The first and last freedom
If the truth can set us free, where do we find it? According to Krishnamurti, we find truth not in society and its institutions, nor in organized religions and their dogmas, nor in any self-help guru or outside spiritual ʺauthority.ʺ The hope for truth and ultimate freedom canʼt come from someone telling you what to do or believe; it can come only through your own creative self-understanding. In The First and Last Freedom Krishnamurti takes the reader on a wide-ranging quest exploring societyʼs…
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- Full title :The first and last freedom / by J. Krishnamurti ; with a foreword by Aldous Huxley.
Summary
If the truth can set us free, where do we find it? According to Krishnamurti, we find truth not in society and its institutions, nor in organized religions and their dogmas, nor in any self-help guru or outside spiritual ʺauthority.ʺ The hope for truth and ultimate freedom canʼt come from someone telling you what to do or believe; it can come only through your own creative self-understanding. In The First and Last Freedom Krishnamurti takes the reader on a wide-ranging quest exploring societyʼs common concerns, such as suffering and fear, love and sex, the meaning of life, and personal transformation, always relating them to the essential search for pure truth and perfect freedom.
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- Publication Date:1975, ©1954.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Harper & Row
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1975, ©1954.
Notes
Reprint of the ed. published by the Theosophical Pub. Co., Wheaton, Ill., in series: A Quest book.
The Physical Object
- Description:288 pages ; : 20 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0060648317, 9780060648312
- oclc:ocm01330025
- LC Classification:BP565.K7
- Dewey Decimal:212/.52
Table of Contents
Foreword: Aldous Huxley -- I Introduction -- II What are we seeking? -- III Individual and Society -- IV Self-knowledge -- V Action and Idea -- VI Belief -- VII Effort -- VIII Contradiction -- IX What is the Self? -- X Fear -- XI Simplicity -- XII Awareness -- XIII Desire -- XIV Relationship and Isolation -- XV The Thinker and the Thought -- XVI Can Thinking solve our Problems? -- XVII The Function of the Mind -- XVIII Self-deception -- XIX Self-centred (centered) Activity -- XX Time and Transformation -- XXI Power and Realization -- Questions and Answers: On the present Crisis, On Nationalism, Why Spiritual Teachers?, On Knowledge, On Discipline, On Loneliness, On Suffering, On Awareness, On Relationship, On War, On Fear, On Boredom and Interest, On Hate, On Gossip, On Criticism, On Belief in God, On Memory, Surrender to ʼWhat Isʼ, On Prayer and Meditation, On the Conscious and Unconscious Mind, On Sex, On Love, On Death, On Time, On Action without Idea, On the Old and the New, On Naming, On the Known and the Unknown, Truth and Lie, On God, On Immediate Realization, On Simplicity, On Superficiality, On Triviality, On the Stillness of the Mind, On the Meaning of Life, On the Confu…
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