Theos-Talk Archives (May 2009 Message tt00489)

Thanks for the question Govert.

The only true answer is that I don't know.  Here are a few pointers that I have found useful

All the evidence points to Leadbeater 'discovering' Krishnamurti.  Whether he, K, was the world Teacther or not, he turned out to be an extraordinary person in the 20th century.  If it was a guess it turned out better than any of my guesses on anything.

In her diagram of Meditation, which is my own favorite, HPB asks us to acquire the capacity to see existing things without love, hate or indifference.  I find resonance of this in K's "Look, don't think.'  Incidently this is easy to say but extraordinarily difficult to do.

She also urges us to constantly refuse to think of the reality of '...association with places, times & forms.  Again there is resonence with K's, 'I have no nationality'& 'I have no religion'.  The issue is who/what is the 'I' that has no nationality?

Ramana Maharshi when asked about K said, 'Krishnamurti only speaks in absolutes.

I have known a large number of members who knew Leadbeater very well.  Two were boys who lived with him & denyed any impropriety; another was a very senior Australian Public servant who was fascinated by his theosophical teaching but who constantly had to remind himself that Leadbeater was essentially a 19th century Englishman whose conditioning was very different from his own; as both are from mine and mine from young people today.  e.g. He used this insight to help him interpret Leadbeater's description of K's initiation in 'Masters & the Path'.  Another woman of the same era could not stand the man.  I try and suspend judgement.  I don't know & I don't have to know.  HPB praised awareness of one's own ignorance as necessary before one begins the quest for the Voice of the Silence.  In spite of my conditioning I try to 'know that I don't know'.

I'm sorry that in this site where concrete, hardened judgements for and against abound on almost everyone & everything that I am just unable to take a firm stand other thatn to use what appeals to me & not worry about the rest

Brian
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> From: Govert Schuller <schuller@...>
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> Sent: Tuesday, 12 May, 2009 11:46:12 AM
> Subject: Re: Theos-World Re: The "clairvoyant finding" of Krishnamurti?
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> Addressing Brian or me?
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> From: Cass Silva 
> To: theos-talk@yahoogro ups.com 
> Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 10:23 PM
> Subject: Re: Theos-World Re: The "clairvoyant finding" of Krishnamurti?
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> What is so detrimental about sorting the chaff from the wheat?
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> Cass
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> From: Govert Schuller <schuller@alpheus. org>
> To: theos-talk@yahoogro ups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, 12 May, 2009 10:57:44 AM
> Subject: Re: Theos-World Re: The "clairvoyant finding" of Krishnamurti?
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> Dear Brian,
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> Thanks for formulating a fair enough criticism on an esoteric conspiricism. 
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> What's your take on the truth about CWL and K? Genuine project? Succesfull project? 
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> Govert
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: butchie122 
> To: theos-talk@yahoogro ups.com 
> Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 9:38 PM
> Subject: Theos-World Re: The "clairvoyant finding" of Krishnamurti?
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> This post takes the cake; one puts up a 'possibility' , builds a theory & off we go. Why not suggest that the K finding was the result of a papal plot to discredit Theosophy, or of a dugpa, or if the Raj to further undermine the home rule movement. This sort of speculation is nothing to do with Theosophy or The truth about Leadbeater or K. NO wonder this whole site deals with matters that are largely irrelevant to most members.
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> Brian Parry 
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> --- In theos-talk@yahoogro ups.com, "nhcareyta" <nhcareyta@ ..> wrote:
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> > Dear All
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> > Historically, there has been much debate concerning the 
> > putative "claiorvoyant finding" of Jiddu Krishnamurti by 
> > Bishop (then Mr) CW Leadbeater.
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> > Has anybody considered the possibility that the Mahatmas 
> > and/or Karma itself had a role in bringing together the bad 
> > Bishop and Krishnamurti for the purpose of ultimately 
> > confronting the blind, authoritarian, messianic, follower 
> > mindset, promoted by Bishop Leadbeater and Dr Besant, 
> > a mindset so utterly abhorrent to genuine Theosophy?
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> > As we are witnessing in this forum, is it not extraordinary 
> > just how tenaciously resistant the blind, authoritarian mindset 
> > can be in the face of overwhelming evidence and facts?
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> > Regards
> > Nigel
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