Freedom From The Known

Name: Freedom From The Known
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Jiddu Krishnamurti
ISBN: 9781914988066

Author: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrator: Adam Behr

Unabridged: 4 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: M-Y Books Ltd.

Published: 11/02/2024

Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Movements

Synopsis

Born in poverty in India, Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986) became a leading spiritual and philosophical thinker whose ideas continue to influence us today. George Bernard Shaw declared that he was the most beautiful human being he had ever seen and Aldous Huxley was one of his close friends. Whether debating politics with Nehru, discussing theories with Rupert Sheldrake and Iris Murdoch, or challenging his students not to take his words at face value, Krishnamurti engaged fully with every aspect of life. He is regarded by many modern religious figures as a great teacher, an extraordinary individual with revolutionary insights; Joseph Campbell, Alan Watts, Eckhart Tolle and Deepak Chopra are all indebted to his writings. Freedom from the Known is one of Krishnamurti's most accessible works. Here, he reveals how we can free ourselves radically and immediately from the tyranny of the expected. By changing ourselves, we can alter the structure of society and our relationships. The vital need for change and the recognition of its very possibility form an essential part of this important book's message.

About Jiddu Krishnamurti

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895â€“1986) was a renowned spiritual teacher whose lectures and writings have inspired millions around the world. His works include On Mind and Thought, On Nature and the Environment, On Relationship, On Living and Dying, On Love and Loneliness, On Fear, and On Freedom.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bethan on July 10, 2014

My friend died while I was reading this - he killed himself at 25, almost 26-years-old - and this book ties into so much of what I think was wrong about what he was thinking and why he killed himself, and it also helped me to be reading it, because it centered me and gave me perspective - to meditat......more

Goodreads review by Michael on June 09, 2010

I am not going to write reviews of all Krishnamurtis book because my understanding of what he was saying seems to be encompassed in this one. Many years ago I was on a boat crossing from Greece to Egypt and got talking to an enigmatic lady called Erica. We talked for hours and she suggested that I m......more

Goodreads review by Chris on March 23, 2012

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......more

Goodreads review by rahul on May 22, 2017

But we do not ask. We want to be told. One of the most curious things in the structure of our psyche is that we all want to be told because we are the result of the propaganda of ten thousand years. We want to have our thinking confirmed and corroborated by another, whereas to ask a question is to a......more

Goodreads review by Alok on April 09, 2019

Exactly the one I was looking for... it challenged my beliefs and also my assumptions. However, there are many things in the book that cannot be followed by human beings who are accustomed to living in the 'world'. Emotions are inevitable as far as we don't want to lead the identity of being human........more