Theos-Talk Archives (June 1997 Message tl00051)

On Mon, 2 Jun 1997 00:23:59 -0400 (EDT) M K Ramadoss <ramadoss@eden.com>
writes:
>Hello
>
>Here is an excerpt from a recent book by Mary Lutyens on >Krishnamurti,
where she discusses the issue of Celibacy. I think it is a >very
interesting point of view.
>
>..........doss
>=====================================

>in the act of sex there is a forgetting of oneself, one's problems and
>one's fears. In that act there is no self at all."

Krishnamurti said the darndest things.  If sex is a forgetting of self,
why are people so selfish about it?  He might as well have said that in
taking crack cocaine, there is a forgetting of self, since the pleasure
of the drug makes one lose sight of self.