With his signature insight and wisdom, world renowned thinker J. Krishnamurti offers a timely manifesto on the roots of conflict. In a series of six prescient talks, he reveals how changing our own behaviors to nurture a more peaceful mindset can create positive change for the wider world.
Publisher: penguin.co.uk
Length: 144 pages
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I haven’t read the book yet cause I decide to read the flight of the eagle.
I am confident it will be a very deeply moving experience for me. What a profound thinker. I hope I can grasp the essence as I am no intellectual. But I am certainly a life long meditator and have been able to watch my thoughts til,the fade away.
Krishnamurti again share deeper insight about how reality works to bring an end to conflict.
He states that perceiving is an action. Opinions or sentiment, build inner conflict that is foundation for outer conflict.
But facts and truth in our perception is basis for intelligence which is supported by compassion love which don't bring inner conflict.
Love or compassion has nothing opposed, no opposition or opposite. From this we can deduce that love and truth are in harmony. And since we stem from love there is alignment or no conflict.
He also says there is no intelligence without love.
And says there is no psychological time but there are physical cycles eg night and day or time. Coming free from inner conflict is key to be free, intelligent loving rational people living in peace.
Good book to heal humanity of read, understood and acted on.
Jiddu Krishnamurti lived from 1895 to 1986, and is regarded as one of the greatest philosophical and spiritual figures of the twentieth century. Krishnamurti claimed no allegiance to any caste, nationality or religion and was bound by no tradition. His purpose was to set humankind unconditionally free from the destructive limitations of conditioned mind. For nearly sixty years he traveled the world and spoke spontaneously to large audiences until the end of his life in 1986 at the age of ninety. He had no permanent home, but when not traveling, he often stayed in Ojai, California, Brockwood Park, England, and in Chennai, India. In his talks, he pointed out to people the need to transform themselves through self knowledge, by being aware of the subtleties of their thoughts and feelings in daily life, and how this movement can be observed through the mirror of relationship.
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