You know what is happening in the West? They have passed brilliant examinations, young men, they see war, they see great business corporations, executives and so on, and they say what is the point of it all? What is the point of a war, what is the point of becoming very clever, having a lot of money when life itself has no more any meaning? So they take various forms of drugs. That gives them a tremendous sense of new experience and they are satisfied with that. These are not the stupid people who take these things - they are very intelligent, very sensitive, highly-trained people. Because life has no longer any meaning. You can invent a meaning, you can invent a purpose, you can invent a significance. But these inventions are purely the acts of an intellectual mind and therefore have no validity. Nor has faith validity anymore; whether you believe or don't believe has no meaning at all, because you will believe according to your circumstances. If you are born in this country you will be a Hindu or a Sikh or a Muslim, and god knows what else - according to circumstances you are forced to believe - or as a communist - and so on and on and on. So belief, an invented purpose to life, a significance carefully put together by the intellect, have no meaning anymore.
I do not think you see the seriousness of this. Man has come to the end of his invention, his beliefs, his dogmas, his gods, his hopes, his fears - he has come to an absolute precipice, to the end. You may not be aware of it. You may still be hiding behind the walls of your belief, of your hopes, but they are illusions, they have no validity at all when you are faced with this crisis. So, having realised this - if you are at all capable of realising - then one must proceed to begin to find out how to renew the mind, to renew the total being. You understand? I hope I am making my question clear. KRISHNAMURTI, Talk 1, New Delhi, 15 December 1966.
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My rebuttal:
Why. If I ask why. Why does the life I lead not have meaning - is not an existentialist question. If I do ask as to what is nature, what is awareness, what is MY nature. Then to observe it. The me is no more. My proactive intelligence no longer exists. Intelligence according to Krishnamurti is truth to observe without evaluating. If this is true, then heightened state of arousal takes our place. And it is that is the ending.
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