Early Works is a record of the voice of Jiddu Krishnamurti whose unique message represents no organized religion, philosophy or ideology. History has often revealed that the life and experiences of a single human being can have a significant infl...

Written approximately 2500 years ago, the volume's three key points are: First, on the phenomenal plane, when one ceases to resist What-Is and becomes more in harmony with It, one attains a state of Ming, or clear seeing. Having arrived at this ...

Early Works is a true record of the voice of Jiddu Krishnamurti whose unique message represents no organized religion, philosophy or ideology. History has often revealed that the life and experiences of a single human being can have a significant...

Do we possess an individual self or soul that is separate from our physical biology or are we simply an enormously complex biological network that mechanically produces our hopes, aspirations, dreams, desires, humor, and passions? Disillusionment...

Buddhism is a system that defines how to live and this is its primary appeal. Buddhist practices such as meditation are associated with contentment and well-being. As a system for living, Buddhism appears to many to be a sensible and practical lif...

The ancient texts of every religion talk of man's pursuit of happiness, and it has been man's ongoing endeavor to come upon it. But it is quite clear that, barring a few unique individuals like the Buddha, or the Christ, the vast majority of us ha...

Krishnamurti viewed meditation as not something intended to reach higher states of consciousness. He saw meditation as rather a form of pure awareness, in which one refrains from all techniques and efforts to obtain a desired outcome. This awarene...