Commentaries on Living: Third Series (Revised)

Krishnamurti's essential message is that to find truth, we must go beyond the limits of ordinary thought. In public talks worldwide, he strove to free listeners from conventional beliefs and psychological mind-sets in order to understand what is. The essential message of J. Krishnamurti, revered philosopher and spiritual teacher to millions, challenges the limits of ordinary thought. In talks and teachings to audiences worldwide, he extricated his listeners from the tangled net of ideas, organizational beliefs and psychological mind-sets and pointed them to the bliss of truth. In the final volume of this series, conversations with individual seekers explore many topics, including the cultivation of sensitivity, the problem of search, the importance of change, and "What is life all about?"

312 pages

About the author: Jiddu Krishnamurti was born on May 11, 1895 in Madanapalle, a small village in south India. In 1909, the famous clairvoyant Charles W. Leadbeater noticed the scrawny and sickly teenager playing on a beach one day. Leadbeater saw the boy's potential to become a great spiritual teacher and world orator despite all appearances and took him under his direction. Soon after he was adopted by Annie Besant, then President of the Theosophical Society, and brought to England to be educated in preparation for his future role. He was given the "star name" Alcyone, the brightest star of the Pleiades, to designate the reincarnating individuality behind the present personality Krishnamurti. He wrote At the Feet of the Master under this name at age 14. From 1929 until his death in February 1986 at the age of ninety, he traveled around the world speaking independently of any organization, teaching, giving talks, and having discussions. Many of these talks have been published in books and on audio and videotapes. Krishnamurti maintained that there was no path to Truth, no method for achieving it, and individuals must discover their own way by themselves. During his lifetime, he established several schools in different parts of the world where young people and adults could come together and explore ways of becoming fully intelligent and integrated human beings. He authored over thirty books including The First and Last Freedom and Commentaries on Living.