Author: J Krishnamurti
Translator(s)/ Editors(s): D Rajgopal
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 287
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0144001519
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
Three Pious Egoists
Identification
Gossip and Worry
Thought and Love
Aloneness and Isolation
Pupil and Master
The Rich and the Poor
Ceremonies and conversion
Knowledge
Respectability
Politics
Experiencing
Virtue
Simplicity of the Heart
Facets of the Individual
Sleep
Love in Relationship
The known and the unknown
The Search for Truth
Sensitivity
The Individual and Society
The Self
Belief
Silence
Renunciation of Riches
Repetition and Sensation
The Radio and Music
Authority
Meditation
Anger
Psychological Security
Separateness
Power
Sincerity
Fulfilment
Worlds
Idea and Fact
Continuity
Self-Defence
My Path and Your Path
Awareness
Loneliness
Consistency
Action and Idea
Life in a City
Obsession
The Spiritual Leader
Stimulation
Problems and escapes
What is and what should be
Contradiction
Jealousy
Spontaneity
The conscious and the unconscious
Challenge and Response
Possessiveness
Self-Esteem
Fear
How Am I To Love?
The Futility of Result
The Desire For Bliss
Thought and Consciousness
Self-Sacrifice
The Flame and the Smoke
Occupation of the Mind
Cessation of Thought
Desire and Conflict
Action Without Purpose
Cause and Effect
Dullness
Clarity in Action
Ideology
Beauty
Integration
Fear and Escape
Exploitation and Activity
The Learned or the Wise?
Stillness and Will
Ambition
Satisfaction
Wisdom is not accumulation of knowledge
Distraction
Time
Suffering
Sensation and Happiness
To See the False as the False
Security
Work