" People call me an 'enlightened man'. All kinds of things
happened to me. The physical pain was unbearable -- that is why I say
you really don't want this. I wish I could give you a glimpse of it, a
touch of it -- then you wouldn't want to touch this at all. What you
are pursuing doesn't exist; it is a myth. You wouldn't want anything
to do with this." - U.G. Krishnamurti "People call me an
'enlightened man' -- I detest that term -- they can't find any other
word to describe the way I am functioning. At the same time, I point
out that there is no such thing as enlightenment at all. I say that
because all my life I've searched and wanted to be an enlightened man,
and I discovered that there is no such thing as enlightenment at all,
and so the question whether a particular person is enlightened or not
doesn't arise. I don't give a hoot for a sixth-century-BC Buddha, let
alone all the other claimants we have in our midst. They are a bunch
of exploiters, thriving on the gullibility of the people. There is no
power outside of man. Man has created God out of fear. So the problem
is fear and not God.
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I discovered for myself and by myself that there is no self to
realize -- that's the realization I am talking about. It comes as a
shattering blow. It hits you like a thunderbolt. You have invested
everything in one basket, self-realization, and, in the end, suddenly
you discover that there is no self to discover, no self to realize --
and you say to yourself "What the hell have I been doing all my
life?!" That blasts you.
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All kinds of things happened to me -- I went through that, you see.
The physical pain was unbearable -- that is why I say you really don't
want this. I wish I could give you a glimpse of it, a touch of it --
then you wouldn't want to touch this at all. What you are pursuing
doesn't exist; it is a myth. You wouldn't want anything to do with
this. _______________
That state of which I had said "This is the state" -- that state
disappeared. The question disappeared. Finished, you see. It is not
emptiness, it is not blankness, it is not the void, it is not any of
those things; the question disappeared suddenly, and that is all. " -
U.G. Krishnamurti
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Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti (born July 9, 1918), better known as
U.G. Krishnamurti, or just U.G., says he is not a guru or a teacher or
a philosopher of any kind. Yet some people say he is "enlightened
