Theos-Talk Archives (April 1998 Message tt00047)

Very well, Bart!
Out of original context, important quotes can be used like "perversions"...
That's the reason why Krishnamurti always alert against the danger of
"quotes".

FdF

-----Mensagem original-----
De: Bart Lidofsky <bartl@sprynet.com>
Para: theos-talk@theosophy.com <theos-talk@theosophy.com>
Data: Domingo, 5 de Abril de 1998 20:01
Assunto: Re:Question: new messenger?

>Jeffrey Michael Hoover wrote:
>
>> Krishnamurti began teaching the following perversions:
>>
>> ************************
>> "I have told you frankly that Masters are unessential, that the idea of
Masters
>> is nothing more than a toy to the man who really seeks truth."
>
> Isn't that what the Mahatmas themselves said? Didn't they object to too
much
>thought about them, as it interefered with their work? He wasn't saying
that they
>weren't important, just that they were not relevant to the seeker of truth.
>
>> "The core of Krishnamurti's teaching is contained in the statement he
made in
>> 1929 when he said: 'Truth is a pathless land.' Man cannot come to it
through
>> any organization, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual,
not
>> through any philosophic knowledge or psychological technique. He has to
find it
>> through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the
contents
>> of his mind, through observation and not through intellectual analysis or
>> introspective dissection."
>
> In other words, regardless of how far organizations, creeds, etc. take
you,
>sooner or later you're on your own.
>
> Bart Lidofsky