Brian’s Reflection: Saturday, May 12, 2007


Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude
of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost
everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion
and hate, wars and class antagonisms.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti, philosophical writer and speaker,
in Mandanapalle, India, born on this day in 1895


Krishnamurti was “discovered” by leaders of the Theosophical Society on a beach in India - one of whom saw an around him “the most wonderful aura he had ever seen, without a particle of selfishness in it”. He was “adopted” and educated by the Theosophists to be the “vehicle” of a coming World Teacher.

Krishnamurti soon rejected that, but he did become a world traveler and teacher himself, primarily teaching people of the need to transform themselves, and hence society, through self knowledge, by being aware of their thoughts and feelings in daily life. His teachings transcend all man-made boundaries of religion, nationality, ideology, and sectarian thinking. You can see why I was attracted to him after having read some of his works and meeting him one day for a few moments in an orange grove in Ojai, CA. I don’t know about auras, but he had a peaceful, quiet face.

Have you looked inside? Or at how you have lived your life? Have you seen and acknowledged the times when “the attitude of domination and craving for power” have driven what you have thought, said, done? Pondered how they have shaped your life, your relationships, your happiness or lack of it? I have. And I see how they have marred my development as a “child of God”. If it had not been for the message of the God of Love, for the love seen in Jesus (and others), I would have made a good Nazi.

If we want peace, community, justice, compassion, freedom from fear, we must clear the source. And as the hymn says, “Let it begin with me”.

Brian+