As most of us know, U.G. Krishnamurty could be a pretty disagreeable fellow and regularly told those who gathered around him that he had nothing to offer them and the best thing would be for them to go away, but in fact that message WAS his offering. He once wrote:

"Your teacher must go, it doesn't matter who the teacher is. The very thing that you are reading-that's the very thing you must be free from."

I've come to understand that very clearly, and we don't have to go far to find folks caught up in strange teachings with strange language, declaring strange practices amounting to the one and only way to liberation. All of it has a kernel of truth in it, but it's the nonsense that will eat your lunch.

I've found that all belief systems are pointing us to the boundaries of our understanding and are best used as stepping stones to something else, or maybe nothing else. Where we seem to be going is the realization that nothing is True, nothing works, there's nothing to get and nobody to get it. This is, itself, the Realization we seek.

Some guru said (and it doesn't matter which) "Failure is the means to success." Futility is the goal, the end of the seeking, the exact point on the path where you have no idea what to do next because you finally get it that there's nothing to do, nowhere to get to, nothing to know. You're not anything, not apart from anything, not accomplishing anything, not in need of anything, not knowing anything. It's just the obvious simplicity of this, right here and now, minus everything we think we know about it....how very, very odd this is.

Phil