Questioning Krishnamurti: J. Krishnamurti in Dialogue - Hardcover

Krishnamurti, J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8187326220 ISBN 13: 9788187326229

Publisher: Krishnamuriti Foundation India, 2001

Synopsis

Language: English
Pages: 266



About the Book:

In the last two decades of his life, Krishnamurti engaged in several discussion with scientists, Buddhist scholars, philosophers, artists and a Jesuit priest. This volume contains his conversation with Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Renee Weber, David Bohm, Jonas Salk, Walpola Rahula, Bernard Levin, Huston Smith, Iris Murdoch, and Pupul Jayakar. These offer a profound insight into his philosophy of life.

In his Foreword to the book, editor David Skitt says: 'For the first-time reader, the range and vocabulary of these conversations may seem daunting. Is this philosophy, Psychology, or religion? Or all three? Krishnamurti himself did not like giving a name to what he talked about. His agenda was very open-ended, always totally free to cover any aspect of the human condition. For Krishnamurti, a religious view of life is inseparable from exploring whether we mistakenly apply the biological model of evolution to the psychological sphere; and whether the computer is an accurate simultation of the human brain. For him, these are not incidentally but crucial issues that determine the quality of our lives, not just topics of intellectual interest.'

Foreword
Both the life and teaching of Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986) have aroused considerable controversy, ranging from adulation as a 'World Teacher', a twentieth-century Maitreya or Messiah, to the view that he was a fallible, if extraordinary, human being. Many who knew him felt overwhelmed, deeply awed even, by a sense of sacredness and unconditional love flowing from him. Others felt something of this, and a few also felt badly wronged or slighted, and have responded with a pained ambivalence. Even for those close to him for years, his personality has remai

Edition details

• Publisher: Krishnamuriti Foundation India
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8187326220
• ISBN 13: 9788187326229
• Binding: Hardcover