The first and last freedom
by Jiddu Krishnamurti · first published 1954
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The First and Last Freedom by Jiddu Krishnamurti, with a forward by Aldous Huxley. I read it while living in California, during a trying time after deciding to move far away from my parents, and it helped me see all of life in…
on “Ask HN: What book changed your life?” ↗Highly recommended books: [Think on These Things](http://www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net/en/think-on-these-things) and [The First and Last Freedom](http://www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net/en/the-first-and-last-free...) by Jiddu Krishnamurti
on “The Positive Programmer” ↗Good to see Krishnamurti mentioned here! I warmly recommend The First and Last Freedom and Think on These Things, both books that affected me deeply and improved my life. Here is the table of contents (from a PDF) from the latter. I recommend getting a hardcopy — it is a short book, to…
on “Ask HN: How do you deal with professional jealousy and getting older?” ↗…Krishnamurti's [The observer is the observed][2]. An application by Buchheit (and others!) that improved my life: Gmail. Two books by Krishnamurti that improved my life: Think on These Things and The First and Last Freedom. [1]: http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2011/08/i-am-nothing.html [2]: http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-dai...
on “Keep your identity small (2009)” ↗As a counter to hate I recommend anything by Jiddu Krishnamurti, especially Think on These Things and The First and Last Freedom.
on “Dalai Lama: Behind Our Anxiety, the Fear of Being Unneeded” ↗…Margaret Atwood * The Last Question by Isaac Asimov * Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon Three non-fiction recommendations: * Art is Work by Milton Glaser * Pragmatic Thinking And Learning by Andy Hunt * The First And Last Freedom by Jiddu Krishnamurti
on “Summer Reading List” ↗Theosophy: An Introduction to the Supersensible Knowledge of the World and the Destination of Man, http://www.rsarchive.org/Books/GA009/ The First and Last Freedom, J Krishnamurti http://www.jkrishnamurti.com/krishnamurti-teachings/view-tex...
on “Ask HN: What books have made the biggest impact on your mental models?” ↗The First and Last Freedom by Jiddu Krishnamurti https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64710.The_First_and_Last...
on “Ask HN: What influenced your personal growth the most?” ↗The First and Last Freedom by Jiddu Krishnamurti. Frankenstein (1818 Edition) by Mary Shelley.
on “Ask HN: Which books have made you introspect?” ↗The First and Last Freedom by Jiddu Krishnamurti. It changed how I think about identity by showing me the danger of labels, and made me appreciate the beauty of life.
on “Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?” ↗See also I Am A Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter, and The First and Last Freedom by Jiddu Krishnamurti.
on “What Gödel Discovered” ↗…https://www.biblio.com/the-medium-is-the-massage-by-marshall... Also of interest, notes about the observer being the observed in Jiddu Krishnamurti’s Think on These Things — https://www.biblio.com/9780060916091 — and The First and Last Freedom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_and_Last_Freedom
on “How we lost communication to entertainment” ↗The First and Last Freedom By J. Krishnamurti
on “Ask HN: Which book helped you understand the world?” ↗The First and Last Freedom by Jiddu Krishnamurti (forward by Aldous Huxley)
on “Ask HN: Life Changing Books?” ↗The First and Last Freedom by Jiddu Krishnamurti https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_and_Last_Freedom
on “Ask HN: Which book have you re-read recently?” ↗