Due to a time consuming development in my personal life I have not been able to write here for a while, but am going to start writing again soon. I notice there is a big interest in Krishnamurti/Gurdjieff, so will kind of hone in from that angle and try to write something soon, maybe later …
” ‘There is a principle, proof against all argument, a bar against all progress, and which if persisted in cannot but keep the mind in everlasting ignorance-and that is, contempt prior to examination.’—PALEY. Just read this quote and thought it described K perfectly. K was a master at Zen, Hinduism, Vedanta, Buddhism and Christianity. He …
So, thanks again to Niko for the work put into making this blog. We did not try as yet to promote it, so the number of readers is limited, but please share this link, as there is going to be more frequent activity here, with a focus, at least from my end, on comparing these …
This is intended to be an inquiry. Many of us have had very powerful and deeply meaningful experiences when reading and/or listening to Krishnamurti, which experiences (at this point in my understanding, which understanding is radically greater then it was when I first read K) I would advise others having these kinds of experiences to …
Niko wrote: “In an earlier post on this blog, I talked about David Bohm’s doubts concerning the ultimate usefulness of Krishnamurti’s teachings. In his book about the Oak Grove School, David Moody recounts a conversation with David Bohm in which Bohm states that Krishnamurti’s work lacked a “fine focus” in its depiction of the nuances …
Am going to try to write more regularly now. Two topics Niko and I both are interested in are the comparison of the approach of the Chittamatrin (Mind Only) School of Buddhism to the approach of the Pransagika Madhyamika (Middle Way) School. This kind of focus significantly relates to the teaching of Krishnamurti and also …
Was K disingenuous? Why ask this? Because not just what K said, but K himself, K the (supposed) great world teacher, is for many the inspiration. If K was disingenuous, that is human, and we all may be to some degree until we are “pure,” but if we take as the foundation of a topic …
So what does it mean to say that someone is disingenuous? Basically it means that a person is dishonest, but imo not in the sense of presenting a false picture in order to help someone, such as it said that the Buddha sometimes lies; an example of the latter might be telling a child there …
Niko wrote in the intro: “A central tenet of most Krishnamurti dialogues is that Krishnamurti’s formulations are to be encountered within a framework which was proscribed by K himself. Although he exhorted his listeners to “question everything”, he did set limits by suggesting we look only at his words and leave out various contextual elements.” …
Intro: My apologies for disappearing; got deeply involved in another project but am still dedicated to writing here. As some know, one of my final disillusionments with Krishnamurti came when reading his book “The Ending Of Time.” Oddly, and even sadly, many people feel this is his most significant important work and that there is …
Deconstructing Krishnamurti 
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