Has anyone read him in depth? Has anyone tried to practice his teachings? Any accounts of people that have? What happens when you realize that you are the thought? Do you have complete concentration of whatever you do? Can you still make witty jokes? Can you still think and concentrate on ideas? Understand philosophy? Do math problems? Pick up girls?
Wait there are two? J and U.G?? holy shit im confused now.
what the fuck is going on here?
sexuni guy, maybe u can explain all this j and ug nonsense.
Please explain what it is that you do know. Then what you are trying to find out and discuss?
Thanks!
I know that J.Krishanamurti was an indian philosopher. Who was very similar in his beliefs to buddhism. He had the idea that self was an illusion. That suffering comes from this illusioned self. He says to get rid of this self is by the way of meditation. Basically what i was wondering was once you get rid of this illusioned self what happens? How can you think rationally? Can you make decision? Can you still enjoy sports and other thinks your illusioned self likes? Its hard to imagine a no self, but I think that it would cause a lot of problems because I wouldn’t think things through.
Krishnamurti is not as mystical as all that, although his ideas seem to parallel other Eastern notions, his thought coheres rather well. I have read 14 of his books (mainly collections of therapeutic dialogues). A good one book synopsis is The First and last freedom which also contains an intro by Aldous Huxley.
Krishnamurti on meditation
which comes from this extensive list of articles
Krishnamurti articles
“I would say in awareness there is no choice, just to be aware. The moment when choice enters into awareness there is no awareness.” J. Krishnamurti
I have read a few books of K. but I don’t have a good view of what he did, but I like his viewpoints and statements. The K. I’m talking about, was born in poor India and found by the astrologers of the Theosophic.
In an early stage his discarded to be the symbol of this new religion, and proclaimed that in an organisation you can’t really be free. I think he is a underestimated philosopher with roots in the east, but living in the west.
i am currently reading krishnamurti…
- J. Krishnamurti
The quote of his in my signature is from his speech when he broke with the theosophists. The description ‘modern day buddha’ often attributed to him is very close to the mark. He’s not trying to found a doctrine, just helping people to live, which is very close to original buddhism, although Krishnamurti was raised as a Brahmin until about 13.