tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6280685470634875837.post6567461741668413768..comments2023-08-28T19:10:35.886+10:00Comments on Dr Ian Ellis-Jones ... Living Mindfully Now: ‘SEEK AND YOU WILL FIND’---RUBBISH!Dr Ian Ellis-Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13158091959759426208noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6280685470634875837.post-5900156796656339562014-10-04T09:03:47.580+10:002014-10-04T09:03:47.580+10:00Thanks for your comments and questions, dear Eric....Thanks for your comments and questions, dear Eric. Truth is paradoxical. There is no path to Truth, so, as Joseph Campbell wrote, 'The path less way is the only way now before us.' In other words, there is no way until our feet have trod it. That last statement of truth comes from a wonderful Theosophist in the US, who has been president of The Theosophical Society in America as well as president of The Theosophical Society in Australia, a woman I regard as a friend. Her name? Joy Mills. As for goals, my reading of Krishnamurti's voluminous writings is that he was only opposed to goal-seeking where it was escapist or purely egoistic in nature. Just as life moves only in one direction, so must we move ever-onward and forward, from one moment to the next, but we need to do this purposefully and with awareness. The most important goal is to remain awake at all times. As for the pursuit of other goals, well, Krishnamurti spoke strongly against selfishness which he regarded as the essential problem of our time. The solution, says, K is love. So, goal seeking, say, to be a doctor, and the best doctor you can be, is quite okay. The path is nothing more than the ceaseless movement of life ever-onwards. That is not a path to truth, because truth is ever with us and in us at each and every point along the way. That is why there is no path or way to Truth as such, nor is there any need for any such path or way. Once again,mthanks, Eric. I hope all is well with you and your loved ones.Dr Ian Ellis-Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13158091959759426208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6280685470634875837.post-54186045815446544332014-10-04T07:04:29.750+10:002014-10-04T07:04:29.750+10:00Mind-bending. Trying this today and it's extr...Mind-bending. Trying this today and it's extremely difficult. Not to seek out and yet be present to the truth that is, the 'is that is'. What would Krishnamurti say about the pursuit of goals? Since the pursuit is pursuit, and the goal is a self-made truth (but not THE Truth, which is just the state of reality being being), then I'm guessing that he'd think it was a futile waste of effort and attention. A waste of being. But perhaps he'd be partial to an approach that carefully treads (again, how do you tread on a pathless path?) or touches lightly on not seeking and paying attention to distinctions that are aligned with one's abilities, leading to a more effort-less attraction to that state which is more in alignment with your strengths/inner light? obejctively, one might reach the same 'goal' as a hard-charging achiever bent on 'success!' or 'fulfillment!' or 'enlightenment!', but the journey (again, a journey on a pathless path? again words fail) is a radically different enterprise (again, how can one embark on an enterprise without a path, without a truth, if there is no path and the truth is what is is? perhaps the different is purely perceptual, rooted in a perceptual shift of reality, being, and is being is. ) Just some thoughts. -Eric in Virginia BeachErichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02488773223704824806noreply@blogger.com