TOTAL FREEDOM: The Essential Krishnamurti

Counted among his admirers are Jonas Salk, Aldous Huxley, David Hockney, and Van Morrison, along with countless other philosophers, artist, writers and students of the spiritual path. Now the trustees of KrishnamurtiÆs work have gathered his very best and most illuminating writings and talks to present in one volume the truly essential ideas of this great spiritual thinker. Total Freedom includes selections from KrishnamurtiÆs early works, his æCommentaries on LivingÆ, and his discourses on life, the self, meditation, sex and love. These writings reveal KrishnamuriÆs core teachings in their full eloquence and power: the nature of personal freedom; the mysteries of life and death; and the æpathless landÆ, the personal search for truth and peace. Warning readers away from blind obedience to creeds or teachers û including himself û Krishnamurti celebrated the individual quest for truth, and thus became on of the most influential guides for independent-minded seekers of the twentieth century û and beyond.