Krishnamurti taught that in order for there to be peace in the world, we must each first make peace with ourselves. No spiritual path, leader, or philosophy will guide us in this endeavor; this transformation of the human psyche is a truth that each of us must discover within ourselves. In Where Can Peace Be [...]
Seven talks from Saanen, Switzerland, 1981 and two talks from Amsterdam, Holland, 1981 are recorded in The Network of Thought. Publisher: Mirananda Author/Editor: J. Krishnamurti 109 pp – Paper From the book: The turning point is in our consciousness. Our consciousness is a very complicated affair. Volumes have been written about it, both in [...]
The book consists of six talks that J. Krishnamurti gave at Indian universities and the Indian Institutes of Technology between 1969 and 1984. Krishnamurti’s chief concern here is to awaken students to the fact that the pursuit of knowledge does not liberate man from his ignorance of himself. While knowledge is indispensable, it also creates [...]
In these discussions, Krishnamurti goes deeply into the question of Human problems, drawing, in the process, a most interesting distinction between the ‘professional’ and the ‘human being’. He asks whether we do not regard ourselves as professionals first and as human beings afterwards. Our education generally makes us professionals in the sense that right from [...]
These transcripts of talks and discussions held in Santa Monica and San Diego, London, Brockwood Park and Rome in 1970, have frequent references to what is and what is not the religious mind as well as discussing the question of violence. Publisher: KPA 186 Pages
Described by the Dalai Lama as “one of the greatest thinkers of the age”, Jiddu Krishnamurti has influenced millions throughout the 20th century, including Aldous Huxley, Bertrand Russell, Henry Miller and Joseph Campbell. Born of middle-class Brahmin parents in 1895, Krishnamurti was recognized at age fourteen by theosophists Annie Besant and C W Leadbetter as [...]
Excerpts from Krishnamurti’s talks and dialogues explain the nature and limitations of thought and discuss brain, mind and consciousness. Publisher: Harper Collins 146 pp – Paper
The First and Last Freedom has sold more copies than any other Krishnamurti publication. Aldous Huxley, a dear friend of Krishnamurti, wrote the foreword to this wondrous book. Aldous Huxley states in the first paragraph of the foreword, “Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds—the given and the home-made, the world of [...]
This theme book examines a particularly important subject in Krishnamurti’s teaching through excerpts from his talks and dialogues. Is it possible to live a life without conflict in the modern world, with all the strain, struggle, pressures, and influences in the social structure? That is really living, the essence of a mind that is inquiring [...]