Swanwick Star Issue No. 12 (2019)
My Study Retreat
I loved staying at KECC, watching lots of videos, reading and taking long walks. The immensity of the sea and the soaring mountains naturally create space in the mind, silencing the chatter and leading to quiet contemplation and enquiry into the nature of human brain/human life and its function, role in the immensity of the universal or cosmic order. Clearly, the conditioned brain, to borrow K.’s terminology or the words of the Buddha, who had also pointed towards the conditioned state of human existence, clearly this brain is incapable of grasping the immensity of another state of mind or consciousness.
Both, the Buddha and Krishnamurti have unequivocally stated that there is another dimension or a state of being, or whatever words one may use, however, unfortunately, it is not in our limited, time-bound, narrow, self-centered consciousness. We don’t know what it is. And our brains, as they are now, can never grasp it unless the physical structure of the brain itself changes. Which means total insight. I don’t think that one can have partial insights into the matters of existence. One can have more clarity and rationality, but partial insights here and there into the matters of life and death, love, truth and beauty, comic order and supreme intelligence, are not possible, as far as I can see. Or they are not possible as long as time/thought, which is the make-up of the ego, are operating.
Here is a radiant statement Krishnamurti made when talking to KFI people in India:
“You always want me to come into your world and discuss your problems. But I have been saying all along to come into my world, where there are no problems. But you won’t do that.”
I wonder why we don’t do that? Are we so heavily conditioned? After all, the world is in such a crisis: a crisis beyond all crises! The Earth may be uninhabitable in twenty, fifty years. So the only thing to do is to actually change the structure of the brain and bring about a cosmic shift or go on …!
ER (Fall 2019)
