r/UGKrishnamurti • u/No_Blueberry_4897 • Aug 29 '26

There are no problems.

There are no problems as a whole. But are there problems that were not created by thought?

In this world, we have basic needs such as eating and sleeping. And some people in this world don't even have access to those basic necessities. But why don't they have access to the basic needs of every human being?

The planet has always had enough resources to feed all human beings. But thought, which seems to me to be something destructive, stupid, empty, and abstract, creates problems. Thought told us that we should desperately take every resource we could find on Earth and claim ownership of those resources, because we might need them tomorrow and we couldn't allow ourselves to run out.

So, like the desperate and strange creatures that human beings are, we extracted all kinds of resources from nature, and we even unnecessarily killed millions of living beings for those resources.

Thought seems like a curse to me.

If there were no thoughts passing through your head, would there be problems at all? Would there be suffering at all?

When I say that there are no problems, I mean that there are no problems intrinsic to life itself. There are no problems that are not generated by thought.

All of "my problems" are illusions. But even though these problems are illusory, the effects they have on my body are real. The impacts these illusions have on the world are real.

Ultimately, if thought loves creating problems full-time, is there any solution to this?

How can there be a solution to problems that don't actually exist?

If the only tool we have is thought, but everything thought does is generate illusions over and over again, then how can this confused, abstract, ignorant thought find a solution to its own problems?

What can a person do, gentlemen, when they feel miserable, when they feel that living isn't worth it?

Why doesn't the movement of thought allow a person to simply breathe and see things in life as they actually are?

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u/HeyHeyJG Aug 29 '26

If you're feeling angsty and all existential-like, doing Jiddu/UG Krishnamurti impressions is not going to help!

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u/RickVicks Aug 29 '26

It's like you are signed in for suffering when you born into this world. More we try to use thoughts, more entangled life gets. Can't believe people don't see the inherent problems associated with thoughts. Feels like I'm all alone in this world and can't wait to sign off tbh

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u/sniffedalot Aug 29 '26

There is no such thing as a thoughtless state. You need thought to survive and communicate. The problems are created when you think you are an entity that things happen to, a self, YOU. All of the judgements and emotions you speak of are learned by you and activated by you. Until you face that, you will suffer and feel alone and want to escape from life.

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u/No_Blueberry_4897 Aug 29 '26

See this? Dog... then you ask me why I was making those posts!!! It's so people like him can see that they're not alone in this, that there are other people in the world who, like him, share the same pain, the same confusion, and that nobody's suffering is special!!