JK voluntarily tried to give up his fame by the Dissolution of the order of the star.
http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/about-krishnamurti/dissolution-...
"The Order of the Star in the East was founded in 1911 to proclaim the coming of the World Teacher. Krishnamurti was made Head of the Order. On August 3, 1929, the opening day of the annual Star Camp at Ommen, Holland, Krishnamurti dissolved the Order before 3000 members."
""I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. That is my point of view, and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path.""
His speech was filmed and available to everybody:
Sounds quite puritanical a view.
Even if we consider Christianity, a priest can and will be (or have been) as flawed as any man, including even a hypocrite, greedy, murderer or worse, and even all kinds of original Christian doctrine (except the BS about the Pope being some kind of super-saint) agrees with that. Heck, the very first person believed to go to heaven in the Christian faith was the murdered/thief/etc next to Christ on the cross.
Clerics in Western religions (Z, J, C, I) (claimed to) sit on a privileged spiritual perch and certainly in Christianity are subject to the "original" 'beam/mote' admonishment.
So yes, if your neighbor is an adulterer, it may be "puritanical" to get on a high horse, but if your confessor is a wolf in sheep's clothing, that is a different story.
Where did you get this. Show me one reference to where he claimed
1. he is enlightened ( whatever that means)
2. he is a superstar
3. he is teacher
In fact , he goes out of his way to say the disclaimer that he is not some sort a guru/teacher and ppl should not follow his words blindly.
What does his personal life have to do with anything? Do you have any criticism of what he actually said other than random ad hominem attacks?
_Truth is a pathless land_ is an amazingly eye opening speech. I suggest it as a starting point for understanding his position.
> This website is the official repository of the teachings of J. Krishnamurti, made possible by the Krishnamurti Foundations (KFT, KFA, KFI, FKL) © 2017
That is still someone else making a website, not Krishnamurti himself.
Ultimately, I can't prove anything, but given that everyone is "dispelling his teachings" and states that he wanted his "teachings" to live on, etc. -- oftentimes in the same paragraph of "but he wasn't a teacher" -- makes this whole thing seem really silly to me.
Could you give any details?
For example, would you assign the same credibility to the teachings delivered by a Catholic priest who has been proven to have molested children?
If you need your spiritual, religious, philosophical leader to be pure as the driven snow, you're going to get some pretty inhuman advice from your leader. Most of us have faults and things we struggle with. If someone doesn't, how do they relate, how do they help?
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In other words, it's one thing when someone is claiming to speak on behalf of a deity; it's another otherwise. To be hypocritical in such a context reflects much more harshly on the priest than it does on, say, the civil rights activist.
“If you want to lose your religion, make friends with the priest.”
As someone who's second career is basically meditating (in terms of time and effort) I acknowledge the value and importance of having personal teacher as a guide. On the other hand I strongly warn about getting into trap of thinking them as something else than specialists that can help you with some issues.
'After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path' by Jack Kornfield is essential reading on the subject.