The Following is one of my favourite quotes by J. Krishnamurti-
"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 philosophic 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."
I dont think he was evr showing or teaching a way of life.I dont think he ever claimed to having the truth. We all have to discover it for ourselves. What I like about the quote is that- to do this, we must first reject all form of authority. Nothing outside of me can be an authority in my life. Being a lamp to oneself. Even he cannot become an authority in ones life. Even the things he said are being misread and misunderstood, which goes to show that such things cannot be communicated.
Excerpt from his bio-
http://www.kfa.org/biography.php
The rejection of all spiritual and psychological authority, including
his own, is a fundamental theme. His major concern is the social
structure and how it conditions the individual. The emphasis in his talks and writings is on the psychological barriers that prevent
clarity of perception. In the mirror of relationship, each of us can
come to understand the content of one`s own consciousness, which is common to all humanity. We can do this, not analytically, but directly in a manner Krishnamurti describes at length. In observing this content we discover within ourselves the division of the observer and what is observed. He points out that this division, which prevents direct perception, is the root of human conflict.
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