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#2644 - Friday, November 17, 2006 -
Editor: Jerry Katz
The Nondual Highlights
This issue is the second part of selections from The Other Side of Belief: Interpreting U.G. Krishnamurti, by Mukuna Rao.
Selections also appear in issues 2643 and 2648
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The Other Side of Belief: Interpreting
U.G. Krishnamurti
by Mukunda Rao. Penguin
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We are no more purposeful or
meaningful than any other thing on this planet… We are not
created for any grander purpose than the ants that are there or
the flies that are hovering around us or the mosquitoes that are
sucking our blood.
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The plain fact is that if you don’t have a
problem, you create one. If you don’t have a problem you
don’t feel that you are living.
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When you are no longer caught up in the dichotomy of
right and wrong or good and bad,
you can never do anything wrong. As long as you are
caught up in this duality, the danger is that you will always do
wrong.
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In nature there is no death or destruction at all.
What occurs is the reshuffling of atoms. If there is a need or
necessity to maintain the balance of ‘energy’ in this
universe, death occurs.
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An artist is a craftsman like any other craftsmen.
He uses that tool to express himself. All art is a pleasure
movement.
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There is more life in the chorus of the barking dogs
than in the music or singing of your famous musicians and
singers.
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A messiah is the one who leaves a mess behind him in
this world.
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Religions have promised roses but you end up with
only thorns.
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It is terror, not love, not brotherhood that will
help us to live together.
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Meditation itself is evil. That is why you get evil
thoughts when you start meditating.
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Anything you want to be free from for whatever
reason is the very thing that can free you.
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Atmospheric pollution is most harmless when compared
to the spiritual and religious pollution that have plagued the
world.
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Going to the pub or the temple is exactly the same;
it is quick fix.
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The body has no independent existence. You are a
squatter there.
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God and sex go together. If God goes sex goes, too.
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When you know nothing, you say a lot. When you know
something, there is nothing to say.
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You have to touch life at a point where nobody has
touched it before. Nobody can teach you that.
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All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are
searching for happiness, you will remain
unhappy.
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Understanding yourself is one of the greatest jokes
perpetrated not only by the purveyors of ancient wisdom– the
holy men– but also the modern scientists. The psychologists
love to talk about self-knowledge, self-actualization, living
from moment to moment, and such rot.
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The more you know about yourself the more impossible
it becomes to be humble and sensitive. How can there be humility
as long as you know something?
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It is mortality that creates immortality. It is the
known that creates the unknown. It is the time that has created
the timeless. It is thought that has created the thoughtless.
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You actually have no way of looking at the sunset
because you are not separated from the
sunset. The moment you separate your self from the
sunset, the poet in you comes out. Out of that separation poets
and painters have tried to express themselves, to share their
experiences with others. All that is culture.
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All experiences however extraordinary they may be
are in the area of sensuality.
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Humility is an art that one practices. There is no
such thing as humility. As long as you know, there is no
humility. The known and humility cannot coexist
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Man cannot be anything other than what he is.
Whatever he is, he will create a society that mirrors him.
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Inspiration is a meaningless thing. Lost, desperate
people create a market for inspiration. All inspired action will
eventually destroy you and your kind.
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Love and hate are not opposite ends of the same
spectrum; they are one and the same thing. They are much closer
than kissing cousins.
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It is a terrible thing to use– somebody to get
pleasure. Whatever you use, an idea, a concept, a drug, or a
person, or anything else, you cannot have pleasure without using
something.
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Hinduism is not a religion in the usual sense. It is
a combination and confusion of many things. It is like a street
with hundreds of shops.
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Gurus play a social role, so do prostitutes.
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Society, which has created all these sociopaths, has
invented morality to protect itself from them. Society has
created the ‘saints’ and ‘sinners’. I
don’t accept them as such.
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By using the models of Jesus, Buddha, or
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As long as you are doing something to be selfless,
you will be a self-centred individual.
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The subject does not exist there. It is the object
that creates the subject. This runs counter to the whole
philosophical thinking of
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When thought is not there all the time, what is
there is living from moment to moment. It’s all in frames,
millions and millions and millions of frames, to put it in the
language of film.
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The man who spoke of ‘love thy neighbour as
thyself’ is responsible for this horror in the world today.
Don’t exonerate those teachers.
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Life has to be described in pure and simple physical
and physiological terms. It must be
demystified and depsychologized.
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Society is built on a foundation of conflict, and
you are society. Therefore you must always be in conflict with
society.
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You know the story of ‘
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The appreciation of music, poetry and language is
all culturally determined and is the product of thought. It is
acquired taste that tells you that Beethoven’s Ninth
Symphony is more beautiful than a chorus of cats screaming; both
produce equally valid sensations.
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The peak of sex experience is the one thing in life
you have that comes close to being a first-hand experience; all
the rest of your experiences are second-hand, somebody
else’s.
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The problem with language is, no matter how we try
to express ourselves, we are caught up in the structure of words.
There is no point in creating new language, a new lingo, to
express anything. There is nothing there to be expressed except
to free yourself from the stranglehold of thought.
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What you call ‘yourself’ is fear. The
‘you’ is born out of fear; it lives in fear, functions
in fear and dies in fear.
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It would be more interesting to learn from children,
than try to teach them how to behave, how to live and how to
function.