Pure Quality: The Annotation of Life III

Author: Krishnamurti
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: In this book, the author records conversations with many ordinary people from 1960. Each piece begins with a description of the scenery, starting from the weather and environment of that day. The descriptions are very detailed, and everything the author sees is presented in our minds. The atmosphere of their conversation is the tone of the background theme. Then, within this atmosphere, the visitor and their unique experiences and problems are presented before us. Finally, there is the conversation between the author and the visitor. This narrative style is unique, and it prevents the combination of the articles from becoming repetitive, always fresh and full of vitality. In this book, Krishnamurti records conversations with many ordinary people from 1960. Each piece begins with a description of the scenery, starting from the weather and environment of that day. The descriptions are very detailed, and everything the author sees is presented in our minds. It is the atmosphere of the conversation, like the tone of a theme background. Then, within this atmosphere, the visitor and their unique experiences and problems are presented before us. Finally, there is the conversation between Krishnamurti and the visitor. When these three elements—natural environment, visitor, and conversation—are organized together, they become irreplicable, always fresh and full of vitality. Not only is the narrative style unique, but more importantly: although the backgrounds and experiences of these visitors are diverse, their desires, fears, expectations, and struggles are almost identical to the landscape of my own inner world. The questions they raise are specific, yet they reveal the common problems faced by humanity: due to our conditioning and our lack of self-awareness, our actions have led us into confusion and bewilderment. Krishnamurti listens to people's stories with great compassion; his constant questioning and probing, thorough discussions, point out the blind spots in people's thinking, guide them through the maze in their hearts, lighten the burden of suffering, and heal the inner wounds. Regardless of the visitor's identity, we cannot find a name for them in the book; the locations change constantly, and there are no records of place names. What we read is the feeling for each specific person, the changes in the scenery of each place—in the essence that truly belongs to a person or a place after stripping away the labels.