Mind is a Myth

'There is no such thing as your mind and my mind. There is only mind-the totality of all that has been known, felt, and experienced by man, handed down from generation to generation. We are all thinking and functioning in that 'thought sphere', just as we all share the same atmosphere for breathing. The thoughts are there to function and communicate in this world sanely and intelligently.'

Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti (1918-2007), better known as U.G., was an Indian speaker who questioned the state of enlightenment as a real thing. Instead of using the word 'enlightenment', he used 'calamity' and 'natural state' to describe an event in his life. He claimed that the return to the natural state is a rare, a causal, biological occurrence, an event which he referred to in his own life as 'the calamity'. Because of this, he discouraged people from pursuing the 'natural state' as a spiritual goal. He rejected the very basis of thought and in doing so negated all systems of thought and knowledge. Hence he explained his assertions were experiential and not speculative - 'Tell them that there is nothing to understand.'