#153: "Perception of the Total is Immediate, without Preparation or Time" -- Two Fabulous Biographies of J. Krishnamurti
Discover the delight and humor, as well as the immense challenge offered by the great spiritual teacher J. Krishnamurti. This podcast draws from two biographies: Kitchen Chronicles by Michael Krohnen and Krishnamurti by Pupul Jayakar. Receive powerful new light on fundamental principles, for example, why it is, in Krishnamurti's words, "wearisome" and unproductive to struggle and strain to be "aware."
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Thanks once again for an excellent pod cast and thanks for the heads up on the two biographies of J.K. After many years of studying his teachings I have finally understood them. The observer is the observed and there is no more seeking and I live in awareness. Your emphasis on JK reinforces my conclusion that yours is the best spiritual site on the web.
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I loved this pod cast and will definitely read Kitchen Chronicles.
Wilma
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Recently, a questioned was asked concerning Krishnamurti's statement that "the thought is the thinker". What does this mean? Here are a few thoughts about the matter which may help clarify things a little.
As a child grows up in this world, the faculty of thinking develops. With the flow of thoughts that begin to arise in his mind, he falls under a cunning illusion that fools just about everybody. He thinks that he posesses a separate self that thinks. In other words, the birth of the faculty of thought is the same as the birth of an illusory self. In its blind vanity, this illusory self imagines that it understands what life is all about.
Far above the faculty of thought is the world of insight which operates at a much higher frequency and cannot be contacted by thought. The way to invite insight is to go through the shock of facing the actual nothingness of the apparent separate thinker a person is convinced he is as he goes about his daily life.
How is this done? By using everything that happens in daily life to uncover this overwhelming belief in a separate self, a conviction that is so overwhelmingly present that it is not seen. The only way to see through this clever hoax is to study, observe, investigate how the mind presently operates. Above all, the person who wants to invite the world of higher insight into his life must forever fall out of love with who he thinks he is, must forever give up the belief that he posesses a separate self that knows anything about the world of insight.
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