Freedom from the Known (l) Paperback – 1 July 2010

Completely different thought process regarding life snd meditation. Author is an enlightened person. His clarity if thought is amazing and logic with reasoning is spot on. Its written in quite easy language but one needs to give some time for thought to some of the content of the book.

This book is great and this book can change your approach towards everyday things like - love,violence,hatred and etc.After reading this book you start questioning of every thing in your life. So must read this book

The book on Krishnamurti’s teachings offers valuable insights into his philosophy, and the content is enlightening for anyone interested in his work. However, the price is quite high, nearly double what one might expect. While the knowledge is worthwhile, the cost might be a consideration for potential buyers.

It is not a product. It is a book by the seer J.Krisnamurti . I am not authorised to write a review on the book.

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A book I always recommend to people who are eager to understand "Spirituality, Meditation and the idea of Ultimate Truth" in a dipper sense. The reader must keep in mind that you'll not enjoy this book if you start reading it with a biased mind. You need to keep your biases aside and dive into this book with an open mind; ready to confront deep psychological facts which might disturb your preconceived notions, religious beliefs and so on.In simple words the book is for true seekers of 'the Truth', not for those who have already decided what 'Truth' is.

In true jiddu style, the book brings out clear thoughts that provokes oneself to introspect and make changes to their life.The topics discussed here are the ones that are core to human behaviours .. Fear, love, biases etcA must read book!

Good book

no flourish in his writing. The truth is timeless.

Turbilhão inicial. Inspirador. Adorei!

