Is it really Pathless?
No it is not Pathless, but Krishnamurti feels as such, as his mind is Divided and Fragmented, K could not detect the Path he went through, with the missing Mind attributes playing the role, constituting the Path, and in leading along a path to that of The Thoughtless, Unknown.
We all know and have experienced, that when we desire something, and when we don't know how to get it, and then we forget about it, even may drop the desire, to search for it. Then comes the moment of revelation or knowledge or encounter someone with the necessary information, etc., leading us to get that thing we desired. Or we may have experienced, that the obstacles which were standing in the way preventing us to get the thing we desire has gone away. This situation or happening is true for the inner desire of getting an understanding of something or remembering something, as well as outside material objects.
Once I was walking along in a road in a different town and remembered that there was a friend living in that town, whose name I had forgotten. I tried to remember his name in many ways, but could not. Then I made a 'resolution' that his name would come into my mind. And I walked a few yards ahead, and forgot about the 'resolution' and the desire and the expectation to remember his name. The Name cropped up in the mind, immediately. I did this because I had this experiences earlier, where I used to do this and get the results.
When I was practising Buddhist Bhavana, that is The Development Of The Mind, one of the important and the main method I used is this Resolutions, which is known as Adishtana, in Pali. There at the beginning of the Bhavana practice, I would make about 5 to 7 resolutions (Adistana) relating to the difficulties in Bhavana which I want to overcome and to reduce them, as well as the positive aspects I have already achieved, and to increase the intensity and the duration of such positive things. But what I have understood here is one has to totally forget the 'Resolutions', while practising and totally must not expect them to happen. But there will be the expectation and desire for them to happen, remaining in a subdued way in the mind , but the 'Resolutions' won't happen until one has the desire and the expectation. The moment one drops the desire and the expectation, being tired of it or else, the 'Resolutions' take place.
So, what does happen in the mind, for the 'Resolutions' to materialize, or to take effect?
When, one makes a 'Resolutions', it is out of desire and expectation one does it. The 'Resolution' goes to the subconscious mind as well, where that subconscious mind has the knowledge and means to provide for the solutions, to make it happen. When we decide and desire for something, we do it in the conscious mind. What goes and reside in the subconscious is not the what we have decided as it is, but it get transformed as an 'Intentions', instead of as 'Decisions'. Intentions belongs to only to subconscious, where those intentions are without any desire and expectation, because desire and expectations are conscious mind attributes.
In the subconscious mind there is no Expectations, Desires, Anger, ill will, ideas, opinions, Ego, etc., hence, it is 'Non-Discrimination', which is Love, Methta. (Normal lustful love and relationships are not Love, as it is discriminatory and gives rise to anger, when the lustful love is nor reciprocated by the other).
So as long as one expects and desires the results for his Resolutions, which are stored in the subconscious as 'Intentions, the intentions cannot materialize, as conscious mind is holding onto the Decisions and the desire and expectations of such decisions. Once these are cleared from the conscious mind, The Path is cleared for the subconscious mind to come into action, making the intention to take place.
So this is what happened to Krishnamurti. He had this insecurity, doubt, fear and suffering arising from the 'Thinking' as he understood it. Hence, Krishnamurti felt, that if he can stop the 'Thinking' which give rise to fragmentation and other related sufferings, he would be free from the agony he was undergoing. Since, he was given instructions in Meditations, there even they try to put away the thinking, and these also would have added to his expectation and desire to do away with the 'Thinking'. He struggled for years, (1922 to 1925), because he could not practice mediation, with an expectation and desire, as the expectation and the desire in the form of 'Thinking', perpetuates the Division, Fragmentation, adding more to the sufferings. So one final day in 1925, 12 days after Nitya's death, he dropped the hopes, desires and expectations in mediations to get rid of the 'Thinking', and that moment the 'Thinking' stops, as a result of the 'Intentions' he had loaded into the subconscious, thus Intentions taking effect.
Krihanamurti was able to detect the result, and to experience the same, that is 'Thoughtless', but could not detect the Path of conscious desire and expectations leading to subconscious 'Intentions, which enabled the 'Thoughtless', hence he concluded that it is Pathless to the 'Thoughtless', erroneously.
So,there are others who understand Krishnamurti well and factually, because their minds are being Divided and Fragmented, just like K, but if they hope (without hoping) to get into the Thoughtless, then they must undergo the same great sufferings as Krishnamurti experienced, and to desire and expect the Thoughtless to take place, and then to drop all the expectations and desires one has built up, after the desires and expectations get rooted in the subconscious as 'Intentions', and the moment they drop all hope, they would experience the 'Thoughtless'.
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