J Krishnamurti Commentaries On Living Series 1

Commentaries on Living: First Series Book content: Series I - Chapter 1 - ' Three Pious Egoists' · Series I - Chapter 2 - 'Identification' · Series I - Chapter 3.
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Would you like to tell us about a lower price? If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller support? Learn more about Amazon Prime. Krishnamurti's essential message is that, to find truth, we must go beyond the limits of ordinary thought. In public talks worldwide, he strove to free listeners from conventional beliefs and psychological mind-sets in order to understand what is.

This 3-volume series records his meetings with individual seekers from all walks of life, during which he comments on the struggles common to those who work to break the boundaries of personality and self-limitation. In the first volume Krishnamurti discusses many topics, including knowledge, belief, simplicity of the heart, love in relationship, ambition, and clarity in action. Read more Read less.

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What if Jesus showed up at your house one night, tapped you on the shoulder, and told you to wake up because you're sleeping through your life? From the Back Cover Commentaries on Living records Krishnamurti's meeting with individual seekers of the truth from all walks of life. Dec 05, Will Moritz rated it really liked it.

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This book came to me very highly recommended as one of the most sophisticated books on the philosophy of life. It's a collection of essays, so I randomly sampled a few of them, and I don't think I have even completed a single essay. The prose is beautifully written, but the content hadn't resonated with me. Most of the philosophical points he makes are based on word play. I'm too pragmatic to get lost in a philosophy derived from word play. I have seen many self proclaimed spiritual Gurus use th This book came to me very highly recommended as one of the most sophisticated books on the philosophy of life.

I have seen many self proclaimed spiritual Gurus use this technique to charm over the confused masses. These gurus generally don't add to the understanding of life or reality through their talks. From what I have heard Krishnamurti definitely doesn't belong to this category of fake gurus.

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However his commentaries on living seem to be at the same level of intellectual gibberish. Any philosophy that deals with such complex subjects as life has to base its axioms on reality to make any sense to me. It can't just use clever word play to draw its conclusions. How does it matter what the word 'truth' or 'life' mean? I have read very little from this book and there is a high chance that I have made my judgment too quickly.

Those who are seriously into spirituality will love this tour through the notebooks of Jiddu Krishnamurti. Each of the 88 topics e. Time, Virtue, Sleep, Silence and Work is given around 3 pages of explanation split into 3 sections: Jiddu comes over as very deep and wise and rather argumentative, always returning to his favourite point of view. The last couple of sentences in each chapter are usually the spiritual 'punch-line' so if you want to get the essence of this very good book quickly, then read these.

Now - back to the Zombie Books! Dec 15, Ty rated it really liked it Shelves: This book is broken up into many topics that Jiddu Krishnamurti as lectured about. It's not a book about one topic but many that will only go on about 3 pages per topic. Each topic starts out by describing his surroundings visually that last for one paragraph that relates to the topic of discussion.

I found my self halfway though the book wanting to skip to a topic I was most interested in. I've read a couple of other books by him and it seems to cherry pick from his other books. The book has a lot This book is broken up into many topics that Jiddu Krishnamurti as lectured about. The book has a lot of value to deeply think about the "conflicts of consciousness" and focuses on the understanding of self.

Krishnamurti and see more value of what he is trying to teach. It's almost impossible not to reflect on the nature of your own thoughts while reading Krishnamurti's commentaries. I suspect a continuous inquiry into your own thinking as you read these commentaries may be beneficial while reading, which I suppose means long pauses, embracing the tranquil silence between thoughts. Nov 21, Carissa Weibley rated it it was amazing Recommended to Carissa by: I found it in my apartment. I never uncovered the owner. I really enjoy his prose. He takes esoteric subjects and makes them almost poetic to read.

Dec 11, Lee rated it it was amazing.

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This book is an absolute treasure. If I were to be stranded on a dessert island and could bring one book, this would be it. It's poetic, incisive and absolutely thought-provoking. May 25, Hobie added it. Nada Bakos rated it liked it Apr 15, Nadine Artemis rated it it was amazing Oct 19, Scarborough Fair rated it it was amazing Feb 16, Marco Casado rated it liked it Sep 26, Shaheed Shaw rated it it was amazing Jan 31, Gunjan Gupta rated it it was amazing Aug 08, One could see that she dominated him, though not too heavily. She leaned on him, and so she could not help dominating him.

Since she had no children, she was trying to fulfil herself in him; but in this she was disappointed, for he was weak and she had to take charge of things.

Commentaries on Living Series I Chapter 37 'Idea and Fact'

In the office, she said smilingly, he was considered a stickler, a tyrant who threw his weight around; but at home he was mild and easy going. She wanted him to fit into a certain pattern, and she was forcing him, of course very gently, into her mould; but he was not coming up to scratch. She had nobody to lean on and give her love to. The idea is more important to us than the fact; the concept of what one should be has more significance than what one is. The future is always more alluring than the present. The image, the symbol, is of greater worth than the actual; and on the actual we try to superimpose the idea, the pattern.

So we create a contradiction between what is and what should be. What should be is the idea, the fiction, and so there is a conflict between the actual and the illusion - not in themselves, but in us. We like the illusion better than the actual; the idea is more appealing, more satisfying, and so we cling to it. Thus the illusion becomes the real and the actual becomes the false, and in this conflict between the so-called real and the so-called false we are caught.

Why do we cling to the idea, deliberately or unconsciously, and put aside the actual?