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Posted by parhad (Guest) - Wednesday, December 15 2004, 17:59:28 (CET)
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..saw an ancient interview of J. Krishnamurti conducted by a man with a doctorate who teaches philosophy...at MIT!!! That's the Massachusettes Institute of Technology.

From the start this pedant got it all wrong. Time and again Krishnamurti tried explaining his very basic concepts to the guy...and the fellow just couldn't grasp it. He irritated me so much I couldn't watch for long and turned it off...can't imagine what Krishnamurti was thinking all the while.

The thing that makes Krishnamurti so different from the rest of those nominally Eastern philosophers is that he refuses to be anyone's Guru...he says flat out that his ideas work for him because they were FOUND by him...with him in mind. He decries all authority...but in important matters...he doesn't advocate parking your car anywhere you want to in spite of all authority...which is all this American jackass could make of the notion....the, "what if we all wanted to take a leak" school of social control.

Krishnamurti is talking about another kind of authority, the one that comes from churches and god-people AND philosophers who dare think up systems by which other's should think and, therefore, live. The interviewer kept asking him..."well, HOW did YOU do it"? To which Krishnamurti kept saying, "do not ask 'how'...do not seek to apply my ideas to yourself or anyone else...instead try to find the things that stop YOU from enlightenment or inner knowledge." But the guy just couldn't grasp it...having spent his entire life in schools and universities being taught several "hows" and now teaching in them, all he could think of was some secret that Krishnamurti might have that would clear up his education-induced muddle of a head and maybe help unmuddle everyone else's.

It's like being an art "student". All you really wind up doing is learning from and copying your teachers. You seek to learn "how". How did they do it? And the irony is that, in most cases, they didn't. They never did figure the right "how" for themselves and that's why they're back in school teaching other people HOW to get lost too. After all...you gotta eat, right?

I see the wisdom of that little dark man more and more over the years. When you ask someone to teach you...you give up on the essential Being...the core hidden down deep within yourself...and instead seek to worship or sit at the feet of the one among all people who did NOT do as you are desperate to do. In reality, most Philosophers were never students..properly speaking. They were seekers. But none of them ever said so clearly, "do NOT follow my teachings"...as Krishnamurti did. That's the ONLY thing I got from him...and I love the little Darkie for it.

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