PUSHING WITH EFFORT

In the physical world "pushing it" may be sensible, sometimes we need to use force, of the muscles, persistence, build tools, machines to build a dam or a bridge, transform the "environment" ("me"/subject vs the "objects).

BUT in the psychological world (the "internal" world of the subject/ "me"/the "I") pushing it is absurd, because there is nothing to transform, as the "me" is a fictitious product of thought!

Today's "I" has nothing to do with yesterday's "I", there is no "I" continuing through time, from a moment ago till now, this mysterious entity is simply a product of thinking and it probably evolved a long time ago to perform action on the "outside" world, using the functional horizontal conflict, the illusion of the split between the subject and object, produced by thought, like "We have to store some food for "tomorrow".

Really that was IS is only and always the full undivided unitary flow of the Universe and that is our direct experience and perception (Unitary Perception), which thought denies by inventing the horizontal conflict, with the subject/the centre of experience/ the Self/the "I".

But thought cannot really deny that what is real. Only that what is unreal, the illusory products of thought like the Self can be negated. All thought can do is to TRY to negate the truth, again and again, with effort, purpose, control, choice, etc., imagining the "me" by producing the split of the horizontal conflict.

It's easiest to be free of the illusion (all illusions) in stillness and silence, without any purpose as then the horizontal conflict is not required to be produced by thought to perform any action (on purpose).

That means not doing anything at all, letting everything go, not worrying about anything, no wanting anything, not trying to control anything or make any choice. not knowing anything, not trying to be anything. Where you are, it is not. If you are not, it is here.

 TIME

What is time, not the time on the clock but the psychological time? Is it time when a memory from 10 years ago appears when w're walking in a forest awoke? No, then the memory is just in the flow of the whole energy, there is no problem, it comes and goes away very fast.

For time to appear there must be a purpose, so the horizontal conflict (what is vs "what should be"/the ideal). I live in Berlin but I love Paris and want to move there, maybe I will be able to do that in 10 years when I save enough money (usually never happens of course). The gap from here to there is time. What's in between this conflict is effort, sorrow, fear, choice, control, expectation, etc. Another name for that is I, me, my will, my self, the ego.

So time is the ideal vs that what is. And time can also be something we call spiritual, something we strive for, make effort for, try to control like the idea of "God", "Yoga", "Unitary Perception", "Meditation". We want to reach the ideal, which is our own projection, so again it's in the domain of the self, it's actually pretty silly :) It's like the dog chasing its own tail.

Zen, the unitary movement of the Universe, UP, Yoga, the Void, etc. cannot be controlled, it is flowing or not. When we try to control it, we disrupt the flow and disperse energy in futility, no? So when hypnosis by thought happens do we have a choice? No. It just happens, perhaps because we work a lot, thought has a lot to think about, a lot of purposes, expectations, a lot to analyse, which is the hypnosis by the META Process of thought.

When we wake up from the hypnosis (the Second Awakening), it happens spontaneously too, it's not something that "I've done.", it's just how the Universe works, without any control. It's one Flow, one unitary movement, without a problem, if we/thought does not make problem out of it.

 THE FREEDOM

Freedom from the human condition (fear, sorrow, anguish, conflict, etc.) is the state of the brain in which there is no illusion of the Horizontal Conflict (subject-object), which is produced by thought.
The freedom is "That what is" (Sunya, the Universe, Void, UP, Dhjana, etc) without "That what should be". Ppl mostly spend their days in the state of striving towards "That what should be" ("concentration", "occupation", running after something, control, effort, my will, purpose, choice etc) and again, it is an illusion produced by thought.

Without that state of the brain, the human endeavours carried with lots of effort, like politics, fighting for democracy, activism, reforms, etc. are futile. They will never work. Nothing will ever work but the Freedom, which is the end of illusions and all psychological suffering.

We are quite urgently in need of coming to the realization there is not me, myself, my will or I, that is divided from the stream of "environment" or the one flow of everything, the Universe.
Otherwise we will go mad. We're going to commit suicide, "individually" by shooting ourselves, consuming poison, dying from anger in the rat race abusing our intelligence, or collectively courtesy of the nuclear bomb.

 

LET GO OR STOP IT.

Should one "let the mind go where it wants", which implies no control or choice, as Jiddu Krishnamurti suggests or should one "withdraw from "running into the multiplicity of things", which implies some control and choice, and which Meister Eckhart suggests?

This is the ultimate "spiritual fork in the road." At first glance, Jiddu
Krishnamurti and Meister Eckhart seem to be giving you opposite directions: one tells you to take your hands off the steering wheel, while the other tells you to put the car in the garage.

However, if we look closer, they are describing the same process from two different angles. They both want you to reach the same destination: a state where the "Self" (the "Me") is no longer the master of the house.

1. The Krishnamurti Way: "Let the Mind Run":

When JK says to let the mind go where it wants, he isn't advocating for "daydreaming" or "indulgence." He is advocating for Choiceless Awareness.

