http://bol.sourceforge.net/on-line/BookOfLife.php Hi, this is the RDF news with the titles of this weeks's thoughts in Jiddu Krishnamurti's Book of Life. You can get a FREE e-book for any desktop of this contemporary Indian thinker. Follow one of these links to read the thought on line. Or to download your FREE e-book in JAVA and XML for any desktop. Start the day with a really possitive thinking. And have a nice day! en-us LGPL - (content: visit KFA http://www.kfa.org/) 2008-07-23T14:14-03:00 chanio@users.sourceforge.net?subject='About some technical aspects of your site...' chanio@users.sourceforge.net?subject='Thank you for this great idea!' http://bol.sourceforge.net/imagenes/book.of.life.ico.jpg http://bol.sourceforge.net/on-line/BookOfLife.php http://bol.sourceforge.net/on-line/BookOfLife.php?mmYdd=07/22 Sorrow is the result of a shock, it is the temporary shaking up of a mind that has settled down, that has accepted the routine of life. Something happens-a death, the loss of a job, the questioning of a cherished belief-and the mind is disturbed. But what does a disturbed mind do? It finds a way to be undisturbed again; it takes refuge in another belief, in a more secure job, in a new relationship. Again the wave of life comes along and shatters its safeguards, but the mind soon finds still further defenses; and so it goes on. This is not the way of intelligence, is it?No form ofexternal or inward compulsion will help, will it? All compulsion, however subtle, is the outcome of ignorance; it is born of the desire for reward or the fear of punishment. To understand the whole nature of the trap is to be free of it; no person, no system, no belief can set you free. The truth of this is the only liberating factor-but you have to see it for yourself, and not merely be persuaded. You have to take the voyage on an uncharted sea. http://bol.sourceforge.net/on-line/BookOfLife.php?mmYdd=07/23 If you walk down the road, you will see the splendour of nature, the extraordinary beauty of the green fields and the open skies; and you will hear the laughter of children. But in spite of all that, there is a sense of sorrow. There is the anguish of a woman bearing a child; there is sorrow in death; there is sorrow when you are looking forward to something, and it does not happen; there is sorrow when a nation runs down, goes to seed; and there is the sorrow of corruption, not only in the collective, but also in the individual. There is sorrow in your own house, if you look deeply - the sorrow of not being able to fulfill, the sorrow of your own pettiness or incapacity, and various unconscious sorrows.There is also laughter in life. Laughter is a lovely thing - to laugh without reason, to have joy in one's heart without cause, to love without seeking anything in return. But such laughter rarely happens to us. We are burdened with sorrow; our life is a process of misery and strife, a continuous disintegration, and we almost never know what it is to love with our whole being....We want tofind a solution, a means, a method by which to resolve this burden of life, and so we never actually look at sorrow. We try to escape through myths, through images, through speculation; we hope to find some way to avoid this weight, to stay ahead of the wave of sorrow....Sorrowhas an ending, but it does not come about through any system or method. There is no sorrow when there is perception of what is. http://bol.sourceforge.net/on-line/BookOfLife.php?mmYdd=07/24 How do you meet sorrow? I'm afraid that most of us meet it very superficially. Our education, our training, our knowledge, the sociological influences to which we are exposed, all make us superficial. A superficial mind is one that escapes to the church, to some conclusion, to some concept, to some belief or idea. Those are all a refuge for the superficial mind that is in sorrow. And if you cannot find a refuge, you build a wall around yourself and become cynical, hard, indifferent, or you escape through some facile, neurotic reaction. All such defenses against suffering prevent further inquiry....Pleasewatch your own mind; observe how you explain your sorrows away, lose yourself in work, in ideas, or cling to a belief in God, or in a future life. And if no explanation, no belief has been satisfactory, you escape through drink, through sex, or by becoming cynical, hard, bitter brittle. ...Generation after generation it has been passed on by parents to their children, and the superficial mind never takes the bandage off that wound; it does not really know, it is not really acquainted with sorrow. It merely has an idea about sorrow. It has a picture, a symbol of sorrow, but it never meets sorrow-it meets only the word sorrow. Search the Book of Life with a word that describes the main reason of your interest in asking Jiddu Krishnamurti's book about it. Just use that word: not a full sentence. Instead of... 'what is the meaning of life?' you should write: 'meaning life', Ok? busk http://bol.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/buscbol.cgi