In the lecture “Krishnamurti, Part 1: His Teaching”, delivered April 3, 2021, Diamond Approach founder and spiritual teacher A. H. Almaas discussed the teachings of 20thcentury spiritual teacher Jiddu Krishnamurti. This was the second lecture in the 2021 A.H. Almaas Lecture Series, offered by the Ridhwan Foundation, the home of the Diamond Approach.
Key insights
• 🌀 Observing without distortion or desire for pleasure leads to an extraordinary change in what is being observed.
• 🧘‍♂️ Meditation is not about thinking but about being completely still and aware of the present moment.
• 🤯 Krishnamurti was a controversial figure who brought in the idea of direct spiritual realization and transformed people's lives by emphasizing the importance of observation, awareness, and inner experience.
• 🦋 According to Krishnamurti, achieving truth and change requires a quantum leap, a mutation of identity, rather than just a gradual path.
• 💭 Krishnamurti's power lies in his urgency and the way he transmits his message, which includes the idea that everything is as it is and the fading of desire and wanting.
Krishnamurti's teaching emphasizes the pathless path of intense observation without an observer, non-duality, and the need for passion and transmutation to achieve truth and a change in identity.
• 00:00 📜 Krishnamurti's teachings emphasized observation without conceptual overlay, and he was trained by the Theosophy Society to be the world teacher but abandoned the idea in his late 20s, shocking them all.
• 08:51 🧘 Krishnamurti believed truth cannot be approached by any path or religion, his teaching emphasized the pathless path and freedom from fear, conditioning, time, and thoughts, and his approach to experience distinguishes him from other spiritual teachers.
• 19:12 📚 Krishnamurti emphasized intense observation without past memories or desires to achieve freedom from fear and peacefulness, emphasizing the importance of love and intention in true understanding, but without a clear method for achieving observation without the influence of the mind or memory.
• 28:02 📚 Krishnamurti's teaching is about the awareness of pure consciousness through meditation, observation without an observer, and the false sense of understanding between spiritual teachers and scientists.
• 39:13 🧘 Krishnamurti's teaching emphasizes the importance of observation without an observer, experiencing the vastness of nature within oneself, and the transformation of inner experience.
• 53:08 📜 Krishnamurti's teaching emphasizes non-duality, choiceless awareness, and the need for transmutation to achieve truth and a change in identity.
• 01:07:40 📝 Krishnamurti emphasizes the need for passion in finding truth, his intense love for it was transmitted to his students, and he explains the difference between scientists' and spiritual people's views on interconnectedness and substance.
• 01:14:29 🧐 Krishnamurti's teaching emphasized observation without an observer, but he didn't offer spiritual practices or how-to guides, and his students struggled to fully experience what he was talking about, emphasizing that individuals are not separate from their experiences.
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