Since I am more awake in great spiritual truth than Krishnamurti was, I have greater natural authority to discuss Krishnamurti’s basic teachings on Effortless Meditation and Going Beyond Authority.  Both of these issues have tremendous urgency for any seriously intelligent and aware individual on a planet where dogmatic and petty pseudo-Masters of Eastern type conditioning in their local cultures or traditions have been competing for quite awhile to acquire Western adherents who will agree to blindly and exclusively limit their so-called “spiritual self-improvement” to a specific Eastern methodology and language which is supposed to be “holy”, such as Arabic, Sanskrit or Tibetan.  The various Eastern traditional authorities have thus been fighting for market share among the gullible Western spirituality consumers.  Along with this, eclectic universalist New Age teachers are cropping up to offer their personal concoctions, which only muddies the waters.  Da Free John on the island of Fiji imagines he is an Avatar when he is simply the reincarnation of Nietzsche.  And he is not alone in both America and India.  In fact, all sorts of people try to classify myself with such claimants.  Unlike all the others, I do not gather followers but simply get the job done, which includes writing articles such as this one without selling anything or providing for personal contact.  My presence-of-being is a transpersonal transmission, not a vainglorious effort to build a personality cult around myself.  Krishnamurti himself did, unfortunately, encourage a personality cult around himself where certain dogmas of his about rejection of all methodologies and authorities but his method of Effortless Meditation and his assertion that only he and no other is worth reading or listening to.  His books are supposed to be the only books in your spiritual library and all others burned or rejected.  In his mind, no other teachers on Earth have ever really taught Effortless Meditation or Self-responsibility.  This egomanic claim of his, this lack of appreciation of valid sources of know-how on the human evolutionary predicament of the unprejudiced individual, tends more to create die-hard old Krishnamurti adherents than to usher human consciousness into the kinds of ecstatic states of being and consciousness he describes as resulting from he and he alone going through “The Process”, when in fact others describe similar developments as, for instance, Gopi Krishna in his book, Kundalini or Sat Prem in the book, Mind of the Cells where Auro-Mother describes her own peculiar physical transformation experiences.  In fact, all three of these spiritual authorities (Krishnamurti, Gopi Krishna and Auro-Mother) have this rather strange unawareness or obliviousness about one another’s experiences.  This in itself indicates a lack of World Teachership, a lack of genuine transcendental cosmic perspective.  

In the light of all this, what in fact is Self-responsible Effortless Meditation?  This has actually been discussed by some very advanced and miraculous beings within the traditions of Vedanta, Zen Buddhism, Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism and even in the teachings of Osho Rajneesh in our time.  Ramana Maharshi, the reincarnation of Zen Master Huang Po, silently radiated it at Arunachala plus discussed it with serious seekers.  Nisargadatta of Bombay, India, also went into the fundamental issue quite thoroughly in his lifetime.

Krishnamurti often emphasized Self-responsible Effortless Meditation as a thing of silencing of the actual physical brain.  This neuro-cognitive approach appealed to scientific seekers.  For Krishnamurti there are just two possible human states of consciousness: (a) The noisy brain maintaining an ego-of-thought, and (b) A state of ecstatic “mind” with no ego or “me” in it, just as taught in Buddhism and which many Buddhists tried to discuss with him.  Now, Juan Matus taught Carlos Castaneda silencing of the brain to access a “Second Attention” as “dreaming awake” or “heightened awareness” when awake in the physical body or “dreaming” when not in the physical body, which many sources call “astral traveling”, “out-of-the-body-experiencing”, “soul travel”, “lucid dreaming” and so on.  Krishnamurti seems to be unaware of the implications during sleep or dreams at night of his “mind-beyond-the-brain” states.  He seems to remain obsessed with wakeful heightened awareness, especially when alone out in nature, which reminds us of his previous incarnation as Henry David Thoreau in America.  Solitude, sensitivity to natural beauty and keeping the brain silent by refusing to make choices or methodical efforts are ever recurring themes in his writings.  Those of us who have seriously engaged in long periods of time in that way can certainly testify that it has its developmental usefulness for our Spirit or Real Self, which according to Krishnamurti or any Theravada Buddhist, is not supposed to exist.

