/lit/ - Literature

When you look at an object the knowledge you have about that object comes into your head. There is an illusion that thought is something different from objects, but it is you who creates the object. The object may be there, but the knowledge you have about that object is all that you know. Apart from that knowledge and independent of that knowledge, free from that knowledge, you have no way of knowing anything about it. You have no way of directly experiencing anything. The word "directly" does not mean that there is any other way of experiencing things other than the way you are experiencing things now. The knowledge you have about it is all that is there and that is what you are experiencing. Really, you do not know what it is.

In exactly the same way, when you want to know something about thought, or experience thought, it is the same process that is in operation there. There is no inside or outside. What there is is only the operation, the flow of the knowledge. So you cannot actually separate yourself from thought and look at it.

So when such a question is thrown at you, what should happen is [the realization] that none of the answers have any meaning, because all that is acquired and taught. So that movement stops. There is no need for you to answer the question. There is no need for you to know anything about it. All that you know comes to a halt. It has no momentum any more. It slows down, and then it dawns upon you that it is meaninglessness to try to answer that question, because it has no answer at all. The answers that others have given are there. So you have nothing to say on that thing called thought, because all you can say is what you have gathered from other sources. You have no answer of your own

>>15232225
Our mind (and there are no individual minds — only "mind", which is the accumulation of man's knowledge and experience) has created the notion of the psyche and evolution. Only technology progresses, while we as a race are moving closer to complete and total destruction of the world and ourselves. Everything in man's consciousness is pushing the whole world, which nature has so laboriously created, toward destruction. There has been no qualitative change in man's thinking; we feel about our neighbours just as the frightened caveman felt towards his. The only thing that has changed is our ability to destroy our neighbor and his property.

>>15187307
So when such a question is thrown at you, what should happen is [the realization] that none of the answers have any meaning, because all that is acquired and taught. So that movement stops. There is no need for you to answer the question. There is no need for you to know anything about it. All that you know comes to a halt. It has no momentum any more. It slows down, and then it dawns upon you that it is meaninglessness to try to answer that question, because it has no answer at all. The answers that others have given are there. So you have nothing to say on that thing called thought, because all you can say is what you have gathered from other sources. You have no answer of your own.

>>15185965
"You" are the illusion not what's out there! U.G Krishnamurti refuted and debunked all your cherished philosophers. Just sit down and shut up nerd

>>15151545
Buddha was a CRACKPOT. All of you are wasting your time.

>>15137528
I agree, no more Buddhist cucks. Buddha was a crackpot

>>15132364
>still talking about Advaita
Become sober you fool!

>>15132894
/lit/ is a UG Krishnamurti board
https://youtube.com/watch?v=NvuhC8IvdSs

>>15093029
>didn't read pic related
It's a shame anon

>>15031204
In exactly the same way, when you want to know something about thought, or experience thought, it is the same process that is in operation there. There is no inside or outside. What there is is only the operation, the flow of the knowledge. So you cannot actually separate yourself from thought and look at it.

So when such a question is thrown at you, what should happen is [the realization] that none of the answers have any meaning, because all that is acquired and taught. So that movement stops. There is no need for you to answer the question. There is no need for you to know anything about it. All that you know comes to a halt. It has no momentum any more. It slows down, and then it dawns upon you that it is meaninglessness to try to answer that question, because it has no answer at all. The answers that others have given are there. So you have nothing to say on that thing called thought, because all you can say is what you have gathered from other sources. You have no answer of your own.

Read and watch these if you are serious about exploring the man, he's challenging and will guaranteed frustrate you.

Some okay background infomation

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U._G._Krishnamurti

>https://ug-krishnamurti.blogspot.com/2010/09/question-of-mind-ug-krishnamurti-what.html

Mystique of enlightenment

>https://www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/U.G.-Krishnamurti-The-Mystique-of-Enlightenment.pdf

Mind is a myth

>https://archive.org/details/U.G.KrishnamurtiMindIsAMyth/mode/2up

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNJ3oDLkoX0

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC1GULbovo8

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx8f76kuGAY

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRNvmZtASqA

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWsNfoiU-_4

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-LZSl6TGdw

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1exoQ3W-6E4

>>14679284
Just walking by

>>14671641
>retroactively destroys all religious and philosophical pursuits

>>14666558
But the point of feminism from the woman's perspective is to "free" themselves from domineering men. To the ones who engage in sex with men (an act of domination and penetration) this is paradoxical for the feminist as she is still allowing men to still dominant her.

>>14664300
Well said.

>>14661249
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>14658265
Waste of time

>>14649144
He was certainly an interesting chap