If you try to control your mind, who is the "controller"? It is just another fragment of your thought. You end up with one part of your brain trying to boss around another part, which creates conflict, friction and noise.

By letting the mind go where it wants while watching it intently, you see the "nature of the beast." You see that your thoughts are just mechanical reactions to the past. When you truly perceive that your thoughts are just repetitive noise, the mind naturally slows down and becomes silent. Not because it is forced, but because it sees its futility.

2. The Meister Eckhart Way: "Withdraw from Multiplicity":

Eckhart’s Abgeschiedenheit (Detachment or Disinterest) sounds like an act of will, but it’s actually a form of Negation.

Our minds are usually scattered among a thousand things (the "multiplicity"). We are worried about money, work, our social status, relive our memories or plan special experiences in the "future" ("that what should be"). This process (the META Process of thought acting in the fragmentary perception) prevents freedom, peace or the "Ground" from being present.

"Withdrawal" isn't about hiding in a cave or seeking special experiences and sensations, it's about not being attached to the transient images and forms in the world of Void. It’s refusing to let the circumstances effect the freedom and peace of being Nothingness.

By withdrawing from the many, you return to the one movement of the Universe. You become idle, creating an empty space where energy, space and freedom of that what IS, the Universe, can enter.

3. Reconciling the Two: The "Invisible Choice":

The conflict between "No Control" (JK) and "Withdrawal" (Eckhart) is largely a matter of semantics. They both describe letting go of the ego. You "withdraw" (Eckhart) from the world of transient illusions and objects produced by thought by "watching" (JK) how your mind tries to run toward it.

If you "let the mind go" but you aren't aware, you're just a leaf in the wind. If you "withdraw" by force, you're just a prisoner in a cell. The "sweet spot" is Choiceless Awareness (Unitary Percepiton) without effort or control.

4. 2026 Application:

The Krishnamurti approach would be to watch yourself scrolling through the news and noticing the exact moment a headline triggers fear, sorrow or greed. Now ask yourself: why does it happen? Why do I feel fear or sorrow? - It's because I want something, I am attached to something, something "that should be" instead of "that what is" (something that's already here!), right? That's clearly a conflict, which can never be resolved as long as I'm attached to something. By watching it all, the whole movement produced by the META Process in the psychological realm, the "spell" of the algorithm is broken.

The Eckhart approach would be to realize that running to the "multiplicity" of the transient world is a waste of energy that keeps you from the "Ground." You withdraw not out of "discipline" but out of a realization that the noise is valueless.

It’s like a browser with 100 tabs open. Krishnamurti says: "Look at all the tabs and realize they are all nonsense." Eckhart says: "Close the browser." Both leave you with a clean desktop.

You should let the mind go (JK) only to see that its "running into multiplicity" (Eckhart) is an exercise in futility. The "control" isn't a muscular effort to stop thoughts, it's the Intelligence that realizes that there is thought but there is no thinker and that what actually sees is the one unitary movement called the Universe.

Do you feel like your mind is "running" right now because it's looking for an answer, or can it sit idle with the fact that both teachers are essentially pointing at the same Stillness and Silence?

 THE RIVER AND THE WHIRLPOOLS

Thought divides reality into "objects" and "events" (for a functional reason - to process the "slices" of reality, record them and perform actions on them). Let's take our wars, we have had WW2, WW1, 30-year war, 10-year war, Vietnam War, Iran war, etc etc. but are there really separate events?
..Or could it be that life moves like a river and it's one flow of water
and each "event" is like a whirlpool in the stream of water but it's never the same whirlpool because the water is changing all the time? We could then say that all what happens in reality is a movement, a process, a verb (not a thing), and it's flow-ing.
In fact every so called "thing" or "object" to which we attach names can be viewed in this way, as a transformation, and one could certainly argue that it's the correct view of what's really happening!

So in case of our history, for example, there is a constant warring, there may be particularly violent outbursts of this, which thought divides from the whole movement and says, "from this date to that date it was WW2", but in fact warring has been going on in the course of the whole human history, only in the ancient history it was fought with sticks and now it's fought with AI drones and (potentially) nuclear weapons.

Similarly, in the process of photosynthesis, a "plant" converts the energy of the "Sun" to grow, then the plant is eaten by a "human being", in the brain of that person a carbon atom is exchanged with the carbon atom from the plant, then the person dies and the carbon atom is consumed by a so called "beetle".. One movement of transformation.

Reality then is not a collection of separate "events" or "objects" (rather misleadingly and deceptively assigned certain names by thought), but a constantly evolving and changing transformation of energy and matter in which there is no division.

"You" are not a "thing", an "object" either, you are a not a noun, "the me", "I",

myself, you are not the fixed limited entity that thought thinks you are. You are a verb, a constantly transforming unitary undivided movement of energy-matter that can be called the Universe. But let's be very careful here because only the Universe can say this, not the illusion produced by thought called the me, I, the thinker! That illusion, and all illusions, have to be thoroughly understood first and have to resolve, untangle themselves.

