Krishnamurti's Journal

Krishnamurti's Journal gives us an intimate look atone of the great spiritual teachers of our time. Writing in a simple, direct, yet richly poetic style, Krishnamurti shares personal reflections and meditations recordedfrom 1973 to 1975. Blending memories of his past experience in India and Europe with current insights, hespeaks compellingly to our need for personal awareness and inwardness. Through vividly descriptive passages that reveal the extent to which his teaching is insipired by his closeness to nature, he addresses the timeless problems of mediation, communication, and self-awareness. Filled with keen observation and mystical insight, Krishnamurti's Journal reeals a serene, open, and profoundl reflective quality that makes it a valuable source of sagacious inquiry and contemplative beauty. This uniquely personal document also provides rare new insights into the mind of this world-renowned teacher.\ \ ----\ \ In September 1973 Krishnamurti suddenly started keeping a journal. For nearly sixweeks he made daily entries in a notebookForthefirst month of that period he was staying at Brockwood Park, Hampshire, and for the rest of the time in Rome. He resumed the journal eighteen months later while in California.\ Nearly every entry starts with a description of some natural scene which heknows intimatey, yet in only three instances do these descriptionsrefer to the place in which he was actually staying. Thus, the first page of the first entry describes the grove in the park at Brockwood, but by the second page he is evidently in Switzerland in imagination. It is not until he is staying in California in 1975 that he again gives a description ofhis actual surroundings. For the rest, he is recallingplaces he has lived in, with a clarity that shows how vivid ishis memory for natural scenery, arising from the acuteness of his observation. This journal also revealsto what an extent his teaching is inspired by his closeness to nature.\ Throughout, Krishnamurt