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Discourse 8
Aha!
Aha!
25 December 1987 am in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium
Question 1
BELOVED MASTER,
A FEW WEEKS AGO, I WAS AWAKE, AND SUDDENLY THERE
WAS ONLY TALKING. THERE WAS NO TALKER.
FOR YEARS I HAD LISTENED TO THE STATEMENT THAT THE
OBSERVER AND THE OBSERVED WERE ONE. I SAW THERE WAS
NO ROOM, NO NECESSITY FOR A THINKER; ONLY
CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE ARISING OF PHENOMENA. INSTEAD
OF JUMPING OUT OF BED, I TURNED AROUND AND SLEPT.
INSIGHT SEEMS TO BE LIKE A GENTLE BREEZE, A WHISPER.
WILL YOU SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THE NON-DRAMATIC
QUALITY OF REAL INSIGHT?
Deva Amrito, J. Krishnamurti has made it known worldwide that ”the
observer is the observed.” I want to refute him completely. The
moment there is no observer, there is nothing to be observed.
The observer and the observed disappear simultaneously – and
there is only silence; neither the
knower nor the known.
This is something very complex to understand, because the mind
always wants duality. With the two the mind is absolutely at ease.
The knower and the known... and the two always create the third,
the knowledge. The observer and the observed are bound to create
the third, the observation. And then there is no end to this infinite
regress.
My own silence is, that there is no observer and there is no
observed. Hence nothing can be said about it. The moment you say
it, you lie....
Question 1
BELOVED MASTER,
A FEW WEEKS AGO, I WAS AWAKE, AND SUDDENLY THERE
WAS ONLY TALKING. THERE WAS NO TALKER.
FOR YEARS I HAD LISTENED TO THE STATEMENT THAT THE
OBSERVER AND THE OBSERVED WERE ONE. I SAW THERE WAS
NO ROOM, NO NECESSITY FOR A THINKER; ONLY
CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE ARISING OF PHENOMENA. INSTEAD
OF JUMPING OUT OF BED, I TURNED AROUND AND SLEPT.
INSIGHT SEEMS TO BE LIKE A GENTLE BREEZE, A WHISPER.
WILL YOU SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THE NON-DRAMATIC
QUALITY OF REAL INSIGHT?
Deva Amrito, J. Krishnamurti has made it known worldwide that ”the
observer is the observed.” I want to refute him completely. The
moment there is no observer, there is nothing to be observed.
The observer and the observed disappear simultaneously – and
there is only silence; neither the
knower nor the known.
This is something very complex to understand, because the mind
always wants duality. With the two the mind is absolutely at ease.
The knower and the known... and the two always create the third,
the knowledge. The observer and the observed are bound to create
the third, the observation. And then there is no end to this infinite
regress.
My own silence is, that there is no observer and there is no
observed. Hence nothing can be said about it. The moment you say
it, you lie....
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