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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Replying to @VincentHorn
J. Krishnamurti's basic message was to tell every religious or spiritual leader in the world to go fuck themselves. Don't believe anybody and don't join anything. It's a pretty acerbic message that some people just can't take.
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Replying to @shaunbartone
Weird, even that wasn’t clear to me. I just found him to be largely incoherent. Watching him speak to David Bohm was particularly painful, though I had high hopes. I guess I just don’t get it.
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Replying to @VincentHorn @shaunbartone
He was elevated to the rank of highest guru in the universe by a bunch of rich English folks. Once they put him in charge of this vast & rich organization, his first act was to dissolve the organization. Totally punk rock.
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it's a really interesting history imo. Annie Besant's group is the origin of the phrase "new age"/"age of aquarius" and they're directly responsible for quite a lot of what developed into the excessive side of hippie woowoo.
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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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skeptical is a much nicer term. I've just been calling myself a "bad" Buddhist. I think I prefer it actually.
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