The Life and Death of Krishnamurti

‘To be free of authority, of your own and that of another, is to die to everything of yesterday, so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigour and passion.’ This little book, under the title, chosen by K himself, of Freedom from the Known, was published in 1969.

Fear arises from the desire for security. ‘If there is complete psychological security there is no fear’, but there can never be psychological security ‘if one is wanting, desiring, pursuing, becoming

while living, also live with death. Then death is not something far away, death is not something which is at the end of one’s life, brought about by some accident, disease or old age, but rather an ending to all the things of memory – that is death, a death not separate from living.

Thought is the greatest hindrance to love.’

This journal, under the title Krishnamurti’s Notebook, was published by Gollancz and Harper & Row in 1976.

K asked whether there was an intelligence not born of knowledge and therefore free of self-interest.

Thus education, in the true sense, is the understanding of oneself, for it is in each one of us that the whole of existence is gathered.’

it was the escape from loneliness that brought sorrow, not the fact of loneliness, of death; grief was self-pity, not love.

The uniqueness of the individual does not lie in the superficial but in the total freedom from the content of consciousness.