J. Krishnamurti: A Biography

Title page
Contents
About the Author
Dedication
Preface
J. Krishnamurti
	“A Song Bestowed Upon a Tethered Bird”
	Part 1: The Young Krishnamurti 1895-1946
		Chapter 1: “In Space One Is Born and Unto Space One Is Born”
		Chapter 2: The Theosophical Society and the Occult Hierarchy
		Chapter 3: The Dream: “Is That You My Lord?”
		Chapter 4: “Mother, Please Touch My Face. Is It Still There?”
		Chapter 5: “Our Life Here Is One of Intense Inner Activity.”
		Chapter 6: “I and My Brother Are One”
		Chapter 7: “The Personality of J. Krishnamurti Has Been Swallowed Up in the Flames.”
		Chapter 8: Krishnamurti in Ojai: The Forgotten Years, 1938-1947
	Part 2: Krishnamurti in India 1947-1949
		Chapter 9: The Gathering of the Friends
		Chapter 10: “You Are the World.”
		Chapter 11: “Go and Make Friends with the Trees.”
		Chapter 12: “There Was the Face Beside Me.”
		Chapter 13: “Why Don’t You Begin to Clean Your Front Doorstep, the Part of Your Street Which Is Yourself.”
		Chapter 14: “Under the Last Rays of the Sun, the Waters Were the Color of Newborn Flowers.”
		Chapter 15: “The Mind Operating as Part of the Whole Is Endless.”
	Part 3: The Unfolding of the Teaching 1950-1959
		Chapter 16: “Religion Comes When the Mind Has Understood the Workings of Itself”
		Chapter 17: “The Mind Seemed to Expand without an End”
		Chapter 18 “Can There Be Action Without Consequence?”
		Chapter 19: “To Speak with the Whole Head”
	Part 4: The Rivers of Insight 1960-1962
		Chapter 20: “Through Negation There Is Creation.”
		Chapter 21: “The Mind That Goes into Itself Deeply Enters on a Pilgrimage from Which There Is No Return.”
		Chapter 22: “Be Awake.”
		Chapter 23: “Happy Is the Man Who is Nothing”: Letters to a Young Friend
	Part 5: Changing Horizons 1962-1977
		Chapter 24: “People Who Are without Creativity Build Dead Institutions.”
		Chapter 25: “It Is Necessary to Ask Questions to Which There Are No Answers.”
		Chapter 26: “Love Does Not Suffer.”
		Chapter 27: “The Observer Is the Observed.”
		Chapter 28: “The Pebble in the Pond”
		Chapter 29: “Riding the Back of a Tiger.”
		Chapter 30: “She Is Very Vulnerable.”
		Chapter 31: “Don’t Hold Memories of Her in Your Mind, that Holds Her to the Earth. Let Her Go.”
	Part 6: The Summation of the Teaching 1978-1985
		Chapter 32: “Can You from Today Look at the Thirty Years, as the Past? Not from the Thirty Years Look at Today?”
		Chapter 33: “Energy Is Cosmos, It Is Also Chaos. That Is the Source of Creation.”
		Chapter 34: Negation and the Ancient Mind
		Chapter 35: “One Touched the Source of the Energy of All Things.”
		Chapter 36: “Doubt as the Essence of Religious Enquiry”
		Chapter 37: “I Suddenly Saw the Face.”
		Chapter 38: “Is It Possible to Keep the Brain Very Young?”
		Chapter 39: “The Nature of God”
		Chapter 40: “The Meaning of Death”
		Chapter 41: “Learn to Die to Yourself Completely”
		Chapter 42: The Limits of Thought
		Chapter 43: “How Far Can One Travel?”
		Chapter 44: “The Good Mind”
		Chapter 45: “What Is Time?”
		Chapter 46: “The Lineage of Compassion”
		Chapter 47: “No Beginning, No End”: Krishnamurti at Ninety
Epilogue
Illustrations
Endnotes
Footnotes
	“A Song Bestowed Upon a Tethered Bird”
	Chapter 3: The Dream: “Is That You My Lord?”
	Chapter 4: “Mother, Please Touch My Face. Is It Still There?”
	Chapter 5: “Our Life Here Is One of Intense Inner Activity.”
	Chapter 6: “I and My Brother Are One”
	Chapter 7: “The Personality of J. Krishnamurti Has Been Swallowed Up in the Flames.”
	Chapter 8: Krishnamurti in Ojai: The Forgotten Years, 1938-1947
	Chapter 9: The Gathering of the Friends
	Chapter 11: “Go and Make Friends with the Trees.”
	Chapter 14: “Under the Last Rays of the Sun, the Waters Were the Color of Newborn Flowers.”
	Chapter 16: “Religion Comes When the Mind Has Understood the Workings of Itself”
	Chapter 18 “Can There Be Action Without Consequence?”
	Chapter 19: “To Speak with the Whole Head”
	Chapter 22: “Be Awake.”
	Chapter 24: “People Who Are without Creativity Build Dead Institutions.”
	Chapter 29: “Riding the Back of a Tiger.”
	Chapter 30: “She Is Very Vulnerable.”
	Chapter 31: “Don’t Hold Memories of Her in Your Mind, that Holds Her to the Earth. Let Her Go.”
	Chapter 36: “Doubt as the Essence of Religious Enquiry”
	Epilogue
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