...seeing it not verbally but actually,can you easily, spontaneously, transform yourself?" Freedom from the Known; K."To listen to him or to read his thoughtsis to face oneselfand the worldwith an astonishing morning freshness."Anne M. Lindbergh THE Book of Life; K."WE fill our hearts with blueprintsfor world reformand do not look to thatone resolving factorwhich is love." YOU Are the World; K."IN oneself lies the whole worldand if you knowhow to look and learn,then the door is there andthe key is in your hand.Nobody on earth can give youeither that key orthe door to open,except yourself." More insights follow; 1, 9, 16 Various titles by Jiddu Krishnamurti Maybe we'll also take a look into the book of our lives ;) A Wholly Different Way of Living, K.Excerpt – Foreword from the German editionby W. Bernotat"… He (K.) asks:CAN the human mind see life in its entirety,in all its complexity?That's the first and actually only question,and the mind doesn't ask itself that question."“HE considered his dialogues to be essential only insofaras the participants were able to experience what wasactually going on inside themselves during the dialogueas they moved together from question to question.“"LIFE is an attempt to release the creative intelligence in people.Awakening creative intelligence is the only positive help I can give.When the human mind becomes aware of its limitationsand frees itself from it through its own actions,then this awakens creative intelligence.Only this will bring humanity,balance and deep fulfillment."Yes, perhaps these texts are a good additionto the hints of Krishnamurti and his intention,"…to make people absolutely, unconditionally free."These texts are about "questions of love, compassion,the fear and pain of human life with all its suffering…"up to "When you observe all this - and youhave to if you are serious - you ask yourself:what you should do as a human being." TO Be Human; K."WHAT is important is to find out whether what I sayis the truth by examing it and finding out whether itcan be worked out in daily life.The speaker is speaking for himself, not for anybody else.He may deceiving himself, he may be trying to pretendto be something or other. He may be, you don’t know.So have a great deal of scepticism, doubt, question." As One is; K."Are you experimenting with my teachings,or are you experimenting with yourself?I hope you see the difference. If you are experimenting with what Iam saying, then you must come to, “What now?” because then you aretrying to achieve a result which you think I have.You think I have something which you do not have,and that if you experiment with what I am saying,you also will get it—which is what most of us do.We approach these things with a commercial mentality—I will do this in order to get that.I will worship, meditate, sacrifice in order to get something.Now, you are not practicing my teachings.I have nothing to say. Or rather, all that I am saying is:Observe your own mind, see to what depths the mind can go;therefore you are important, not the teachings.It is important for you to find out your own ways of thinkingand what that thinking implies, as I have been trying to point out this morning.And if you are really observing your own thinking, if you are watching, experimenting,discovering, letting go, dying each day to everything that you have gathered,then you will never put that question, “What now?"Most of K.'s books are written conversations and speeches.Many originals are available as videos and PDFs.Also from K. here on the topics AS One is A Wholly Different Way of Living FACING a World in Crisis - what Life teaches us ... FREEDOM, Love and Action, HOW to find Peace WHERE Can Peace Be Found ON Education ON Nature and the Environment THE Beauty of Life THE Book of Life TO Be HumanPerhaps this is also about the “glasses“ with whichwe see our lives, with which attitude and conditioning.Perhaps we don't even realise it, do we? Krishnamurti - Two Birds on one Tree – Dr. R. Ravindra"YOU don 't need special training.What you need is to pay attention,not to what I say,but to your own mind." KNOCKING at the Open Door: My Years with J. K. – M. Lee“EVEN if you understand one part of it(his oeuvre, referred to as the Teachings),that is enough, you understand all of it.“Perhaps this is also about the “glasses“ with whichwe see our lives, with which attitude and conditioning.Perhaps we don't even realise it, do we? Further information can be found in reading samples, in other reviews hereand in the German edition “Einbruch in die Freiheit“ … INSIGHTS1"Man has always asked the question: what is it all about?Has life any meaning at all?He sees the enormous confusion of life, the brutalities, the revolt, the wars,the endless divisions of religion, ideology and nationality, and with a sense ofdeep abiding frustration he asks, what is one to do, what is this thing we callliving, is there anything beyond it?""So to discover whether there actually is or is not something beyond thisanxious, guilty, fearful, competitive existence,it seems to me that one must have a completely different approach altogether.The traditional approach is from the periphery inwards, and through time,practice and renunciation,gradually to come upon that inner flower, that inner beauty and love– in fact to do everything to make oneself narrow, petty and shoddy;peel off little by little; take time; tomorrow will do, next life will do– and when at last one comes to the centre one finds there is nothing there,because one's mind has been made incapable, dull and insensitive.Having observed this process, one asks oneself, is there not a differentapproach altogether - that is, is it not possible to explode from the centre?""You have now started by denying something absolutely false– the traditional approach – but if you deny it as a reaction you will have createdanother pattern in which you will be trapped;if you tell yourself intellectually that this denial is a verygood idea but do nothing about it, you cannot go any