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This Light in Oneself: True Meditation
A leading spiritual teacher of the twentieth century presents meditation as a tool for better understanding not just ourselves but the world around us
These selections present the core of Krishnamurti's teaching on meditation, taken from discussions with small groups, as well as from public talks to large audiences. His main theme is the essential need to look inward, to know ourselves, in order really to understand our own—and the world's—conflicts. We are the world, says Krishnamurti, and it is our individual chaos that creates social disorder. He offers timeless insights into the source of true freedom and wisdom.
These selections present the core of Krishnamurti's teaching on meditation, taken from discussions with small groups, as well as from public talks to large audiences. His main theme is the essential need to look inward, to know ourselves, in order really to understand our own—and the world's—conflicts. We are the world, says Krishnamurti, and it is our individual chaos that creates social disorder. He offers timeless insights into the source of true freedom and wisdom.
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Published March 16, 1999
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J. Krishnamurti
1,328 books4,262 followersJiddu Krishnamurti was born on 11 May 1895 in Madanapalle, a small town in south India. He and his brother were adopted in their youth by Dr Annie Besant, then president of the Theosophical Society. Dr Besant and others proclaimed that Krishnamurti was to be a world teacher whose coming the Theosophists had predicted. To prepare the world for this coming, a world-wide organization called the Order of the Star in the East was formed and the young Krishnamurti was made its head.
In 1929, however, Krishnamurti renounced the role that he was expected to play, dissolved the Order with its huge following, and returned all the money and property that had been donated for this work.
From then, for nearly sixty years until his death on 17 February 1986, he travelled throughout the world talking to large audiences and to individuals about the need for a radical change in humankind.
Krishnamurti is regarded globally as one of the greatest thinkers and religious teachers of all time. He did not expound any philosophy or religion, but rather talked of the things that concern all of us in our everyday lives, of the problems of living in modern society with its violence and corruption, of the individual's search for security and happiness, and the need for humankind to free itself from inner burdens of fear, anger, hurt, and sorrow. He explained with great precision the subtle workings of the human mind, and pointed to the need for bringing to our daily life a deeply meditative and spiritual quality.
Krishnamurti belonged to no religious organization, sect or country, nor did he subscribe to any school of political or ideological thought. On the contrary, he maintained that these are the very factors that divide human beings and bring about conflict and war. He reminded his listeners again and again that we are all human beings first and not Hindus, Muslims or Christians, that we are like the rest of humanity and are not different from one another. He asked that we tread lightly on this earth without destroying ourselves or the environment. He communicated to his listeners a deep sense of respect for nature. His teachings transcend belief systems, nationalistic sentiment and sectarianism. At the same time, they give new meaning and direction to humankind's search for truth. His teaching, besides being relevant to the modern age, is timeless and universal.
Krishnamurti spoke not as a guru but as a friend, and his talks and discussions are based not on tradition-based knowledge but on his own insights into the human mind and his vision of the sacred, so he always communicates a sense of freshness and directness although the essence of his message remained unchanged over the years. When he addressed large audiences, people felt that Krishnamurti was talking to each of them personally, addressing his or her particular problem. In his private interviews, he was a compassionate teacher, listening attentively to the man or woman who came to him in sorrow, and encouraging them to heal themselves through their own understanding. Religious scholars found that his words threw new light on traditional concepts. Krishnamurti took on the challenge of modern scientists and psychologists and went with them step by step, discussed their theories and sometimes enabled them to discern the limitations of those theories. Krishnamurti left a large body of literature in the form of public talks, writings, discussions with teachers and students, with scientists and religious figures, conversations with individuals, television and radio interviews, and letters. Many of these have been published as books, and audio and video recordings.
This author also writes under: Jiddu Krishnamurti
In 1929, however, Krishnamurti renounced the role that he was expected to play, dissolved the Order with its huge following, and returned all the money and property that had been donated for this work.
From then, for nearly sixty years until his death on 17 February 1986, he travelled throughout the world talking to large audiences and to individuals about the need for a radical change in humankind.
