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be deceived by dreams in the night, then what is the guarantee that when I open my eyes I am not still seeing a dream? Who can make that guarantee? -- that I am not just thinking that you are here. How can I trust that, really, you are here?
So Descartes says that it is impossible to believe in anyone else. It may be just a dream, just a thought creation. In that way, he goes on doubting everything Until everything is destroyed. What remains in the end is only the doubter. That be cannot doubt. He ends up in the same situation as Mulla Nasrudin. In the end he can only say 'I am.' But this much cannot be doubted, because even to doubt it he will have to be. To doubt whether I am or not, I have to be. The doubter cannot be doubted. So Descartes said, "This is the only fundamental truth. I can trust that I am."
But to go through so much doubt is very arduous. In the end you come to a point where doubt is impossible. Then, you trust.
So the technique if you doubt will be different from the technique if you trust. Krishnamurti's technique (or Buddhist techniques) is to begin with doubt. Don't believe in anything. Go on doubting. If you can take this to the end, finally only you are left.
But even to follow this technique, you have to begin by believing in Krishnamurti. Then right away you have lost the track. It makes no sense. If, even for a single moment, you say, "of course, yes, Krishnamurti is right," you have lost the track; the method is not being followed. You must take it to the very extreme. Not only other gurus have to be thrown, but Krishnamurti also; not only scriptures have to be thrown, but Krishnamurti's writings also. Everything should be destroyed. Then, in the end, there will be only you.
Not a single fragment of reality must be accepted. No God, no guru, no scripture, no world, no stars, no sun -- nobody else, only you. If doubt can be brought to this extreme, then it becomes a spiritual method. Through doubt, you will achieve.
The problem is that scarcely one person in a million can bring doubt to such an extreme. To doubt absolutely is to create absolute trouble. You will go insane, you will have no foothold
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