U.G. Krishnamurti: There's No Difference Between the Cat and You

"The saints, saviors, priests, gurus, bhagavans, seers, prophets and philosophers were all wrong, as far as I am concerned. As long as you harbor any hope or faith in these authorities, living or dead, so long this certainty cannot be transmitted to you. This certainty somehow dawns on you when you see for yourself that all of them are wrong. When you see this for yourself for the first time, you explode."

- Mind is a Myth: Disquieting Conversations with the Man Called 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."

- Copyright notice prefacing many of U.G. Krishnamurti's published interviews

In a classic 1986 ⁠interview⁠, anarchic "anti-guru" U.G. Krishnamurti, upon seeing a cat, famously remarks, "there is no difference between the cat and you." What did he mean? Today's podcast digs into this insight with Krishnamurti's trademark disdain for such activities.

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