Comments on: Stranded Here in Llano with the Taos Blues Again

By: JHF

JHF — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:36:03 +0000

Well, maybe I’m wrong. Maybe I’m surrounded by secret meditators and closet Zen freaks and just don’t know it. This is Taos, after all. But what I said I hadn’t run into specifically were Krishnamurti readers like Steve.

Good stuff, that “Freedom from the Known.”

By: Carmel

Carmel — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:46:11 +0000

I find that rather surprising, John … that you haven’t run into many people who “understand the not thinking bit”. I didn’t realise …

By: Steve Ingham

Steve Ingham — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:20:47 +0000

I have had the paperback version of that book for about 35 years (?) and it STILL amazes me to re-read it….just makes TOO much sense….but the “State” you mentioned you get to when playing – and which I am well aware of as well from playing the drums…just reminded me of him and his philosophies….so out of the blue – there it was and had to say it….Figured you would know about him though….Think we went to different schools TOGETHER, John!
But that is just another thing I LOVE about El Norte and a lot of the folks who live there….Creative, Alive, Open-Minded, Artistic, and/or Art Appreciative….etc etc et al ad nauseum….and FREE….(for the most part!)
Steve

By: JHF

JHF — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:55:13 +0000

I don’t run into too many people who know about Krishnamurti. One of our neighbors here was a girlfriend of his in India for a time.

“Freedom from the Known,” exactly.

By: Steve Ingham

Steve Ingham — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:42:37 +0000

To me it’s the whole Krishnamurti (“Freedom from the Known”) concept….being TOTALLY in the NOW….if you THINK – it is already done and gone….Just be with “it” – Whatever “it” IS… Life – Living….as you do when you play….TOTALLY in the NOW…NOT Thinking….and TOTALLY BLISSFUL!! Happy for ya!

Steve

By: JHF

JHF — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:40:46 +0000

I haven’t run into too many people who understand this not thinking bit. It has to do with getting out of the “cloud” of stuff whirling around inside one’s head, of course, but long enough to experience a different quality of being alive.

I NEED it…

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:00:56 +0000

Not thinking really is the key. The smarter we are the more it fucks things up. When we stop thinking we can feel. We can dream. We can move. We can be moved.

Peeing on your shoes, I hate when that happens….