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as if it is none of your business to interfere.
And don't have any opinion. Simply see the fact without any opinion. If you can drop all opinion and simply see what is passing, you will be surprised, because without opinion, nothing passes by. The traffic simply disappears into the blue. Once your opinionated mind is not there -- no judgements, no appreciation, no condemnation, no evaluation -- then you are simply seeing... just an on-looker, a pure clarity, a pure vision. Then suddenly the traffic stops. Everything disappears into the abyss; there is nothing to watch.
And when this happens -- that there is nothing to watch -- another revolution happens: there is no watcher either. Because when the procession of thoughts is no more there, then how can the witness exist? The witness can only exist with the witnessed.
That's why Krishnamurti goes on saying that the observer is the observed. When the observer disappears, the observed also disappears. So first the traffic disappears and then suddenly you look within -- the witness is not there; neither the object nor the subject. This is what Buddha calls samadhi -- nobody, nothingness -- the great nothing. This is what is his nirvana -- just pure innocence, with no centre, with no boundary... with no definition, no description .
Continue your witnessing.
[Visitor: May I ask.... You said I would need sannyas in the future.]
You will need it.
[Visitor: So you think sannyas or a guru is necessary?]
Almost always. There are only very rare exceptions -- but they can be counted out. Otherwise it is almost always necessary -- and for you absolutely necessary, because a person who does not need a guru never goes to a guru. And a person who does not need a guru never asks anybody whether a guru is needed or not.
You are not that type of person -- you have already come. So witness it and when the desire arises, just tell me. If I am willing at that time, we will see, mm ? (a chuckle) Good !
The Great Nothing
Chapter #6
Chapter title: None
24 September 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7609245
ShortTitle: GREATN06
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