Hello. Am going to start writing more regularly. The topics may seem random but on some level they are intentionally interconnected. The first few times I may seem to ramble, with lots of padding, but then will try to hone in. Firstly, not everyone has a search, Young people do seem to have a curiously but by my experience from talking with many, as young people get more into the life groove of being independent etc. in the thirties, it can tend to wane. So we do want to feed that inner fire or at least keep the ember alive.
Interestingly, from the very beginning a conundrum arises as this search, this interest, this passion, even, is a form of desire, and we are told by spiritual teachers (imo definitely including Gurdjieff and Krishnamurti) in so many words, or at least it is suggested, that desire is bad. Well is it bad? Let’s look. Firstly we are making a mental construct. That is like a room or a box, speaking of box not necessarily in a negative sense, though it could be, but as a container. My theme for this series of messages is that of framing; at this point in an emerging paradigm, almost everyone is looking urgently and with great interest for a new but expansive yet also comprehensive way to use language. So how does this all work? Here is some food for thought, and back very soon.
Deconstructing Krishnamurti 