise it is not there. Like that pen you are using --
you can write a beautiful piece of poetry or forge a cheque or do
something with that pen -- it is there when there is a demand for it.
Thought is only for the purposes of communication, otherwise it has no
value at all. Then you are guided by your senses and not by your
thoughts any more. So all this talk of controlling the senses is
tommyrot, absolute rubbish. The senses have a built-in mechanism of
control; it is not something to be acquired. This talk of yama, niyama,
(controlling the senses), and all that, is rubbish; it has a
self-controlling mechanism of its own. You can try to control, say, the
sense of taste, but here, (in this state) you don't have to discipline
yourself or control yourself. This physical organism, or human organism,
or whatever you want to call it, is guided by sensory activity alone,
and not by thinking, not by mind at all.
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