Re: My meeting with J. Krishnamurti

[Guest guest]

Yes Stan...

" intellectual " ...

for _Whom_?

and _Why_?

The thing/Teaching is what-is...

words pointing to what-is...

the Thinking is the listeners...

and THAT seems to me,

to be 'the problem'...

When one says:

" One thing he taught though, is very ACT-friendly. " ...

...._what_ is that? What is its Actual nature?

Thinking, comparisson, the Intellect...

No?

So, have we Really moved to a Truly

better guru/method/'ACT'...

or just changed the jargon and/or the conceptual garb?

It seems to me, that _only_ when one comes to

the state of _ " I do not know " _...

(which happens unavoidably when one sees and acknowledges

the Actual fact of the intellect's impotence and ignorance

in the essential/existential areas of Life...)

....only then, True Hearing/Listening happens, _without_ being caught

in one's intellectual matrix-traps, and furthermore blaming

the whole of one's own mind's Confusion, on the one who points...

The teachings of the 1.000 xyz 'experts' and problem-solvers, are _ " very Easy "

to approximate and practice and get great promissing 'results' and become

all-arrogant about it...

but, the Truth, -which IS only at the moment of the End of knowledge,,

unfortunatelly or fortunatelly, is not as easy or 'quick fix', as that and

especially as the pop-approaches and million how-to's of the coaches and

therapists...

Well, my couple of cents...

into cyber-space

Have a very good day,

JB

> >

> > Hello,

> > Since I have noticed some dialogues on J. Krishnamurti, I would share the

> > following.

> >

> > The article (which I have written some years ago) was published in 'The

American

> > Yoga Journal',

> > at their request and a Krishnamurti-teachings related magazine.

> >

> > Regards,

> > JB

> >

> > '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''

> >

> >

> > My meeting with J. Krishnamurti

> > -------------------------------

> >

> > I believe it was in 1982, in Switzerland, after a group meeting with J.

> > Krishnamurti. The time had come to say goodbye. I noticed how others were

very

> > respectfully taking turns to shake his hand in farewell.

> > For what seemed like an eternity, I was in the midst of a dilemma.

> > On the one hand, there was the wish to touch this being and, on the other, a

> > monologue saying, " What nonsense are you up to... playing the guru game

after

> > all, aren't you? "

> >

> > And while I was going round like a mouse trapped in a cage – there was only

> > one door, and K was standing by it – suddenly I saw the situation in a sober

> > way: simply a matter of saying goodbye to someone with whom one has spent

some

> > time; no fuss, no thoughts of expecting shaktipat (energy transference), or

any

> > other gloriously pink astral emotions.

> > I was the last one in the queue, so there was no way out of it.

> >

> > I walked towards him, shook his hand and said, " Thank you for this time and

> > goodbye. "

> > " Yeees, sir, " he said. That was all, on the outwardly visible level.

> >

> > In those few seconds, the following also happened: He took my hand in his,

> > and with his other hand, my elbow; it felt as though my whole being and its

> > contents were being shaken into place; a current of a very high speed passed

on

> > through my hand to the rest of the body, from head to toe; it was like a

good

> > and instant shower of energy.

> >

> > He looked into my eyes.

> >

> > I've never seen such dark, large and bottomless eyes! For a split second I

> > felt a fear similar to that of falling off a mountain precipice, as though

there

> > was a space without end, and invisible – and yet perceived – floods of love

were

> > pouring from his eyes. (In view of this, it's quite interesting that some

people

> > call him `dry' and `intellectual'.)

> >

> > I was standing there, hardly prepared for all that, and this little man, who

> > physically did not reach higher than my chest, was definitely felt by me to

be

> > about 4 times taller than myself.

> >

> > Because it all happened so quickly, only when I stepped outside the room did

> > I realize what had taken place.

> >

> > I had witnessed a few similar events in the company of others before I met

K,

> > but the delicacy, subtlety, purity and sobriety contained in the nature of

this

> > meeting was somehow unique.

> >

> > He was a rare one!

> >

> > I've read that even though he hardly ever talked about matters of a mystical

> > nature, he himself said that there will not be another like him for several

> > hundred years, the reason for this being the necessity for a body that can

> > withstand the enormous volume of energy similar to that which passed through

K's

> > body.

> >

> > And my mind at times throws up the question: Does such an encounter leave

> > some kind of a `seed' in one, or is it just another awesome experience?

> >

> > Maybe I'll never know, and it probably does not matter either.

> >

> >

> > JB

> > http://www.krishnamurti-denmark.dk/

> > (in English and Danish)

> > http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/

> > (The official repository of the authentic teachings of J. Krishnamurti)

> >

>