The Zen N! #57 - Are You The Omnidirectional Knower? Part I
On Jiddu Krishnamurti.
Last night, a teacher said a few words that fused and crystalized the gaps in my understanding.
I am the omnidirectional Knower.
Jiddu Krishnamurti had said,
"So consciousness, which includes both the conscious and the unconscious, is like a vortex which you are observing, but not as something apart from yourself.
You are that vortex. You are the thinker and the thought, the observer and the observed; there are not two different states." - Selection of Public Talk 5 Saanen, Switzerland - 16 July 1963
Jiddu says, 'you are the vortex.'
I can conceive of this, after all, in between of all of the people I have been in my life, I am.
You are.
Jiddu here is talking about high-level teaching, so it's no surprise that it sounds confusing. The concept is difficult to speak of, but it is easy to represent in a picture.
The knower and the known enter into the scene at the same time, and depart the scene at the same time.
The thinker and the thought arise together, and fall away together.
Jiddu is saying, you are simultaneously the Knower and the Known.
Yes, it does go deeper than that.
END OF PART 1
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