I have seen Krishnamurti quite angry thus I was touched to read what Benjamin Weinniger related about Krishnamurti and fear,
“Well, I have seen Krishnamurti fearful and I think it’s an important thing to describe the circumstances under which it happened. When he was talking to the psychiatrists and psychoanalysts for the first time in Washington, D.C, he came to me and he was shaking with fear. He said, “I’m scared.” And I tried to reassure him that it would be alright, and then when he went in to the talk, I realized he was able to drop the fear. He allowed himself to experience the fear fully and then let it go. Most of us don’t do that, we stay with the fears instead of letting it go. This is what he means when he says, I have no fear. I also asked him, “Would you be afraid if you were dying?” and he said, “I don’t know, I would have to see, I would have to be aware to see whether I was afraid.”
In 1946 Krishnamurti visited the home of psychiatrist Benjamim Weinniger who introduced him to all the psychoanalysts of the Washington Psychoanalytic Society, over a period of a week Krishnamurti spoke with them each day.
Blau, Evelyne, Krishnamurti 100 Years p.124.
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