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A Spiritual Guru: J. Krishnamurti

Jiddu Krishnamurti was one of the most popular spiritual gurus in Asia in the 70s and 80s. I have a chance to watch a video about his conversation with Chognam Trungpa Rinpoche regarding the topic, ‘What is meditation?’ I have a new perspective about his reputation as a spiritual guru. My father used to say,You can be disappointed if you met a famous book author personally.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYvV07c0p4Y

Sometimes, it is better to keep the contact the author through the book itself. But, I have learned a lot of insight from his books. I still appreciate to his existence in my journey to find myself.

 

 

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Oxymoron

mimijk's avatarWaiting for the Karma Truck

Hi  my friend,

The night was sleepless and I’m wide awake…and the co-existence of contradictory realities seems to prevail.  I am a contradiction in terms – held together by the small inhalations between words.  You’d think that living within duality would at least offer up some deep slumber at the end of a day.  Ha.

Here’s one for you – I stopped believing in atheism a long time ago (yes, an oxymoron with a little hint of humor).  About the time I stopped writing everything in lower case and pretending that I was a potential hybrid of joni mitchell and e.e. cummings.  That said, I still belief in disbelief, if disbelief equals wonder and incredulity and stuff that’s just really hard to believe.

I believe in God.  I believe that there is something that I can’t adequately explain and seek daily, even though I know it’s there.  We have conversations…

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