Author: J Krishnamurti
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 283
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0144001527
Description
What you are is much more important than what you should be. You can understand what is, but you cannot understand what should be.
The essential message of J Krishnamurti, revered philosopher and spiritual teacher, challenges the limits of ordinary thought. In talks to audiences worldwide he pointed out to listeners the tangled net of ideas, organizational beliefs and psychological mind-sets in which humanity is caught, and that truth—the understanding of what is—not effort, is the key factor of human liberation.
Commentaries on Living, a three-volume series, records Krishnamurti’s meetings with individual seekers of truth from all walks of life. In these dialogues, he reveals the thought-centred roots of human sorrow and comments on the struggles and issues common to those who strive to break the boundaries of personality and self-limitation. In over fifty essays in each volume, Krishnamurti explores topics as diverse as:
Knowledge
Truth
Fulfillment
Meditation
Love
Effort
Seeking
Life and Death
Education
The series invites readers to take a voyage on an unchartered sea with Krishnamurti in his exploration of the conditioning of the mind and its freedom.
Contents
Creative Happiness
Conditioning
The Fear of Inner Solitude
The Process of Hate
Progress and Revolution
Boredom
Discipline
Conflict-Freedom-Relationship
Effort
Devotion and Worship
Interest
Education and Integration
Chastity
The Fear of Death
The Fusion of the Thinker and His thoughts
The Pursuit of Power
What is Making You Dull?
Karma
The Individual and The Ideal
To Be Vulnerable is to live, to withdraw is to die
Despair and Hope
The Mind and the Known
Conformity and Freedom
Time and Continuity
The Family and the Desire for Security
The I
The Nature of Desire
The Purpose of Life
Valuing an Experience
This Problem of Love
What is the True Function of a Teacher?
Your Children and their Success
The Urge to Seek
Listening
The Fire of Discontent
An Experience of Bliss
A Politician who wanted to do Good
The competitive way of life
Meditation-effort-Consciousness
Psycho-Analysis and The Human Problem
Cleansed of the Past
Authority and Cooperation
Mediocrity
Positive and Negative Teaching
Help
Silence of the Mind
Contentment
The Actor
The way of Knowledge
Convictions-Dreams
Death
Evaluation
Envy and Loneliness
The Storm in the Mind
Control of Thought
Is There Profound Thinking?
Immensity