MN> The film My Dinner with Andre was recently canceled in Caracas.
RM> This is coincidentally one of my favorite movies of all times.
MN> There is also “Wings of Desire” (Der Himmel über Berlin), one may see them apart but with some connection…
RM> Having a profound impact during the Eighties, I came to own DVD’s for both of these films; you have just reminded me to view them again, like re-reading a good book. These days I seek a better understanding by reading J. Krishnamurti’s innumerable publications [Krishnamurti Foundation of America].
MN> Have you read through Osho Rajneesh? or traditional G.I. Gurdjieff?
There is another movie kind of interesting Meeting with Remarkable Men by Peter Brook…
RM> I understand that in either instance leadership and methodology overshadow search for truth.
MN> That is right but the info is all about the same methods for increasing your consciousness…Sufi and new Indian…Interesting comments found on Powels book Gurdjieff. Also a very interesting approach to the knowledge in Ouspensky’s Fragments of an Unknown Teaching…
RM> I am mostly leery of anyone who pretends the attainment of truth through a technique, a method or a system, a belief or a dogma, for in doing so he/she succumbs to divisiveness. As much as I admire Krishnamurti, I don’t follow anyone’s authority: neither Jesus’, nor Muhammad’s, nor Buddha’s and much less any ashram’s or famous guru’s. I find it useful to recall a quote from J.K. which is very much apropos: “Beauty (truth) is in experiencing, not in experience. Reality has no resting place.” The understanding I take is that our collective past does not belong to anyone, though knowledge of it may be useful to establish its limits.
MN>Yes, the path is the one taken by a mind alone; I do share the same perspective about freedom. I used to say to my friends that I was a man of no land and no heroes.. or maybe not only was I mentally ill but, perhaps, socially disabled. It is very pleasant to communicate with you. In rare occasions does one truly have a dialogue.
RM> You meant not inclined to gregariousness, as opposed to socially disabled or unsociable. Though disability in terms of sociability is tantamount to the inability of compassion, I do see you as a most compassionate human being.
MN> Thanks for your kindness.
RM> Be well
MN> And you too my friend. We’ll talk again soon.
Observations On The Nature of Perception 