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Love Has No Cause (& About Friedrich Grohe)
2010 - by Reza Ganjavi


Dear Friend Friedrich Grohe kindly shared a DVD of an interview which another dear friend, Evelyne Blau had made. On this video Evelyne asked Friedrich about something about K which impressed Friedrich greatly. It occurred to Friedrich later, after the video was done, a profound phrase which Krishnamurti had told him in the tent in Saanen where K used to give talks: “Love has no cause”. I remember Friedrich mentioning this phrase before. It points to a profound truth which is part of us. It resonates deeply. It is so.

Friedrich Grohe is a fascinating person. I have written about him on various occasions. We first met in 1993. On the bus last week we met a group if originally Indians from Kenya. A lady asked if he’s my father. He’s like my father. There is a synergy there which nothing seem to able to take away. And we both have a deep mutual interest in this work. Love has no cause.

He was instrumental in my move to Switzerland – he invited me here once where we stayed in Rougemont with other dear friends like Colin Foster, Bill Taylor and several others. I accompanied an old friend of K, Bill Quinn, on the flight. Bill lived with K some decades earlier. He was a homosexual (I am not), he always smiled, and he smoked. A gentle, soft spoken person, he had a lot of good stories about K, as did Albion Patterson who also lived with K a long long time ago. I used to visit Albion regularly for discussions about everything including K’s work, the indexing project Albion was passionate about, how he picked up women, and of course his good friend, Dr. Hillary Rodriguez who’s now a prominent philosopher and K scholar.

On that first trip to Rougemont, on the day of departure, there was a triple-rainbow across the sky of the Red Mountain.
 
Friedrich met K around the same time as I did – and became close friends in  the last 3 years of his life. They developed a keen affection for each other. Once standing around with some of the old timers, Friedrich thought, I’m new and these are old friends, and K gives me more attention, would they feel strange? He didn’t say a word, but K turned around and said : “I don’t think that way”!

This is somewhat esoteric but for a long time I had the idea based on some indications that maybe when a loved one dies s/he becomes a guardian angel (given s/he was not part of the pool of suffering, anxieties, pities, unfulfilled desires, becoming, cravings, fears, and other characteristics of ‘the stream’).

K said Friedrich should change his name to “Ange Gardien” (Guardian Angel).

In November 1985 in Rajghat K told Friedrich, “I have some months to live.”. In December, during the last talk, K had a fever. He died in February 1986.

KFA, and next year also KFT, publish a beautiful calendar containing Friedrich’s breath-taking nature photographs together with K quotes. It’s available for purchase through http://bookstore.kfa.org/cat/catalog/ , and he also sends them as gifts to hundreds of friends.

[DISCLAIMER: I do not work for Friedrich and never have. Love has no cause].








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