It was around the age of 14 that I discovered the Indian thinkerJ. Krishnamurti. He is the Doubters 'guru' and was a refreshing contrast to the Jesuit indoctrination I was receiving at school. What attracted me to Krishnmurti was that he seemed to hone in on the central human problem before that problem seeks escapist solutions in religion and metaphysics. As with the core philosophy of the Buddha, Krishnamurti was concerned with the malaise of the human psych which leads to confusion, delusion and suffering. While Krishnamurti would have disavowed it, I suggest that by some process of osmosis he spoke a variant of the language of the Buddha. In other words how the psych in encountering reality never really sees clearly in the present moment but is interpreting through the accumulations or the conditioning of experience which is formed by fear and attraction, our persistent craving and desire for permanence. But K was not one for meditation or rituals or elaborate canons of scripture all of which just create more conditioning. He eschewed followers or devotees. Having said this neither Krishnmurti nor the myriad of charismatic sages make much of another stumbling block to the cure of the ills of the individual and that is that a large proportion inherit neurotic complexes; these sit in the psych and emerge at inappropriate moments to cause havoc. For these folk it is one thing to know the source of the problem another to effect the change necessary. But it is always better to know where you stand in the neurotic scale than be ignorant. We all know those people who pass through life causing a trail of destruction thinking that all this is normal and they are merely being true to themselves.
