Freedom, Love and Action

J. Krishnamurti spent decades giving talks and answering questions, and Freedom, Love and Action is one of the volumes drawn from those conversations. The format is mostly transcribed dialogue. Someone asks a question, Krishnamurti slows down and pulls the question apart, and the room follows him into something more uncomfortable than the original asker probably wanted.

He doesn’t really do answers. He does a kind of careful examination that often leaves you with a different question than the one you started with.

If you’ve read his other work, this collection won’t change your view of him. The themes are familiar. Conditioning, fear, the trick of trying to become free without first seeing what unfree actually means.

Not the easiest entry point. The Awakening of Intelligence or Think on These Things is probably better if you’re new to him.