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 PowerPlants
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 Re: U.G. Krishnamurti on Enlightenment, aka  [Re: Jessica Swift]
#15758629 - 02/04/12 02:46 AM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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I think Krishnamurti's face looked just like a Praying Mantis when he was younger, especially his eyes(anyone else notice that), in this video he looks like a crazy old man. But looks can be deceiving, I can't really discern his inner state based on his appearance, but I don't really want to either, I Am content with I Am. In seeking an outer guru one should definitely try to discern his state and intentions, imo my favorite expressions of truth are those who accept all, the manifest and unmanifest, the emptiness of the unmanifest and the fullness of the manifest. Nisargadatta said, "My emptiness is full." That is the true embrace of yin/yang.
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 Jessica Swift
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Re: U.G. Krishnamurti on Enlightenment, aka [Re: PowerPlants]
#15758715 - 02/04/12 03:17 AM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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PowerPlants said:
Nisargadatta said, "My emptiness is full."
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Re: U.G. Krishnamurti on Enlightenment, aka [Re: Ginseng1]
#15758716 - 02/04/12 03:18 AM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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LOL, thanks for posting this OP i thought it was pretty funny. did you see the guy sitting near him smile when they shifted the camera?
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Ginseng1 said:
From what I've seen and read of him, he just seems like a mediocre man with mediocre ideas. No light in him.
lol yeh exactly
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Re: U.G. Krishnamurti on Enlightenment, aka [Re: PowerPlants]
#15759267 - 02/04/12 09:30 AM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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PowerPlants said:
Nisargadatta said, "My emptiness is full."
In my earlier post, I was going to mention the brief encounter between U.G. and Nisargadatta Maharaj.
Here's the excerpt from the article:
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It seems that Maurice Frydman knew U. G. and also knew that he and Maharaj had never met, and probably didn't know about each other. He wanted to test the theory that one jnani can spot another jnani by putting them both in the same room, with a few other people around as camouflage. He organised a function and invited both of them to attend. U. G. spent quite some time there, but Maharaj only came for a few minutes and then left.
After Maharaj had left Maurice went up to U. G. and said, 'Did you see that old man who came in for a few minutes. Did you notice anything special? What did you see?'
U. G. replied, 'I saw a man, Maurice, but the important thing is, what did you see?'
The next day Maurice went to see Maharaj and asked, 'Did you see that man I invited yesterday?' A brief description of what he looked like and where he was standing followed.
Then Maurice asked, 'What did you see?'
Maharaj replied, 'I saw a man Maurice, but the important thing is, what did you see?'
http://www.maharajnisargadatta.com/david_goodman_interview_about_nisargadatta_2.php
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Re: U.G. Krishnamurti on Enlightenment, aka [Re: LSDenthusiast]
#15759308 - 02/04/12 10:03 AM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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Very nice.
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Re: U.G. Krishnamurti on Enlightenment, aka [Re: Jessica Swift]
#15759987 - 02/04/12 02:15 PM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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Another way to interpret the "mystical story" we potentially create for ourselves is the story of Daedalus (I'm reading Joyce's Portrait). I thought it would be interesting to cross-apply Greek folklore to Hindu philosophy, or 'anti-philosophy.'
From Wiki:
"The Labyrinth
Daedalus is first mentioned by Homer as the creator of a wide dancing-ground for Ariadne.[11] He also created the Labyrinth on Crete, in which the Minotaur (part man, part bull) was kept. In the story of the labyrinth Hellenes told, the Athenian hero Theseus is challenged to kill the Minotaur, finding his way with the help of Ariadne's thread. Daedalus' appearance in Homer is in an extended simile, "plainly not Homer's invention," Robin Lane Fox observes: "he is a point of comparison and so he belongs in stories which Homer's audience already recognized." [12] In Bronze Age Crete, an inscription da-da-re-jo-de has been read as referring to a place at Knossos,[13] and a place of worship.[14]
In Homer's language, objects which are daidala are finely crafted. They are mostly objects of armour, but fine bowls and furnishings are daidala, and on one occasion so are the "bronze-working" of "clasps, twisted brooches, earrings and necklaces" made by Hephaestus while cared for in secret by the goddesses of the sea.[15]
Ignoring Homer, later writers envisaged the labyrinth as an edifice rather than a single dancing path to the center and out again, and gave it numberless winding passages and turns that opened into one another, seeming to have neither beginning nor end.[16] Ovid, in his Metamorphoses, suggests that Daedalus constructed the Labyrinth so cunningly that he himself could barely escape it after he built it.[17] Daedalus built the labyrinth for King Minos, who needed it to imprison his wife's son the Minotaur. The story is told that Poseidon had given a white bull to Minos so that he might use it as a sacrifice. Instead, Minos kept it for himself; and in revenge, Poseidon made his wife Pasiphaë lust for the bull with the help of Aphrodite .[18] For Pasiphaë, as Greek mythologers interpreted it, Daedalus also built a wooden cow so she could mate with the bull, for the Greeks imagined the Minoan bull of the sun to be an actual, earthly bull, the slaying of which later required a heroic effort by Theseus.
