You ask how you can put an end to thought. Now, are you, the thinker, an entity separate from your thoughts? Are you entirely dissimilar from your thoughts? Are you not your own thoughts?
Thought may place the thinker at a very high level and give a name to him, separate him from itself; yet the thinker is still within the process of thought, is he not? There is only thought, and thought creates the thinker; thought gives form to the thinker as a permanent, separate entity.
Thought sees itself to be impermanent, in constant flux, so it breeds the thinker as a permanent entity apart and dissimilar from itself. Then the thinker operates on thought; the thinker says, “I must put an end to thought.” But there is only the process of thinking, there is no thinker apart from thought.
The experiencing of this truth is vital, it is not a mere repetition of phrases. There are only thoughts, and not a thinker who thinks thoughts.
— J. Krishnamurti, Commentaries On Living Series 2
May thought make way for what lies beyond it,
Simeon
Quote of the Week
“When the mind is completely silent, the truth comes into it of its own accord.”
— Nisargadatta Maharaj
Who is the Thinker?
This video explores Jiddu Krishnamurti’s radical dismantling of the thinker-thought illusion. Rather than offering methods or beliefs, he invites us into a space where insight arises not through effort, but through the quiet undoing of what we take for granted—starting with the idea of a “self” who thinks.
Suggested Reading
The Transparency of Things by Rupert Spira
What remains when the illusion of the thinker dissolves? In The Transparency of Things, Rupert Spira reveals how our deepest suffering stems from believing in a separate self—and how peace dawns when this illusion falls away. Each chapter is a quiet pointing toward the truth beyond thought.
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