Experience of nonduality
Excerpt taken from J Krishnamurti: A Biography by Pupul Jayakar
Krishnamurti had an extraordinary experience of non-duality which he wrote to Mrs Besant:
On the first day while I was in that state and more conscious of the things around me, I had the first most extraordinary experience. There was a man mending the road; that man was myself; the pickaxe he held was myself; the very stone which he was breaking up was a part of me; the tender blade of grass was my very being, and the tree beside the man was myself. I also could feel and think like the roadmender amd Icould feel. The birds, the dust, and the very noise were a part of me. Just then there was a car passing by at some distance; I was the driver, the engine, and the tyres; as the car went further away from me, I was going away from myself. I was in everything, or rather everything was in me, inanimate and animate, the mountain, the worm and all breathing things. All day long I remained in this happy condition.
Biography of Krishnamurti
Resources, Web links related to Krishnamurti
Teachings of Krishnamurti
- On The Core of his Teachings
- At the Feet of the Master (Written by the young Krishnamurti)
- On Awareness
- Watching the Mind
- On Desire
- On Effort
- On Nonduality
- On Revolt
- On Fear
- Self-centred activity
- Self knowledge
- The thinker and the thought
- What is the self?
- Contradiction
- Watching the Mind
- Conditioning
- The Process of Hate
Krishnamurti Dialogues
Dialogue with Bohm: Why has man given supreme importance to thought?
Dialogue with Bohm: Death has very little meaning
Q&A with Krishnamurti
Why am I never satisfied with anything?
Can the crude mind become sensitive?
What is self-knowledge? The traditional approach to self-knowledge is the knowledge of Atman as distinct from the ego. Is that what you mean by self-knowledge?
If you want to live peacefully within yourself, and yet you feel that as part of the society you are responsible for what if going on in the world today, how can you live peacefully or with any degree of happiness, knowing the heartrending things that are happening?