Teachings of J Krishnamurti

[Lasuh]

I find him unique and interest, I would like to know the opinion of the Avalon Members.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8FyaVFzMeo

[greybeard]

No doubt he was enlightened.
He says what all enlightened point to but in a very intellectual, perhaps complex way--but the core message is the same as far as I can see.
Chris

[kirolak]

I followed him for years; he was definitely "enlightened", but so was his namesake, UG Krishnamurti, although they came to verbal blows (they were not related at all)

J Krishnamurti is said to have been exposed as a hypocrite, yet I am convinced that the message is not the man. It must have been exceptionally hard at that time, with the expectations & hopes of all the spiritual intelligentsia, for the Maitreya to manifest. . . .yet JK was not pulled in; he rejected the entire mythos that had been imposed on him & presented his famous "Truth is a Pathless Land" speech, dissolving the Order of the Star. One of the most important & formative books of my youth was "The Awakening of Intelligence" - especially the dialogues with David Bohm.

And as for UG Krishnamurti, he was a wild, free, half-mad soul, like the Bodhisattvas of old, who negated all clinging, all belief & all structure. Yet in the end they were complementary, at least in my experience. When UG died, I had dream visitations from 2 Indian men in dhotis, who told me in advance of his death that he had left. (It was like a personal loss, in both cases, when these great beings moved on, even with years intervening between them)

I am happy that you have found JK; it seems he has fallen from public grace of late. While UG expressed the desire to "rot like a garden slug" after his death, JK took care to ensure that he would be reflected as he was, for those who would need to know what he was like after his death.

I like to think they were opposite sides of one coin; I have experienced true "Love" from both of them. They were both uniquely Indian, yet neither of them was in any way nationalist; nor did they misuse the traditions the past to set themselves up as "Gurus."

Namaste!

[Constance]

I never met him so I can't really say. :silent:

[ulli]

I met him in 1980, one day before my father passed away.
The meeting gave me the strength to deal with the aftermath of Dad's unexpected death, and even to keep Mother on an even keel.

He opened my eyes to perception without fear.
While there is fear, there is separateness and division.
When fear is relinquished one can perceive from a place of wholeness and attain holiness.

[Johnny]

I have read both J. Krisnamurti and U. G. Krisnamurti and like them both. To create a bit balance in the thread:


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Johnny :)

Edit: If you want to read his books (for free): http://www.well.com/~jct/

[Lasuh]

Thank you!! Johny I wasn't aware of U G Krishnamurti, I'm forward learning about him!!

[Johnny]

Thank you!! Johny I wasn't aware of U G Krishnamurti, I'm forward learning about him!!

U.G. Krisnamurti was in many years a 'follower' of J. Krisnamurti, but as many others did not quite understood 'the message' of him, U.G. Krisnamurti claimed after many years, that J. Krisnamurti was a channeler :)

It is quite funny to hear him talk about him. He can be pretty rough and rude, and he is in the red area when he talks about him.

Johnny :)