The Mystique of Enlightenment: Enriched edition. Challenging Traditional Notions: A Radical Perspective on Enlightenment and Existence

by U.G. Krishnamurti

It seems to have happened to some people during the course of history. Each one has given expression to that uniqueness in his own way, and that depends upon his background. It is an expression of that background.

Questioning my actions before and after is over for me. The moral question—"I should have acted this way; I should not have acted that way. I should not have said this"—none of that is there for me. I have no regrets, no apologies; whatever I am doing is automatic. In a given situation I am not capable of acting in any other way.

Nevertheless 'acausal?'

Reaction is thinking about it: 'Right,' 'Wrong.' 'Good,' 'Evil'. Response is just looking without the intervention of thought. Response is physical; reaction is mental. You are all the time reacting; you are not physically responding to the things out there.

You think that there is something more interesting than what you are doing. If that is knocked off, what you are doing becomes very, very interesting.

You will never know the truth, because it's a movement. It's a movement! You cannot capture it, you cannot contain it, you cannot express it. It's not a logically ascertained premise that we are interested in. So, it has to be your discovery.