Commentaries On Living (Set of 3 Volumes)

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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

About The Book

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 .

Contents Volume-1

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

Contents Volume-2

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

Contents Volume-3

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

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