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Simon
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around here Krishnamurti starts focusing on deconstructing and deprogramming how much people make the fulfilment of their life and existence conditional on all kinds of artificial social and philosophical constructs and how to achieve spiritual independence from all this - I guess this is why Brad Warner described Krishnamurti as saying many of the same things as Zen Buddhism but in different terminology
— Sep 13, 2020 02:33AM
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Simon
is on page 128 of 233
here he starts focusing really hard on how illusory and artificially constructed our experience of time is as well as social categories like nationality, religious denomination, political ideology and individual identity - and how all that is a consequence of the psychological structures of human perception
— Sep 11, 2020 11:56PM
Simon
is on page 83 of 233
noticed that this is an anthology of transcripts of interviews as well as Q&A sessions with the audiences at Krishnamurti's lectures, this format has certain strengths namely that he ends up expounding on more specific and particular examples of the philosophical and social problems he usually talks about in a very abstract manner
— Sep 09, 2020 05:00AM
Simon
is on page 21 of 233
This edition has several introductions summing up Krishnamurti's ideas and placing them in a bigger historical context as well as pointing out how they are still relevant. Did not find out until now that this book is posthumously published for that matter.
— Sep 07, 2020 11:54PM
