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Thought

0 JKrishnamurti used to say that "Thought is a material process" Herew what meaning the word "material" takes? "Thought" cannot be an action so that it can be called "Process" I think that "Thought" is an abstract noun. It cannot be related to a "Process" as JK did. Please clarify. 0-
  

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0 Hi, 02br 00One meaning of thought is 'the process of thinking'. 02br 00One meaning of 'material' is 'physical, not intellectual or spiritual. 02br 02br 00I'm not familiar with JKrishnamurti's ideas.

— Clive

  • 0 Hi, 02br 00One meaning of thought is 'the process of thinking'.
  • 02br 00One meaning of 'material' is 'physical, not intellectual or spiritual.
  • 02br 02br 00I'm not familiar with JKrishnamurti's ideas.
  • However, I know that scientists today are studying the electrical impuses in the brain.
  • Do you think that one day they will be able to look at your brain and 'see' your thoughts?
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0 Hi, 02br
00One meaning of thought is 'the process of thinking'. 02br
00One meaning of 'material' is 'physical, not intellectual or spiritual. 02br
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00I'm not familiar with JKrishnamurti's ideas. However, I know that scientists today are studying the electrical impuses in the brain. Do you think that one day they will be able to look at your brai
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0 Hi Mr. Clive, 02br
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00Thank you for your comments. However something in me always makes me doubt that the word "material" carries different meaning here. Like "material" in "material evidence", "material" in this sentence may mean that Thought is an important and of prime consequence process. 02br
00what's your comment on this please? 02br
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0 Hi again, 02br
00Yes, 'material' does have other meanings so what you suggest is a possibility. 02br
00To understand his meaning, we'd really need to look at more of JKrishnamurti's writings than just 5 words. 02br
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0 Apparently he meant the actual electro-chemical processes in the brain. From the writings of David Bohm on J Krishnamurti: 02br
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00"What he was seriously proposing is that all this disorder, which is the root cause of such widespread sorrow and misery, and which prevents human beings from properly working together, has its root in the fact that we are ignorant of the g
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0 Dear rvw, 02br
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00Thank you for quoting the context. Can you please tell me in which book David Bohm wrote those lines? I like to read more of his work on J Krishnamurti. 02br
00Your posting gave me lot of clue to my question on the same subject in another thread, in fact! 02br
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00Kris38 0-
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0 It was in 01i00A Brief Introduction to the Work of Krishnamurti02i00, which is cited at 02br
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05000. 0230hrefhttp://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/K/K.html
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0 Dear rvw, 02br
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00Thank you indeed for the URL; 02br
00But it looks there is a mistake in the URL May I request you to verify once again and post the corrected one. When i tried to visit the site there was error report. May be at that time the server was not available. May be there some spelling mistakes! Kindly let me know please. Bear with me for th
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0 Kris38, 02br
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00I included a period at the end of the URL. If you omit that and tell Google (if they ask) that the URL is correct, it should take you to the correct site. 02br
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00Sorry about that. 02br
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00rvw 0-
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0 Dear rvw, 02br
00I got the URL after correcting out the period at the end. I shall come back please 02br
00Thanks 02br
00Kris38 0-
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