The end of illusion is the end of you.
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Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is “you”. There is nothing there inside you other than that.
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You see, the search takes you away from yourself – it is in the opposite direction – it has absolutely no relation.
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The abstractions you are throwing at me, I am not interested in. Is there anything beyond the abstractions?
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People usually imagine that so-called enlightenment, self-realization, God-realization, or what you will (I don’t like to use these words) is something ecstatic, that you will be permanently happy, in a blissful state all the time – these are the images they have of those people … There’s no relationship at all between the images you have of that and what actually is the situation.
That’s why I very often tell people: “If I could give you some glimpse of what this is all about, you wouldn’t touch this with a barge pole, a ten-foot pole.” You would run away from this because it is not what you want.
What you want does not exist, you see.
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Understanding is the state of being when the question isn’t there any more; there is nothing that says “Now, I understand!”
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It is the questioner that creates the answer; and the questioner comes into being from the answer, otherwise there is no questioner.
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NOTE: Yes, U.G. Krishnamurti is one of the more direct-speaking teachers from recent times (he passed on in 2007) – and some of his statements can be powerful pointers toward truth.
My criteria for quotes is simply:
How well does the statement point toward truth in a way that may well be of value, for someone in the process of awakening?
Wholeheartedly,
Kirtanman
