I hate to fly in the face of what a lot of smart people think (ok, not really) but nothing I've ever seen or read from Jiddu Krishnamurti made any sense whatsoever, or was profound in the least.
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they had basically kidnapped Krishnamurti when he was a child and groomed him to be a messianic figurehead for their movement. his great accomplishment is his act of disbelief. he dispelled the illusions he was raised under and walked away from the whole shitshow.
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Yes, while simultaneously giving the group a timeless teaching pointing towards real awakening, rather than the psychic-new age stuff they were into. It was masterful.
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J.K. appeals to people like me who align with skeptical Buddhism. It's a side of Buddhism that few people espouse, like Stephen Batchelor, the Non-Buddhists, J.K. took it all the way out to 'don't believe anything, not even me.'
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That’s easy, I don’t believe him. I think some people are good to learn from, and I hang out with those people. This kind of self-contradictory, self-absorbed, & self-sanctimonious view gets old. It also neuters one’s ability to be genuinely useful to others.
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