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Freedom from the Known (Paperback)

by J. Krishnamurti (Author)
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  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco; New Ed edition (16 Jun 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0060648082
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060648084
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.4 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
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In this work Krishnamurti shows how people can free themselves from the tyranny of the expected, regardless of age. By first changing themselves, they then can change their relationships and society. Themes include: awareness, man's search and the tortured mind.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Passionate, 21 Mar 2009
Krishnamurti wrote this one himself and he wrote it with great passion. He is very detailed, but at the end of the day the book all boils down to observation and awareness being the keys to freedom. As always Krishnamurti challenges the accepted norms like relgion and society at large, and he is tough on delusional systems as well. Always a hard hitter with his language, his scope is almost scientific. His style is much like the book Finding Reality which I also found to be a powerful book like this one. All said any book which gets the reader to take an honest look at themsleves without judgement has got to be a real truth book, and so I recommend this book for that reason!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Freedom from conditioning, experience, process and time, 17 Feb 2002
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Krishnamurti sees very clearly that a human being is forever looking for a way out from his daily struggle of living and his fear of dying through various identifications.All identifications as per the book including identification with a religion, a political system, a scientific theory, even identification with a nation, flag only aggravates human misery.One new process replaces another, an old conditioning is replaced by a new one,for all of us there is a wonderful illusion that our salvation is just a question of time and more experience. Krishnamurti wants us not to accept what he is saying but to explore with him, whether all our experiences or other's experiences, regarding understanding of life is taking us anywhere at all?The relationship between the thinker and thought in a human being is central and most important thing to explore if life has to be explored as it is and is to be understood, this has been communicated with extraordinary clarity in these pages. Awareness, Observation and Silence as per Krishnamurti are the only instruments necessary for this exploration.There is a great depth and compassion in the way the language has been used.In recent times, Steven Harrison's Doing Nothing is one among the few original books that seem to take us in to this sort of exploration after Krishnamurti.
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30 of 40 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A simplistic review of the book Freedom From The Known, 29 May 2002
In this book freedom from the known, Krishnamurti expresses the necessity of how one must educate oneself and also how one must realise for oneself our true compassionate nature. He explains how thoughts are perverted by authority and also talks about love, sorrow and death. I find Krishnamurti a phenomenal spiritual teacher, I also find his words to be enlightening and authentic. I thoroughly recommend Freedom From The Known along with many of his other books that have been published such as Think On These Things and the Awakening Of Intelligence. Krishnamurti has the ability of giving the reader an insight into how the mind operates leaving the reader more informed and confident about life.
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