If we are doing genuine Self-responsible Effortless Meditation, why would we need endless writings, lectures and instructions from Krishnamurti or involvement in supporting his schools for children?  His behavior and his arrangements did not in fact match his essential teaching.  For one who claimed to be “not a teacher” or “not an authority”, he did an awful lot of writing, lecturing and organizational leadership.  Sometimes perfectly clear people would try to point this out to him, but he couldn’t handle it.  He never really got out of the trap created for him by Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater.  In some respects, he did more for post-modern philosophy than he did for personal breakthroughs into transcendental awareness.  His endless bashing of belief-systems, neurocognitive brain conditioning and the like in some ways make him closer to Daniel Dennett than Tilopa.  For Krishnamurti, both selfhood and conscious thought are nothing but epiphenomena of the disturbed, hyperactive human brain.  Beyond that we are to simply focus on owls hooting in the valley in the pre-dawn hours, which seems to be extended sensation.  Krishnamurti never meets beings of other realms or dimensions, never spreads his superconsciousness into oneness with the Galaxy and never reports Alien Contact.  The fact is that quite extraordinary things can and even should happen if Self-responsible Effortless Meditation is fully happening, but Krishnamurti will not discuss what were valid evolutionary and cosmological issues within Theosophy.  The Theosophists were not entirely deluded, but he did not seem to want to understand what was right in Theosophy in regard to many important things.  He “threw out the baby with the bath-water”, as the old saying goes.  I am myself, as are many other advanced people on the Earth, guilty of violating Krishnamurti’s teaching because I have encountered unusual beings in other realms, spread my superconsciousness into oneness with the Galaxy and met Aliens or Extraterrestrial Intelligences at certain times in certain ways I will not describe.  For me, Self-responsible Effortless Meditation is not a self-isolating sense of personal authority as if there has never been such a superior truth as my own exclusive writings.  Though I am World Teacher, I recognize infinite beings more advanced than myself in the Omniverse and consider that it is only on a savagely backward and deluded planet like Earth where I could validly have my present cosmic job or “mission”.  For me, all this is just an onerous emergency task I am carrying out during a time of immense planetary crisis of spiritual truth and human potential.  If someone else wants my cosmic position, they are welcome to it!  So far, no truly qualified Purusha has volunteered to help me transfer off this hideously insane planet of evil political leaders and vainglorious spiritual teachers.  My application for a transfer is well-known in cosmic circles.  I do not like being “God” here because it is such a perverted, deluded, ignorant and stupid term without meaning with subhuman humanity of the various twisted and incomplete religions.  The same is true with a designation like “Brahman” or “Maitreya Buddha” or the like.  My real mood in this entire fucked-up scene is closer to Ayn Rand’s Atlas getting ready to shrug the whole ball-of-wax off my shoulders.  I will tell you this, dear seeker, if you doubt or reject me, that is just one more asshole out of the bag I have to carry.  Why would I or any other being-in-the-cosmos want to share your painful karmas or have to endlessly explain things to you that you are incapable of understanding?  Goodbye and good-riddance!  On the other hand, if you are thinking, “Good God, this guy really is the World Teacher and I want to meet him right away so he will relieve me of all my karmas and endlessly answer all my questions and give me lots of personal attention”, well, you are just not grasping some very simple and obvious things.  With a greedy, selfish attitude like that, you are not qualified to meet with any real spiritual guide on the planet.  Your best bet would be to stop reading Krishnamurti and start reading Idries Shah, Chögyam Trungpa and Carlos Castaneda.  You have obviously not done your homework.  In your present state you would walk right by me on the street without knowing it is me because your inner radar is dysfunctional.  Try to understand that both your doubts and beliefs about various figures you consider are nothing but aberrations of your outer social self functioning in your information overloaded brain.  In deepest truth, you need to prepare yourself for higher contact and you are entirely incapable of Self-responsible Effortless Meditation.

