Metaphysical meanderings with Krishnamurti. How fun!

Another failure on my part to "get religion." I had thought Krishnamurti was some guy from a long long time ago, but he's just another patronizing hypocritical soi-disant guru dick.

Powerful Book--Very Complexs

The book is a compilation of lectures and tapes, and covers Krishnamurti's discourses on human consciousness - emotions, war, and other aspects of our and society's paradigms. He is a brilliant man, but practically all of these spiritual philosophers seem to go out of their way to make everything difficult to understand.

The book may be short, but it is extremely dense. There is not a paragraph that does not contain some complex esoteric perspective. Often I had to re-read them a few times to make sense of the concept. And sometimes, I still wasn't totally sure. The bottom line is to figure things out for yourself and don't give away your power to others.

On love, I think Swedenborg's explanation is superior and far easier to understand - it is our essence. As with the other emotions, Krishnamurti does a great job of explaining what they aren't, but grasping the concept of what they are was difficult for me.

One thing for sure, the book does make you see things differently by challenging the accepted paradigms, and any book that makes you question yourself as much as this one is definitely worth reading.

Just a few Buddhist insights wrapped in layers of condescension and sophism.