Choiceless Awareness: A Study Book of the Teachings of J. Krishnamurti

by Jiddu Krishnamurti

Overview

A series of Study Books was produced in the 1990s for use as concentrated study material on a particular topic at the four-day dialogue weekends held in Ojai, California. Editors utilized the CD-ROM to compile an extensive collection of excerpts for each theme–which range from one sentence in length to an entire talk–and they have organized them into chapters of subsidiary topics. These books are an invaluable resource of excerpted material as they offer a sustained survey of each subject, allowing for a deeper comprehension of what Krishnamurti was conveying. Much of the material has been drawn from the Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, Vols. I-XVII, the record of Krishnamurti's public talks from 1933 to 1967.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781888004045
Publisher:	K Publications
Publication date:	12/31/2000
Pages:	144
Sales rank:	700,957
Product dimensions:	8.42(w) x 5.38(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Krishnamurti, Jiddu born of middle-class Brahmin parents, was recognized at age fourteen as the coming World Teacher. Krishnamurti claimed allegiance to no caste, nationality or religion and was bound by no tradition. He traveled the world and spoke spontaneously to large audiences until the end of his life at age ninety. He said man has to free himself of all fear, conditioning, authority and dogma through self-knowledge and this will bring about order and psychological mutation. For more information see http://kpublications.com/k_bio.html

Table of Contents

	Foreword	1
	Introduction: Talking things over together as two friends...	3
I.	An Overview	5
II.	The Nature of Choiceless Awareness	15
	What is awareness?	15
	The division between the observer and the observed	29
III.	Understanding the Self	39
	A different kind of learning	39
	The self and its activity	46
IV.	Consciousness, Thought, and Time	59
	The field of consciousness	59
	Thought and memory	69
	The ideal and the actual	76
	Awareness and time	78
V.	Awareness and Transformation	85
	Transformation and the energy to change	85
	The mirror of relationship	89
	Seeing without the image	94
	Seeing without the word	101
	Awareness and human problems	108
1.	Envy	108
2.	Jealousy	110
3.	Amibition	111
4.	Fear	113
5.	Desire	117
6.	Loneliness	121
7.	Escapes	125
8.	Habit	127
9.	Confusion	131
VI.	Meditation and the Quiet Mind	133
VII.	In Summation	145
	Bibliography	153