
Total Freedom
The Essential Krishnamurti
Krishnamurti(Author)
HarperSanFrancisco (Publisher)
Published on 2. December 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-0-06-064880-0 (ISBN)
Description
Described by the Dalai Lama as 'one of the greatest thinker's of the age', J, Krishnamurti's revolutionary teachings on personal freedom and the search for truth have influenced millions of people throughout the twentieth century.
Counted among his admirers are Jonas Salk, Aldous Huxley, David Hockney, and Van Morrison, along with countless other philosophers, artist, writers and students of the spiritual path. Now the trustees of Krishnamurti's work have gathered his very best and most illuminating writings and talks to present in one volume the truly essential ideas of this great spiritual thinker.
Total Freedom includes selections from Krishnamurti's early works, his 'Commentaries on Living', and his discourses on life, the self, meditation, sex and love. These writings reveal Krishnamuri's core teachings in their full eloquence and power: the nature of personal freedom; the mysteries of life and death; and the 'pathless land', the personal search for truth and peace. Warning readers away from blind obedience to creeds or teachers - including himself - Krishnamurti celebrated the individual quest for truth, and thus became on of the most influential guides for independent-minded seekers of the twentieth century - and beyond.
Counted among his admirers are Jonas Salk, Aldous Huxley, David Hockney, and Van Morrison, along with countless other philosophers, artist, writers and students of the spiritual path. Now the trustees of Krishnamurti's work have gathered his very best and most illuminating writings and talks to present in one volume the truly essential ideas of this great spiritual thinker.
Total Freedom includes selections from Krishnamurti's early works, his 'Commentaries on Living', and his discourses on life, the self, meditation, sex and love. These writings reveal Krishnamuri's core teachings in their full eloquence and power: the nature of personal freedom; the mysteries of life and death; and the 'pathless land', the personal search for truth and peace. Warning readers away from blind obedience to creeds or teachers - including himself - Krishnamurti celebrated the individual quest for truth, and thus became on of the most influential guides for independent-minded seekers of the twentieth century - and beyond.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
437 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-06-064880-0 (9780060648800)
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J. Krishnamurti (1895-1986) devoted his life to counselling and teaching. For more than half a century he was a public figure, traveling continuously around the world to share a message that has been heard and read assiduously by countless persons of all ages. He wrote many books including the The First and Last Freedom, Awakening of Intelligence, Freedom From the Unknown, Total Freedom.David Bohn is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of London. His books include Quantum Theory, causality, and Chance in Modern Physics and Wholeness and the Implicate Order.