U.G. : No hope

[Guest guest]

U.G. Krishnamurti:

 

" I am just pointing out that there are no solutions at all, only

problems. If others have said the same thing I am saying, why are

you asking questions and searching for solutions here? Forget about

the masses; I am talking about you. You are merely looking for new,

better methods. I am not going to help you. I am saying, " Don't

bother about solutions; try to find out what the problem is. " The

problem is the solution; solutions just don't solve your problem.

Why in the hell are you looking for another solution? Don't come to

me for solutions. That is all I am saying. You will make out of what

I am saying another solution, to be added to your list of solutions,

which are all useless when it comes to actually solving your

problems.

 

What I am saying is valid and true for me, that is all. If I suggest

anything, directly or indirectly, you will turn it into another

method or technique. I would be falsifying myself if I were to make

any such suggestion.

 

If anyone says there is a way out, he is not an honest fellow. He is

doing it for his own self-aggrandizement, you may be sure. He simply

wants to market a product and hopes to convince you that it is

superior to other products on the market. If another man comes along

and says that there is no way out, you make of that another method.

It is all a fruitless attempt to overtake your own shadow. And yet

you can't remain where you are. That is the problem.

 

From all this you inevitably draw the conclusion that the situation

is hopeless. In reality you are creating that hopelessness because

you don't really want to be free from fear, envy, jealousy, and

selfishness. That is why you feel your situation to be hopeless. The

only hope lies in selfishness, greed, and anger, not in its

fictitious opposite, i.e., the practice of selflessness, generosity,

and kindness. The problem, say selfishness, is only strengthened by

the cultivation of its fictitious opposite, the so-called

selflessness.

 

Sitting here discussing these things is meaningless, useless. That

is why I am always saying to my listeners, " Get lost, please! " What

you want you can get elsewhere, but not here. Go to the temple, do

puja, repeat mantras, put on ashes. Eventually some joker comes

along and says, " Give me a week's wages and I will give you a better

mantra to repeat. " Then another fellow comes along and tells you not

to do any of that, that it is useless, and that what he is saying is

much more revolutionary. He prescribes " choiceless awareness, " takes

your money and builds schools, organizations, and tantric centers. "