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Friedrichs Newsletter
Friedrichs Newsletter
Some News from the K-World
No. 10 · Spring 1996 Dear Friends,
Friedrichs Newsletter started as a letter to
friends and is still a letter to friends, although it
has changed considerably since its humble
beginnings. There are now about 1400 people who
receive the Newsletter.
Some people expressed the point of view that
the part of the title cover from the K-world
sounds too enclosed. We have pondered over this
trying to think of another title News from and
for people interested in... what? Should we put
Ks approach to life, the whole of life, or News
of people, places, Krishnamurti and life? We think
that for the time being the K-world is still the
best solution, but we ask our readers to offer
suggestions.
The 10th issue of the Newsletter comes out in a
new format and includes The Education Section
which was a seperately printed supplement before.
This issue is also the start for the previously an-
nounced new section called The First Step, which
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Table of Contents
Newsletter
Dear Friends
India My Love 3
How the AG Trust Came About 8
Haus Sonne & My Relationship With It 9
Letters Received
A Letter from Holland 13
A Letter from Sri Lanka 14
Corrections 15
Krishnamurti
Two Letters by K 16
Brockwood Today and in the Future 17
K: Which Way Will the Brain Move? 18
Reports About Gatherings
The 1996 Trip to Australia & NZ 19
The KFA Dialogues at Ojai 21
The First Hawaiian Island Gathering 22
Saanen Gathering July 1996 24
Cover:
Sunset at Adyar beach, Madras, December 1995
Various News
Obituary 25
A New Publishing House 25
Russian Report 26
Recital for Brockwood Park 28
A Special Sabbatical Year 29
The First Step
Editors Note 33
Authority of the Known 33
Growing with K 34
Self-Questioning 38
The Education Section
The Mountain Factor 40
Learning and Freedom 41
A Village School in India 44
Thinking Without Thinkers 46
The Clearwater School 50
The London Course 51 begins with three articles. The editor of this
section, who is independent of the usual publishing
team, desires to remain anonymous.
While this Newsletter is going into print I will be
on my way to the Grand Canyon after having stayed
at Ojai in California during the month of April.
Raman and Rabindra will accompany me on this
journey. Krishnaji himself told me I should go there
and stay at the old hotel El Tovar where he once
stayed. In a beautiful statement which was
republished in the KFA Newsletter, Vol 8, No 2,
1994, he describes the extraordinary atmosphere of
an ancient temple and equates it with the vastness
of the Grand Canyon:
Have you ever been in an ancient temple
where there has been for thousands of years
worship and adoration; where there still lingers
the sacred atmosphere; where people talk in
bated breath; where a sound rudely awakens the
dreamer; where everything is at peace, even
man; where imagination conjures up strange and
fantastic pictures; where, with the intense gaze,
shapes, grotesque and divine, begin to form
themselves; where all things are forgotten, even
your petty worries and troubles; where you can be
happy, even in spite of yourself; where you are
not always the center of your own creation;
where you are a part of your neighbor; where you
begin to laugh, inwardly, at yourself; where you
have an intense desire to be really friendly with
everybody; where pure happiness brings forth
divinity, and where, now, you begin to close your
eyes in deep adoration?
If it has not been, up to now, your privilege and
pleasure to have been to such a temple, then go to
the Grand Canyon, in Arizona. If you have the eyes
you will see the creator and the creation.
J. Krishnamurti, 1923
I will stay for two weeks at Brockwood Park
during May and in June will be back in Rougemont
or may even decide to visit Yewfield in the Lake
District.
The Saanen Gatherings start on the 14th of
July and continue until the 3rd of August. As well as
the week for the young people, this year Gisèle has
also planned a week for parents and children. I
have decided to go to this week with three of my six
grandchildren (two are too young and the sixth is
not yet born).
Friedrich Grohe, March 1996
India My Love
What do I love about India? Is it the country? Not
possible. Is it the countryside? Yes. Is it the people?