Krishnamurti is regarded globally as one of the greatest thinkers and religious teachers of all time. He did not expound any philosophy or religion, but rather talked of the things that concern all of us in our everyday lives, of the problems of living in modern society with its violence and corruption, of the individual's search for security and happiness, and the need for humankind to free itself from inner burdens of fear, anger, hurt, and sorrow. He explained with great precision the subtle workings of the human mind, and pointed to the need for bringing to our daily life a deeply meditative and spiritual quality.
Krishnamurti belonged to no religious organization, sect or country, nor did he subscribe to any school of political or ideological thought. On the contrary, he maintained that these are the very factors that divide human beings and bring about conflict and war. He reminded his listeners again and again that we are all human beings first and not Hindus, Muslims or Christians, that we are like the rest of humanity and are not different from one another. He asked that we tread lightly on this earth without destroying ourselves or the environment. He communicated to his listeners a deep sense of respect for nature. His teachings transcend belief systems, nationalistic sentiment and sectarianism. At the same time, they give new meaning and direction to humankind's search for truth. His teaching, besides being relevant to the modern age, is timeless and universal.
Krishnamurti spoke not as a guru but as a friend, and his talks and discussions are based not on tradition-based knowledge but on his own insights into the human mind and his vision of the sacred, so he always communicates a sense of freshness and directness although the essence of his message remained unchanged over the years. When he addressed large audiences, people felt that Krishnamurti was talking to each of them personally, addressing his or her particular problem. In his private interviews, he was a compassionate teacher, listening attentively to the man or woman who came to him in sorrow, and encouraging them to heal themselves through their own understanding. Religious scholars found that his words threw new light on traditional concepts. Krishnamurti took on the challenge of modern scientists and psychologists and went with them step by step, discussed their theories and sometimes enabled them to discern the limitations of those theories. Krishnamurti left a large body of literature in the form of public talks, writings, discussions with teachers and students, with scientists and religious figures, conversations with individuals, television and radio interviews, and letters. Many of these have been published as books, and audio and video recordings.
This author also writes under: Jiddu Krishnamurti
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September 2, 2021
“Don’t think about it. 5 cents, please.” Psychiatrist Lucy of Peanuts comics
I have often thought that Krishnamurti was for those who had been disappointed in their own guru, but others like him too, as he is a great intellectual. He puts down the guru/disciple relationship and rightly so, for the guru system is often corrupt and is filled with so-called Godmen who desire you to follow them and be loyalty. Of course, not all make these demands, but even then, there are other problems. Yet, to teach is the be a guru as the word “guru” means “teacher,’ so Krishnamurti is a guru. He even has followers even though he doesn’t wish them, but he actually needs them in order to get his message across.
I think that he has some important things to say. I love what he has said on karma, and this you can look up by googling his name plus “on karma.” There is no such thing as karma in the way it is taught. It does not follow you into your next life. If you read the Upanishads, you will find it mentioned vaguely. Like the Christian “hell,” it evolved over time. At least that is how I see it. Even Hinduism now teaches “hell” as does Buddhism. I believe I much prefer the Upanishads in their beauty of the Hindu teachings over listening to a guru or a Buddhist teacher.
Krishnamurti also says that mantra meditation is not real meditation for it causes hallucinations. He never tells you how to meditate as far as I can tell but claims that whatever man has taught in the way of meditation is wrong and gives his reasons why that is so. But the purpose of meditation is to come to a state of no thoughts. Well, you can do that with Zen Buddhist meditation by just watching your breath and your thoughts. They will dissipate until you no longer have any thoughts. I know that there is more to it if you continue this practice, but I had lost interest after 12 years of meditation, in both Hinduism and Buddhism. Religion was wearing me out.
I even lost interest in the belief of enlightenment, believing that there is no such thing. And if there were, it never sounded interesting, not the way that the various gurus explained it, all having different definitions. I have even seen how gurus who have meditated for years get into a bliss state and need others to help them walk. Yet, these were the Hindu gurus.
