In The Life and Death of Krishnamurti, the biographer Mary Lutyens gives a delightful account of the origin of Freedom from the Known, which Krishnamurti asked her to compile, in 1967: K asked me out the blue if I would do a book for him. To my amazement I heard myself saying, ‘Yes’. Then I asked, ‘What kind of a book?’ ‘Something based on the talks. I leave it to you’, he replied. The rest of my summer was overshadowed by the enormity of what I had let myself in for… The first thing obviously was to read some of K’’ talks which I had not done for nearly forty years. Later, after completing the book, she says the title was chosen by Krishnamurti himself and adds: ‘The chapter on love in the one I find the most beautiful and the most shattering.’ Read more >>
