On Jiddu Krishnamurti – He was the teacher for our times.
He spoke for our mentality and perception of the world. I confess I read everything that came to my hands – books with his talks and books about him, biographies and so on. The diaries he wrote too (1, 2 and 3). I intend to buy some DVDs because it’s very significant to just see and hear him, not only to read what he said. I feel that his eyes, his attentiveness, complete response and awaken gestures, are something that adds to his words. I just never saw personally. But I don’t want to make a cult out of this because, as he said, he wasn’t a guru, nor someone to be worshiped and so on. He never wanted to create a new religion around his figure. His words are the ones of an enlightened, but of a highly enlightened soul. Of course we can’t compare, and we shouldn’t compare things.
I’ve read a lot of spiritual books and I haven’t find a similar message. That’s why I recomend the reading of any of his books. It’s the case that, after reading, you might say: “okay, I’ve read enough, now enough with reading and let’s do what we have to do, which is, to meditate.” Not in any particular technique, but to really paying attention to our inner reactions. That is being attentive to ourselves, and understanding ourselves.I give you one example of Krishnamurti’s message by commenting his “Diary”:
I WAS READING THE LAST DIARY OF JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI. THE CHAPTER ON WHICH HE EXPLAINS THINGS ABOUT LIFE AND DEATH. THAT LIFE AND DEATH AREN’T 2 SEPARATED THINGS. IT’S HARD FOR ME TO UNDERSTAND SUCH A STATEMENT. BUT OF COURSE, COMING FROM AN ENLIGHTENED PERSON, THAT SOUNDS EVEN NATURAL.
I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHAT IS THE DIMENSION OF THE MIND FROM WHICH YOU SEE EVERYTHING CLEAR, LIKE THAT – IN LIFE ITSELF YOU CAN LIVE WITH DEATH. FOR ME BOTH ARE SO MUCH SEPARATED THAT I CAN’T SEE THE CONTINUITY. BUT FOR HIM THERE IS A RENEWAL IN DEATH. ALSO, FOR HIM, LIFE AS WE KNOW IT ( FROM THE DIMENSION OF THE “EGO” OR” THE SELF”) IS BASED IN TIME, AND TIME IS THE OPPOSITE OF OBSERVATION AND LIFE.
SO, IN THIS PARTICULAR KIND OF DEATH, YOU RENEW YOUR OWN LIFE. THIS DEATH FOR HIM MEANS TO DIE FOR YESTERDAY. FOR EVERYTHING THAT PASSED. FOR YOUR ATTACHMENTS, IT MEANS FOR YOUR “EGO”. IT’S LIKE THE MESSAGE OF THE ZEN BUDDHISM, AND SO MANY OTHER MESSAGES TOLD BY THE EASTERN RELIGIONS.
I CAN SAY FOR MYSELF, THAT IN THE MOMENTS WE LIFE A KIND OF EXPERIENCE IN WHICH WE ARE TOTALLY PRESENT WITH OUR SOUL AND BODY, WE LIVE A KIND OF DEATH FOR OURSELVES. WE FORGET ABOUT PAST AND FUTURE, BECAUSE WE ARE FULLY IN THE PRESENT MOMENT. AND I GUESS THIS IS WHAT HE TALKS ABOUT.
I CAN SAY THAT I LIVED VERY NICE MOMENTS LIKE THAT,AND THEN I WASN’T WORRIED ABOUT MY OWN LIFE. I WAS MORE CONNECTED WITH THE OTHERS AND THE OTHERNESS., WITH “THAT WHICH IS”. I MEAN, WITH THAT EXISTING TRUTH BUT NOT LIKE WE SEE IT, THROUGH OUR COLOURED LENSES. SO REALITY CAN DEVELOP WITHOUT HINDRANCE.
