U.G. Krishnamurti
God or enlightenment is the ultimate pleasure, uninterrupted happiness. No such thing exists. Your wanting something that does not exist is the root of your problems. Transformation, moksha, liberation, and all that stuff, are just variations of the same theme: permanent happiness. The body can’t take uninterrupted pleasure for long; it would be destroyed. Wanting to impose a fictitious permanent state of happiness on the body is a serious neurological problem. –U.G.
I have never come across anyone quite like U.G. Krishnamurti. His words are not for everyone, and at times had caused me to be depressed because life felt meaningless. After I purged myself of all my major cultural programming I began to just be myself.
To be an individual and to be yourself you do not have to do a thing. Culture demands that you should be something other than what you are. What a tremendous amount of energy we waste trying to become that! But if that energy is released, living becomes very simple. Then what is it that you cannot do? –U.G.
The following link is a website to many of his words which his friends wrote down. I advise caution to those readers who find safety in dogma, faith and belief.
I put this post in the Gurus category, but U.G. is more like an anti-Guru.
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“After I purged myself of all my major cultural programming I began to just be myself.”
If that were true, Allen, you wouldn’t have posted this entry…or any other entry, for that matter. Your texts are full of not only major and minor cultural programming but of major and minor identity-reinforcement, as well. Which is the only purpose of publishing a blog, is it not?
As it happens, the only covert hypnosis, persuasion, seduction, etc., that can possibly occur is that which you induce in yourself, e.g., when you assure yourself that you’re now the new, improved, awakened Allen!
Be well.
Hi Don,
No argument there.
I have stated several times since I started this blog that is exactly what I’m doing. Of course if I was completely free of programming I wouldn’t be writing any of this. It is basically a regurgitation of others’ ideas and my own experience.
That statement you quoted, which I wrote, contradicts anything that U.G. Krishnamurti has said. That is the reason I wrote it.
But by writing that comment you are stuck in the same trap, are you not?
“when you assure yourself that you’re now the new, improved, awakened Allen!”
I have written about this as well. It’s all self-induced. That’s what makes it so fun. I quit any quest for self-realization a long time ago.
I appreciate your comment. It is extremely multi-layered; at least from my point of view.
Don Pardo sounds like he wouldn’t be in the next round of drinks that I’m buying.
A perfect pitch of “intro” on that “fire” called “ug”!