Show me how to dissolve the ‘I’ | J. Krishnamurti

Published 2015-09-27
Subtitles available in: CHINESE, DUTCH, ENGLISH, PORTUGUESE, JAPANESE

Ojai 1981 - Question #4 from Question & Answer Meeting #3

'Show me how to dissolve the ‘I’, the ‘me’. Without that, everything else is futile.'

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All Comments (21)
  • 1. There is either self or love. 2. Self is isolation. 3. Love can't be cultivated. 4. Love shall dissolve self. 5. Be aware of tricks of thought. 6. Let love be in your inner being all the time. 7. Perhaps being sensitive to each and every thing in other shall bring connectedness and 'me' shall vanish! 8. Be love. 9. Complete negation is a positive action. 10. Just see the action of 'me' ! Just see!
  • @craig6753
    The ego or ‘self’ wanting to dissolve itself IS the issue here, because it can’t. The dog chases its tail, fire can’t burn itself (as Watts said), and so on. I have a peer who spent a decade in a monastery, meditating 10-18 hrs per day, 7 days a week for the entire 10 years. One day he was sitting down to meditate and he had the sudden realization ‘there is no ‘you!’. It just came over him out of nowhere. He went and told the Maharishi, who looked at him and said ‘you’re done.’ But he didn’t want my friend telling anyone. My friend told me ‘enlightenment is the sudden, permanent, and complete dissolution of the ‘I’ thought, and it certainly can’t be attained by effort.’ (For the reasons mentioned above). He said it just happens to some people…..Thought just stopped completely. He met a handful of enlightened people in his life, and one of them (an old Burmese monk) told him true enlightenment is just a ‘happy accident.’ He said meditation might make you ‘happy accident prone’, but otherwise it couldn’t be achieved by effort. The only thing to really understand is, as Watts liked to say, ‘Tatvamasi’ (that art thou), or ‘you’re it.’ You are already God, and so is absolutely everything in the universe. The more you seek it, the more you’ll miss it, because it’s you, and what’s right in front of you, in the eternal present moment. 😊
  • @pasttimer27
    I noticed that there are some here who say that he has not answered the question. But after watching the video, I say he has answered it most beautifully. One needs to understand, that some answers cannot be spoonfed to you. Even if that were possible, you still may lack the understanding. Book reading and casual listening just wont cut it. In the spiritual journey, you are more or less alone. You have to make the effort to experience what you have read and heard from others for yourself. Only then will you bloom in your understanding.
  • @anthonysalole
    'Love' IS, the 'self' is NOT. When the self dissolves Love remains, when the self appears Love dissolves.
  • Those of you looking for an easy way, or to be told what to do, should just resume zombiehood.
  • @mansoor2536
    His teaching was way ahead of time we shall know the extraordinary impact it will bring about on human consciousness in the coming decades and centuries
  • @ss19041
    This speech changed my life. I know from the bottom of my heart that this was the best speech that was ever given by a human being ever. When there is no sense of isolation, then the other, perhaps is, And then the self is not. When that is, then the other is not. Love is a sacred word, it is the only thing that can dissipate all the barriers, walls that we have built around us throughout time.
  • @AndreasDelleske
    My only wish would have been to hug him, carefully and respectfully. So brave and such an open heart. Now I have watery eyes.
  • This is essential for the one who takes seriously Krishnamurti teachings. If one has really realice the depth of the fact that the observer is nothing more than that which he observes, you can "hold" the self in your hand. Its nature became so clear. Then death of the selfs starts, or the dissolve of the self, with all its images, fears, ansieties, and surely confusion and misery. Its not easy what follows; to renounce to everything that thought has put together, but cames as absolutly necesary and full of dignity, and probably pain but reliefe as well. Actual freedom and liberation starts. The more effort and energy you have had put on building a certain image (as physical aspect, a certain status economic, social, spiritual, knwolodge - expertise, education, or whatever) makes the liberation a bit harder and with more suffering, but there is not turning back on that one. As you actually realize than the whole misery and confusion of ones life cames to an end, step by step. Havent found much about the "process of dissolution" of the self by krishnamurti, but you dont needed actually. Its a process full of beauty, solitude and implies confronting with ones world, cause there are demands and pressure of the context (people that deppends on you, economic, etc), which cames as kind of difficult. All this makes me realize how hard it must been for Krishnamurti to face all this, such an incredible responsability, with people going in their own egoistic way following idiotic and trivial, insignificant things. It actually made me cry deeply. Truth is actually something dangerous, there is no turning back when you realice in the deep levels all of this. But we can reach this state of emptiness, without understanding what is eternal. So, at some point, humanity will reach this point, and a new society might came to be. Theres only the need that a few go all the way so human counciesness can fundamentally change. I hope there are other that had taken Krishnamurti this seriously, cause the "process" is full of beauty, dignity and extraordinary necesary cause we must see that we are entirely responsable of all the violence in the world. An enormus violence.
  • @XTriPLe
    This man caused a radical change in my life . I was sadly surprised when I heard his stomach growling in hunger. Thanks for everybody working in this channel❤
  • @fosil21
    nailed it... J.K. is sewing the meaning like a bird is making its nest. We are so lucky to be able to watch all these videos. THANK YOU.
  • @gwiltl
    Whether intentional or not, he showed them how to dissolve it from 0:50 to 1:19
  • Beautiful beyond words. I'll have to watch this again and again and again to learn 🙏💖