Exploring how fashionable tradition usually reduces like to intercourse and pleasure, J. Krishnamurti factors to a deeper understanding: love as a mirror for self-knowledge and true relationship.
To begin initially of this 18-part dialogue on consciousness, spirituality and navigating life with J. Krishnamurti and Dr. Allan W. Anderson: Click on Right here
On this episode, J. Krishnamurti and Dr. Allan W. Anderson contemplate:
- How one can love with out specializing in achievement or reward
- Why lowering like to intercourse and pleasure distorts its true nature
- Actual love as the entire absence of ego
- The Christian perspective on love and dissolving the “I”
- Pure pleasure as an easy state and the way that is related to like
- The function of celibacy throughout religious traditions
- How chastity can open the thoughts to readability and fact
- The concept of enjoyment as pleasure
- How ambition, nationalism, and identification, can deeply isolate an individual
“Western civilization has put this over the entire of the earth by means of cinema, books, pornography, ads, tales. This sense of affection is identification with intercourse, which is pleasure, principally. Can a thoughts pursuing pleasure, bold/aggressive thoughts, can such a thoughts love? It will possibly love sexually, however love of intercourse is the one factor.” – J. Krishnamurti
This discuss was initially recorded in 1974 at San Diego State College and curated by the Krishnamurti Basis of America
About J. Krishnamurti:
For almost six a long time till his passing in 1986 on the age of ninety, Jiddu Krishnamurti traversed the globe, delivering spontaneous and fascinating discourses to giant audiences. Krishnamurti assumed the function of an investigator somewhat than an authority determine, encouraging people to query assumptions and discover the depths of their consciousness. His in depth physique of labor, estimated at over 100 million phrases, spans greater than six a long time of relentless inquiry and dialogue. His teachings, compiled in quite a few books and translated into a number of languages, proceed to encourage seekers worldwide, inviting them to embark on a profound journey of self-discovery and understanding. J. Krishnamurti’s legacy endures as a guiding mild, providing timeless knowledge for many who dare to problem standard pondering and discover the complexities of existence.
“Love is, in spite of everything, a way of whole absence of the ‘me’, my ego, my ambitions, my greed, all that which is me. Complete negation of all that, not brutal denial or surgery, however the understanding of all that. When the me shouldn’t be, the opposite is.” – J. Krishnamurti
About Dr. Allan W. Anderson:
Dr. Allan Anderson was a poet, writer, Professor Emeritus, beloved trainer, scholar of the Oracular Custom, and a gifted spiritual linguist. He helped to kind the Division of Spiritual Research at San Diego State Faculty in 1969. Dr. Anderson later turned chair of that division, specializing in Jap Religions, till his retirement in 1985.
