Commentaries On Living (Set of 3 Volumes)
Book Specification
Item Code: | NAG318 |
Author: | J. Krishnamurti |
Publisher: | Krishnamuriti Foundation India |
Language: | English |
Edition: | 2012 |
ISBN: | 9788187326042 |
Pages: | 1150 |
Cover: | Paperback |
Other Details | 8.5 inch X 5.5 inch |
Weight | 1.48 kg |
Book Description
During the 1930s and 1940s, Krishnamurti was intermittently keeping notes of his talks, his musings on nature and reflection on life, and discussions with individuals and group. Apparently, it was Aldous Huxley who encouraged him to write in a sustained manner these commentaries on life, which consist of a series of dialogues with ordinary human begins whom the met in deferent parts of the world.
The three volumes of Commentaries on Living represent an entirely new genre of writing a blend of lyrical descriptions of nature, philosophical reflections, and psychological insights, all informed by a deep religious sensibility and couched in lucid, absorbing prose .
1 | Three Pious Egoists | 1 |
2 | Identification | 5 |
3 | Gossip and Worry | 7 |
4 | Thought and Love | 10 |
5 | Aloneness and Isolation | 12 |
6 | Pupil and Master | 14 |
7 | The Rich and the Poor | 17 |
8 | Ceremonies and Conversion | 20 |
9 | Knowledge | 23 |
10 | Respectability | 26 |
11 | Politics | 28 |
12 | Experiencing | 31 |
13 | Virtue | 33 |
14 | Simplicity of the Heart | 36 |
15 | Facets fo the Individual | 38 |
16 | Sleep | 40 |
17 | Love in Relationship | 43 |
18 | The Known and the Unknown | 46 |
19 | The Search for Truth | 49 |
20 | Sensitivity | 53 |
21 | The Individual and Society | 56 |
22 | The Self | 59 |
23 | Belief | 62 |
24 | Silence | 65 |
25 | Renunciation of Riches | 68 |
26 | Repetition and Sensation | 71 |
27 | The Radio and Music | 74 |
28 | Authority | 76 |
29 | Meditation | 79 |
30 | Anger | 82 |
31 | Psychological Security | 85 |
32 | Separateness | 89 |
33 | Power | 92 |
34 | Sincerity | 94 |
35 | Fulfilment | 97 |
36 | Words | 100 |
37 | Idea and Fact | 103 |
38 | Continuity | 106 |
39 | Self-Defence | 110 |
40 | My Path and Your Path | 113 |
41 | Awareness | 119 |
42 | Loneliness | 126 |
43 | Consistency | 130 |
44 | Action and Idea | 135 |
45 | Life in a City | 138 |
46 | Obsession | 140 |
47 | The Spititual Leader | 143 |
48 | Stimulation | 148 |
49 | Problems and Escapes | 151 |
50 | 'What is' and 'What Should be' | 156 |
51 | Contradiction | 159 |
52 | Jealousy | 163 |
53 | Spontaneity | 166 |
54 | fThe Conscious and the Unconscious | 169 |
55 | Challenge and Response | 172 |
56 | Possessiveness | 175 |
57 | Self-Esteem | 179 |
58 | Fear | 184 |
59 | How am I to Love? | 187 |
60 | The Futility of Result | 192 |
61 | The Desire of Bliss | 195 |
62 | Thought and Consiousness | 199 |
63 | Self-Sacrifice | 202 |
64 | The Flame and the Smoke | 206 |
65 | Occupation of the Mind | 210 |
66 | Cessation of Thought | 213 |
67 | Desire and Confilct | 217 |
68 | Action without Purpose | 221 |
69 | Cause and Effect | 225 |
70 | Dullness | 229 |
71 | Clarity in Action | 233 |
72 | Ideaology | 237 |
73 | Beauty | 242 |
74 | Integration | 246 |
75 | Fear and Escape | 252 |
76 | Expoitasion and Activity | 258 |
77 | The Learned or the Wise? | 263 |
78 | Stillness and Will | 269 |
79 | Ambition | 274 |
80 | Satisfaction | 279 |
81 | Wisdom is not Accumulation of Knowledge | 284 |
82 | Distraction | 289 |
83 | Time | 295 |
84 | Suffering | 300 |
85 | Sensation fand Happiness | 306 |
86 | To See th Faflse as the Fales | 311 |
87 | Security | 315 |
88 | Work | 322 |
1 | Creative Happiness | 1 |
2 | Conditioning | 4 |
3 | The Fear of Inner Solitude | 9 |
4 | The Process of Hate | 14 |
5 | Progress and Revolution | 18 |
6 | Boredom | 25 |
7 | Discipline | 30 |
8 | Conflict-Freedom-Relationship | 36 |
9 | Effort | 43 |
10 | Devotion and Worship | 50 |
11 | Interest | 55 |
12 | Education and Integration | 60 |
13 | Chastity | 69 |
14 | The Fear of Death | 76 |
15 | The Fusion of the Thinker and His Thoughts | 84 |
