The Book of Life: Daily Meditations

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The Book of Life: Daily Meditations - J. Krishnamurti

Krishnamurti is a leading spiritual teacher of our century. In The First and Last Freedom he cuts away symbols and false associations in the search for pure truth and perfect freedom. Through discussions on suffering, fear, gossip, sex and other topics, Krishnamurtis quest becomes the readers, an undertaking of tremendous significance.

Contains passages on a new theme for each week of the year, with each topic developed over seven days. The book covers topics such as desire, sorrow, self-knowledge and meditation.

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Freedom From the Known - Jiddu Krishnamurti

Freedom From the Known - Jiddu Krishnamurti
Krishnamurti shows how people can free themselves radically and immediately from the tyranny of the expected, no matter what their age--opening the door to transforming society and their relationships.

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Think on These Things - Jiddu Krishnamurti

Think on These Things - Jiddu Krishnamurti
The material contained in this volume was originally presented in the form of talks to students, teachers and parents in India, but its keen penetration and lucid simplicity will be deeply meaningful to thoughtful people everywhere, of all ages, and in every walk of life. Krishnamurti examines with characteristic objectivity and insight the expressions of what we are pleased to call our culture, our education, religion, politics and tradition; and he throws much light on such basic emotions as ambition, greed and envy, the desire for security and the lust for power all of which he shows to be deteriorating factors in human society.From the Editors NoteKrishnamurtis observations and explorations of modern mans estate are penetrating and profound, yet given with a disarming simplicity and directness. To listen to him or to read his thoughts is to face oneself and the world with an astonishing morning freshness.Anne Marrow Lindbergh

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Can Humanity Change? - Jiddu Krishnamurti

Can Humanity Change? - Jiddu Krishnamurti

Many have considered Buddhism to be the religion closest in spirit to J. Krishnamurti's spiritual teaching—even though the great teacher was famous for urging students to seek truth outside organized religion. This record of a historic encounter between Krishnamurti and a group of Buddhist scholars provides a unique opportunity to see what the great teacher had to say himself about Buddhist teachings. The conversations, which took place in London in the late 1970s, focused on human consciousness and its potential for transformation. Participants include Walpola Rahula, the renowned Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and scholar, author of the classic introductory text What the Buddha Taught.

Here is the complete 6 video set of conversations between Krishnamurti and Buddhist scholars. Compressed in ACE format but can be uncompressed with WinRAR. MP4 Video format. You can use VLC (freeware) to view videos. Thanks to my friend Alexander for passing along the links to share. MU links only.

We Are All Caught in the Idea of Progress
1st Conversation with Buddhist Scholars, Brockwood Park, 22nd June, 1978. Duration 99 min. B & W.

Knowledge means accumulation of information experience, various facts, theories and principles the past and the present. All that bundle we call knowledge. Can a mind that is burdened with knowledge see truth? Will we get more knowledge by reading this or that what the Buddha said, what Christ said? We are full of this accumulative instinct that we think will help us to jump into heaven. Can I look at the fact without the word with all its intimations, all its content, its tradition? Can I look at something without the word, without the association of words without past remembrances? Then only I see the fact.

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Can We Live Without Identifying?
2nd Conversation with Buddhist Scholars, Brockwood Park, England, 23rd June, 1978. Duration 94 min. B & W.

What is death? Is there life after death, is there a continuity? If not, what is the point of living at all? Why is there the whole process of identification my possessions, what I will be, success, power, prestige? The identification process is the essence of the self. Is it possible to live in daily life without this identification process which brings about the structure and the nature of the self which is the result of thought? Is it possible to be free of the "me" which produces all this chaos, this constant effort? Can thought end? Is it possible to live a daily life with death which is the ending of the self?

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Does Free Will Exist?
3rd Conversation with Buddhist Scholars, Brockwood Park, England, 23rd June, 1978. Duration 115 min. B & W.

We say free will exists because we can choose between this and that. Apart from material things, why is there choice? Is there an action in which there is no effort of will at all and therefore no choice? Why does thought identify with sensations? is there duality in identification? How did thought begin in me? Was it handed down by my parents by education, by environment, by the past? Does the word create the thought or thought creates words? Why does thought enter into action? Is there an action which is complete, total, whole, not partial? Can you see someone as a whole being? Then there is love.

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Can Truth Be Perceived Through Time?
1st Conversation with Buddhist Scholars, Brockwood Park, England, 28th June, 1979. Duration 93 min. B & W.

All the things that thought has put together literature, poetry, painting, illusions, gods, symbols, all that is reality for us. But nature is not created by thought. Can the mind, the network of all the senses apprehend, see, observe truth? Psychological time is the invention of thought which we use as a means of achieving enlightenment. Is such time an illusion? Is truth measurable by words? Truth is timeless, thought is of time, the two cannot run together. Without love, without compassion truth cannot be. I cannot go to truth, I cannot see truth. Truth can only exist, only be when the self is not.

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What Is It That Dies?
2nd Conversation with Buddhist Scholars, Brockwood Park, 28th June 1979. Duration: 104 min. B & W.

Is there life after death? The consciousness of human beings, the loneliness, despair, sorrow, fear, is its contents. Each person goes through the same tragedies, misfortunes - humanity is one. Then what is death, what is it that dies? To find out what death is I have to be with death, to end beliefs, attachment, everything I have collected.

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What is Meditation?
Conversation with Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, San Diego, California, 15th Feb. 1972. Duration 40 min. Color.

Krishnamurti in conversation with Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, a Tibetan Buddhist meditation master and founder of the Naropa Institute in Colorado. Krishnamurti opens up the question of meditation, contrasting the system of practice with living observation. A vital meditation is seen to be essential for the orderly quietness of the mind, which is then dynamic in action.

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Commentaries on Living - Jiddu Krishnamurti

Commentaries on Living - Jiddu Krishnamurti
Commentaries on Living records Krishnamurti's meetings with individual seekers of truth from all walks of life. A dialogue on many aspects of living. A classic series.

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Krishnamurti - A Different Kind of Intelligence

A Different Kind of Intelligence" set of 6 single DVDs

Heres a fine set of Krishnamurti DVD talks.

A Different Kind Of Intelligence: What Can We Do in this World?

If we are not committed to any ideology what is our natural response to all the horror going on? As human beings living in this world with our families, our children what is our action, our responsibility? What are we? Why do we behave like this? Is there anything ultimate, any existence without cause? Will that enquiry tell me what I am to do?

The analyser is the result of his past memories, experiences, knowledge but is the analyser separate from the analysed? Am I different from my envy?

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Krishnamurti Interviews - PBS 1974 (18 episodes)

Not sure why I haven't thought of including any Krishnamurti in this blog? I was really into him 10 years ago but I settled into a Zen practice. But if you've never heard K speak hes a breath of fresh air. Special thanks to Craig for pointing this one out!

At a time of unprecedented outer change in the political and social atmospheres, is there a fundamental inner change that is demanded of each one of us? In the eighteen dialogues with Professor Allan W. Anderson, Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at San Diego State University, J. Krishnamurti indicates that pinning our hopes on organized religion, science, political ideology or the market economy not only fails to address basic human problems but actually creates them. The way out of our difficulties, Krishnamurti states, can only start in the mind of each one of us, in awareness of the way we actually perceive life, ourselves and others. Professor Anderson, throughout these dialogues, refers to many passages of Western and Eastern religious scriptures that he believes have been misunderstood and which in fact support Krishnamurti's statements. The dialogues took place at San Diego State University from 18 to 28 February 1974.

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