Space for Sharing What Arises From Contemplation of the Teachings of J. Krishnamurti
At Krishnamurti Forum:
*Sharing your thoughts on K’s teachings
*Questions you want to discuss with others
*Brief essays, personal or formal, that you may post
*Exchanges about posted entries
*The spirit of co-inquiry
Overview of the forum
We welcome diverse, and forthright, views, while eschewing dogmatic debate.
We share our partial understandings of ‘K’s’ teaching, as well as any explorations of where the teachings seem to point.
We are not here to identify with Krishnamurti’s teachings. Inquiry is a movement of discovery, leading away from the known, and is poles apart from identification with knowledge.
K’s teachings are a mirror that may reflect an inner luminescence within us. Thus aware, we become a light unto ourselves. In this light, perception is possible.
What does ‘interpreting’ Krishnamurti mean?
Questioner to Krishnamurti: “I have understood the things we have talked over during these meetings, even if only intellectually. I feel they are true in a deep sense. Now when I go back to my country, shall I talk about your teachings with friends? Or since I am still a fragmented human being will I only produce more confusion and mischief by talking about them?”
J. Krishnamurti: “…The questioner says: I have understood what you have said somewhat, partially, not completely; I am not a transformed human being. I understand, and I want to tell others what I have understood. I do not say I have understood the whole, I have understood a part. I know it is fragmented, I know it is not complete, I am not interpreting the teachings, I am just informing you what I have understood. Well, what is wrong with that? But if you say: “I have grasped the whole completely, and I am telling you” then you become an authority, the interpreter; such a person is a danger, he corrupts other people. But if I have seen something which is true I am not deceived by it; it is true and in that there is a certain affection, love, compassion; I feel that very strongly - then naturally I cannot help but go out to others. It would be silly to say I will not…”
— Questions and Answers, pp. 63-64, 3rd question and answer meeting, Saanen, July 1980. (Copyright 1982 Krishnamurti Foundation Trust, Ltd). This quotation was first found by us excerpted in The Beauty of the Mountain - Memories of J. Krishnamurti, by Friedrich Grohe.
Contributor Reflections
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