After spending some years in Buddhism I came to believe that it was a stoic religion. I was taught to not think about anything negative, not even if someone had died. I was to direct my mind on other things, well, on meditation, and I could see that it actually worked, but after a while I realized that I just wanted to live in the real world, accept that I will suffer and not run from it. Yet, I know now how it is done, and I often find myself following Lucy’s advice, “|Don’t think about it.”
And I can understand where Krishnamurti is coming from when he says to leave all religions behind. Many have been hurt by them, many just quit believing. Yet many are still nourished by them. They have their purpose just as Hinduism has its, but for me, I agree that it is best to go it alone. After all, I feel that it doesn’t matter what you believe or don’t believe. It matters how you love and care for others and this earth.
I have often thought that Krishnamurti was for those who had been disappointed in their own guru, but others like him too, as he is a great intellectual. He puts down the guru/disciple relationship and rightly so, for the guru system is often corrupt and is filled with so-called Godmen who desire you to follow them and be loyalty. Of course, not all make these demands, but even then, there are other problems. Yet, to teach is the be a guru as the word “guru” means “teacher,’ so Krishnamurti is a guru. He even has followers even though he doesn’t wish them, but he actually needs them in order to get his message across.
I think that he has some important things to say. I love what he has said on karma, and this you can look up by googling his name plus “on karma.” There is no such thing as karma in the way it is taught. It does not follow you into your next life. If you read the Upanishads, you will find it mentioned vaguely. Like the Christian “hell,” it evolved over time. At least that is how I see it. Even Hinduism now teaches “hell” as does Buddhism. I believe I much prefer the Upanishads in their beauty of the Hindu teachings over listening to a guru or a Buddhist teacher.
Krishnamurti also says that mantra meditation is not real meditation for it causes hallucinations. He never tells you how to meditate as far as I can tell but claims that whatever man has taught in the way of meditation is wrong and gives his reasons why that is so. But the purpose of meditation is to come to a state of no thoughts. Well, you can do that with Zen Buddhist meditation by just watching your breath and your thoughts. They will dissipate until you no longer have any thoughts. I know that there is more to it if you continue this practice, but I had lost interest after 12 years of meditation, in both Hinduism and Buddhism. Religion was wearing me out.
I even lost interest in the belief of enlightenment, believing that there is no such thing. And if there were, it never sounded interesting, not the way that the various gurus explained it, all having different definitions. I have even seen how gurus who have meditated for years get into a bliss state and need others to help them walk. Yet, these were the Hindu gurus.
After spending some years in Buddhism I came to believe that it was a stoic religion. I was taught to not think about anything negative, not even if someone had died. I was to direct my mind on other things, well, on meditation, and I could see that it actually worked, but after a while I realized that I just wanted to live in the real world, accept that I will suffer and not run from it. Yet, I know now how it is done, and I often find myself following Lucy’s advice, “|Don’t think about it.”
And I can understand where Krishnamurti is coming from when he says to leave all religions behind. Many have been hurt by them, many just quit believing. Yet many are still nourished by them. They have their purpose just as Hinduism has its, but for me, I agree that it is best to go it alone. After all, I feel that it doesn’t matter what you believe or don’t believe. It matters how you love and care for others and this earth.
December 27, 2019
I got inspired to read his books after I came to know about the concept of Rishi Valley School and met few students who graduated from the institution. I must acknowledge that Krishnamurti's principles, if one applies in his/her life will lead to contentment and a sense of fulfillment. Recommended to all people who are struggling to find purpose in their life.
April 1, 2018
One of wonderful book on meditation. It clears many questions on meditation, a new direction to the understanding meditation. As the author says never follow blindly my comments or author..... explore it yourself
January 27, 2014
Life-changing. If you've read it, you know why.
