‘SEEK AND YOU WILL FIND’---RUBBISH!
Sunday, September 28, 2014 6:16
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‘Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you’ (Mt 7:7).
That’s what Jesus purportedly said. With the utmost respect—a horribly cringing expression, that—I beg to differ, Jesus. What a heretic I am! You know, I love that word ‘heresy.’ The word comes from a Greek word meaning ‘one who chooses,’ that is, chooses to be different or think differently. Well, that’s me.
Readers of my blog will know by now that I have found much wisdom in the writings and speeches of the Indian spiritual philosopher J. Krishnamurti [pictured right]. Now, let’s get something straight right now. Krishnamurti is not my guru, for I have no gurus. And I don’t agree with everything the man said, but there’s much in his ideas with which I do agree, for those ideas have been authenticated in my own life.
In my large collection of Krishnamurti books and other writings there is a little book appropriately entitled The Little Book on Living, edited by R E Mark Lee. The book is a collection of aphorisms of Krishnamurti taken from various sources including material from an unpublished manuscript Thoughts on Living which was discovered after Krishnamurti’s death. The material from the latter was apparently penned by Krishnamurti in 1933-34. Here is some of what Krishnamurti wrote on the subject of ‘seeking’ or ‘searching’:
A mind that is full of light does not seek. It is only the dull, confused mind that is always seeking and hoping to find. What it finds is the result of its own confusion.
You will find out the true purpose of life if you do not deliberately set out to seek it.
Live and you shall know the living truth. Seek truth, and you shall know living death.
The search for truth is the very denial of truth.
Live passes you by if you search out experience, and it will also pass you by if you merely wait.
Shocking? Disturbing? I hope so.
It’s really quite simple why we should not ‘seek’ or ‘search’ for truth or so-called meaning in life. It has everything to do with what exactly is truth. Truth is reality. Truth is life. Truth is not something to be found. It is something of which we need to become more acutely aware. The whole idea of seeking, searching, and then supposedly finding truth is contrary to the very nature of truth, for if truth is omnipresent as moment-to-moment experience then we are always in direct and immediate contact with truth irrespective of whether or not we are mindfully aware of that truth.
Of course, one of the main reasons we are not mindfully aware of truth is we place barriers between ourselves and truth—barriers in the form of beliefs, ideas, opinions, views, philosophies, and prejudices of all kinds. However, once those barriers are removed, there is no separation—spatial, temporal, or geographical—between us and truth. That is why Krishnamurti said, ‘Truth is a pathless land.’ That is why the great American mythographer Joseph Campbell [pictured left] said, ‘The pathless way is the only way now before us.’
Pathlessland. Pathless way. That’s right. There is no way or path to truth. Truth just is. That much is axiomatic. If you are following some path or way truth will pass you by. Strong stuff? In a way … and I don’t mean that sort of ‘way.’
Years ago, when I was searching and seeking in all directions for supposed ‘answers’ to life—all to no avail, I’ll have you know—a cousin of mine said to me. ‘You’re still seeking, Jonesy.’ What he said really pissed me off no end—as well as to no end. Now, don’t get me wrong. It’s not that what he said was so horribly wrong, it’s just that I’ve found in life that the people most likely to say something like that have themselves little or no interest in spirituality, personal transformation, and the like. Besides, his comment was disparaging and patronizing. Enough said.
I am no longer seeking or searching. So, have I now found truth? No, at the risk of repeating myself (why do people always say that when they are just about to knowingly repeat themselves?), truth is notsomething to be found. Truth is something to be experienced now, from moment to moment, for truth is dynamic and not static.
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