At the Feet of the Master - Couverture souple

Alcyone; (Krishnamurti)

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1585093068 ISBN 13 : 9781585093069

Editeur : Book Tree,US, 2007

Synopsis

This was the first book by the great spiritual teacher, Krishnamurti, written at the age of 14. It was written under the name Alcyone, which is the brightest star in the Pleiades. This name was bestowed upon him because it was thought he would be the next great world teacher and had returned through the reincarnation process. The wisdom in this book is amazing for such a young man, and his later work attests to this natural gift. The book addresses the question, how does one live and walk on a spiritual path? He lays out four qualifications for this path - discrimination, desirelessness, good conduct and love. Each of these topics is taken in turn and the reader is guided through and onto a meaningful spiritual path, at least in a general sense. This book has the potential to change the reader at a very deep level, but each must first listen, learn and act upon the principles shared. This book points clearly to a very powerful path. Walking it, with the wisdom it shares, is the challenge.

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Biographie de l'auteur

J. Krishnamurti (1895-1986) was a renowned spiritual teacher whose lectures and writings have inspired thousands. His works include On Mind and Thought, On Nature and the Environment, On Relationship, On Living and Dying, On Love and Lonliness, On Fear, and On Freedom.

Jiddu Krishnamurti lived from 1895 to 1986, and is regarded as one of the greatest philosophical and spiritual figures of the twentieth century. He was first discovered by the Theosophists on a beach in South India in 1910 at the age of 13 and was educated to be the new World Teacher for the ages. Then he took an extraordinary turn. In 1929, at one of the enormous annual European gatherings of the Theosophists in Holland, he announced his decision to step down from any formal role to promote him as a World Teacher, resigned as figure head of the Theosophists, and cut all ties to any notion of a religious or spiritual organization.Krishnamurti claimed no allegiance to any caste, nationality or religion and was bound by no tradition. His purpose was to set humankind unconditionally free from the destructive limitations of a conditioned mind. For nearly sixty years, he traveled the world and spoke spontaneously to large audiences until the end of his life in 1986 at the age of 90. He had no permanent home, but when not traveling, he often stayed in Ojai, California, Brockwood Park, England, and in Chennai, India. In his talks, he pointed out to people the need to transform themselves through self knowledge, by being aware of the subtleties of their thoughts and feelings in daily life, and how this movement can be observed through the mirror of relationship.

Présentation de l'éditeur

The privilege is given to me, as an elder, to pen a word of introduction to this little book, the first written by a younger Brother, young in body verily, but not in Soul. The teachings contained in it were given to him by his Master in preparing him for Initiation, and were written down by him from memory - slowly and laboriously, for his English last year was far less fluent than it is now. The greater part is a reproduction of the Master's own words; that which is not such a verbal reproduction is the Master's thought clothed in His pupil's words. Two omitted sentences were supplied by the Master. In two other cases an omitted word has been added. Beyond this, it is entirely Krishnaji's own, his first gift to the world.

May it help others as the spoken teachings helped him - such is the hope with which he gives it. But the teaching can be fruitful only if it is Lived, as he has lived it, since it fell from his Master's lips. If the example be followed as well as the precept, then for the reader, as for the writer, shall the great Portal swing open, and his feet be set on the Path.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Book Tree,US
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1585093068
• ISBN 13: 9781585093069
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 92
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible