Authors: Jiddu Krishnamurti, Aldous Huxley
ISBN-13: 9780060648312, ISBN-10: 0060648317
Format: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: March 1975
Edition: Reprint
J. Krishnamurti (1895-1986) was a renowned spiritual teacher whose lectures and writings have inspired thousands. His works include On Mind and Thought, On Nature and the Environment, On Relationship, On Living and Dying, On Love and Lonliness, On Fear, and On Freedom.
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.
Foreword | 9 | |
I | Introduction | 19 |
II | What are we seeking? | 28 |
III | Individual and Society | 34 |
IV | Self-knowledge | 42 |
V | Action and Idea | 50 |
VI | Belief | 57 |
VII | Effort | 66 |
VIII | Contradiction | 71 |
IX | What is the Self? | 76 |
X | Fear | 83 |
XI | Simplicity | 88 |
XII | Awareness | 94 |
XIII | Desire | 99 |
XIV | Relationship and Isolation | 104 |
XV | The Thinker and the Thought | 108 |
XVI | Can Thinking solve our Problems? | 111 |
XVII | The Function of the Mind | 115 |
XVIII | Self-deception | 120 |
XIX | Self-centred Activity | 126 |
XX | Time and Transformation | 131 |
XXI | Power and Realization | 136 |
Questions and Answers | ||
1 | On the present Crisis | 145 |
2 | On Nationalism | 148 |
3 | Why Spiritual Teachers? | 150 |
4 | On Knowledge | 154 |
5 | On Discipline | 157 |
6 | On Loneliness | 165 |
7 | On Suffering | 168 |
8 | On Awareness | 172 |
9 | On Relationship | 177 |
10 | On War | 182 |
11 | On Fear | 186 |
12 | On Boredom and Interest | 190 |
13 | On Hate | 193 |
14 | On Gossip | 197 |
15 | On Criticism | 201 |
16 | On Belief in God | 205 |
17 | On Memory | 209 |
18 | Surrender to 'What Is' | 214 |
19 | On Prayer and Meditation | 216 |
20 | On the Conscious and Unconscious Mind | 222 |
21 | On Sex | 227 |
22 | On Love | 232 |
23 | On Death | 235 |
24 | On Time | 238 |
25 | On Action without Idea | 243 |
26 | On the Old and the New | 246 |
27 | On Naming | 249 |
28 | On the Known and the Unknown | 255 |
29 | Truth and Lie | 258 |
30 | On God | 263 |
31 | On Immediate Realization | 267 |
32 | On Simplicity | 271 |
33 | On Superficiality | 273 |
34 | On Triviality | 275 |
35 | On the Stillness of the Mind | 277 |
36 | On the Meaning of Life | 280 |
37 | On the Confusion of the Mind | 282 |
38 | On Transformation | 285 |