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Jiddu Krishnamurti - the guru who didn't want to be one
Jiddu Krishnamurti was famous in his lifetime for first being raised as a 'world teacher' and then renouncing the organisation founded in his honor. Paradoxically he spent the rest of his life teaching all over the world: lecturing, talking to people and writing inspirational diaries. All his talks and many of his private conversations have been published and are still in print.
His lectures are thought provoking and individualistic. Krishnamurti continually points out our own responsibility in changing our selves - as the only way to make this world a better place. Dependence on others - psychologically - may be human, but will not make us happy (or so he says - this is where I have to disagree a bit).
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986)
Born a poor Brahmin boy in Southern India, Krishnamurti was saved from bad teachers, ill health and probably death by C.W. Leadbeater. Leadbeater, the then famous theosophical clairvoyant, saw Krishnamurti and his brother playing on the Adyar beach (near Madras). He saw something special in the boy and asked to be allowed to raise them. Since the father was poor and a working member of the Theosophical Society, he readily consented to his boys getting a decent English style education.He would be raised to see himself as a spiritual teacher. In 1929 Krishnamurti ended 'The Order of the Star of the East', which had been founded with the specific purpose of helping 'the world teacher'.
After this, Krishnamurti went his own way and the Theosophical Society another. Krishnamurti would lecture all over the world.
Jiddu Krishnamurti on relationships
Freedom & Love
His view of relationships was that they were often more based on memory, then on the actual people in it now. He challenged people in relationships to forget about the past and look at each other afresh.
He stressed that most marriages come about because the biological urge to get kids is very strong. This isn't love, it's desire. Only a few relationships passed his test of being so real that they can't be broken by anything. In those cases marriage itself isn't necessary. On other hand most relationships are based on habit, sexual urges and in it people find out how very different they are... how little they have in common.
Krishnamurti on marriage, love and psychological problems
Krishnamurti on Love, relationships and marriage
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Jiddu Krishnamurti on Love
As on many topics, Krishnamurti's discussions on love centre around questions:
Can love be divided into the sacred and the profane, the human and the divine, or is there only love? Is love of the one and not of the many? If I say,`I love you', does that exclude the love of the other? Is love personal or impersonal? Moral or immoral? Family or non-family? If you love mankind can you love the particular? Is love sentiment? Is love emotion? Is love pleasure and desire?
He stressed that to really find out what love is about, we have to let go of the words other people have taught us about love. We have to look afresh and find out for ourselves. The flame of love is something that can't be experienced through words, concepts or clichés.
Jiddu Krishnamurti on love
Your favourite Jiddu Krishnamurti Books
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Freedom from the Known by Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Think on These Things by Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Awakening of Intelligence, by Jiddu Krishnamurti
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One Thousand Suns: Krishnamurti at Eighty-Five and the Last Walk by Asit Chandmal
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On Love and Loneliness by Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Meeting Life: Writings and Talks on Finding Your Path Without Retreating from Society by Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Krishnamurti on Education
"Convential education makes independant thinking extremely difficult. Conformity leads to mediocrity. To be different from the group or to resist environment is not easy and is often risky as long as we worship success. The urge to be successful, which is the pursuit of reward whether in the material or the in the so-called spiritual sphere, the search for inward or outward security, the desire for comfort - this whole process smothers discontent, puts an end to spontaneity and breeds fear; and fear blocks the intelligent understanding of life. With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in."
Jiddu Krishnamurti as a teacher, on education
Jiddu Krishnamurti online
- Jiddu Krishnamurti: history, quotes and personal remembrances
- Quotes on life, love, meditation, clairvoyance and many other things. Includes transcripts of personal talks he had with people, as well as lectures and parts of his diaries.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
- The complete Krishnamurti Collected Works online - that is: all the material starting the 1930's. The lectures, stories and poems from Krishnamurti's theosophical days aren't here.
- Krishnamurti & theosophy
- Historical material and observations on the relationship between Jiddu Krishnamurti and the Theosophical Society - as well as its worldview.
Classic books by Jiddu Krishnamurti
Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
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Education and the Significance of Life
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J. Krishnamurti on loneliness versus being alone
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" Loneliness, with its fear and ache, is isolation, the inevitable action of the self. This process of isolation, whether expansive or narrow, is productive of confusion, conflict and sorrow. Isolation can never give birth to aloneness; the one has to cease for the other to be. Aloneness is indivisible and loneliness is separation. That which is alone is pliable and so enduring. Only the alone can commune with that which is causeless, the immeasurable. To the alone, life is eternal; to the alone there is no death. The alone can never cease to be. "
from commentaries on living, first series, chapter 5
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DVD's with J. Krishnamurti
The Nature of the Mind
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Meditation & the Thinking Machine
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Krishnamurti in Conversation W/Buddhist Scholars - We Are All Caught in The Idea of Progress
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On the Nature of Love
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Jiddu Krishnamurti poems
- The Path
- On the spiritual path. The young Jiddu Krishnamurti explores the image of the spiritual path, and how the path transforms as the traveler changes. Ultimately he discovers...
- Immortal Friend
- Fragment of this long prose-poem. Describes meeting the 'immortal friend', the ultimate spiritual teacher.
- I will sing to thee the song of my Beloved
- Another fragment of 'the immortal friend'. In this fragment he expresses poetically how it feels to have found 'the beloved'.
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