Getting down to brass tacks, how to consciously use the biographical Krishnamurti material? Is it intelligent to look from the angle of it being a story? We are aware of the functional value of metaphor and the great functional value of allegory. Sometimes it is simply not expedient to say something directly because the listener just will not get it, so it may be necessary to approach sideways and from a different angle, which is what on some level I am going to try to do here. Even the choice of telling a particular story is already in some measure on the bias. K was very skilled at using metaphor. He had a special talent in this area that was intuitive, but beauty can be a snake. For me, and I think for many, his ability functioned as a form of skilled linguistic seduction. Sadly, it took me decades to realize this
Last night I reread Niko’s post, The Ugly Fairy – A look at K’s Childhood, and I will be reading it again — Thank you, Niko, for your discernment. It may be possible use this particular material to develop a more comprehensive understanding, but not in the way K used nature descriptions to bring people into a particular state which they/I then believed to be ultimately true.
Deconstructing Krishnamurti 