The teaching found its way into my life about twenty-five years ago.
I did see immediately that this is a pointer towards the truth of human existence, and also the responsibility that is required in finding out. There is no turning back.
No. It is not possible to make the teaching 'more practicable' without compromising the truth of the teaching.
It is not about being popular and reaching everyone - there are plenty of gurus and religions who accommodate for that. K went where none of the others went. The teaching is, as he said, not for everyone. To go into the teaching of K deeply, there is a ground that must be laid.
The teaching is not about 'practice'. Does one 'practice' living?
View all answers to this questionNot really. The teaching underwent its own evolution throughout K's life, as he discovered the loopholes for thought (as the self) to find security in what he said, or in the manner in which he expressed the teaching. By the end of K's life the teaching was at its most austere, and at its most clear.
It is important to embrace the wholeness of the teaching, along with an awareness of K's life journey, which clarifies any perceived inconsistencies if one is prepared to do the work.
I don't make any effort to introduce Krishnamurti to people I know. If it is appropriate, that is very clearly evident, and the subject will arise naturally - spontaneously.
View all answers to this questionNegation - through understanding - of the disorder of humanity - which we all share, and for which we are all responsible.
View all answers to this questionI have a problem with the word 'dialogue', but my answer would be - not very important at all - at least not really in situations such as forums like this, which is mostly superficial. But then, it is a chance to put oneself on the line, be challenged, and required to clarify what one is saying. But essentially - K did it alone, and so that is possible.
My experience with so-called 'dialogues' is that they never get very far, and can too easily become a contest in 'the race for enlightenment', which is a joke. For me the teaching is not about 'enlightenment' at all, which is nothing more than a desired result, but it is about discovery and responsibility for the whole.
K was an ordinary human being, but he had laid the ground - with pure vegetarian diet, uncluttered thinking process, gentle inquiring nature. The questions he asked were extraordinary, and the discoveries that manifested from those questions are available to anyone who has laid the ground to find out for themselves - without compromise.
View all answers to this questionIn everyday life - watching and alone. In discussions with a partner who shares the passion of the inquiry. And through personal study, as we have an extensive library of the whole teaching - which I did read constantly for a number of years, but now consult only occasionally.
View all answers to this questionYes. Otherwise what the teaching points towards remains a theory.
View all answers to this questionThey may fade if they are watered down to make them more palatable. They may merge into all other 'guru promisings', and that would be tragic.
But as long as the K organizations maintain access to the teaching in all its purity, there will always be the few with the passion to find out.
View all answers to this questionDoubt - like thought - has a place.
View all answers to this questionOrganized dialogue risks 'becoming' a ritual.
Spontaneity is natural inquiry, and natural inquiry is spontaneous.
View all answers to this questionImmeasurably.
View all answers to this questionThe teaching is about undoing conditioning.
How can that possibly condition, as the whole movement of conditioning is seen?
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Hi, Patricia- I guess you can disregard my last e-mail;) - You're already here!
clicked too many times, i think...;)
hi.Patricia nice to read your comment its really the case He points you the truth