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Krishnamurti: Wahre Liebe ist deshalb ein Geisteszustand der eintritt, wenn die Zeit, wenn “Beobachter” und “Beobachtetes” nicht existieren!
#Geist #Gesehenes #JidduKrishnamurti #Patanjali #Seher #wahreLiebe #YogaSutras #Zettel -
Currently fascinated by the implications of "observer" and "observed" being the same thing; which seems to refute everything I was ever brought up to know and believe. Which implies... lots!
Chewing on this article...
https://vicshayne.medium.com/the-observer-is-the-observed-but-are-we-really-seeing-what-we-are-3d03429b269c#psychology #jiddukrishnamurti #spirituality #suffering #depression
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Man has depended on stimuli of various kinds. If it is a constant stimulant, the brain becomes extraordinarily dull.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1984This reminded me of so much the world is depending on AI in all aspects of life: personal, academic, and professional.
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One has to be aware of our various escapes because, for most of us, a problem becomes intensified, becomes acute, only when it is something immediate that demands all our attention. Most of us do not want to live with such intensity, so problems increase, multiply and take root. So one has to be aware of how the mind escapes. We are very good at escaping from life – the churches, the literature, our own experiences, our knowledge, our ways of looking at life, are various forms of psychological escapes, and so we never come into contact with the fact.
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To arrive where I started…
Whatever the origin of religion, it is so often present in our lives as a way to try to understand the ineffable; a way to give presence and weight to an experience that defies words; that takes place outside of thought and perception. What are we to do with such an experience – a thing commonly known as mystical, or numinous? It cannot be thought, or described, since it is entirely beyond the realm of cognition and language.
This was my own experience; as a young man – even as a child – I had been prone to experiences like this, for which I had no words, nor even a broad category or discipline to which to assign them. (The nearest I got to the feeling was reading about astronomy or zoology or meteorology – a sense that here was something in terms of which everything else made sense, rather than my trying to make sense of it.)
It wasn’t until I spent an extended period in hospital in my teens that I had the freedom to begin to explore; to realise that the natural direction of this condition of mind was philosophical, even metaphysical; and I was in my early twenties before it became clear that it was something I learned to call “spirituality”. When I began to discover that I was not alone in this, of course my fellow pilgrims were in general religious people, and so it seemed to me that these must be religious experiences. Despite my having early on read Jiddu Krishnamurti and Lao Tzu, it was all too easy to understand these experiences in terms of either Buddhism, or later, irresistibly, the Christian mystical tradition – which of course brought the whole complex machinery of faith clattering along with it.
Extraordinarily, despite my by then growing and scarcely repressed doubts, it took the enforced isolation of the recent pandemic, and the discovery of writers like Sam Harris and Susan Blackmore, finally to shake me loose; to let me realise that, as Harris points out so poignantly in the first chapter of Waking Up, “Either the contemplative literature is a catalogue of religious delusion, psychopathology, and deliberate fraud, or people have been having liberating insights under the name of ‘spirituality’ and ‘mysticism’ for millennia… there are deeper insights to be had about the nature of our minds. Unfortunately, they have been discussed entirely in the context of religion and, therefore, have been shrouded in fallacy and superstition for all of human history.” Somehow, I had to recapitulate this for myself; it often amazes me to realise that it took me the best part of my adult life “to arrive where [I] started, and know the place for the first time.”
#awakening #awareness #faith #JidduKrishnamurti #LaoTzu #philosophy #religion #SamHarris #SusanBlackmore #TSEliot
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h/t @504DR … and #JidduKrishnamurti of course.
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Jiddu Krishnamurti: The Reluctant Messiah
#IndianaJones #Lucasfilm #StarWars #FanthaTracks @indianajones #IndianaJones @Lucasfilm #JidduKrishnamurti
Watch the latest of the The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones documentaries that arrived on DVD back in 2007.
Read the whole story at the below link:
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Unless you ask the impossible you fall into the trap of what is possible.
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"I don’t mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom."
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
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#JidduKrishnamurti
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RT @nowisforever
His was an unforgiving, support-less path; one that demanded that each one of us surrender to ourselves in our entirety. Anything less was a waste of time.By @tmkrishna
https://www.theindiaforum.in/article/silences-jiddu-krishnamurti?s=08
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"You cannot depend upon anybody. There is no guide, no teacher, no authority. There is only you – your relationship with others and with the world."
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
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"Time is not a means to the end, the timeless, for the end is in the beginning."
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
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"Acquisitiveness in any form creates inequality and brutality."
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
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"Through obedience freedom cannot be known; freedom comes with understanding, not through acceptance of authority or through imitation."
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
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@hackiechan and again quoting #jiddukrishnamurti here. This explains it pretty much.
