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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Sorry Shaun, I’m probably being overly harsh here. Keep on keeping on with your rebellion. May it reach exhaustion as quickly as possible.
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Rebelling against what? No one has any authority over what I believe or practice. That's totally my decision. There's nothing to rebel against.
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Then what are you rebelling against? Why is it so important that other people know this? Why was it so important from Krishnamurti?
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He didn't say he was rebelling against anything. You said he was.
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I can relate to this. I did this too. Where I’m at with it now is that confusion tyrannical power (“power over”) with influence over (“power to”) is to cut off the source of our greatest power, each other, and to become insulated with “peers” who are all singing the same song.
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This practice of mine is something that I developed from integrating insights gained during meditation. Confronting that conformist urge (even conformity in rebellion) is critical.https://twitter.com/danlistensto/status/971819663603748864 …
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