Krishnamurti's Books
The First And The Last Freedom.
In this book the discussions
range wide - on suffering, on fear, on gossip, on sex, among other topics - but it
continually returns to the core concept of freedom: the breaking of the debilitating,
consuming concern with the self.
Osho:
"I love this man, and I hate this man. I love him because he speaks the
truth, but I hate him for his intellectuality. He is only reason, rationality.
I wonder, he may be a reincarnation of that goddamned Greek Aristotle. His
logic is what I hate. His love is what I respect. But this book is beautiful.
This was his first book after his enlightenment... and the last too. Although
many other books have appeared they are only poor repetitions of the same. He
has not been able to create anything better than The First and the Last
Freedom.
It is a strange phenomenon:
Kahlil Gibran wrote his masterpiece
The Prophet when he was only eighteen years old, and struggled his whole life to
create something better, but could not. Ouspensky could not go beyond Tertium
Organum even though he met Gurdjieff, lived and worked with him for many years.
And such is the case with J. Krishnamurti. His book The First and the Last
Freedom is really the first and the last."
Osho -
Books I Have Loved)
Commentaries On Living.
The book draws on conversations Krishnamurti
held over a decade or more with many hundreds of people around the world. He describes the
ways in which the mind is fundamentally conditioned by patterns of thought and experience.
Osho:
"I want to bring J. Krishnamurti back to your notice again. The name of
the book is Commentaries on Living. There are many volumes of it. It is
made of the same stuff stars are made from.
Commentaries on Living is his diary. Once in a while he writes
something in his diary... a beautiful sunset, an ancient tree, or just the
evening... birds coming back home... anything... a river rushing to the
ocean... whatever he feels, he sometimes notes it down.
That's how this book was born. It is not written systematically, it is a
diary. Yet to just read it is enough to transport you to another world... the
world of beauty, or far better, beautitude. Can you see my tears?
I have
not read for some time, but just the mention of this book is enough to bring
tears to my eyes. I love the book. It is one of the greatest books ever written.
I have said before that Krishnamurti's First and Last Freedom is his best book,
which he has not been able to transcend - of course not as a book, because
Commentaries is only a diary, not a book in the real sense, but all the same I
include it."
(Osho -
Books I Have Loved)
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Osho:
"I want to bring J. Krishnamurti back to your notice again. The name of
the book is Commentaries on Living. There are many volumes of it. It is
made of the same stuff stars are made from.