The Awakening of Intelligence by Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Book Reviews of The Awakening of Intelligence
Book Review: An inspiration...
Summary: 5 Stars
This book was an inpiration in my spiritual journey.
-The Big Glow
Book Review: Conversations with a teacher of intelligence
Summary: 4 Stars
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to rid yourself of fear and become at peace with yourself and your surroundings? If you have, this is the book for you. Through a series of conversations, J. Krishnamurti gives a breif overview of many of his contraversial beliefs. This is a wonderful introduction to a different world. A world without avarice and malice, but with love and intelligence filling the void of the modern man/woman. This book is a great starting block not only to the works of Krishnamurti, but to a new way of thinking an living.Book Review: Maybe worth reading for what little is understandable
Summary: 3 Stars
I'm afraid this may not be of help to a lot of people, but perhaps I might help some like me with a rational orientation but with deep spiritual longings. I bought this and other books by Krishnamurti. Although I like his advice that one find his own way and distrust so-called "masters," frankly I can't understand what he is talking about most of the time. Page after page I find myself wondering what he is talking about. It just makes no sense to me. He does not get down to specifics or say what his words mean. I think Krishnamurti was, for me, my last attempt to find anything worthwhile in "mysticism," though I'm sure K's fans would say he's not a mystic. So, by all means try some works by Krishnamurti and see if it is for you. But I find now about the only place I can go for solace now (after meeting so many fat, smoking, vain, nationalistic, ignorant, vulgar and undisciplined Zen masters here in Japan) is the Stoics, above all Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Seneca, Socrates, together with those modern therapists (above all in Cognitive Therapy and Rational Emotive Therapy) which apply those classic ideas. Finally I realized that there are things we can never know, and things that are outside our control. Just accept this. I've wasted so much of my life searching for answers to questions that have no answers. Pretending that there are answers when there are none, and pretending that one can control things which one can not only leads, say the Stoics and RET therapists like Albert Ellis, or Windy Dryden, to frustration and unhappiness. But of course, so does trying to find godliness in so-called "masters." Krishnamurti is refreshing if only for his iconoclasm. So if this is all one is able to understand from Krishnamurti, perhaps it may be worth it for many people to read him who have not had the opportunity to find this out for themselves yet.Book Review: explaining rainbow to color blinds ... same frustration again
Summary: 2 Stars
J krishnamurthy was honest and perhaps most spiritually advanced individual in 20th century. I however think that he just could not explain his theory ( or state-of-mind ? ) effectively. There are very few people who could understand what exactly JK is intending to convey. This book again is no exception. I know his followers tried to understand him for decades without really getting there. I am very literate and hard working reader ( I re-read his chapters ) . I can not say that I understand JK...
shrikant
Book Review: The Emperor has no Clothes
Summary: 1 Stars
Considering all of the good reviews this book has received, it's with much trepidation that I write a somewhat scathing review. Perhaps I'm missing some beautiful subtlety in Krishnamurti's words, but I felt that he did an amazing job of speaking endlessly without really saying much of anything. How many words does one really need to teach his central point, that one should think for oneself? He mentions repeatedly in his book that the reader shouldn't even be listening to him, so I eventually took his sage advice and put the book down! I'm an avid reader and I have to say that I can't think of another book that frustrated me as much as this one. I just kept reading, hoping for some worthwhile insights, but I never found much hidden in his resolute verbosity. I would recommend reading a chapter of this in the bookstore before taking it home.