16 | The Pursuit of Power | 90 |
17 | What Is Making You Dull? | 96 |
18 | Karma | 103 |
19 | The Individual and the Ideal | 108 |
20 | To be Vulnerable is to Live, to Withdraw is to Die | 115 |
21 | Despair and Hope | 121 |
22 | The Mind and the Known | 128 |
23 | Conformity and Freedom | 134 |
24 | Time and Continuity | 140 |
25 | The Family and the Desire for Security | 145 |
26 | The 'I' | 151 |
27 | The Nature of Desire | 157 |
28 | The Purpose of Life | 162 |
29 | Valuing an Experience | 169 |
30 | This Problem of Love | 177 |
31 | What Is the True Fuction of a Teacher? | 182 |
32 | Your Children and Their Success | 186 |
33 | The Urge to Seek | 192 |
34 | Listening | 196 |
35 | The Fire of Discontent | 199 |
36 | An Experience of Bliss | 203 |
37 | A Politician Who Wanated To Do Good | 209 |
38 | The Competitive Way of Life | 214 |
39 | Meditation-Effor-Consiousness | 219 |
40 | Psychoanalysis and the Human Problem | 224 |
41 | Cleansed of the Past | 230 |
42 | Authority and Cooperation | 236 |
43 | Medioctity | 240 |
44 | Positive and Negative Teaching | 245 |
45 | Help | 253 |
46 | Silence of the Mind | 259 |
47 | Contentment | 265 |
48 | The Actor | 270 |
49 | The Way of Knowledge | 274 |
50 | Convictions-Dreams | 279 |
51 | Death | 285 |
52 | Evaluation | 291 |
53 | Envy and Loneliness | 298 |
54 | The Storm in the Mind | 305 |
55 | Control of Thought | 311 |
56 | Is There Profound Thinking? | 320 |
57 | Immensity | 322 |
1 | Does Thinking Begin with Conclusion? | 1 |
2 | Self-Knowledge or Self-Hypnosis? | 7 |
3 | The Escape From 'What Is' | 13 |
4 | Can One Know What Is Good for the People | 18 |
5 | I Wan't to Find the Source of Joy? | 25 |
6 | Pleasure, Habit and Austerity | 29 |
7 | Won't You Join Our Animal Welfare Society? | 35 |
8 | Conditioning and the Urge To Be Free | 42 |
9 | The Void Within | 49 |
10 | The Problem of Search | 57 |
11 | Psychological Revolution | 63 |
12 | There Is No Thinker, Only Conditioned Thinking | 74 |
13 | Why Should It Happen to us? | 83 |
14 | Life, Death and Survival | 92 |
15 | Deterioration of the Mind | 98 |
16 | The Flame of Discontent | 108 |
17 | Outward Moditication and Inward Disintegration | 116 |
18 | To Change Society, You Must Break Away from It | 121 |
19 | Where the Self Is, Love Is Not | 126 |
20 | The Fragmentation of Man Is Making Him Sick | 134 |
21 | The Vanity of Knowledge | 145 |
22 | What Is Life All About? | 154 |
23 | Without Goodness and Love, One Is Not Educated | 163 |
24 | Hate and Violence | 172 |
25 | The Cultivation of Sensitivity | 179 |
26 | Why Have I No Insight?' | 186 |
27 | Reform, Revoltution and the Search for God | 194 |
28 | The Noisy Child and the Silent Mind | 206 |
29 | Where There Is Attention, Reality Is | 217 |
30 | Self-Interest Decays the Mind | 227 |
31 | The Importance of Change | 236 |
32 | Killing | 248 |
33 | To be Intelligent Is To Be Simple | 260 |
34 | Confusion and Convictions | 268 |
35 | Attention Without Motive | 280 |
36 | The Voyage on an Uncharted Sea | 290 |
37 | Aloneness Beyond Loneliness | 299 |
38 | Why did You Dissolve Your Order of the Star?' | 309 |
39 | What is Love? | 316 |
40 | Seeking and the State of Search | 327 |
41 | Why do the Scriptures Condemn Desire?' | 337 |
42 | Can Politics Ever Be Spiritualized? | 347 |
43 | Awareness and the Cessation of Dreams | 359 |
44 | What does It Mean To Be Serious? | 368 |
45 | Is There Anything Permanent? | 378 |
46 | Why This Urge To Possess? | 391 |
47 | Desire and the Pain of Contradiction | 398 |
48 | What Am I To Do? | 404 |
49 | Fragmentary Activities and Total Action | 417 |
50 | Freedom from the Known | 424 |
51 | Time, Habit and Ideals | 430 |
52 | Can God Be Sought Through Organized Religion? | 436 |
53 | Asceticim and Total Being | 444 |
54 | The Challenge of the Present | 451 |
55 | Sorrow form Self-Pity | 457 |
56 | Insensitivity ann Resistance to Noise | 464 |
57 | The Quality of Simplicity | 470 |