The entire spectrum of Krishnamurti's teaching is explored animatedly in this series of 18 dialogues between Krishnamurti and Allan Anderson, Professor of Religious Studies at San Diego State University. Dr. Anderson’s scholarly background in religious and philosophical traditions combined with his understanding of Krishnamurti’s meaning, produce a series of dialogues remarkable for their comprehensiveness. The conversations are also available on video. |
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Drawn from a number of Krishnamurti’s talks and dialogues, Freedom From the Known explores many of the central themes of his teaching. The chapters include: Learning About Ourselves, Pursuit of Pleasure, Justification and Condemnation, and the Dissipation of Energy. Krishnamurti writes, "To understand and to be free of any problem we need a great deal of passionate and sustained energy, not only physical and intellectual energy but an energy that is not dependent on any motive, psychological stimulus or drug".
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This book is special as it is the only one of Krishnamurti's publications which presents words spoken into a tape recorder while he was alone. Like the written entries in Krishnamurti's Journal and Krishnamurti's Notebook, these also are true meditations. |
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The first section of Meeting Life, a book compiled and edited by Mary Lutyens, by contains sixteen short pieces written by Krishnamurti for the Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Bulletins. Each starts with a description of nature and then comments on a profound question of life. Part two contains Krishnamurti’s answers to questions put to him at the end of his talks or in small group discussions. Part three consists of 15 complete talks with talks in different parts of the world.
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This book examines, through excerpts from talks and dialogues, the theme of Fear, which Krishnamurti points out needs to be seen at its root, not just in its many expressions.
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Krishnamurti addresses the basic issues of freedom - from human rights in political and social arena to the desire for freedom from "wants, pursuits, ambitions, envies, and ill will". Freedom according to Krisnamurti, is necessary for clarity of understanding. Freedom is to be without fear, but there are freedoms, such as the freedom to overpopulate the earth, that create imbalance and even catastrophe and need to be understood in all their dangers.
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As early as 1948 Krishnamurti said: ''Because we do not love the earth and the things of the earth but merely utilize them....we have lost touch with life....we have lost the sense of tenderness, that sensitivity, that response to things of beauty; and it is only in the renewal of that sensitivity that we can have understanding of what is true relationship.''
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Lutyens’s book traces the major events in J. Krishnamurti's life from his birth in 1895 to his death in 1986.
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This volume consists of talks Krishnamurti gave at four well-known California universities. Sensing the urge for freedom in his audience, he directs their attention away from superficial change, while at the same time challenging the Western dialectical tradition and emphasizing that inward revolution can only come about when we see that we are the world. He asks us to use his words as a mirror to look at ourselves as we actually are and to see the totality of existence.
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