further.f you deny it however, because you understand the stupidity and immaturity of it,if you reject it with tremendous intelligence, because you are free and not frightened,you will create a great disturbance in yourself and around youbut you will step out of the trap of respectability.Then you will find that you are no longer seeking.That is the first thing to learn – not to seek.When you seek you are really only windowshopping.""So you see that you cannot depend upon anybody. There is no guide, noteacher, no authority. There is only you – your relationship with othersand with the world – there is nothing else.When you realize this, it either brings great despair, from which comes cynicism and bitterness,or, in facing the fact that you and nobody else is responsible for the world and for yourself,for what you think, what you feel, how you act, all self-pity goes.Normally we thrive on blaming others, which is a form of self-pity.""What is important is not a philosophy of lifebut to observe what is actually taking placein our daily life, inwardly and outwardly.f you observe very closely what is taking place and examine it,you will see that it is based on an intellectual conception,and the intellect is not the whole field of existence; it is a fragment, and a fragment,however cleverly put together, however ancient and traditional, is still a small part of existencewhereas we have to deal with the totality of life. And when we look at what is taking placein the world we begin to understand that there is no outer and inner process;there is only one unitary process, it is a whole, total movement,the inner movement expressing itself as the outerand the outer reacting again on the inner.To be able to look at this seems to me all that is needed,because if we know how to look, then the whole thing becomesvery clear, and to look needs no philosophy, no teacher.Nobody need tell you how to look.You just look.CAN you then, seeing this whole picture, seeing it not verballybut actually, can you easily, spontaneously, transform yourself?That is the real issue. Is it possible to bring about a complete revolution in the psyche?""What we are now going to do, therefore, is to learn about ourselves,not according to me or to some analyst or philosopher– because if we learn about ourselves according to someone else,we learn about them, not ourselves – we are going to learn what we actually are....And to take such a journey we must travel light; we cannot be burdened with opinions,prejudices and conclusions – all that old furniture we have collected for the last two thousand years and more.Forget all you know about yourself; forget all you have ever thought about yourself;we are going to start as if we knew nothing.It rained last night heavily, and now the skies are beginning to clear; it is a newfresh day. Let us meet that fresh day as if it were the only day. Let us start on ourjourney together with all the remembrance of yesterday left behind –and begin to understand ourselves for the first time."9"I am tempted to repeat a story about a great disciple going to God anddemanding to be taught truth.This poor God says, `My friend, it is such a hot day, please get me a glass of water.'So the disciple goes out and knocks on the door of the first house he comes toand a beautiful young lady opens the door. The disciple falls in love with herand they marry and have several children.Then one day it begins to rain, and keeps on raining, raining, raining - the torrents areswollen, the streets are full, the houses are being washed away.The disciple holds on to his wife and carries his children on his shouldersand as he is being swept away he calls out, 'Lord, please save me',and the Lord says, `Where is that glass of water I asked for?'It is rather a good story because most of us think in terms of time. Man livesby time. Inventing the future has been a favourite game of escape.We think that changes in ourselves can come about in time, that order inourselves can be built up little by little, added to day by day. But time doesn'tbring order or peace, so we must stop thinking in terms of gradualness.This means that there is no tomorrow for us to be peaceful in.We have to be orderly on the instant.When there is real danger time disappears, doesn't it?There is immediate action.But we do not see the danger of many of our problems and therefore weinvent time as a means of overcoming them. Time is a deceiver as it doesn't do athing to help us bring about a change in ourselves. Time is a movement whichman has divided into past, present and future, and as long as he divides it he willalways be in conflict.Is learning a matter of time? We have not learnt after all these thousands ofyears that there is a better way to live than by hating and killing each other. Theproblem of time is a very important one to understand if we are to resolve this lifewhich we have helped to make as monstrous and meaningless as it is.The first thing to understand is that we can look at time only with thatfreshness and innocency of mind which we have already been into. We areconfused about our many problems and lost in that confusion.Now if one is lost in a wood, what is the first thing one does?One stops, doesn't one? One stops and looks round.But the more we are confused and lost in life the more we chasearound, searching, asking, demanding, begging. So the first thing, if I maysuggest it, is that you completely stop inwardly. And when you do stop inwardly,psychologically, your mind becomes very peaceful, very clear. Then you canreally look at this question of time.Problems exist only in time, that is when we meet an issue incompletely.This incomplete coming together with the issue creates the problem. When we meet achallenge partially, fragmentarily, or try to escape from it - that is, when we meetit without complete attention - we bring about a problem. And the problemcontinues so long as we continue to give it incomplete attention, so long as wehope to solve it one of these days....