Jiddu Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurti (May 11, 1895 — February 17, 1986)
Jiddu Krishnamurti was adopted at a young age by Dr Annie Besant, the president of the Theosophical Society at the time. Jiddu was proclaimed to be the next world teacher and an organization, The Order of the Star in the East, was built around him to prepare for his coming. However, in 1929 Jiddu dissolved this Order, and spent the rest of his life trying to wake up humanity to the realities of what thought is doing to our world. The short speech made by Krishnamurti during his dissolution of the Order can be viewed at Jiddu Krishnamurti Online.
The following quote is often cited as the core of Krishnamurti’s teachings”
Truth is a pathless land. Man cannot come to it through any organization, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, not through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the contents of his own mind, through observation and not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection.
David Bohm summarized Krishnamurti’s core teaching as the following:
It is here that I encountered what I feel to be Krishnamurti’s major discovery. What he was seriously proposing is that all this disorder, which is the root cause of such widespread sorrow and misery, and which prevents human beings from properly working together, has its root in the fact that we are ignorant of the general nature of our own processes of thought. Or to put it differently it may be said that we do not see what is actually happening, when we are engaged in the activity of thinking. Through close attention to and observation of this activity of thought, Krishnamurti feels that he directly perceives that thought is a material process, which is going on inside of the human being in the brain and nervous system as a whole.
Krishnamurti went into extreme depths in his explanations of how thought is participating in our lives and how its movements are at the root of humanity’s unnecessary problems and crises. Krishnamurti did not endorse or associate with any particular approach, religion, philosophy, system, or view. Rather, Krishnamurti demanded engagement in never ending observation and inquiry without conclusion or finality into the ever changing present.
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