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Mind is a Myth
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. The Certainty That Blasts Everything
Chapter 2. Hope Is For Tomorrow, Not Today
Chapter 3. Not Knowing Is Your Natural State
Chapter 4. There Is Nothing To Understand
Chapter 5. We Have Created This Jungle Society
Chapter 6. The Body As A Crucible
Glossary
U. G. Krishnamurti
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For the first time, a man has broken away from the religious background (referring to Jiddu Krishnamurti—ed.), and already his teachings are outmoded, outdated, and misleading. J.K. has chosen the psychological form of explanation, which is already passé. You cannot destroy J.K., but the framework o thought he has created is already outdated and useless. The problem is not psychological, but physiological. This body has not fundamentally changed for hundreds of thousands of years. Its propensity to follow leaders, to avoid solitude, to wage war, to join groups—all such traits are in the genetic make-up of mankind, part of his biological inheritance.
Q: Leaving aside the question of whether evil or good is possible for an organism that is already genetically programmed to be brutal and warlike, do not the religious practices—meditation, yoga, humility, etc.—attempt to help man go beyond these biological limitations?
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