
What is it that is hurt? It is the image that one has built about oneself. If one were to be totally free of all images, then there would be no hurt, no flattery. So we are asking whether this image built from childhood, put together by thought, a structure of reactions, a process of remembrances—long, deep, abiding incidents, hurts, pain—can end completely.
Find out for yourself whether you can be free of that image totally’, says Krishnamurti in this book which consists of nine public talks that he gave in 1981 and 1982.
Publisher: Wassenaar: Mirananda
Format: paperback
First published: 1983
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.