pull up a chair, sit down, relax, hang out, tawk: no big whoop. ;-)

a note on my resolution of the late (and probably not very lamented) 'Pros and Cons of Quoting Krishnamurti' thread:

after much contemplation, i decided to clean up the thread by deleting the off-topic and/or inflammatory messages ... but there were so few messages left after The Grand Purging that i opted to delete the entire thread instead.

i meant no disrespect to anyone who participated in the thread. if you would like to resume discussion of krishnamurti quoting pros/cons, please let me know and i will happily recreate the thread. :-)

here's a question that comes up from time to time for me; perhaps for you too?

competition: is there any 'valid' (good, useful, appropriate, constructive, etc.) place for it in our lives?

for example: golf. you love it, you play in a league, the goal of league play is for members of your team to beat members of the opposing team. competition is part of the equation. is this necessarily a 'bad' thing?

or what about in the real world? might 'friendly rivalry' competition among medical research companies benefit the discovery/creation of life-saving drugs?

rachMiel ... wrote:
for example: golf. you love it, you play in a league, the goal of league play is for members of your team to beat members of the opposing team. competition is part of the equation. is this necessarily a 'bad' thing?

Not really. But sport as a career is looks odd. Playing happily to beat another is different from playing seriously to ...

Freedom from the known is Attention in the Unknown: Krishnamurti J

Dear rachMiel
The word "competion" is filled with connotations. Connotations are my history. Therefore I have put the word "competition" into the "not spiritually correct" file. Let's leave the word and move into the actual, into the energy and leave all history out of the picture. Where does it leave you now?

The great sufferer