January 26, 2021
For a mind that says, “I do not know”—which is the truth, which is honest—what is there then? When you say, “I do not know,” the content has no importance whatsoever, because the mind then is a fresh mind. It is the new mind that says, “I don’t know.” Therefore, when you say it, not just verbally for amusement, but with depth, with meaning, with honesty, that state of mind that does not know is empty of its consciousness, is empty of its content. It is the knowing that is the content. Do you see it? When the mind can never say it knows, it is always new, living, acting; therefore it has no anchorage. It is only when it is anchored that it gathers opinions, conclusions, and separation. This is meditation. That is, meditation is to perceive the truth each second—not the truth ultimately—to perceive the truth and the false each second. To perceive the truth that content is consciousness—that is the truth. To see the truth that I do not know how to deal with this thing—that is the truth, not knowing. Therefore not knowing is the state in which there is no content.
I remember when I was first introduced to the philosophy of Krishnamurti. It was so difficult to understand. I had to read and re-read the same passages multiple times before I would get to a point of understanding. Which wasn't ever a true understanding. The more I read and educate myself to the nature of consciousness, the more his concepts would make sense. Sam Harris is another great source for mindfulness meditation and an authority on consciousness that provided another angle on similar matter. Sam also has a great podcast "Waking Up" that discusses consciousness with many of the prominent figures focusing on it's nature. The more I discovered the easier it was for me to understand Krishnamurti's ideas. Concepts such as the observer and the observed for instance. It's funny how the more I learn the more I embrace not knowing.
February 9, 2019
"To understand oneself there must be observation, and that observation can only take place now. And it is not the movement of the past observing the now. When I observe the now from my past conclusions, prejudices, hopes, fears, that is an observation of the present from the past. I think I am observing the now, but the observation of the now can take place only when there is no observer who is the past. Observation of the now is extraordinarily important. The movement of the past meeting the present must end there; that is the now. But if you allow it to go on, then the now becomes the future, or the past, but never the actual now. Observation can only take place in the very doing of it—when you are angry, when you are greedy, to observe it as it is. Which means not to condemn it, not to judge it, but to watch it and let it flower and disappear." * "What is beauty? Is it the description? Is it the thing that you see, the proportions, the heights, the depths, the shadows, a painting or a sculpture by Michelangelo? What is beauty? Is it in the eye? Or is it out there? Or is it neither in your eye or out there? We say that a beautiful thing, beautiful architecture, a marvelous cathedral, or a lovely painting is out there. Or is it in the eye because it has been trained to observe, to see that what is ugly is not proportionate, has no depth, no style? Is beauty out there, or is it in the eye, or has it nothing to do with the eye or with the outside?
Beauty is when you are not. When you look, it is you who are looking, you who are judging, you who are saying, “That is a marvelous proportion,” “That is so still, it has depth, it has such grandeur.” It is all you looking, you giving it importance. But when you are not there, that is beauty. We want to express because that is self-fulfillment, but when that beauty is there, the expression of it may never take place. Beauty may be when you as a human being, with all your travail, your anxieties, pain, sorrow, are not there. Then there is beauty."
Beauty is when you are not. When you look, it is you who are looking, you who are judging, you who are saying, “That is a marvelous proportion,” “That is so still, it has depth, it has such grandeur.” It is all you looking, you giving it importance. But when you are not there, that is beauty. We want to express because that is self-fulfillment, but when that beauty is there, the expression of it may never take place. Beauty may be when you as a human being, with all your travail, your anxieties, pain, sorrow, are not there. Then there is beauty."
December 10, 2022
This book is mind-blower. Nothing so far in my life that I have ever read was full of such intensity, penetrating, awe-striking, wisdom rich, original- absolutely original- unquestionably and undeniably original and groundbreaking as this!
This clearly and lucidly tells us why there is only one and only one Krishnamurti. He is unlike any other, a class on his own, a category on his own, its teaching cannot be categorized into any conventional spiritual and philosophical framework! Although, I find his teaching clearly nondual and advaitic (non-dualistic) in spirit.
