Hello! Has anybody here read, listened to or watched Krishnamurti?
I did. Especially his speech before the dissolution of the Order of the Star in East, was touchy but incredibly brainy. He was like a true machine of quotes. I truly liked his fundamentals in his philosophy: "When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind. "
To me, it's amazing how easy it is to understand him sometimes. Earlier in my life, I just fell asleep with his texts, but now I see so much more in them. Because he's not providing any guidelines, it's like he's just describing things as they are...
Like, when he talks about separation and isolation, and how it's only through others that we can truly know ourselves, because knowing oneself is not an ending but a process...
As he simply said: "The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river." Simply but wisely said. That's his magic I guess.
Unfortunatelly he is one of the most underrated philosophers. I think everyone should read his book "the Book of Life."