“16(…)"Let us ask ourselves again, now that we have come to understand ourselves better,is it possible for a human being living an ordinary everyday life in this brutal, violent, ruthless world –a world which is becoming more and more efficient and therefore more and more ruthless –is it possible for him to bring about a revolution not only in his outward relationshipsbut in the whole field of his thinking, feeling, acting and reacting.Every day we see or read of appalling things happening in the world as theresult of violence in man.You may say, `I can't do anything about it',or, `How can I influence the world?'I think you can tremendously influence the worldif in yourself you are not violent,if you lead actually every day a peaceful life– a life which is not competitive, ambitious, envious– a life which does not create enmity.Small fires can become a blaze.We have reduced the world to its present state of chaosby our self-centred activity,by our prejudices, our hatreds, our nationalism,and when we say we cannot do anything about it,we are accepting disorder in ourselves as inevitable.We have splintered the world into fragments and if we ourselves are broken,fragmented, our relationship with the world will also be broken.But if, when we act, we act totally,then our relationship with the worldundergoes a tremendous revolution.After all, any movement which is worth while,any action which has any deep significance,must begin with each one of us.I must change first; I must see what is the nature and structureof my relationship with the world –and in the very seeing is the doing;therefore I, as a human being living in the world,bring about a different quality,and that quality, it seems to me,is the quality of the religious mind." More Insights TALKS by Krishnamurti in Europe, 1964- German Edition: In Kommunion mit dem Leben; K."AND to understand something you must not kick it, you must not run away from it.You must have tremendous love, real affection for that which you would understand.If you would understand a child, you cannot compel or force him, or compare him with his elder brother.You must look at him, watch him with great care, with tenderness, with affection, with everything that you have.Similarly, we must understand this petty thing we call our life, with all its jealousy, conflict, misery. travail, sorrow.Out of that understanding comes a certain quality of peace which you cannot grope after. YOU know, there is a lovely story about a disciple going to the Master."The Master is sitting in a beautiful, quiet, well-watered garden, and the disciple comes and sits near him...So, sitting a little to one side, he crosses his legs and closes his eyes.Then the master asks,"My friend, what are you doing?"Opening his eyes the disciple says,"Master, I am trying to reach the consciousness of the Buddha" - and closes his eyes again.Presently the Master picks up two stones and begins to rub them together,making a lot of noise;so the disciple comes down from his great height and says,"Master, what are you doing?"The Master replies, "I am rubbing together these two stonesso as to make one of them into a mirror."And the disciple says, "But Master, surely you will never do it,even if you rub them together for a million years."Then the Master smiles and replies,"Similarly, my friend, you can sit like that for a million yearsand you will never come to what you are trying to reach."And that is what we are all doing.We are all taking postures; we are all wanting something,groping after something which demands effort, struggle, discipline.But I am afraid none of these things will open the door.What will open the door is to understand without effort,just to look, to observe with affection, with love.But you cannot have love if you are not humble;and humility is possible only when you do not want a thing,either from the gods or from any human being." WITH so many books and videos The Book of Life; Kperhaps suitable as a supplement."WHY do you want to be students of booksinstead of students of life?""The story of mankind is in you,…You are that book." 22.10.OUR RESPONSIBILITY"To transform the world, we must begin with ourselves;and what is important in beginning with ourselvesis the intention.The intention must be to understand ourselvesand not to leave it to others to transform themselvesor to bring about a modified change through revolution,either of the left or of the right.It is important to understand that thisis our responsibility, yours and mine;because, however small may be the world we live in,if we can transform ourselves, bring about a radicallydifferent point of view in our daily existence,then perhaps we shall affect the world at large,the extended relationship with others." A Wholly Different Way of Living, K."MAN has collected such enormous information, knowledge,and has that knowledge changed him into goodness?... into a culture that will make himflower in this beauty of goodness." The Flame of Attention; K"LIFE has a most extraordinary meaning with its great beauty.…At the end the question:What have we done with our lives?"INSIGHTS are only part of the whole...Maybe you read the whole book, more books ...And maybe we'll take a look at our real lives. Meeting Life, K."SO sirs, and ladies, you hear all this,perhaps if you are going,following, travelling with the speakeryou hear this at every talk, put in different words,different context, different sentences.But to bring about a completeunderstanding in oneself,that's far more importantthan anything else in lifebecause we are destroying the world, ourselves,we have no love, no care - you follow? - all that.So the speakerhas no message.The message is YOU.I am not... the speaker is not –this is not a matter of cleverness –just pointing out this." The Future is Now; K.- from the foreword of the German edition"AT the end of his lifehe continued to ask the questionshe had always asked:What is GOODNESS?What does it meanin goodness to FLOWER?"M ;)

No words to describe JKs teachings..❤️❤️