Metaphysical meanderings with Krishnamurti. How fun!

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.

It feels more like you are reading someone talking than you are reading a novel. Jidda has interesting ideas, many of which intersect at the crossroads of psychology and eastern philosophy. His accounts are metaphysical and epistemological in nature. Good for thinking deeply and curiously about certain human tendencies and habits brought about because of society.

This, by far has been the most difficult book I've ever read. I've had to go back and forth to truly understand what the author is saying. The difficulty, I must confess, is in no way attributed to the author's intent or craft but completely to my inability and lack of readiness to grasp the depth of the content.
A book I must, most certainly, reread for better understanding.