U.G. Krishnamurti: Mind is a Myth

Cover: 9788027386260 | Mind is a Myth | U.G. Krishnamurti | Taschenbuch | Englisch | e-artnow

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Beschreibung

Mind is a Myth is a bracing work of philosophical negation, composed largely from conversations in which U.G. Krishnamurti dismantles the assumed authority of thought, memory, selfhood, and spiritual aspiration. Its style is unsparing, aphoristic, and anti-systematic: not a doctrine to be mastered but a sustained assault on the reader's hunger for consolation. In the broader context of modern Indian and transnational spiritual literature, it stands as a deliberately disruptive counter-text to mysticism, psychology, and enlightenment discourse. U.G. Krishnamurti, often called an "anti-guru," spent much of his life rejecting precisely the roles others tried to assign him. Though associated by name and milieu with J. Krishnamurti, he forged a far more abrasive path, shaped by disillusionment with religious institutions, philosophical seeking, and his own controversial account of a bodily "calamity." These experiences inform the book's refusal of metaphysical promises and therapeutic optimism. This book is recommended for readers willing to be unsettled rather than instructed. Philosophers, spiritual seekers, skeptics, and students of modern religious thought will find in it a rare, uncompromising challenge to the very machinery of meaning-making.

Zusammenfassung

Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti (1918-2007), better known as U.G., was an Indian speaker who questioned the state of enlightenment as a real thing. Instead of using the word "enlightenment", he used "calamity" and "natural state" to describe an event in his life. He claimed that the return to the natural state is a rare, a causal, biological occurrence, an event which he referred to in his own life as "the calamity". Because of this, he discouraged people from pursuing the "natural state" as a spiritual goal. He rejected the very basis of thought and in doing so negated all systems of thought and knowledge. Hence he explained his assertions were experiential and not speculative - "Tell them that there is nothing to understand."

Details

Rubrik:	Ratgeber
Thema:	Lebensführung allgemein
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9788027386260
ISBN-10:	8027386268
Sprache:	Englisch
Autor:	Krishnamurti, U.G.
Hersteller:	e-artnow
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	e-artnow s.r.o., Za Sidlistem 22, ?-143 00 Prague, kristoferpaetau@gmail.com
Maße:	229 x 152 x 4 mm
Von/Mit:	U.G. Krishnamurti
Erscheinungsdatum:	23.05.2023
Gewicht:	0,125 kg