Once,
some people have accepted that Krishnamurti is a World Teacher,
without denying the fact, Krishnamurti used to imply the same by
different means, which I would deal in many of the future post as
well. Apart from directly implying that he is a Word teacher, he used
to imply the same by other means as well, indirectly.
One
of the other means he used, is to discuss topics, which are out of
his perspective of expertise, but born out of the confidence, that
none of his followers had a simple knowledge of what he speaks about,
which was well prepared before hand, and even if an expert to be
there in the audience, he would not raise questions, once he
understands, that Krishnamurti was talking on the particular subject,
without having any proper knowledge of it, hence he will understand,
it is foolish, to raise questions.
These
'Nonsense' topics, Krishnamurti discussed had no relationship to his
'Core' teaching, but he tried to relate them to it, creating funny
and inconsistencies there.
Let
us examine one of the such topic Krishnamurti discussed, which is
about Mind and Brain.
Quote
K:
So,
what is the mind? Obviously, the mind is our total awareness or
consciousness; it is the total way of our existence, the whole
process of our thinking. The mind is the result of the brain.
The brain produces the mind. Without the brain there is no mind, but
the mind is separate from the brain. It is the child of the brain. If
the brain is limited, damaged, the mind is also damaged. The brain,
which records every sensation, every feeling of pleasure or pain, the
brain with all its tissues, with all its responses, creates what we
call the mind, although the mind is independent of the brain. (J.
Krishnamurti, The Book of Life).
Talks
by Krishnamurti in India 1959 New Delhi, Madras.
End
of the Quote.
Krishnamurti
says, "The mind is the result of the brain." How
does he say this? Did he know that he had a brain inside his skull?
Even if he believed the scientists who say there is a brain inside
the skull, did he know that mind is the result of the brain? So it is
evident that Krishnamurti believed the scientists who say that there
is a Brain inside the skull and, he further believed the
neuro-scientists who say that 'thinking' , 'memory', etc., which are
mind attributes or mind functions, are related to brain, but none
have said that one is the result of the other.
What
if these scientist change their theorems, as usually they do, when
they find new evidences, as they have already done, one may be aware,
where now they say, even the stomach is also a cause or a reason,
producing thinking.
Hence,
it is evident, by believing the scientific informations available by
that time, Krishnamurti had concluded, that 'the Mind is the result
of the brain'.
I am surprised at the Krishnamurti followers, who say
that they are not conditioned, by believing on anything, whereas
their teacher, Krishnamurti, was believing in science and giving that
inaccurate knowledge of the same, as his spiritual understanding.
Mind
is what we experience as thinking, emotions, feelings, awareness,
etc., etc. When there is a cold wind, we experience the same on our
body, on our skins, as a sensation of the cold. Are we going to
conclude this body and skin is as a part of Mind? No. Body is body,
but not mind. but there is a relationship, and none is an outcome or
result of the other.
Was
not Krishnamurti, conditioned by this scientific information? Can
any one experience one's brain as one experiences his mind? Then, how
did Krishnamurti experienced his brain, to conclude that the, mind as
the outcome of the brain? Mind as the result of the brain?
There
are animals which don't have brain. How do they function? how do they
identify their prey or food? How do a single celled Amoeba, function?
Quote
K:
And
walking on that road, there was complete emptiness of the
brain , and the mind was free of all experience, the knowing
of yesterday, though a thousand yesterdays have been. Time, the thing
of thought, had stopped; literally there was no movement before and
after; there was no going or arriving or standing still. Space as
distance was not; there were the hills and bushes but not as high and
low. There was no relationship with anything but there was an
awareness of the bridge and the passer-by. The totality of
the mind, in which is the brain with its thoughts and feelings, was
empty; and because it was empty, there was energy, a deepening and
widening energy without measure. All comparison, measurement belong
to thought and so to time. The otherness was the mind without time;
it was the breath of innocence and immensity. Words are not reality;
they are only means of communication but they are not the innocence
and the immeasurable. The emptiness was alone.
Krishnamurti's
Notebook | 20th October to 20th November 1961.
End
of the Quote.
Here
again Krishnamurti says there is a definite relationship or out come
or result of the Brain, which is the mind. Hence, the "brain has
to empty itself to mind to be empty".
No
spiritual teacher in the past have said that the Mind as an out come
of the brain, on one in the present, and no one will be in the
future. If that is the case, there is a possibility that the
scientists finding a way to stimulate the brain to remove the
sufferings, as where they would remove the reasons for the
sufferings, such as Anger, Desire, Lust, Ego and ignorance.
But
in the case of Krishnamurti and similar people, who suffer, not due
to the above reasons, but because of the Divided, fragmented minds,
which creates, doubt, fear and insecurity, when they think, thus
rectifying their brains, for the missing mind attributes, which is
the cause of the Fragmentation, bringing the mind to a whole,
complete state. Then they will be able to think without any fear,
doubts, insecurity.
Therefore, they don't have to rely on a Pathless
solution.
Looking
at those two quote of the Krishnamurti, it is evident that when one
tries to understand them, thinking that there is a meaning in them,
definitely he will be led to some wilderness, imaginations, which
some of them find difficult to undo, and come out clean, to think
afresh in a factual way, in a healthy way, seeing through the loops
of Krishnamurti.
Mind first. Brain second. When the brain, which functions by means of thought, realizes that the thought process is limited and can not perceive the unlimited, stops trying to figure it out and becomes quiet then the Mind may then be perceived.
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