Why would we worship a God who did either? God doesn't lie and he/she/it doesn't fool around!
We would not follow and adore a ruler who lied and tortured. because, if creation happened for a reason, if it was done by God, you'd better believe every part of it, including intelligence, was done for a reason ascertainable, eventually, by intelligence. This includes all mythologies, miracles, etc. Any regime that defines truth as a set of beliefs and occurrences that cannot be questioned, that can neither be demonstrated nor proven is not only evil but ridiculous. Same reason.Īny repressive regime that seeks to control exploration and experimentation is evil.
Any political body that says it owns the truth is evil. Any religion that says it knows the one and only truth is evil, because it limits knowledge. The Taliban, by defining truth and refusing girls an education, is evil. If you would attain to the mountain-top you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.Ĭontext: The Inquisition, by defining and limiting knowledge, was evil. You cannot bring the mountain-top to the valley. Truth cannot be brought down, rather the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. Truth is narrowed down and made a plaything for those who are weak, for those who are only momentarily discontented. This is what everyone throughout the world is attempting to do. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others. A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. That is my point of view, and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally. He set up seven schools in India and abroad to educate generations of children with as little conditioning as possible.Context: I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Krishnamurti emphasised that total awareness, continuous and at all times, can dissolve the conditioning. This is true of boredom, hate, anger, or for that matter joy and all other pleasant but equally conditioned emotions that turn us into 'second hand' humans. "Suddenly I will discover that a transformation has taken place in myself." It is no longer envy. If we just observe envy in a dispassionate way, with a receptive mind, without judgement, we'll find there is no conflict and envy is apprehended from an entirely new angle. This behaviour creates a conflict between what we are and what we want to be. I must not submit to my weakness but I should not indulge in the opposite of my weakness either, as a way of getting rid of it…"Īre you bored or envious? We act to avoid such emotions. I am not advocating self-indulgence, that a thief remains a thief. Now I must see myself as I am and make no effort to be anything else. "We must accept change in others and be willing to change ourselves." We must feel this change continually.
We must not regard any of our relationships from a fixed standpoint, he argued. Krishnamurti's overriding concern thereafter was freedom from conditioning occasioned by thought generating inappropriately rigid beliefs and emotions. In 1929, at a meeting of the Order of The Star of the East set up to herald the coming of the World Teacher, Krishnamurti dissolved the Order, severing his links with the Theosophical Society, proclaiming: "Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect…" Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986) was chosen as a child by the Theosophical Society to be groomed as the World Teacher, 'destined' to guide humankind.
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