This Light in Oneself (True Meditation)

The nature of human consciousness, man's inquiry into truth, the importance of being a light to oneself, and the true meaning of meditation, silence, enlightenment and the sacred are the focus of this compilation. These excerpts from Krishnamurti' previously unpublished talks are remarkable for the rare a. subtle perspectives they offer on these profound the Seekers who are trying to find the true meaning of a religious life in the modern world will find, in these pages, questions and statements that help to intensify their search.

J. Krishnamurti (1895 -1986) is regarded as one the greatest philosophers and religious teachers of all time. For more than sixty years he travelled the world over, giving talks and holding dialogue not as a guru but as a friend. His teachings are not based on book knowledge and theories, and therefore they communicate directly to anyone seeking answers to the present world crisis as well as to the eternal problems of human existence.

APPROACHING the end of what most of the Western world has chosen to call the second millennium amid busy plans for celebration, we look about us and see the astounding advances in science, medicine, technology, access to information, and knowledge- and war, poverty, starvation, political and religious corruption, turmoil, despoliation of the environment, terrorism, and great sorrow even among the most affluent. For thousands of years we have looked outward, to experts who now amass and manipulate information of incredible complexity, and to counselors, therapists, "educators," and religious leaders to solve our personal and social upheavals. Yet the fundamental problems of fear, conflict, relationship, lives without meaning, remain.

In his many years of discussions with people from all parts of society and, in public talks to large audiences all over the world, Krishnamurti spoke of the need to look inward, to know oneself, if we are to understand individual, and there-fore society's, deeply rooted conflicts, for "we are the world"; our individual chaos creates the global disorder.

From previously unpublished talks, the pages that follow offer Krishnamurti's timeless insights into where the source of humanity's true freedom, wisdom, and goodness is to be discovered-by each of us.

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