... are you then an atheist?

 

Questioner: Have you no faith whatever in the power of Divinity that shapes the destiny of man? If not, are you then an atheist?

Krishnamurti: The belief that there is a Divinity that can shape man is one of the hindrances of man; but when I say that, it does not mean that I am an atheist. I think the people who say they believe in God are atheists, not only those who do not believe in God, because both are slaves to a belief.

You cannot believe in God; you have to believe in God only when there is no understanding, and you cannot have understanding by searching for it. Rather, when your mind is really free from all values, which have become the very center of ego-consciousness, then there is God. We have an idea that some miracle will change us; we think that some divine or external influence will bring about changes in ourselves and in the world. We have lived in that hope for centuries, and that is what is the matter with the world - complete chaos, irresponsibility in action, because we think someone else is going to do everything for us. To discard this false idea does not mean that we must turn to its opposite. When we free the mind from opposites, when we see the falseness of the belief that someone else is looking after us, then a new intelligence is awakened in us.

 

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Athugasemdir

[doctore (IP-tala skráð) 13.5.2011 kl. 13:32]

Trúarbrögð eru heilaþvottur, pólitík fyrir fávita og glæpahyski. Glópabull fyrir fólk sem getur ekki sætt sig við að deyja... en deyr samt

[OM , 13.5.2011 kl. 16:33]

"Religion as organized belief and dogma is not religion at all. Religion is something entirely different from the mere acceptance of belief or the practice of a ritual. Religion, surely, is the process of freeing the mind from envy, from greed, from ambition, so that the self-centered activity of the 'I' no longer exists ..."

Krishnamurti

Krishnamurti var heldur ekki mjög hrifinn af trúarbrögðum en auðvitað er munur á trú og trúarbrögðum.

[OM , 13.5.2011 kl. 16:39]

Þetta finnst mér líka ansi gott hjá K.: "I think the people who say they believe in God are atheists, not only those who do not believe in God, because both are slaves to a belief."

Oft eru það þeir sem segjast vera trúleysingjar sem ganga mun harðar fram í að sannfæra aðra um sína skoðun en þeir sem eru trúaðir og fyrir vikið verða þeir ekki mjög sannfærandi frekar en þröngsýnir öfgatrúarmenn.