Everyone clings to the fantasy that they are an individual that is conscious and separate from life.
I say you are the universe itself.
When we really look at life, the growing tree, the flying bird, the flowing river, the movement of the clouds, of lightning, of machines, the action of waves, then we see that life is action, endless action, that has no beginning and no end. It is formless movement; it is the universe, God, bliss, reality. But we think this action is our doing and ask what we should do about it.
Everything is simply one movement. What we think of as outside of us and inside of us is one movement [one happening].
One may perhaps accept this as a concept, but when one focuses on concepts, one never learns.
To feel this movement [this happening] is to learn. You begin quietly and gently to feel a movement that has no beginning and no ending.
There is nothing apart from this movement.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
The knower, the knowing, and everything known – these do not exist.
You are the reality in which they appear to exist.
There is no cure for this false appearance other than seeing it is unreal.
Objects, being insubstantial, do not exist.
I am like the ocean and objects are like waves.
In the formless ocean, the world appears to drift here and there.
Whether things of the world appear to rise and fade a way is not
important.
My true nature is not contained in objects, nor does any object exist in
it, for it is infinite [formless movement].
Recognising that in reality no action [no movement] is ever committed,
I live with whatever “doing” is presenting itself.
Even in seeing this, it is not someone seeing.
How could it possibly be described?
Ashtavakra
Can this moment be captured, contained and expressed through words? It cannot.
What is happening here is only the expression of a state where you do not know what is happening. This living state is functioning in its own way, in its natural way. Truth is movement. Reality is movement.
Here there is a table. I don’t [really] know what it is. At the same time, if you ask me, “What’s that over there?” I would immediately say, “It’s a chair.” It comes automatically.
It’s just words. Someone told you that this is a table. You don’t know, apart from what you’ve been told.
Every time you look at this, you repeat to yourself that it’s a table. What are you doing that for?
This is a state where there is no asleep, awake, or dreaming …. no alive or dead. I have no way of knowing anything.
I have to use words, but they don’t mean anything to me.
You are talking of a ‘you’ after death. Where is it now?
Everything that’s happening is movement. It’s expressing itself as action, in its own way.
As long as the focus is on thought, it is not possible for you to understand what I’m talking about.
U.G. Krishnamurti
Through concepts you want to understand existence and that is why you are not able to understand. Nothing in the conceptual world is true.
Give up concepts and inquire into your beingness. It has no form.
What is has no form. Which form has any permanency?
As spiritual knowledge grows, identification with a body and mind diminishes. Thoughts and actions are no longer limited to an individual. They are like the blowing of the wind.
All that is going on is a dynamic playfulness, a process of functioning.
This dynamic is always in a fluid state. It is just happening. No one is doing it.
There is no individual. There is only total functioning.
It has no name, but you give many names to it.
You evaluate the world as name and form, but when name and form
are dissolved … it is just a [mysterious] functioning.
Nisargadatta Maharaj (from Consciousness and the Absolute)
Your breathing is happening. Your thinking is happening.
Your feeling is happening. Your hearing, your seeing, the clouds
are happening across the sky. The sky is happening blue, the sun is
happening shining. You are a function of this total galaxy, bounded
by the Milky Way, and this galaxy is a function of all other galaxies.
You are something the whole universe is doing in the same way
that a wave is something the whole ocean is doing.
When you understand that, you are liberated.
Here we come to the real problem, because we are always
telling each other that we should be different.
We are just like the clouds, rocks, and stars. Look at the way
the stars are arranged? Do you criticize the way the stars are
arranged?
Things just do what they do. The flower goes puff, and people
go this way and that, and so on, and that is what is happening.
Alan Watts