These 133 pages are arduous and excruciatingly painful to process and digest. It will require every bit of your energy, vigor, vitality, and strength, all mental, intellectual, and beyond. This task is for the rare of the rarest. So, please be aware and be advised on this.
But going through this book in its complete and total understanding will bring the peace, joy, and freedom that you will cherish for the whole of your life till your last breath!
So, enjoy this masterpiece by a true and genius spiritual master unlike any!
I would have rated it 7 out of 5 if there had been such an option.
With Love,
Riken
This clearly and lucidly tells us why there is only one and only one Krishnamurti. He is unlike any other, a class on his own, a category on his own, its teaching cannot be categorized into any conventional spiritual and philosophical framework! Although, I find his teaching clearly nondual and advaitic (non-dualistic) in spirit.
These 133 pages are arduous and excruciatingly painful to process and digest. It will require every bit of your energy, vigor, vitality, and strength, all mental, intellectual, and beyond. This task is for the rare of the rarest. So, please be aware and be advised on this.
But going through this book in its complete and total understanding will bring the peace, joy, and freedom that you will cherish for the whole of your life till your last breath!
So, enjoy this masterpiece by a true and genius spiritual master unlike any!
I would have rated it 7 out of 5 if there had been such an option.
With Love,
Riken
May 18, 2024
Along with his Meditations, the best book on K.'s take on the subject. Challenging, but always cuts to the bone.
No guru, no method, no teacher.
Maybe the second book of his to read, after Freedom From The Known. Or, upon re-reading, I'm wondering if this might be the best place to start...
No guru, no method, no teacher.
Maybe the second book of his to read, after Freedom From The Known. Or, upon re-reading, I'm wondering if this might be the best place to start...
August 20, 2008
this is better than sunsets on the beach... or anything else that's sweet.... Oh my.
May 31, 2019
Life changing
November 13, 2020
This book is a mirror.
July 27, 2023
"One has to be a light to oneself; this light is the law."
This book is... wonderful... crazy... timeless wisdom... sometimes goes over the head... a beautiful read!
***
Meditation is not an escape. It is not something mysterious. Out of meditation comes a life that is holy, a life that is sacred. And therefore you treat all things as sacred.
It is not mere selfish investigation, because when you understand yourself you go beyond yourself, a different dimension comes into being.
Our life, the daily life that we lead from the moment we are born until we die, through marriage, children, jobs, achievements, is a battlefield, not only within ourselves but also outwardly, in the family, in the office, in the group, in the community.
Order means beauty; and there is so little beauty in our life.
Beauty is where there is order - a mind that is not confused, that is absolutely orderly.
Meditation is the sense of total comprehension of the whole of life, and from that there is right action. Meditation is absolute silence of the mind. Not relative silence or the silence that thought has projected and structured, but the silence of order, which is freedom. Only in that total, complete, unadulterated silence is that which is truth, which is from everlasting to everlasting. This is meditation.
The mind must have great space, limitless space, and that can only take place when there is no chattering, when there is no problem because all problems have been resolved as they arose. You can have great space only when there is no center. The moment you have a center, there must be circumference, there must be diameter, a movement from the center to the periphery. Space implies no center; therefore it is absolutely limitless.
And death is as important as life, as living. They go together. Living means dying. To end all the trouble, the pain, anxiety, is dying. It is like two rivers moving together with tremendous volume of water.
When you are a light to yourself you are a light to the world, because the world is you, and you are the world.
When you are free of all leaders, free of all teachings, your mind will be learning. Therefore there is energy, you will be passionate to find out. But if you are following somebody, then you lose all energy.
This book is... wonderful... crazy... timeless wisdom... sometimes goes over the head... a beautiful read!
***
Meditation is not an escape. It is not something mysterious. Out of meditation comes a life that is holy, a life that is sacred. And therefore you treat all things as sacred.
It is not mere selfish investigation, because when you understand yourself you go beyond yourself, a different dimension comes into being.
