To Be Human

Name: To Be Human
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ISBN: 9781570625961

ISBN-10: 1570625964

ISBN-13: 9781570625961

Edition: 2000

Authors: J. Krishnamurti, David Skitt

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This work presents Krishnamurti's radical vision of life in a new way. It consists of introductory texts that the author himself considered the core of his teachings.

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/10/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.39" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Editor's Introduction: Philosophy without Boundaries


Listening


The Core of the Teaching


Truth Is a Pathless Land


Is There Such a Thing as Truth Apart form Personal Opinion?


There Is Only Infinite Watching


A Man Addicted to Knowledge Cannot Find the Truth


There Is No Technique


You Have to Find Truth through the Mirror of Relationship


Human Begins Have Built in Themselves Images as a Fence of Security


The Burden of These Images Dominates Thinking, Relationships, and Daily Life


Freedom for Being a Slave to the Past


Thought Is Always Limited


The Content of One's Consciousness Is One's Entire Existence


One's Perception of List Is Shaped by Concepts Already Established in One's Mind


One's Uniqueness as a Human Being Lies in Complete Freedom from the Content of One's Consciousness


Choiceless Awareness


Freedom Is Found in the Choiceless Awareness of Daily Existence and Activity


Thought Is Time


Time Is the Psychological Enemy


In Observation One Begins to Discover the Lack of Freedom


A Radical Mutation in the Mind


Total Negation Is the Essence of the Positive


The Division between the Thinker and the Thought, the Observer and the Observed


This Division between the Observer and the Observed Is an Illusion


Breaking the Mirror


Words


Meanings


Observing


Staying with "What Is"


Asking but Not Answering Fundamental Questions


The Beauty of Not Knowing


On Issues Often Discussed


Appendix


Source Notes