In
appreciation for a donation I made to the Oak Grove School’s matching
fund, KFA sent a CD “the book of oneself” from a discussion in Rishi
Valley. The term “book of oneself” only appears once in the discussion,
in the opening statement by Pupul Jayakar (whose name is misspelled on
the CD label), referring to the discussion of the previous day. That
day’s discussion centered around the “story of mankind” and was like
pulling teeth. I felt sorry for K. It appeared that for 20 minutes K
was trying to convey some basic concepts to Mrs. Jayakar and Mr.
Patwardhan, two of his close associates.
(See “The Myth of ‘Nobody Got It’” originally published in my 2009 circular: http://home.datacomm.ch/rezamusic/On-work-around-k-work-2008.html#_Toc218445577 )
With one click the text of the discussion showed up: http://www.etresoi.ch/krishnamurti/oneself/oneself.html
IMHO, here’s the gist of the discussion:
K:
I will tell you. The story of mankind is an endless movement. It had no
beginning and no end. If you once grant that - right? It has no ending.
But my brain being limited is looking for its ending. Right? So I am
approaching the book with 'where is the end of all this?'
PJ: The search is for the ending.
K:
Of course, of course. But to realize there is no end. You know what it
means? Then you enter into something called love. Love has no end. I
may love my wife, she dies, or I die, but the thing called love has no
end. But I have identified myself with my wife and when she dies my
love has gone - or I love somebody else, which then becomes pleasure
and all the rest of it. I don't want enter into all that.
So
how do I read the book? That's the question. How do I read the book?
You don't read at all. Right? There is no book to read if you have come
to that point.
PJ: Without coming to that point the other is...
K:
You merely examine, analyse, change, move, change the chips in the same
field. Right? When you have come to this really deep point that this
book has no end and no beginning, which means you are that book. Not
that you become eternal, which is dangerous again. But that life as
this movement has no end, it is then the universe. Right? Then the
cosmos is this whole thing.
Love has no end. It is so.
Unrelated to the above, here’s an interesting quote I just came upon, from a 1983 interview:
East West Journal: Has your teaching and your writing made a change?
K:
With some, perhaps. I'm not looking to see if somebody's changed or
not. It's like this: you give food to me and if I'm hungry I'll take
it. And if I'm not, I look at it, smell it, say "it's very nice," and
then wander off. Very few people are hungry for this kind of stuff.
Buddha is supposed to have talked for forty years, and there were only
two disciples who understood—Mogallana and Sariputtra— and they died
before he did. There is the whole tragedy of existence.
We’re
in a different époque, we have technology, we have literacy, and people
and information can travel very fast. What seems to still hold true
today is this subject of hunger and thirst for wisdom. Our civilization
seems much more hungry for dollars, power and control, than wisdom,
truth, love, and real peace which begins with each person.
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