Our life, the daily life that we lead from the moment we are born until we die, through marriage, children, jobs, achievements, is a battlefield, not only within ourselves but also outwardly, in the family, in the office, in the group, in the community.
Order means beauty; and there is so little beauty in our life.
Beauty is where there is order - a mind that is not confused, that is absolutely orderly.
Meditation is the sense of total comprehension of the whole of life, and from that there is right action. Meditation is absolute silence of the mind. Not relative silence or the silence that thought has projected and structured, but the silence of order, which is freedom. Only in that total, complete, unadulterated silence is that which is truth, which is from everlasting to everlasting. This is meditation.
The mind must have great space, limitless space, and that can only take place when there is no chattering, when there is no problem because all problems have been resolved as they arose. You can have great space only when there is no center. The moment you have a center, there must be circumference, there must be diameter, a movement from the center to the periphery. Space implies no center; therefore it is absolutely limitless.
And death is as important as life, as living. They go together. Living means dying. To end all the trouble, the pain, anxiety, is dying. It is like two rivers moving together with tremendous volume of water.
When you are a light to yourself you are a light to the world, because the world is you, and you are the world.
When you are free of all leaders, free of all teachings, your mind will be learning. Therefore there is energy, you will be passionate to find out. But if you are following somebody, then you lose all energy.
January 8, 2024
For many, many years I read K's books in a way that I never read anyone else's books. I really delved into them and then applied them to my own life and my own sense of self. This is the way of self-enquiry. I have also known people who have hated and dismissed Krishnamurti's work, because it hit a nerve. The egoic self is very difficult to penetrate and expose to the light, because it is created to become this way, which is resistant to change and reformation. There are many softer approaches than Krishnamurti's. For example, you can read Vic Shayne's wonderful book called 13 Pillars of Enlightenment or his book The Self is a Belief or his articles on medium.com, all of which take a different tact yet yield the same results. Or you can do Douglas Harding's experiments or read the words of Ramana Maharshi. These teachers are all fundamentally saying the same thing. If you want to appreciate Krishnamurti's work, especially in this era of wannabe gurus (you know who they are) then you have to apply the art of neti, neti until you get down to the essential you. No one can do this for on your behalf, including K so you have to apply what is written to find your own realization.
September 12, 2024
“The more sophisticated our education, the more civilized we become-civilized in the sense of being removed from nature-the more inhuman we become. So what shall we do? As none of the things outside of me are going to help, including all the gods, then it becomes obvious that I alone have to understand myself. I have to see what I am and change myself radically. Then goodness comes out of that. Then one create a good society.”
I am not sure how to review a Krishnamurti book. Simple yet profound, you think you understand his beautiful writing, but the complexity of his teaching seems almost unfathomable.
Reading this book is like a meditation.
“The brain has its own rhythm, but that rhythm has been distorted by our extravagance, by our ill-treating the brain through drugs, through faith, through belief, through drink, smoking. It has lost its pristine vitality.”
Krishnamurti wants to set us free. His central message is that our failure to understand the workings of our own mind and the over reliance on thinking leads to all suffering. After finishing this book, I have the feeling that I will read it again for the benefit of my soul.
“Is it possible to have a mind, a brain, that is extraordinarily alive, not caught in any form of routine, not mechanical? Do we have a brain in which there is no fear, no self interest, no self-centered activity? Otherwise it is living in its own shadow all the time, it is living in its own tribal, limited environment, like an animal tied to a stake.”
I am not sure how to review a Krishnamurti book. Simple yet profound, you think you understand his beautiful writing, but the complexity of his teaching seems almost unfathomable.
Reading this book is like a meditation.
“The brain has its own rhythm, but that rhythm has been distorted by our extravagance, by our ill-treating the brain through drugs, through faith, through belief, through drink, smoking. It has lost its pristine vitality.”
Krishnamurti wants to set us free. His central message is that our failure to understand the workings of our own mind and the over reliance on thinking leads to all suffering. After finishing this book, I have the feeling that I will read it again for the benefit of my soul.
