Word Gems
exploring self-realization, sacred personhood, and full humanity
Jiddu Krishnamurti
1895 - 1986
Truth, that sacred inner silence, has no words, and if you have gone that far, then you are enlightened and do not seek anything, you do not want any experience, then you are a light, and that is the beginning and the ending of all meditation.
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Editor’s prefatory comments:
Jiddu Krishnamurti has been an important teacher in my life. I began learning about the “true” and “false” selves about 15 years ago, and his insights served to inaugurate this vital area of enquiry.
He was the one to make clear that “guru” signifies merely “one who points,” not “infallible sage.” Pointing the way is what even the best teachers provide, but no more. One must walk the path of enlightenment alone, no one can do this for us.
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Public Talk 3, Madras - 13 January 1971
Editor's last word:
When I “go within”, as K suggests, to teach myself, I see some of that which he speaks; but only in part.
If the “silence” of truth deep within is a living thing, if it “has no beginning and no end,” how can it, how can we, one’s consciousness, be destroyed at death? – which K believed. I think his view is error. He hasn't gone deeply enough.
When I go within to observe the cause of the chattering in the head, yes, I see that part of the reason is to avoid a sense of loneliness and emptiness; but only in part. As I go deeper, I find that the chattering is the ego’s attempt to make itself into a self, a form of insisting on itself.
Aloneness is, yes, a denial of all authority, but what this really means is a beginning awareness of the sacredness of self, which then, quite rightly, results in no desire for more experience or external bedazzlement.
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