Think on These Things
by Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Author: Jiddu KrishnamurtiEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1989-10-11
ISBN: 0060916095
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: HarperOne
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- ISBN13: 9780060916091
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Book Reviews of Think on These Things
Book Review: My Favorite Krishnamurti Book
Summary: 5 Stars
This particular Krishnamurti book is special in number of ways. It seems that he shared the thoughts with others that formed book when he was in a romance. The book has a more poetic quality than his more austere and rigorous inquiries of later years. The book is grouped into themes that reinforce each other and connect together to form a larger overall message which feels intuitively right, beautiful, and simple about the nature of life and reality. What Krishnamurti does is start with putting aside everything we have borrowed from the outside world, from religions, from conditioning, from parents, and from schools, and look at life without this accumulated bundle of opinions that becomes the observer/interpreter of everything we experience. By simply staying with our experience, without forming any conclusions, we learn what our experience is about, what life is about, and what is possible. Krishnamurti invites the listener to inquire with him, step by step, not as an authority, but as two people serious about what the truth could be, looking a present experience and understanding what is happening right now. What seems to happen is that in the act of looking, or looking with the motiveless desire to understand, hearing without trying to get anything from the other, but deeply listening to what is said, the momentum of the past and its conditioning comes to an end, and we find inner peace. It is not by seeking, grasping and clinging to something. We can notice what causes us sorrow and what does not, and let go of all the striving inside that is part of sorrow. Krishnamurti contemplates a lot of things to deepen this kind of understanding. A person may feel things just gently drop away while hearing the message and feeling what it could mean to us right here and right now. I agree with many review that share that this is a good Krishnamurti book to start with. I would also recommend THE FIRST AND LAST FREEDOM, THE IMPOSSIBLE QUESTION, and THE ENDING OF TIME to round out the understanding and refine it some.
Summary of Think on These Things
?The material contained in this volume was originally presented in the form of talks to students, teachers and parents in India, but its keen penetration and lucid simplicity will be deeply meaningful to thoughtful people everywhere, of all ages, and in every walk of life. Krishnamurti examines with characteristic objectivity and insight the expressions of what we are pleased to call our culture, our education, religion, politics and tradition; and he throws much light on such basic emotions as ambition, greed and envy, the desire for security and the lust for power ? all of which he shows to be deteriorating factors in human society.? From the Editor?s Note ?Krishnamurti?s observations and explorations of modern man?s estate are penetrating and profound, yet given with a disarming simplicity and directness. To listen to him or to read his thoughts is to face oneself and the world with an astonishing morning freshness.? Anne Marrow LindberghGeneral Books
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