JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI (1895, 1986)
Indian Author and Spiritual Advisor

As part of Horst’s life-long interest in spirituality and religion, he read many of Krishnamurti’s books and attended several of his talks.

As a young boy in India Krishnamurti was discovered by the occultist Theosophical Society in India and was proclaimed as the World Teacher, destined to guide humanity’s future evolution.

Krishnamurti went along with this nonsense for awhile, but at 24 he renounced all his titles and disbanded the cult founded around him, The Order of the Star in the East. He vehemently rejected all religions, sects, organizations and philosophies believing instead that “Truth is a pathless land”.

Horst found this honesty admirable and is why he continued to study his work. Krishnamurti continued to teach personal spiritual evolution and enlightenment through meditation and self-awareness.

"When man becomes aware of the movement of his own consciousness he will see the division between the thinker and the thought, the observer and the observed, the experiencer and the experience. He will discover that this division is an illusion. Then only is there pure observation which is insight without any shadow of the past. This timeless insight brings about a deep radical change in the mind".
Krishnamurti

I suppose you could add between the painter, the painted and the painting to that.
Krishnamurti would have objected to the title 'Guru', but Horst dedicated this painting to him anyway:

Guru in the Park H26