Quote from: Eosophoros on July 12, 2010, 08:58:04 PMThe articles are short, numerous and require a lot of thought to get through, at least for me - usually I'm a pretty fast reader. Go forth, read, enjoy, detest, discuss, deride, derail the thread into a comment war about jelly versus jam. (Actually... please don't?)
Don't become too fast, because in the end, the speed will be so high, that you may not see anything any more. No wars, because wars come from ego, and machoistic mind. I just tell the truth, and will argue no more. Honestly, I have read much about Krishnamurti, and I feel he was just power-oriented egoistic fellow, who loved to deceive people with words. He was trained by the Theosophists, to become sort of superman-messiah.
He suffered a tragic childhood, and probably developed lifelong traumas. His father, friends at school and teachers beat him up regularly. Later, he rebelled against theosophy. I don't know what his "process" was all about, but suspect he had psychosomatic problems, and he mistook these as spiritual enlightenment. After that, he went into sort of all enveloping nihilism, denying every authority figure, I think this may be classic case of failed oedipal struggle. He behaved in blatant disrespectful fashion. He was into sports, had short patience, so he was neurologically on far on the active side, possibly something from ADHD or asperger spectrums. His mind going overdrive, you sense this when reading his texts. This people often mistake as intelligence.
He seems to have taught celibacy, and at same time he had affairs with women. His way to treat people was harsh, even brutal, perhaps he was avenging to his father.
"Krishnamurti lacked ordinary human compassion and kindness; he was intolerant, even contemptuous, of those who could not rise to his own high plane "(Vernon, 2001).
"Krishnamurti isolated himself from criticism and feedback, "just like everybody he was criticizing," [Joel] Kramer [co-author of The Guru Papers] said, and had to have "the last word on everything" (Horgan, 1999).He denied teachers and gurus, but was himself the autocratic monarch. He denied the messiahs but said that he is even greater than Buddha or the Christ. I say this Krihnamurti-fellow and his teachings are dangerous, and it is a pity that so many seekers feel attracted to him.
Sources: Wikipedia, Stripping the Gurus by Geoffrey D. Falk.CHAPTER V THE KRINSH (JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI)
