Interesting piece, but “the man who solved enlightenment” already says too much.
If Krishnamurti shows anything, it is not that enlightenment was solved, but that the urge to solve it is itself part of the movement that keeps reality at a distance.
The moment awakening becomes an answer, a model, or a conclusion, thought has already stepped back in and crowned itself master of what can only be seen when mastery falls silent.
So perhaps he did not solve enlightenment.
Perhaps he exposed why the mind keeps turning freedom into an object of pursuit.
I have been fond of Krishnamurti for many decades, now, and I think this is an excellent presentation of his teaching, very sympathetically done. Thank you for contributing this.
Regarding representations and relativity, I have written a little on the same subject. This seems a difficult subject for Western sensibilities that are disturbed by the idea of such relativity.
There is a similar idea that everything is made entirely of memories, where even memories are made entirely of other memories, perhaps a part of the notion of universal storehouse mind, or Dogen's Time-Being.
All rubbish. You are trying to explain the unexplainable instead it will br better for you to devote this valuable time of life here as human being in meditations. You are riding on JK’s experience as if it is your experience! It is not possible, this is foolish act.
Meditation is the door, contemplation is sure miss.
Interesting piece, but “the man who solved enlightenment” already says too much.
If Krishnamurti shows anything, it is not that enlightenment was solved, but that the urge to solve it is itself part of the movement that keeps reality at a distance.
The moment awakening becomes an answer, a model, or a conclusion, thought has already stepped back in and crowned itself master of what can only be seen when mastery falls silent.
So perhaps he did not solve enlightenment.
Perhaps he exposed why the mind keeps turning freedom into an object of pursuit.
Beautifully said—and true!
This is amazing content. What book by Krishnamurti would you recommend first?
Thank you, André! Krishnamurti’s Commentaries on Living Series has had a life-changing impact on me, so I highly recommend those books.
Freedom from the known is a start
Pure presence combined with creation is the simple answer
I have been fond of Krishnamurti for many decades, now, and I think this is an excellent presentation of his teaching, very sympathetically done. Thank you for contributing this.
Regarding representations and relativity, I have written a little on the same subject. This seems a difficult subject for Western sensibilities that are disturbed by the idea of such relativity.
There is a similar idea that everything is made entirely of memories, where even memories are made entirely of other memories, perhaps a part of the notion of universal storehouse mind, or Dogen's Time-Being.
All rubbish. You are trying to explain the unexplainable instead it will br better for you to devote this valuable time of life here as human being in meditations. You are riding on JK’s experience as if it is your experience! It is not possible, this is foolish act.
Meditation is the door, contemplation is sure miss.
https://youtu.be/tEO87hvh8kE?si=z5w5a2v98vMzxOAZ
Meditation is not a monopoly on insight.
Some people meditate for years and only deepen the structure of seeking.
Others see something clearly without any method at all.
So no, I do not accept the idea that truth becomes valid only after passing through a spiritual technique.
That is already another form of authority and possession.