Krishnamurti and Friends

"Soft Rain"

Ray Price

(1962)

Pete Wade - Harmony

Jimmy Day - Steel

Pete Wade

1934 - 2024

The Dance Scene

from

"Picnic"

(1955)

Kim Novak & William Holden
(Moonglow)

The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi

"Coke Time"

(c. 1956)

Eddie Fisher

"The man who knows how to split
the atom but has no love in his
heart becomes a monster."

Q. #38
How did Radha Sloss describe
Krishnamurti's approach to belief?

A. "But when it came to thought,
Krinsh was another person. The
gentle easy-going nature disappeared
and he could be as fierce with me,
if I asked or said something he
thought stupid, as he was with his
audiences in the Oak Grove or at
the small Sunday discussion
groups at Arya Vihara. I tried hard
not to arouse this side of him for
I found it most discomforting and
felt tender pity for those poor
questioners who recklessly laid
themselves open to his scorn and
impatience by asking stupid questions.
The pained look on his face should
have been enough to quell curiosity
in the most determined seeker of
truth, yet they tried again and again.
'What about life after death,
reincarnation, belief (or disbelief) in
an ultimate reality?' Imagine when
I came along and asked
if he believed in fairies like our
Finnish cook did!

"That", he said, 'is like the three blind
men and the elephant. The one
who feels the trunk claims it is a
tree, the one who feels the tail
claims it is a rope. . . '

I don't remember what the third
claimed but I got the point and never
dared ask the next question foremost
in my mind - did he believe in Santa
Claus? In time, as I grew older I
realized that the very word
belief was not a question of what
but of why. Why we wanted to
believe anything revealed our
own psychology. It was important
to observe and experience;
ourselves as well as the world
around us, without
labeling or judging. Neither had
Krinsh any regard for an accumulation
of facts or knowledge and if I had
been solely under his influence I
would have considered education
a colossal waste of time.

Either for better or worse there were
other influences on me. My father
taught me to read and write and
do arithmetic and geography
before I went to school and I
treasured these times with him."
Radha Sloss -
Lives in the Shadows

Hey!
That's me in 1953;
counting on my fingers how many
photos of Krishnamurti
I'll accumulate over the next
70 years.

About this many . . . .

Trump is unhappy with his
new attorney.

Nordhoff High School
Gymnasium
Ojai
I heard K speak here in 1978.
He sat on the stage surrounded by
potted flowers. I remember the
annoying squeak those two doors
off to the right made throughout
the talk when people entered or
left.
I sat on the bleacher off to the left
about half way up. I was surprised
to recognize Hollywood actress
Anne Francis with a companion
sitting just off to my left. Anne
starred in the classic science
fiction film "Forbidden Planet"
in 1956, and later starred in
the television series "Honey West."
In the early 2000's I sent her a
letter asking if she had been the person
sitting there. She kindly
responded with the letter below.
She passed away 8 years later at
the age of 80.
No talks were held that year in the
Oak Grove due to flooding, so K had to
speak at either Libbey Park or at
Nordhoff High School

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