About / Krishnamurti's Notebook
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The back-cover:
Krishnamurti's Notebook is a spiritual treasure. The words inside offer the intimate spirit of a truly remarkable presence, poetic, gracious, vast as the sky and wonderfully wise.
-- Jack Kornfield, author
Krishnamurti's Notebook is certainly one of the most important books he ever wrote. It is the only book he wrote to himself, for himself, about what was actually happening in the intimate part of his being He was not sure, at first, that he would allow these pages to be published.
-- AlainNaudé, assistant to J.Krishnamurti; Homoeopath
This Notebook, with its matter~of~fact descriptions of Krishnamurti's almost daily experiences of mystical states, was a privilege to read. In the past, I have found Krishnamurti's ideas hard to grasp, no doubt, because I was trying to grasp them. But this Notebook seems sometimes to paralyse my thought and allow Krishnamurti to work on me on a deeper level.
--John Cleese, actor
I wrote it [Krishnamurti's Notebook] as a diary while I was travelling... but I did not write it for publication. I describe what I call the process--my sensation of being outside the ordinary world, of being completely at peace and removed from conflict. This happens only from time to time and clearly it is impossible to describe to anybody who has not experienced it. But I have attempted to put into words the actual pain and sensation which goes with the heightened consciousness. It is not intended in a romantic way: if you lead a certain type of disciplined, quiet life, you release a kind of energy--that's a scientific fact--and this affects the non-mechanical part of your brain so that you enter a new dimension. The physical organism is incapable of meeting it and so you get the pain. I am not suggesting that everyone should try to attain this, but it may be of interest to some people who have followed my thoughts and ideas to know what happens on a more personal level.
--J.Krishnamurti
[interview with The Guardian]
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