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The most popular Krishnamurti book, Think on These Things, is a series of talks and questions and answers with students and teachers from the Krishnamurti schools. This is a wonderful first book for readers.

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Questioner: You tell us that there should be no resistance in paying...

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The most popular Krishnamurti book, Think on These Things, is a series of talks and questions and answers with students and teachers from the Krishnamurti schools. This is a wonderful first book for readers.

From the book:

Questioner: You tell us that there should be no resistance in paying attention. How can this be?

Krishnamurti: I have said that any form of resistance is inattention, distraction. Don't accept it, think it over. Don't accept anything, it does not matter who says it, but investigate the matter for yourself. If you merely accept, you become mechanical, dull, you are already dead; but if you investigate, if you think things out for yourself, then you are alive, vital, a creative human being.

English Language Paperback
Author/Editor: J. Krishnamurti
258 pages

 

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The most popular Krishnamurti book, Think on These Things, is a series of talks and questions and answers with students and teachers from the Krishnamurti schools. This is a wonderful first book for readers.

From the book:

Questioner: You tell us that there should be no resistance in paying attention. How can this be?

Krishnamurti: I have said that any form of resistance is inattention, distraction. Don't accept it, think it over. Don't accept anything, it does not matter who says it, but investigate the matter for yourself. If you merely accept, you become mechanical, dull, you are already dead; but if you investigate, if you think things out for yourself, then you are alive, vital, a creative human being.

English Language Paperback
Author/Editor: J. Krishnamurti
258 pages

 

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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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Royce Sciortino
Think on Thinking

I’ve noticed, in this short time of reading and watching videos of Krishnamurti, that his language and process of self-inquiry, produces a heightened awareness of the cognitive experience. He taps into one of the distinguishing features of being human (as far as we know), that we are aware that we are aware, and that we think of thinking. It is in heightened awareness of that dynamic that I can then experience a sense of timelessness (in the moment? eternity?). So far, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my journey with him. I question why the strict adherence to logic. Emotional intelligence is also part of what it means to be human, and it appears that is not a significant concern of his. I wonder what it would be like to marry logic and emotional intelligence in the same observation and process of self-inquiry.

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