Jiddu Krishnamurti 1895-1986
talks and text collection
Krishnamurti. Freedom From The Known. The book contains excerpts from Krishnamurti's talks that were selected by Mary Lutyens.
Freedom From The Known
"The world accepts and follows the traditional approach. The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another; we mechanically follow somebody who will assure us a comfortable spiritual life." To understand ones self, Krishnamurti believed, is the beginning of wisdom. Understanding is not accepting a description of the view of the world mapped by another no matter how lofty the map maker. Krisnamurti encouraged making your own map.This book should create a revolution within you. It is the start of a fantastic journey.
by Carol A. Chester
Chapter 1
• Man's Search • The Tortured Mind • The Traditional Approach • The Trap of Respectability • The Human Being and the Individual • The Battle of Existence • The Basic Nature of Man • Responsibility • Truth • Self-transformation • Dissipation of Energy • Freedom from Authority •
Chapter 2
• Learning About Ourselves • Simplicity and Humility • Conditioning •
Chapter 3
• Consciousness • The Totality of Life • Awareness •
Chapter 4
• Pursuit of Pleasure • Desire • Perversion by Thought • Memory • Joy •
Chapter 5
• Self-concern • Craving for Position • Fears and Total Fear • Fragmentation of Thought • Ending of Fear •
Chapter 6
• Violence • Anger • Justification and Condemnation • The Ideal and the Actual •
Chapter 7
• Relationship • Conflict • Society • Poverty • Drugs • Dependence • Comparison • Desire • Ideals • Hypocrisy •
Chapter 8
• Freedom • Revolt • Solitude • Innocence • Living with Ourselves as We Are •
Chapter 9
• Time • Sorrow • Death •
Chapter 10
• Love •
Chapter 11
• To Look and to Listen • Art • Beauty • Austerity • Images • Problems • Space •
Chapter 12
• The Observer and the Observed •
Chapter 13
• What is Thinking? • Ideas and Action • Challenge • Matter • The Beginning of Thought •
Chapter 14
• The Burdens of Yesterday • The Quiet Mind • Communication • Achievement • Discipline • Silence • Truth and Reality •
Chapter 15
• Experience • Satisfaction • Duality • Meditation •
Chapter 16
• Total Revolution • The Religious Mind • Energy • Passion •
Freedom From The Known
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