Product Description

In this work Krishnamurti shows how people can free themselves from the tyranny of the expected, regardless of age. By first changing themselves, they then can change their relationships and society. Themes include: awareness, man's search and the tortured mind.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #30025 in Books
• Published on: 1997-06-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Customer Reviews

Freedom from conditioning, experience, process and time
Krishnamurti sees very clearly that a human being is forever looking for a way out from his daily struggle of living and his fear of dying through various identifications.All identifications as per the book including identification with a religion, a political system, a scientific theory, even identification with a nation, flag only aggravates human misery.One new process replaces another, an old conditioning is replaced by a new one,for all of us there is a wonderful illusion that our salvation is just a question of time and more experience. Krishnamurti wants us not to accept what he is saying but to explore with him, whether all our experiences or other's experiences, regarding understanding of life is taking us anywhere at all?The relationship between the thinker and thought in a human being is central and most important thing to explore if life has to be explored as it is and is to be understood, this has been communicated with extraordinary clarity in these pages. Awareness, Observation and Silence as per Krishnamurti are the only instruments necessary for this exploration.There is a great depth and compassion in the way the language has been used.In recent times, Steven Harrison's Doing Nothing is one among the few original books that seem to take us in to this sort of exploration after Krishnamurti.

A simplistic review of the book Freedom From The Known
In this book freedom from the known, Krishnamurti expresses the necessity of how one must educate oneself and also how one must realise for oneself our true compassionate nature. He explains how thoughts are perverted by authority and also talks about love, sorrow and death. I find Krishnamurti a phenomenal spiritual teacher, I also find his words to be enlightening and authentic. I thoroughly recommend Freedom From The Known along with many of his other books that have been published such as Think On These Things and the Awakening Of Intelligence. Krishnamurti has the ability of giving the reader an insight into how the mind operates leaving the reader more informed and confident about life.

A brutally honest appraisal of the human condition
This is a rare and beautiful work. I laughed, cried and trembled when I read this book.

It amazes me that someone can have so much clarity about life and living. Krishnamurti must have been a very special human being.