jimbocoin on Nostr: I recently discovered Jiddu Krishnamurti. You may like his style. If you like ...

I recently discovered Jiddu Krishnamurti. You may like his style.

If you like Watts’s direct approach, as compared to Zen master’s riddles, you’ll probably like Krishnamurti’s even more direct statements. He gives you nowhere to stand.

“If I were foolish enough to give you a system and if you were foolish enough to follow it, you would merely be copying, imitating, conforming, accepting, and when you do that you have set up in yourself the authority of another and hence there is conflict between you and that authority… In trying to conform to the ideology, you suppress yourself - whereas what is actually true is not the ideology but what you are. If you try to study yourself according to another you will always remain a second-hand human being.” —J. Krishnamurti, Freedom From the Known