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4.14 AVERAGE
4.14 AVERAGE
Thought awoking and enlightening. For the modern person difficult to grasp at first.
It’s a quick read, the first book of his I’ve read. I’m interested to read another but this one wasn’t really anything I haven’t already found elsewhere among French philosophers and Ancient Greek writers
I really didn't understand what Jiddu Krishnamurti was saying. I think I have to read it many times before I have a better understanding of the book.
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Krishnamurthi is Joy. Awareness rather than past thoughts and knowledge. Autodidactic rather than having intoxicated authorities. Loving oneself before expecting others to love the self. Abandoning the self to attain the highest form of experiencing love. I'll be further exploring him.
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love Krishnamurti. everything is so well articulated, and find myself saying ‘god that is so true’ at every line
Tough to read. Tougher to follow. Have to think it over before I can interpret it properly. But JK's idea of spirituality is the closest to what I like to to think of a spiritual.
I really don't know how one is supposed to go about reviewing a book like "Freedom from the Known." Krishnamurti is fairly explicit that learning from others is antithetical to true knowledge. Even consciously pursuing truth, he says, only puts a further barrier in front of it. So what's a reader to do?
His advice is essentially to live in the moment. Stop thinking and start experiencing. Don't look for truth, see truth. Instead of trying to improve yourself by consciously aspiring to a greater good, live with your natural anger, jealousy, and loneliness. Don't sink into your vices, and at the same time, don't try and deny them.
If this is sounding like nebulous spiritual hogwash, it's because that's basically what it is. For those stuck in a cage of dogma or preconception, I could see how this work could be life-changing. For anyone with any sense, it's probably not worth the effort, because you've been trying to live this way for some time. Like he says, simply listening to some guru isn't going to help you accomplish your goal.
His advice is essentially to live in the moment. Stop thinking and start experiencing. Don't look for truth, see truth. Instead of trying to improve yourself by consciously aspiring to a greater good, live with your natural anger, jealousy, and loneliness. Don't sink into your vices, and at the same time, don't try and deny them.
If this is sounding like nebulous spiritual hogwash, it's because that's basically what it is. For those stuck in a cage of dogma or preconception, I could see how this work could be life-changing. For anyone with any sense, it's probably not worth the effort, because you've been trying to live this way for some time. Like he says, simply listening to some guru isn't going to help you accomplish your goal.
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