…We have been told that all paths lead to truth – you have your path as a Hindu and someone else has his path as a Christian and another as a Muslim, and they all meet at the same door – which is, when you look at it, so obviously absurd. Truth has no path, and that is the beauty of truth, it is living. A dead thing has a path to it because it is static, but when you see that truth is something living, moving, which has no resting place, which is in no temple, mosque or church, which no religion, no teacher, no philosopher, nobody can lead you to – then you will also see that this living thing is what you actually are – your anger, your brutality, your violence, your despair, the agony and sorrow you live in. In the understanding of all this is the truth, and you can understand it only if you know how to look at those things in your life. And you cannot look through an ideology, through a screen of words, through hopes and fears.(Krishnamurti)
2007-11-16 00:15:04 · 10 answers · asked by Amalgamus 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It is not a question of opinions. Truth can only be approach through negation and doesn't belong to the limitations of thoughts. Other people who are enlighted (awaken) can make you perceive "what you are" when the thinking process ceases to be. See Robert Adams' story: http://www.itisnotreal.com/. Read Richard Rose's story "After the Absolute": http://www.richardrose.org/ Then Adyashanti:http://www.adyashanti.org/ Also: http://www.eckharttolle.com/ And "Who am I": http://www.ramana-maharshi.org/books.htm
Nisargadatta , Jean Klein or Aziz Kristof:http://www.nirvikalpa.com/content.php?page=advaita
2007-11-17 02:31:36 · update #1
Beautiful language, and an appealing sentiment, but I don't agree with it per se.
I believe the truth has as many paths as there are people. And if given enough time, they will all lead to the same God. Dead things aren't the only path-bearing entities; forests are living, dynamic things and they might have innumerable paths. The same with the truth.
Also, "this living thing" that is what we actually are is so much more than our anger, brutality, violence, dispair, etc. It's also our ability to hope and to love and to aspire to become more than the sum of our parts.
2007-11-16 00:18:30 · answer #1 · answered by Acorn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
do not worry for her soul, honey, worry for yours. She is presented playing existence once you're dropping yours believing in and worshiping an imaginary "all-functional" being. do not pontificate to her, in basic terms suggestions your own employer. EDIT: So, she will't educate her belifs with out 'offending' you, yet you may march perfect as a lot as her and tell her that she's incorrect about each and every thing? perchance she's both offended by ability of your beliefs! And what makes you imagine that you already know "reality"? because it changed into written in some e book? Did it ever take position to you that an extremely proficient author keen to position in writing a fictional novel? you do not have any evidence that what you've self belief is the reality. on the top of the day, you may't "help" her anymore than she might want to help you. think back issues! you've self belief in a mystical, unkempt being that has allmighty powers and may want to come decrease back from the useless various circumstances, and who created the whole international. And, she believes in evolution. Now, which sounds extra logical?
2016-10-24 08:15:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is truth?
Depending upon who you ask today, the question "What is Truth" will get you very different answers and, perhaps, lead to even more questions. Here are some current thoughts on truth:
There is No Absolute Truth.
But wait a minute! This statement is making an absolute claim to truth. It defeats its own claim.
Truth is Relative.
Does that include the statement that truth is relative? It would have to, making this statement invalid since no claim to truth can be made by this statement, including the claim that truth is relative.
You have Your Truth and I have My Truth.
And if your truth and my truth are in conflict, what do we have? Can there be conflicting truths? If so, then how do you determine what is valid? If my truth is that there is no God, and your truth is that there is a God, does that really effect whether there is a God or not? Saying that we each have our own truth may make us comfortable but we would have to not care about truth to say this, because no matter what my experience or your experience tells us, the truth exists as it is.
Truth is within You.
Seek truth within yourself and you are back to what your experience tells you or to what you want to be the truth. Your perception may affect you and be true to what you want to believe, but it does not affect what the truth really is. Your experience and belief could be telling you that something false is true.
So what is Truth?
If you're tired of wondering or of playing these mind games, consider that maybe truth is not all that complex. Maybe it is something a child can grasp. Maybe truth is a person. The God-Man Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me." (John 14:6)
Will you be like Pilate, who asked "What is truth?" (John 18:38) right after Jesus said to him, "And I came to bring truth to the world. All who love the truth recognize that what I say is true," (John 18:37b)?
Or will you be like the Roman officer who saw Jesus die on the cross and said, "Truly, this was the Son of God!" (Mark 15:39)
As Jesus said, "I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me shall live even if he dies, " (John 11:25) and "I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he shall be saved; and shall go in and out, and find pasture," (John 10:9).
2007-11-16 02:40:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's amazing that people can talk so much about a concept, in this case "truth", without ever really defining it well.
I completely agree that if religion was the "path to truth" then they would not all be right as many to most of them are mutually exclusive in nature. Given that they are so dissimilar, it is fairly apparent that they have no common author.
His last statement may actually be close to right, in that we determine "truth" about reality through objective study.
2007-11-16 00:26:23 · answer #4 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, the living truth is found in life, not in religions or religious texts. So I see the statement as correct.
2007-11-16 00:22:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This sounds like a recruitment to Krishnamurti if I ever read one. Is the truth in the living spirit as you suggest or is it in the remnants of a homo sapian spirit disguised in a ghostly format to haunt us until we die.
2007-11-16 00:28:48 · answer #6 · answered by Drop short and duck 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I like your question! I am still organizing an answer that may take some time to mature... but you gave me a lot to think about! AND IT DOESN'T INVOLVE ANY BLOODY SACRIFICE or killing anybody like in the Judeo/Christian/Muslim religions!
2007-11-17 00:30:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is the purest description of finding Truth that I have ever heard.
2007-11-16 03:50:53 · answer #8 · answered by phil8656 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm still looking for the truth....I hope I find it some day.
2007-11-16 00:23:15 · answer #9 · answered by Emerald Book Reviews 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
this is krishnamurti's opinion.
opinions are like a**holes.
everyone has one.
everyone thinks his own doesn't smell.
2007-11-16 00:24:58 · answer #10 · answered by synopsis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