Summing it up

Found this quote by UG on linklady blog and it just about sums it up. I have to repeat it here.

"I am blocking every escape. Each outlet has to be blocked to put you in a corner. You must be choked to death, as it were. Only a real teacher can find that out and tell you, nobody else. Not those people who interpret the texts; all that is totally unrelated. Only such a man can talk. And such a man never encourages you because he knows that if this kind of thing has to happen to somebody, that person will not need the help of anybody. In spite of everything it will happen."

UG Krishnamurti



This helps to understand the many moments around UG when I and others would feel that we were just about to go completely crazy and run out of the room; you felt trapped in a corner which you couldn't protect yourself in. And how you got there was often too ridiculous. UG used any thing at hand to push you. Sometimes it was only the mind-numbing repetition of one of his life stories which would make you want to scream! I once asked him, "UG, why do you tell us this story again after we have heard it hundreds of times?" With a slight smile he answered, "Well, repetition has a charm of its own." You wanted to leap across the table and strangle him, but he was much too delightful to do that.

Being in the corner was too much for anyone. I never met anyone who could stand it for very long. Each person had a well-practiced escape technique, most of us had several. You could sleep, drink coffee, stare at the computer, read, make lunch, try and have a conversation with UG - impossible! "It's a monologue with me, Sir. I'm not listening to you and you are not listening to me." Thanks! The escapes were and are endless and sometimes quite creative.

But, even with all that, being around UG was the most important time of the day - any day.