Author: dominique

When the school teacher asked me in front of the class what profession I wanted to pursue, the inner child in me replied: “I don’t want to become anything in this corrupt world.” Later on, when forced into mandatory disciplinary commando camp for military training, the commander thrusts a rifle in my hands, and shouted at me to shoot the target: “Kill the filthy Kraut.” In revolt to these angry words, I threw my rifle on the ground and spent a week in a dark cell for “disobedience to the homeland.”

When the individual is more evolved, duality and separation trigger the need for peace and harmony. Pleasures, passions and the ambitions of the ego now feel vain, superficial and bring frustration and suffering. The individual feels an emptiness which pushes him or her towards a disidentification and detachment from all things. Eventually, this outer detachment leads to a detachment from oneself.

Krishnamurti, in a discussion with physicist David Bohm, confided that it was not he who meditated, but the universe itself within him. He then spoke of the idea that the universe itself was in meditation! “Learning” would then be the ability to allow the universe to penetrate into our consciousness, so that it directly reveals the truths that are impenetrable to thought. …