U.G. Krishnamurti (not the famous one)

U.G.
The two main sites:

U.G.Krishnamurti.org
&
U.G.Krishnamurti.net

And books (composed primarily of interviews):

The Mystique of Enlightenment
Courage to Stand Alone
Mind is a myth
No Way Out
Thought is Your Enemy
The Sage and the Housewife
Stopped in Our Tracks: Stories of U.G. in India
The Natural State
Science and U.G.

My teaching, if that is the word you want to use, has no copyright. You are free to reproduce, distribute, interpret, misinterpret, distort, garble, do what you like, even claim authorship, without my consent or the permission of anybody.
–U.G.

The Penguin U.G. Krishnamurti Reader

IS THERE ANY MEANING AND PURPOSE TO LIFE?

‘What is the meaning of life?’ It is not life that we are really interested in but living. The problem of living has become a very tiring business—to live with somebody else, to live with our feelings, to live with our ideas. In other words, it is the value system that we have been thrown into. You see, the value system is false.

The heart does not for a moment know that it is pumping blood. It is not asking the question, A‘m I doing it right?’ It is just functioning. It does not ask the question, ‘Is there any purpose?’ To me, that question has no meaning. The questions, ‘Is there any meaning?’ ‘Is there any purpose?’ take away the living quality of life. You are living in a world of ideas.

Suppose I say that this meaninglessness is all there is for you, all there can ever be for you. What will you do? The false and absurd goal you have before you is responsible for that dissatisfaction and meaninglessness in you. Do you think life has any meaning? Obviously you don’t. You have been told that there is meaning, that there *must* be a meaning to life. Your notion of the ‘meaningful’ keeps you from facing this issue, and makes you feel that life has no meaning. If the idea of the meaningful is dropped, you will see meaning in whatever you are doing in daily life.

Why should life have any meaning? Why should there be any purpose to living? Living itself is all that is there. Your search for spiritual meaning has made a problem out of living. You have been fed all this rubbish about the ideal, perfect, peaceful, purposeful way of life, and you devote your energies to thinking about that rather than living fully. In any case you are living, no matter what you are thinking about. Life has to go on.