This story thus encourages others to consider the long-term consequences of their own inventions with great care, lest those inventions do more harm than good."
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Re: U.G. Krishnamurti on Enlightenment, aka [Re: Jessica Swift]
#15760434 - 02/04/12 04:03 PM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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r72rock said:
I suppose I'm still curious though, if that's not spiritual, than what is?
To my own mind, the notion of spirituality is inseparable from bliss.
If awareness pisses you off, you're more than likely just entertaining delusion.
Every story and concept, every stimuli, every thought, is a passing image on a screen. Eat the popcorn and enjoy the Cartesian Theater. He's the guy who yells at the black lady on her cell phone, forgetting there is no audience. Even the attendees are in your movie!
The Buddha pretty much told the clergy that surrounded him on his deathbed to "go fuck themselves" too 
No interest in the promises of bliss.
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Re: U.G. Krishnamurti on Enlightenment, aka [Re: Kickle]
#15760501 - 02/04/12 04:21 PM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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And yet they're still building elaborate temples, ordaining new monks, and quoting scripture. Personally, I see our compulsion towards ideological organization to be a natural tendency that stems from our group/mammalian profile. Evolutionary psychology, as a lens, is also a great way to understand the mind. It doesn't all have to be obscure or mystical riddles. "Yes and no" and "maybe" are more powerful answers than either affirming or dismissing spirituality, per R. A. Wilson's logic. Plus, dichotomies/polarities/independence doesn't exist in nature, so for us to say spirituality "is" or "isn't" is kind of erroneous.
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Re: U.G. Krishnamurti on Enlightenment, aka [Re: Jessica Swift]
#15761995 - 02/04/12 10:29 PM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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"I have nothing to gain, or lose."
"Reject everything."
He's just pissed because he can't bullshit forever. I don't blame him.
Bullshitting is fun.
Either that or he really thinks we're just stupid monkeys with no potential.
All I know is that one should listen to oneself above all else.
If I'm lucky I'll be able to renounce all of my bullshit to the world on my deathbed, also. Stupid culture based on dollars and cents, forcing me to go around publicly worshipping money....I can see it now. 
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Re: U.G. Krishnamurti on Enlightenment, aka "Go Fuck Yourself" [Re: Kickle]
#15762951 - 02/05/12 03:36 AM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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Kickle said:
I've watched that video a few times now and I can still only make out a few words of what he's saying
but what I take away from it is that anyone who believes they are something is a fool. if that means believing you are an evolved creature or otherwise, knock it off idiot.
ehhh idk if i'd be criticizing others for having an ego just yet 
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Re: U.G. Krishnamurti on Enlightenment, aka "Go Fuck Yourself" [Re: Jessica Swift]
#15763811 - 02/05/12 12:24 PM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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Jessica Swift said:
I've been reading and listening to him lately. His basic message is that there is no such thing as enlightenment, spirituality, or mysticism. It's all just self-gratifying bullshit that you've inherited from someone else.
One Amazon book review (the Mystique of Enlightenment) says:
"I really wish I never read this book, stay away from it. It opened my eyes to "things" and now I have no idea what to do. The real reason for me being spiritiual was for me to be special and know more than the next man and for people to garnish their attention on me. I always knew this but I was lying to myself. anyway, great book, dont read it. it will turn you upside down."
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Him on his deathbed. He seems more full of anger than truth. If it's all nonsense, as he says it is, then he spent the majority of his life talking about nonsense. Which is, respectfully, semi-retarded.
It usually takes a long life to understand and admit the "truth" of what you really believe. He rocks in that vid. 
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Re: U.G. Krishnamurti on Enlightenment, aka "Go Fuck Yourself" [Re: g00ru]
#15763909 - 02/05/12 12:56 PM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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oojijimoo said:
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Kickle said:
I've watched that video a few times now and I can still only make out a few words of what he's saying
but what I take away from it is that anyone who believes they are something is a fool. if that means believing you are an evolved creature or otherwise, knock it off idiot.
ehhh idk if i'd be criticizing others for having an ego just yet
What do you mean?
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Re: U.G. Krishnamurti on Enlightenment, aka "Go Fuck Yourself" [Re: Kickle]
#15765272 - 02/05/12 07:33 PM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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cause while the noble direction truly is towards nothingness, many of us do not choose to remain entirely formless. I mean, fuck.
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Re: U.G. Krishnamurti on Enlightenment, aka "Go Fuck Yourself" [Re: g00ru]
#15765916 - 02/05/12 10:12 PM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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humans doing human things all the way around 
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Re: U.G. Krishnamurti on Enlightenment, aka "Go Fuck Yourself" [Re: Kickle]
#15766330 - 02/05/12 11:48 PM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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 not foolish
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