The problem with most of those who cling to the Krishnamurti approach of Self-responsible Effortless Meditation is that it becomes self-enclosed stagnant complacency without “The Process” and its Heightened Awareness.  Nonetheless, there is a certain potency in the silent brain where social ego has been gently, but firmly and persistently set aside.  If one has not seriously experimented with this approach, one has missed something of crucial significance in all this.  That is why we must not allow Krishnamurti’s numb and dumb followers to dissuade us from looking deeply into our own consciousness.  It is a fact that no one can see for us what we have to see for ourselves.  We even have to see for ourselves how important it can be to see for ourselves.  This is not merely a subject where an authority should have to get us excited and convinced about the subject.  The more we have to be exhorted to be awake, aware and choicelessly open, the less we understand such things for real.  There is no form of conformity or imitation that will radically improve our state of being, just as there is no mood of confrontational doubting and rejecting of authority that will give us the breakthrough into higher intelligence and superconsciousness that we need.  Any automatic approach is too automatic.  To not be automatic implies free energy in our personal being.  When we are automatic, which means either conformity to authority or false, self-deceptive independence, our energy is low and unfree.  To believe or disbelieve, to cling or reject, is to be stuck in our neurocognitive grooves.  Both the true believer and the sharp-witted skeptic are unreal people who run on automatic.  Free energy and extended awareness are two sides of the same coin.

The miraculous Siddha Fakir, Shirdi Sai Baba, once instructed his disciple, Upasani Baba, to “do nothing and see no one”.  Upasani Baba was therefore told to do the Effortless Meditation with Zero Social Concern or Interaction.  That was a very Krishnamurti-like course that Upasani Baba was put on.  It parallels the instructions the Siddha Tilopa gave to his disciple, Naropa, in the Vajrayana Buddhist tradition of the Eighty-Four Siddhas, which instructions have come down to us as The Song of Mahamudra.  In fact, Rajneesh has written a beautiful commentary on this from a universal point of view rather than as a dogmatic Buddhist.

Have you ever tried to spend a long period of time doing nothing and setting aside all your social concerns and judgments?  Everything automatic in us will try to create some self-justified activity with considerings of how others will see us.  Sometimes we have a lull in our activities when there is nothing to do or to talk with another about.  We can feel bored, restless or isolated.  We can reach for a book to keep us occupied, or we can write a letter or e-mail, or start a conversation with someone nearby just for the sake of having company.  We might imagine that our study or discussion is deeply meaningful so as to cover-up the superficial emptiness or restlessness.  But this does not mean we will become enlightened through rigidly sitting still in a cave, cell or room day after day as a celibate ascetic without sex, love, affection, meaningful sharing or serious research.  Nonetheless, some of us sometimes need a period of solitary retreat and contemplation to restore our true being, our higher center.  There can be no automatic rule for all in these matters.  Any automatic approach is too automatic, as I have said.  Some people are too talkative and social for their own good and others are too isolating and anti-social for their own good.  Psychological imbalances are psychological imbalances, not examples of enlightened behavior or the Great Position of Mahamudra.

Bodhidharma, the founder of Zen in China, sat endlessly staring at the wall in the meditation cave he was occupying.  He was doing nothing while at the same time socially confronting all the experts on Buddhism in China who lacked direct personal experience of the Great Awakening of Self-nature.  In Soto Zen in Japan, it has always been a fundamental process to sit like Bodhidharma, doing nothing, not as imitation, but, like Bodhidharma, as an intrinsic expression of Self-nature, a non-behavioral behavior.  Bodhidharma’s confrontational presence there was very upsetting to self-elected “Buddhist Masters of the Dharma”.  In a way, he was a kind of Krishnamurti figure in the Ancient East.  The whole emphasis in zazen is Self-responsible Effortless Meditation, which Bodhidharma was demonstrating rather than preaching or explaining.

To simply be quiet, externally and internally, without any form of prejudice or social ambition, is an extraordinary zone of the Unknown Being.  That you do not know the Unknown Being within yourself (or others) is itself a central provocation of your known being as the everyday self you believe you are.  To listen fully to the highest and deepest and most enlightened teachings you can get a hold of on this matter is extremely important.  To realize the essence of all those great teachings in direct inner self-awakening is absolutely important.

The real Sufis rightly say that “there is that which you must do for yourself and that which must be done for you”.  If you are open to blessings or energies from higher sources, but do not follow through with your own self-responsible initiative and realization, such blessings or energies are wasted on you.  If you try to do everything on your own without receptivity to higher sources, you will be blocked again and again by your own stubborn faults and incomplete understandings.  Therefore, both clinging faithfully and passively to a magnetic and seemingly powerful spiritual figure or Guru, as well as rejecting all higher sources of teaching and empowerment in the posture of an all-criticizing crank, are both errors on our path of Self-awakening and Self-realization.