Yes. Is it the trees, the flowers, the animals? Yes, it is
the whole of life as it manifests in India.
Of course, India reminds me also of Krishna-
murti. In 1985 he had invited me to travel with
him to India. When we stayed in Delhi, I went for a
short visit to the area in Uttar Kashi where it was
planned to have a retreat centre near the, then as
yet unbuilt, Bhagirathi Valley School. When I got
back to Delhi, Krishnaji asked me what I felt about
India. I told him that the countryside was like
paradise and the cities were like hell. He agreed. It
is still like that, but the cities have become bigger
and much worse. The traffic is growing daily, our
regular taxi driver Narsimulu, from Rishi Valley,
told me on this years trip.
India, to me, is also the suffering of the common
man. This year in Madras I saw a man stirring a big
pot with hot liquid tar for repairing the roads, turn-
ing his face away so that he could breathe some air.
His face reminded me of Jesus Christ as he is
portrayed in old paintings, suffering on the cross.
For me, India is also the noise and pollution of
the traffic, especially in the cities like Bangalore and
Madras where buses and trucks blow black clouds
of diesel exhaust into the air. Its the blaring noise
of film music being played at top volume from
temples, a terrible cacophony only surpassed by the
loudspeakers in the village during festivals, when
the music starts at 5 am till late at night.
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Newsletter Coming for the tenth time to India this 1995-
1996 winter after a three year interruption, it
almost felt like coming home again. I felt revita-
lised, although it is not so easy to start the visit in
tropical Madras after coming from the cold winter
in Europe. It reminded me of coming with K from
the airport after flying from Rajghat to Madras in
December 1985. We were driving through the city
and feeling at ease when he suddenly said Its
like coming home. During that same trip, one day
at Vasanta Vihar I was sitting cross-legged in the
hall downstairs, wearing Indian clothes, and
Krishnaji came along and took me for an Indian.
When he realised it was me, he showed great
amazement.
To be prepared for India, on the flight from
Frankfurt to Madras, I started to read the recently
published book Fire in the Mind, dialogues with
Krishnamurti and Pupul Jayakar. Immediately I was
caught up in the intensity of the dialogues. I came
upon a part which answered a question I had
raised in previous newsletters: Why continue to
read and listen to K? On page 62 of Pupuljis book,
during a dialogue held in Rishi Valley on the 15th
of December 1978, Krishnamurti says, If some-
body were to ask me, Why does Mr Rao or Mr
Williams come to listen to you every year, I will
reply, I dont know; but if I were Mr Rao,
Mr Williams or Mr Smith I would come and listen
every year and if possible every day because a
flower is different every day. Beauty is different
every day.
The same day that I arrived at Rishi Valley, we
went for a walk on the road down to the mouth of
the valley. Along it there was an alley of flowering
spatodia trees. In 1985-1986, I had walked with
Krishnamurti for his last time on this same road
soon after the trees had been planted. At that time,
they looked like bare trunks, but when Krishnaji
went near and looked very closely, he discovered a
little button on the trunk. The next day there was
already a little leaf peeping out which made him
very enthusiastic. So I told him: In ten years time
we will walk under a shady alley of trees. I didnt
know then that it would be spatodias which would
now be flowering with their marvellous orange-
coloured blooms.
At the end of the road, at the mouth of the
valley, there is now a herb garden. It was only a
field some years ago. Now there are trees, bushes,
flowers and about 300 different kinds of medicinal
herbs that are used for ayurvedic medicines.
(Ayur=life, Veda=science.)
The Schools and The Study Centres
After not having been to the Krishnamurti
schools in India for three years, I was very much
impressed with them. Each school produces a
newsletter now. The School at Madras has created a
study room and library. The Valley School near
Bangalore has many new buildings such as the
interesting open dining room looking from far
away like a temple. At The Valley School everything
is very well kept, w