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A Totally Different
Dimension
by Pieter Langedijk
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The Quest
At the university I
learned that in our mind there is a thinking and a feeling part. There is
something as a conscious part, which covers 10 percent of our mind, and an
unconscious part, which is 90 percent of our mind. K says that beside this mind
which is conditioned from our birth, there is a Totally Different Dimension of
which most people do not have any idea. This ‘totally different dimension’ is
beyond thought and above ‘words’. But I learned that we can have contact with
that totally different dimension and even be one with that dimension when we
have a clear mind, when we really know who we are, that we must be able to think
very logically and that we must be very quiet inside, etc. Many times he uses
the word ‘awareness’.
Krishnamurti said many
times that all information is in ones own mind, but I think that he means by
mind something different and more than just the normal mind that psychology
speaks about. Perhaps he means by mind, that Totally Different Dimension, of
which we are part of, without realizing that. The Goal of Life, or of many
lives, is that one realizes that one is That. Every person, who lives on
this earth, not only the scientists and priests. but also the farmer, a poor
person, etc have the potential ability to have contact with that Totally
Different Dimension. Our minds are indoctrinated with the ‘knowledge and
experiences of parents, teachers, priests, politicians, who are themselves
indoctrinated by their parents, teachers and so it goes on for thousands of
generations.
Not a guru
K
said many times
that he does not want to
be a guru who tells us how to think and what to do, that we must not believe in
any guru, and that we must find out for ourselves. On several times he said in
his books that he himself
started in this way to listen to all kinds of people, looking around,
observing how people behave, what they say, how they react he found that what
he saw was not the real thing. By rejecting everything, every theory, every
belief and asking questions about everything, he discovered what was Real. I
think that observing everything means that one uses one’s brains very well,
especially the lower parts of the left part of the brain, which has to do with
second hand knowledge. Every time we use some part of the brain, that part is
activated and more blood goes to that part and so one’s intelligence is aroused.
Asking questions
has to do with the higher levels of the left hemisphere, so that part also
becomes more active and trained. Thinking has to do with the frontal part of
the brain.
The teachings of K
are very abstract
As a therapist I meet
many people with different problems. Some people are stressed, they feel tense,
have sleeping problems. Others have very cold hands and feet or have sleeping
problems. I talk with children with study problems and concentration problems.
There are women who have difficulty getting pregnant. There are parents whose
children are hyperactive, and they want to know what to do with them. There are
people who do not eat the right food or who have migraine every day. About all
these things K did not talk.
He said that he looks to
the working of the mind, but it looks very theoretical. When one says that to
him, he says that he is very practical.
Once I talked
about our numerous daily problems and asked him why he never talked about those.
He answered that that was not his task. I shall write about that talk later.
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