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Title: Commentaries on Living by Jiddu Krishnamurti, Rajagopal D ISBN: 0-8356-0402-0 Publisher: Theosophical Publishing House Pub. Date: June, 1967 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.7 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Timeless wisdom from the master...which you already possess
Comment: I keep finding myself returning to this fairly straightforward and seemingly unsophisticated book. A series of topical vignettes by an Eastern teacher of wisdom--on the surface, just what the world DOESN'T need more of. In a society saturated by self-help would-be prophets and new-age dreck like Tony Robbins and Deepak Chopra, you would think a guy like this wouldn't make waves...but he does. Big ones. His insights are so frustratingly simple they almost leave our minds going, "That's IT?" for we usually assume that enlightenment is a stairway we have to climb. Krishnamurti has an uncanny ability to puncture this and many other illusions. A mystic who can stand his own with the best, he's also one of the most straightforward, non-flowery, non-blissed out authors you will ever read. He's tangled with everyone from heads of state to quantum physicists like David Bohm, so the average reader is no match for his razor-sharp insight and effortless deflation of unsound ways of being. He very often says in one paragraph what Leo Tolstoy needs two 1000-page books to get at, diving straight to the heart of the human condition and the activities of the unconscious mind. Though probably not the best anthology of his work, it's certainly a good way to clear your head which works MUCH better than any kind of chemical aids :) His prose is spare, uncompromising, and incisive, trimming away the excess fat of so many useless attempts by smaller minds to fill their true emptiness with pointless questions. Along with Marcus Borg's "The God We Never Knew", this book has essentially been my substitute for "Bible study" for quite some time now. That which we seek, we are. That which we would try to find is illusion. That which IS is not a process of linear time or human effort, but can only be understood when the observer "is not". Though I come from a monotheistic background and find some of K's work a tad impersonal, I cannot turn from the truth he offers--and that truth points a way to Truth, even though, as K himself would say, "Truth is a pathless land".
Rating: 2
Summary: Not A Good Vehicle For Krishnamurti's Teachings
Comment: This collection of a bunch of very short commentaries misses its mark. The commentaries open up with Krishnamurti laying down a setting and/or background of the people concerned with the topics presented. Then, they just crumble away into short, mostly ambiguous, commentaries. If you aren't familiar with Krishnamurti's terminology & philosophy, these commentaries can be very confusing. If you are familiar with him, you'd probably agree that they flat-out aren't very good for the most part. I did brighten in finding some of his ideas expressed quickly & to the point, in ways not spoken in other works. But, for the most part, I thought the majority missed their mark.
Rating: 5
Summary: perfect
Comment: This is probably the best of these three volumes. It is K. at his finest.
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Title: Freedom from the Known by Jiddu Krishnamurti ISBN: 0060648082 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 01 April, 1975 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: First and Last Freedom, The by Jiddu Krishnamurti ISBN: 0060648317 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 01 March, 1975 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Think on These Things by Jiddu Krishnamurti ISBN: 0060916095 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 11 October, 1989 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Meeting Life: Writings and Talks on Finding Your Path Without Retreating from Society by Jiddu Krishnamurti ISBN: 0062505262 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 30 August, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: This Light in Oneself by Jiddu Krishnamurti ISBN: 1570624429 Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 16 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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