Mind is a Myth: Radical Dialogues on Enlightenment, Self, Consciousness, and the Collapse of Spiritual Seeking - Softcover

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Mind is a Myth is not a conventional philosophical treatise but a series of bracing conversations in which U.G. Krishnamurti dismantles the inherited vocabulary of mind, self, enlightenment, and spiritual progress. Its style is aphoristic, combative, and deliberately anti-literary: repetition, negation, and paradox become instruments for exhausting the reader's conceptual habits. Situated against the twentieth-century boom in gurus, psychologies, and Eastern wisdom adapted for Western seekers, the book refuses consolation, arguing that the mind is a social and linguistic construction sustained by fear, desire, and the pursuit of continuity. U.G. Krishnamurti's authority here derives less from doctrine than from a life spent rejecting doctrine. Born in India in 1918, educated amid Theosophical and Vedantic currents, and acquainted with many celebrated teachers, he later repudiated the search for truth itself. His reported 1967 physiological "calamity" shaped his insistence that liberation is not an achievement of consciousness but the collapse of the very mechanism that seeks it. This book is recommended to readers prepared for intellectual discomfort rather than inspiration. Philosophers, students of religion, and serious spiritual inquirers will find it invaluable as a radical critique of seeking.

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