Sun-Tzu & Krishnamurti
Truth is always new, never the known.
March 1st. The ending of time. At first sight it seems odd to put together Sun-Tzu the sage commander and Krishnamurti the teacher of the world. But when we look at the message on how to manifest peace, we meet both paths, the art of war, and the pathless land.
"We are all leaders in our own way. We all face conflict and chaos in our lives, but the wise leader seeks victory beyond aggression. The Sun Tzu, the ancient Chinese text known in the West as The Art of War, shows us how to conquer without aggression. It teaches "taking whole," by which an enemy is overcome without being destroyed. For over two millennia this text has been studied in East Asia. Now its tradition has the possibility of taking authentic root in the West. Anyone seeking to work skillfully with conflict can benefit from its insights. The Sun Tzu speaks to conflict from a place we call victory. Victory implies the attainment of one's objective.
But true victory is much more than that. Taking the view of the whole, it encompasses the views of both its enemies and allies. It looks beyond immediate loss and gain, going to the root of all contention. It is utterly flexible. Victory is more a way of being than a final goal. It is the ground on which we can most effectively participate in conflict."
An essay by The Denma Translation Group, authors of a new translation of The Art of War.
click on: Creative Resistance
Found here at my Argonaut Forum
Yesterday - February 28th - was my birthday #46, Pisces sun & Scorpio moon, as it was when I was born, I like that, cool, and tomorrow I start a five day symposium meeting with clients. Uranus is rolling in. The ending of time is taking place, means I can stay mid forties forever ET.
I like what I do... but I only have few books I can carry around in my many little trips. Since carrying an Ephemeris (a book with the planetary positions) is regarded by Homeland Security as suspect terrorist behavior, I always have with me instead Krishnamurti's Notebook, which is the model to my considerations of my Closer To The Stars Blog into the otherness.
To explain Krishnamurti is like stirring pudding with a piece of string, and so it is best I let the man who taught David Bohm and who adviced men like Einstein, Charlie Chaplin, and Eric Clapton talk for himself. 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 own mind, through observation and not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection. Man has built in himself images as a fence of security - religious, political, personal. These manifest as symbols, ideas, beliefs. The burden of these images dominates man’s thinking, his relationships, and his daily life. These images are the causes of our problems for they divide man from man. His perception of life is shaped by the concepts already established in his mind. The content of his consciousness is his entire existence.
This content is common to all humanity. The individuality is the name, the form and superficial culture he acquires from tradition and environment. The uniqueness of man does not lie in the superficial but in complete freedom from the content of his consciousness, which is common to all mankind. So he is not an individual.Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not a choice. It is man’s pretense that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is without motive; freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man but lies in the first step of his existence. In observation one begins to discover the lack of freedom. Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence and activity.
Thought is time. Thought is born of experience and knowledge, which are inseparable from time and the past. Time is the psychological enemy of man. Our action is based on knowledge and therefore time, so man is always a slave to the past. Thought is ever-limited and so we live in constant conflict and struggle. There is no psychological evolution.When man becomes aware of the movement of his own thoughts, he will see the division between the thinker and thought, the observer and the observed, the experiencer and the experience. He will discover that this division is an illusion. Then only is there pure observation which is insight without any shadow of the past or of time.
This timeless insight brings about a deep, radical mutation in the mind.Total negation is the essence of the positive. When there is negation of all those things that thought has brought about psychologically, only then is there love, which is compassion and intelligence."
I like what I do... but I only have few books I can carry around in my many little trips. Since carrying an Ephemeris (a book with the planetary positions) is regarded by Homeland Security as suspect terrorist behavior, I always have with me instead Krishnamurti's Notebook, which is the model to my considerations of my Closer To The Stars Blog into the otherness.
To explain Krishnamurti is like stirring pudding with a piece of string, and so it is best I let the man who taught David Bohm and who adviced men like Einstein, Charlie Chaplin, and Eric Clapton talk for himself. 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 own mind, through observation and not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection. Man has built in himself images as a fence of security - religious, political, personal. These manifest as symbols, ideas, beliefs. The burden of these images dominates man’s thinking, his relationships, and his daily life. These images are the causes of our problems for they divide man from man. His perception of life is shaped by the concepts already established in his mind. The content of his consciousness is his entire existence.
This content is common to all humanity. The individuality is the name, the form and superficial culture he acquires from tradition and environment. The uniqueness of man does not lie in the superficial but in complete freedom from the content of his consciousness, which is common to all mankind. So he is not an individual.Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not a choice. It is man’s pretense that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is without motive; freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man but lies in the first step of his existence. In observation one begins to discover the lack of freedom. Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence and activity.
Thought is time. Thought is born of experience and knowledge, which are inseparable from time and the past. Time is the psychological enemy of man. Our action is based on knowledge and therefore time, so man is always a slave to the past. Thought is ever-limited and so we live in constant conflict and struggle. There is no psychological evolution.When man becomes aware of the movement of his own thoughts, he will see the division between the thinker and thought, the observer and the observed, the experiencer and the experience. He will discover that this division is an illusion. Then only is there pure observation which is insight without any shadow of the past or of time.
This timeless insight brings about a deep, radical mutation in the mind.Total negation is the essence of the positive. When there is negation of all those things that thought has brought about psychologically, only then is there love, which is compassion and intelligence."
Here is the excerpt I marked for this new year, from K's 'NoteBook', page 23 in the 2003 version - copyright Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd. - with his expanded writings found in 2000:
"But there is a power which is in no way related to that power which is evil. This power is not to be bought through sacrifice, virtue, good works and beliefs, nor is it to be bought through worship, prayers and self-denying or self-destructive meditations. All effort to become or to be must wholly, naturally, cease. Only then that power which is not evil, can be."
(Upon arriving in Gstaad Switzerland, July 14th, 1961)
THE CORE --- J. Krishnamurti
Truth is a pathless land.
K's considerations best summarize my approach to everything I do since I am a kid. When I arrived here in early 1959, I must have chosen some interesting entry point. A few years later I started attending the ET night school of the inter-dimensional lights... glad to see there are some of these kids around now, in their ageless timeless latest incarnation...
Above link opens the piece that is the summary of my underground most-viewed pdf-file book - 'Passage To Peace' - part one of CLOSER TO THE STARS
posted by Michael St.Clair at Tuesday, March 01, 2005
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home