Krishnamruti teaching being negative and hostile. It isn't to me!

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> Sun, 16 Apr 2006 09:01:58 EDT

> epston

>Krishnamurti -Negative Teaching

 

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

 

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

> well-being.

 

> Larry Epston

 

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

wwoehr writes:

 

>

> " 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. "

>

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

>

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

 

Larry,

 

I see nothing negative or hostile at all in what J. Krishnamurti

says in the above. It comes across as clear, logical, and wise to me as

well as very heart-warming.

 

Michael