tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037385.post4042712103575300473..comments2024-03-04T22:54:13.447+05:30Comments on Remains of the Day: Seeking the Unknown, part 2Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037385.post-83497563414536918712016-01-12T20:30:32.127+05:302016-01-12T20:30:32.127+05:30> A seeker is a fish who hasn't found water...> A seeker is a fish who hasn't found water yet.<br /><br />Interesting spiritual adage of the ilk of the koan-like nonsense of "You only need to realize you are already realized."<br /><br />Harmanjit Singhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14714797381673153973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037385.post-53003544872746209112016-01-12T20:28:14.689+05:302016-01-12T20:28:14.689+05:30> "For all his confusion, Jiddu Krishnamur...> "For all his confusion, Jiddu Krishnamurti was...." What do you mean when you say "his confusion"?<br /><br />Jiddu Krishnamurti was scientifically illiterate. He was a mystic who didn't really understand economics, evolution, sociobiology, the value of tradition and instincts and ego and reputation, etc. He was a traditional spiritualist in a modern garb.<br /><br />It was rich of him to suggest people shouldn't care about money and power since he was himself quite privileged due to his trust fund and his connections, and was a hypocrite and a bully in may ways, but that is besides the point when it comes to criticizing his ideas.Harmanjit Singhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14714797381673153973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037385.post-78966292768901547952016-01-12T05:37:45.427+05:302016-01-12T05:37:45.427+05:30A seeker is a fish who hasn't found water yet....A seeker is a fish who hasn't found water yet.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037385.post-75239305080135119322016-01-11T08:18:13.280+05:302016-01-11T08:18:13.280+05:30"For all his confusion, Jiddu Krishnamurti wa..."For all his confusion, Jiddu Krishnamurti was...." What do you mean when you say "his confusion"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037385.post-61558616512256808432016-01-11T08:13:24.510+05:302016-01-11T08:13:24.510+05:30Very nice to see the seeker's status has been ...<br />Very nice to see the seeker's status has been exonerated - as I think Krishnamurti for one, and a few others like UG have characterized (spiritual) seeking as another type of ambition. Though of course I have read that he praised the burning discontent and asked us to stay with it rather than move away into various form of escapes. To me, seeking results in not compromising oneself with anything less and trying to attain one's best; ambition is still short of this, as you point out, as no worldly achievement could be called one's best however venerable that might be. And I believe that the seeker has no single destination in sight and lateral progress even if it is infrequent can differentiate this from a state of plain endless despair.zrini (srini, ஸ்ரீநி, வாசு, சீனு, சீனி etc.)https://www.blogger.com/profile/03739729503707786505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037385.post-71900414975729427052016-01-10T10:25:07.631+05:302016-01-10T10:25:07.631+05:30Which category are you in Harman? :)Which category are you in Harman? :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com