It's also a well known fact that Krishnamurti had a long secret intimate relationship with his best friend's - only the best friend (Raja) was too dumb to know it! So much for "here to here". Looks like a lot of here to there stuff. http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/1/9.jpg
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > Well that's a POV, but Om what the hell does Krishnamurti know? > > We've got work to do to get people from here to there. > > -Buck in the Dome > > Well, Buck, Maharhisi said Krishnamurti was in unity. Specifically he said > 'too far gone in Unity'. Krishnamurti slipped into it, but never really knew > how he got there, which was why he had such difficulty getting people to > understand what he was talking about. That's because with enlightenment, you > do not get people from here to there, that is not how it works, but > unfortunately everyone interprets the journey of enlightenment from 'here to > there' rather than from 'here to here'; in fact it is not even that, it is > just 'here'. Maharishi understood this, as did other teachers, that you have > to find a way to trick the mind into thinking that teaching is going to take > you from some state to another state, presumably a better one, to motivate > the mind to engage in the practices that will lead to dissolving the delusion > that enlightenment is something different from what you are already > experiencing. >