Freedom from the Known: A Study of Conditioning, Freedom, and the Nature of the Self

For those who seek a fundamental Change . This book should be read as slow as possible . Few paragraphs a day And let the material be digested. To implement krishnamuty training It’s a life time work and this book should Read again and again over the years. To change old habits and refresh your brain takes time , observation and awareness. It’s like rewiring your brain. If you happened to be a philosophy Lover ,the roots of krishnamurty comes from the non dual practice And it goes back to two great Indian philosophers - Nagarjuna And Shankara. However no need to read those philosophers in order to practice what Is written in Freedom from the known. As the name implies with time you will Realize that our old habits of thinking And what we are conditioned which cause us anger , frustration etc.. Are non existence in the real world, t’s all part of our scattered mind That deceive us . That’s why you should go very slowly with each paragraph and spend time thinking about it as you go trough the day. The observing I which is the main theme Of the book is a powerful tool To practice as you go trough the day. That’s the freedom of known To realize those things. Excellent reading for life practice!

K answers many of life's questions in a way that is careful and engaging. After I read this title, I went out and bought a few copies and lent them out to friends. Many of them didn't get around to reading it, and after a year or so, I casually began asking them what they thought. Most said they had read some of it, found it uninteresting or offensive, and then had put down. At first, I thought K's book was an earth-shattering title that everyone should read. I began reading many books on Buddhism, and practicing meditation. A few years later, I came back to FFTK with a different view. K is a man who reached enlightenment, but when he puts his ideas into words, much is lost in translation. He feels that he can't explain enlightenment, so he explains what it isn't. He even points this out in his book. He says can't point to the right way, because that's up to the listener, he can only point out the wrong ways. Unfortunately, this makes his views come across as negative or nihilistic. What's important in reading K or any book on Buddhism is to try and understand the experience of the writer. If one day, you read this title and go around quoting K, trying to prove others wrong because you've read K and he hasn't read K, then you're defeating the purpose of reading the book altogether. You have to see beyond the words and ask yourself: what kind of person says something like K says? What drives these words, these ideas? What understanding has he come to that brings him to this point? That said, I don't know how effective K is at helping one learn "the Way", "Zen", or whatever you'd like to call it. The important thing is he doesn't give it a name. FFTK is a an engaging read which encourages new viewpoints, and if you are ready to ask yourself many questions when you read it, then you can learn many things. If you read it like a pulp novel, then you'll get little out of it. If you're reading it to compare and contrast with your own viewpoints, then K will become very vicious and you'll probably put it down. The way you read this book will probably be the way you approach many things in your life, so watch carefully. Transformation and Healing: Sutra on the Four Establishments of Mindfulness Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (Shambhala Library) Zen Flesh Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings Essays in Zen Buddhism, First Series

I don't have any idea how many of K's books I have bought and given away. They are probably not given more than a cursory glance and I doubt that a skim read will change anything. I read all the time and I retain very little of what I have read. K was an occultist from age 14 until his early 30's and that is what I read about and since the occult is interwoven with practically everything it is a very wide subject. My question is "how did he go from that", not from that to that. From that implies a beginning but, to that, is the end, the conclusion. Once you have reached a conclusion then all investigation has ended. There is no answer to the question, that is opinion and opinions are not facts which is contrary to what we have been told, and taught in schools. Therefore school has nothing to do with education, it is programing. Why do you think it is mandatory? The door is open, but due to our conditioning we cannot even see the opening. There is no how to? All we have to do is see the open door but I doubt reading one, two or three of K's books will change anything. This is a fundamental and total change, a total rejection of everything we have been told. Authority is the most destructive thing! When I read those 6 words a wave of excitement and relief came over me. It is such an obvious fact and somewhere inside my head I knew it to be true since I was a child, but the conditioning, the whitewash prevented me from seeing this fact. If you want to really investigate this total revolution then Google JKonline, and every day you will be emailed one of his quotes. It will be 5 or 10 lines. Read K every day not to achieve anything not as a means to an end, just as an experiment and buy this book too, it is my favorite, very short and concise. The other one to get is The Book of Life. This book has 365 quotes, one for every day of the year. Put it by your bed and read a quote every day. I have to read my emails every day but plenty of people do not so JKonline may not work for you..

Awesome read compact informative

Wow, you made it! This is the perfect book. I was looking for Truth for a long time, divided and lost, very very hurt. I was longing freedom, pure happiness, true love and peace. I did not understand who I am anymore, why am I here, what is happening to me and why, why, why. Why am I suffering? Why me? Why others? Reincarnation, heaven, day of judgment, different so-called religious books and enlightenment systems, so-called types of meditations, therapy, transmutations, psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, inner child, constellations, systems, systems, methods, paths, experts, these new methods or old modifications everybody shouts about and all the rest of it made very little sense to me. Of course, it felt like I discovered something so new and it kept me busy for some time but as soon as I went through, it became meaningless and I was left again and again more confused and more hurt, more uncertain, and more lost. Separating myself from people around me was more suffering, getting closer was suffering again. What is right, what is wrong, and why. Why are we against each other? Why so much violence? Why living in continuous conflict? Is this living at all? What shall I do? Joining more groups, more programs, involving more in family affairs or going and living in mountains. What is the right action? The moment I started to read this book everything changed, every page is so deep, exactly what is needed to enquire, to go deep at the very root of yourself. Understanding that no real change can happen at any level of the mind (nor conscious, subconscious or unconscious) is crucial. I don’t recommend you reading any book apart of the book of life you are now but if you are serious enough, and you are if you made it so far and if you are to go deep, to change fundamentally well this is the greatest start. The way every word is written is like a light to everything I am not so I am. If you only can listen, if you just look for a moment everything lights up and is so clear. It’s almost a year since I bought this book, and with another Krishnamurti’s books and YouTube videos, with that enquire into the living book, life itself, there is a tremendous understanding that no words can describe. You don’t need to live your whole life hurt in misery, contradictions and confusion. You don’t need to wait for another life or spend years, or any time for a fundamental change. Because from that understanding love is and everything is so different: action, relationship, nature, the whole of you and I, is actually as it is. So, only then thought understands itself, not you telling it what it is, only then everything is in its right place, freedom is. And that freedom, the freedom is happiness or intelligence or love or truth, not the word but what actually is.

This is the perfect antidote for a know it all This guy has a whole new angle on how to react to any kind of situation Not a book to be read It’s a study!

Turbilhão inicial. Inspirador. Adorei!

Love this book in its simplicity and clarity. Negate everything and ask yourself the hard questions but the trick is not to answer Thank you

The "teaching" of Krishnamurti is surely absolutely unique in int clarity. Unfortunately, it is not very easily accessible for many people who do not come with great patience or willingness to dive into it. Many times when telling friends or families and wanting to show them certain of his marvellous points, I failed to bring K close to them, because it was "too complicate" or simply "too long". This book is a summary of his teaching which can easily be entered and provokes to dive into it further. It is a small yet very powerful book. I tend to give it as a gift to friends and so on now, because if you havent heard K, understood what he is saying, 'this book will give you insights in the teaching even without a lot of effort. In my experience even people who are not familiar with "all that" are amazed by the book.