Krishnamurti truth is a pathless land9/22/2023 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 when there is love it can do what it will. And hence there is no fear, and a mind that has no fear is capable of great love. You are free and from that centre you act. There is no such thing as doing right or wrong when there is freedom. "Freedom is entirely different from revolt. This is foreshadowed toward the end of the first talk, as follows: Nevertheless, not every reader will find this, or any other, collection of his talks immediately accessible.įreedom from the Known is, in a sense, "the best of books", in that every page points, in one way or another, to the possibility of a completely different way of living, leading to what Krishnamurti sometimes referred to as "a life without pleasure or pain, but of almost constant joy". (Perhaps I should not say "his own" philosophy, as he usually referred to himself as "the speaker" when giving his talks, and occasionally alluded to an indefinable source of inspiration "within but beyond" his own mind, sometimes calling it "the Silence beyond silence".)Ĭollections of Krishnamurti's talks have been translated into almost every living language, and they remain popular with students of philosophy and comparative religion today. My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free."įor more than fifty years after that, Krishnamurti proceeded to expound his own rather iconoclastic philosophy internationally, especially in England, Europe, North America and India, until shortly before his death in 1986. No man from outside can make you free nor can organized worship. I do not want you to agree with me, I do not want you to follow me, I want you to understand what I am saying. I do not care if you believe that I am the World–Teacher or not. for alone will give him eternal happiness, will give him the unconditioned realization of the self. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. no organization can lead man to spirituality. I do not want to belong to any organization of a spiritual kind. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others. (Some TS members were utterly appalled by this development, while others saw it as entirely consistent with their original expectations.) In his Dissolution Speech, Krishnamurti said, among other things: However, in 1929, at the age of 34, he dissolved "The Order of the Star in the East", which had been set up for him by the TS to facilitate his role as a "World Teacher". Many other collections of his talks have also been published, but this one is my favourite, and by a large margin, as it effectively concentrates the whole of his philosophy in a single book of just 124 pages.īorn in India in 1895, Jiddu Krishnamurti was educated largely by senior members of a rather oddball club called the Theosophical Society (TS), the members of which expected that he would become a great "World Teacher". This book consists of sixteen talks by the 20th Century philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti. However, I think it would be more than a little presumptuous of me to "review" a book by one of the most famous philosophers of the last century, so this is simply a brief musing about a favourite book. This "philosophical musing" takes the form of a brief historical note, by way of an introduction to an even briefer. An article from the Philosophical Musings series at Wanterfall
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