Krishnamurti -Negative Teaching (or so it seems to L.E.)

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Nisargadatta , epston wrote:

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> L.E: A good example of very bad teaching and advice.

> Read it carefully. His ideas are very negative and hostile to

well-being.

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> Larry Epston

 

*To you* perhaps that is the way it seems.

 

I suggest, however, that you will have difficulty

finding others to concur.

 

Bill

 

 

> In a message dated 4/16/2006 4:14:39 AM Pacific Daylight Time,

> wwoehr writes:

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> > " Love is not a thing of the mind, is it? Love is not merely the

> > sexual act, is it? Love is something which the mind can not possibly

> > conceive. Love is something which cannot be formulated. And without

> > love, you become related; without love, you marry. Then, in that

> > marriage, you " adjust yourselves " to each other. Lovely phrase! You

> > adjust yourselves to each other, which is again an intellectual

> > process, is it not? . . . This adjustment is obviously a mental

> > process. All adjustments are. But, surely, love is incapable of

> > adjustment. You know, sirs, don't you, that if you love another,

> > there is no " adjustment. " There is only complete fusion. Only when

> > there is no love do we begin to adjust. And this adjustment is called

> > marriage. Hence, marriage fails, because it is the very source of

> > conflict, a battle between two people. It is an extraordinarily

> > complex problem, like all problems, but more so because the

> > appetites, the urges, are so strong. So, a mind which is merely

> > adjusting itself can never be chaste. A mind which is seeking

> > happiness through sex can never be chaste. Though you may momentarily

> > have, in that act, self-abnegation, self-forgetfulness, the very

> > pursuit of that happiness, which is of the mind, makes the mind

> > unchaste. Chastity comes into being only where there is love. "

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> > " Love Is Incapable of Adjustment " - The Book of Life (April 16)

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> > http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/index.php?

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