Now I'm not so sure I should have written that about Jimi.
I mean... to be suspicious only contributes to the spirit/energy of suspicion.
And it would be nice to be done with that.
Oh, well...
I am rethinking and wishing for non-thinking after reading something I saved a month ago but am only now reading.
I am new to Krishnamurti.
Krishnamurti is new to me.
But what he says resonates quite well.
So I will post it here you see what you think.
This is an excerpt from Krishnamurti: A Biography, by Pupul Jayakar
The emphases in BOLD type are mine.
My thanks to Michael St.Clair for bringing this man and his teachings to my attention.
http://stclair11.blogspot.com/
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Thursday, July 21, 2005
HOW TO DEAL WITH THE EMERGING VIOLENCE
[Vim: Or anything else that bugs ya...]
There is one interesting thing about Krishnamurti that was both striking and educational for the people who attended his public talks. He never commented directly on violent events happening in the world. If asked, he actually said to people: "don't feed it. Don't give it energy." What did he mean by this?
During one public discussion a transatlantic passenger plane blew apart killing everyone on board. One would have expected that he say something to people about this tragedy. He said not a word. Not a single word or comment did he make. Krishnamurti saw our own mindless reaction to violent events as being part of the problem. He himself did not "react", and he advised others also, not to react. He often said to people: "When you react to violence you feed it and give it power, you make it happen." When in reality one had to withdraw the energy from thought, which is the source of all conflict.
During the talks and discussions Krishnamurti focused on the untapped resource of the human being to know peace, which was to have a mind free of conflict and violence. He considered that this world would only know peace when the mind was quiet and free of fear. When dealing with violence he suggested, seeing it for what it is and letting it go. The violence of thought was as real as the act itself. When he said: "You live such violent lives." He meant inwardly, individually, personally in the way people think and live.
During his talks he actually carried people away from the mundane world and into a world of peace. This peace resonated in his voice as passionate and something we must all demand of ourselves. He insisted that we accept nothing less, no compromise and that to do this would mean walking away from the world. He even suggested one has to leave the violence to destroy itself, and that "opposing violence" was, in itself an act of violence. He said the two have the same root, the same cause ... the cause being personal fear and the solution being the complete ending and absence of fear.
"Indira Ghandi was shot by two of her security guards October 31 at 9:20 A.M., as she was walking from her residence to her office. Riddled by bullets, she fell mortally wounded to the earth, surrounded by growing things. She fell close to the grove of kadamba saplings she had planted that rainy season, after the June tragedy in Punjab.
"Krishnaji sat through the day in my sitting room overlooking the garden; he had watched the trees and the birds, hardly speaking and eating little. At four in the afternoon he had felt Indira's presence and had commented on the need for silence within the mind to enable her to be at peace. I could see that he was deeply moved. Late the next night he was to say, "Don't hold memories of Indira in your mind, that holds her to the earth. Let her go." His hand made a gesture towards space and eternity."
From - Krishnamurti: A Biography, by Pupul Jayakar
Krishnamurti.org
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