Commentaries On Living 3

Third Series

J Krishnamurti

• Publisher: Krishnamurti Foundation America
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN:
  9781934989128
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophy History & Theory

In this series of commentaries J. Krishnamurti, one of the great thinkers of our time, touches upon many human problems-our hopes, our fears, our illusions, our beliefs, our prejudices-and in the simplest language seems to pierce to their roots."The sheer simplicity is breathtaking. The reader is given, in one paragraph, often in one sentence, enough to keep him exploring, questioning, thinking for days." -Anne Morrow Lindbergh."The insight, spiritual and poetic, of these commentaries is as simply expressed as it is searching in its demand."-Times Literary Supplement (London)."Krishnamurti is no other than he seems, a free man, one of the first quality, growing older as diamonds do but the gem-like flame not dating, and alive in these Commentaries. It is a treasure."-Francis Hacket, The New Republic

Table of contents

• Does Thinking Begin with Conclusions?
• Self-Knowledge or Self-Hypnosis?
• The Escape from What Is
• Can One Know What Is Good for the People?
• I Want to Find the Source of Joy
• Pleasure, Habit and Austerity
• Won’t you Join Our Animal-Welfare Society?
• Conditioning and the Urge to Be Free
• The Void Within
• The Problem of Search
• Psychological Revolution
• There Is No Thinker, Only Conditioned Thinking
• Why Should It Happen to Us
• Life, Death and Survival
• Deterioration of the Mind
• The Flame of Discontent
• Outward Modification and Inward Disintegration
• To Change Society, You Must Break Away from It
• Where the Self Is, Love Is Not
• The Fragmentation of Man Is Making Him Sick
• The Vanity of Knowledge
• What Is Life All About?
• Without Goodness and Love, One Is Not Educated
• Hate and Violence
• The Cultivation of Sensitivity
• Why Have I No Insight?
• Reform, Revolution and the Search for God
• The Noisy Child and the Silent Mind
• Where There Is Attention, Reality Is
• Self-Interest Decays the Mind
• The Importance of Change
• Killing
• To Be Intelligent Is to Be Simple
• Confusion and Convictions
• Attention without Motive
• The Voyage on an Uncharted Sea
• Aloneness Beyond Loneliness
• Why Did You Dissolve Your Order of the Starr?
• What Is Love?
• Seeking and the State of Search
• Why Do the Scriptures Condemn Desire?
• Can Politics Ever Be Spiritualized?
• Awareness and the Cessation of Dreams
• What Does It Mean to Be Serious?
• Is There Anything Permanent?
• Why This Urge to Possess?
• Desire and the Pain of Contradiction
• What Am I to Do?
• Fragmentary Activities and Total Action
• Freedom from the Known
• Time, Habit and Ideals
• Can God Be Sought through Organized Religion?
• Asceticism and Total Being
• The Challenge of the Present
• Sorrow from Self-Pity
• Insensitivity and Resistance to Noise
• The Quality of Simplicity