“Is it possible to have a mind, a brain, that is extraordinarily alive, not caught in any form of routine, not mechanical? Do we have a brain in which there is no fear, no self interest, no self-centered activity? Otherwise it is living in its own shadow all the time, it is living in its own tribal, limited environment, like an animal tied to a stake.”
March 24, 2020
Sur le plan psychologique, vous êtes le monde et le monde c'est vous, et lorsque vous comprenez ce que vous êtes c'est l'ensemble de la structure humaine que vous comprenez... car lorsque vous vos connaissez vous même et vous vos dépassez; une nouvelle dimension voit le jour.
Qu'est ce qui pourrez nous faire changer? d'autres chocs, d'autres catastrophes, d'autres horreurs...? tous cela vous l'avez largement expérimenter pourtant vous n'avez pas changer!
Plus notre éducation devient sophistiquée plus nous devenons civilisés c'est à dire de plus en plus éloignés de la nature, plus nous devenons inhumains.
Qu'est ce qui pourrez nous faire changer? d'autres chocs, d'autres catastrophes, d'autres horreurs...? tous cela vous l'avez largement expérimenter pourtant vous n'avez pas changer!
Plus notre éducation devient sophistiquée plus nous devenons civilisés c'est à dire de plus en plus éloignés de la nature, plus nous devenons inhumains.
August 2, 2020
Another amazing and sounds real spiritual teacher, shows himself very powerfully in this little but profound book. I love these books that have genuineness, not felt like taken from any where, or copied any how, that are practical, one can read and practice in the same time, so when i finish reading i feel lots of new space inside of me.
November 28, 2025
“Apenas a mente completamente silenciosa é que sabe, que está ciente da existência ou não de algo que se situa além de qualquer medida. Essa é a única coisa sagrada - não são as imagens, os rituais, os salvadores, os gurus, as visões. Somente aquilo é sagrado, o lugar em que a mente chegou sem perguntar, por que em si mesmo está vazio. Unicamente na vacuidade algo novo pode surgir.”
January 7, 2018
Fiest book i read from krishnamurti. Quite a revelation how he creates a very different vision of our society, that seems so natural. A bit like the tale of men in the cavern who never see the light and believe that their shadows are the reality.
May 2, 2019
This is a list of Jiddu Krishamurti, I have respect for this person. The book is dense and trying to comprehend what is being said is not easy and one is left with a vague idea of what is being said.
Reading I found the material more understandable than listening.
Reading I found the material more understandable than listening.
January 8, 2020
This book will challenge your beliefs, conclusions, identity, and your persona.
A unique perspective on how Men can act within himself and society. Can the content of the book be criticized or debated? I'LL let read it and find out.
A unique perspective on how Men can act within himself and society. Can the content of the book be criticized or debated? I'LL let read it and find out.
April 6, 2022
Reading Krishnamurti for me means re-reading every sentence of his 5 times before I finally understand it, or just plowing through and accepting that my brain will be able to process maybe 20% of what he's saying. I took the latter tact this time around and enjoyed it.
May 7, 2017
A typical Ks classic discourse.
August 25, 2021
I thought it was about time i looged this selection of lectures. Many i have read severl times. K is not always an easy read but is so rewarding.
September 22, 2024
Read it, see for yourself !
March 24, 2025
Livro fundamental para quem está no caminho do meditante.
February 9, 2014
I'm not sure whether this book is more lucid than the three other Krishnamurti books I've read ,or the familiarity with his ideas makes this seem less arduous.Either way,the core principles are restated with a slant towards what he regards as true meditation.After reading, it brought to mind a statement from one of his earlier works to the effect that people always enjoy being told what they already know.
January 18, 2008
amazing ,a guide to live a full ,meaningful, healthy life
October 1, 2011
Super cryptic, definitely need to work with this text, but it is an impeccable and off the beaten path meditation on... meditation.
September 13, 2011
Another one of my staples.
August 16, 2014
You have to be the light of yourself.
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