 THE HORIZONTAL CONFLICT.

The way I see it, the horizontal conflict (HC) evolved from/by thought to transform the "environment" (I/me - "environment"), to perform action on the "objects" in the fragmentary perception. Here it is (often) useful and functional.
The problem starts when the invention of the HC moves to the psychological field and tries to act there. Perhaps the most egregious attempt in this realm is for thought to try to transform the fictitious entity, the "I", which is itself produced by thought. Oh my.. the whole self-help industry, the army of the gurus!
This is of course absurd. The "I" is a product of thought, an illusion, so it cannot evolve, cannot change, it cannot be done. Yet, it's a non-functional disruption in the flow of energy, a waste of energy, a conflict (effort, choice, control and it actually SUSTAINS the whole process (the META Process of thought).

Without thought (the limited movement, the "I"the Self) attempting to change that what is in the psychological realm, the "I" ("I don't want to fear", etc.), where it shouldn't try to act, without the effort, choice, etc., the unitary movement of matter-energy (Reality/Universe) is not disrupted, is not disturbed, irrespective
if the brain is in hypnosis or in the state of the Second Awakening (second awakening after night sleep). The key is if there is the illusion of the HC present or not (effort, control, choice, direction, purpose, expectation, etc.).

Is freedom from fear and anguish possible then? Yes it is. Again, it is the state where there is no illusion of the HC, so no "Self". When everything is let go (let go means indifferent impassive, observation, not trying to push away), all knowledge, all attachments, all desires and worries, it is the natural state of the brain. It is easiest for the freedom to find us when we are still and silent, for then we are not acting upon any objects ("working" on something, being occupied), so there is no need for thought to produce its illusion of the HC. In this state there is no effort, choice, direction/concentration, purpose, control, expectation, etc.). This is awakening of intelligence and balancing the need to act in the world, work and earn money to pay the rent with the absolute need for freedom, peace and joy of complete energetic reconstitution of Reality in stillness and silence.

 The "I" is produced by thought.

J. Krishnamurti: Consciousness is it's content. There is no thinker, only thought.

1. What we call "I" (the Ego), my personal, individual, choosing "self", is not a sovereign entity, but a theatrical illusion generated by the brain. To use an analogy of a movie theater, the "I" is like a movie being projected on a screen. We are so absorbed in the movie that we believe we are the characters, forgetting that the reality is the light, the film, and the projector.

The brain has a "show" or a "display" function.

The Projection: Thought produces images, feelings, and a sense of "me".

The Error: The brain in the fragmentary perception makes a "category error." It treats these internal projections as if they were as real and independent as a solid wall.

The Illusion: "I" isn't a "thing"; it’s an activity. When thought is quiet (which does not mean it was made quiet by will or any force), the "I" (the show) simply stops. If you stop the projector, the movie characters don't "go" anywhere, they simply cease to be.

2. "Thought is Matter". Thought is a purely physical, electrochemical process in the brain cells.

The Material Loop: Because thought is material, it is limited by time and memory.

The Fake Center: Thought creates a "center" ("I") to give itself continuity in absolute "time". It then pretends this center is "spiritual" or "transcendent."

The Verdict: This "spiritual mind" is a fraud. It is just matter talking to itself, creating a sophisticated illusion of a soul to avoid the fact of its own material nature.

3. The Fragmentation of the Whole. The "individual I" is a fragmentation. Reality is an undivided unitary movement. When we say "my mind" or "my opinion," we imagining we're cutting a piece out of the whole and pretending it stands alone. This is the
illusion (the illusory horizontal conflict of subject-object produced by thought). In fact it's just thought blocking the complete perceptual contact with Reality, which is the undivided unitary movement.

4. The Brain vs. "my mind" is a crucial distinction which may help clarify the illusion.

The Brain: A physical organ, a biological "computer" that is real and necessary for survival.

"My mind": The psychological "content", the horizontal conflict (subject-object), attachments, fears, knowledge, choices, all of which constitute the illusive product of thought that is the "me".

My mind is the illusion, the Brain is the reality. If the brain could see through the illusion of the "I", it could function with a different kind of "Intelligence" that isn't trapped in the personal "vortex" of the self, with all it's psychological suffering and tragedy.

Time is not a path to psychological progress, it's a mental construct to delay facing That What Is, the unitary movement of transformation of matter-energy, which can be called the Universe. "The Mind"/"my consciousness"/"I"/"the me is not a sacred
internal space, it's an illusory show produced by the brain.

There can never be stability and security in hope or illusion. There is total security only in negation of all the false products of thought. When the illusions are understood, the real is. The most important thing for the "I", the horizontal conflict produced by thought (when it's not f u n c t i o n a l l y needed) is to be what it is - nothing.