Jiddu Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986) "Truth is a pathless land. "
Jiddu Krishnamurti was born on May 12, 1895 about 250 km north of Madras (Chennai), India. J. Krishnamurti was educated in the Theosophical Society, to be a reincarnation of Maitreya, the messianic Buddha.
In 1929, Krishnamurti was a break with the organization and began to emerge as one of the most iconoclastic and influential teachers of the 20th century. He repudiated all connection with organized religion and ideology, but he didn't deny on his spiritual authority.
He travels constantly, also denied links with any country, nationality or culture.
The aim of Krishnamurti was to establish a free humanity. He argued that the individual is released to be aware of his own psychological conditioning, and that this awakening, allowed him to give love to another.
Jiddu Krishnamurti was a philosopher, writer and international speaker.
"I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you can not approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. " -J. Krishnamurti
He was free from the influences of packaging of the various systems of philosophy, religious dogmatism, political ideology, intellectual speculation and cultural prejudices.
"When the man realizes the movement of his own thoughts, he will see the division between the thinker and thought ... the observer and the observed."
Krishnamurti books:
- Eight Conversations
- Krishnamurti's NoteBook
- Action & Relationship
- The Network of Thought
- Life Ahead
- Meditations
- The Future is Now
- A Dialog with Oneself