Naval Ravikant mentioned The Book of Life by Jiddu Krishnamurti 28 times

Jiddu Krishnamurti, who is a lesser known guy, an Indian philosopher who lived at the turn of the last century is extremely influential to me. he’s an uncompromising, very direct person who basically tells you to look at your own mind at all times. So I have been hugely influenced by him. Probably the best book of his that I like is one called The Book of Life, which is excerpts from his various speeches and books that are stitched together.

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2015-08-08 on tim.blog

Popper, Deutsch, Schopenhauer, Osho, Krishnamurti, DeMello, Seneca, Kapil Gupta, Taleb, there are too many...

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Krishnamurti, I don’t know, Kapil Gupta, Rupert Spira.

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2020-10-14 on tim.blog

Yeah, I actually don’t recommend starting with Krishnamurti; he’s a tough one, but if you’re going to start somewhere, I started with this book called Think on These Things. There’s also The Book of Life. He’s a very cerebral, very intellectual, and a little confusing, but he definitely speaks truth. And he walks the walk.

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2020-10-14 on tim.blog

Hard on Twitter. You can read DeMello, J Krishnamurti, Jed McKenna, Michael Singer, Rupert Spira, Osho, Tolle, etc.. Different ones appeal to different people.

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I'm pretty much always rereading something by either Jiddu Krishnamurti or Osho. Those are kind of my favorite for other philosophers.

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2019-08-17 on fs.blog

Read pretty much everything by him.

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At the moment, the most interesting ones for me are Jed McKenna, @KapilGuptaMD, Osho, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Anthony DeMello and Rupert Spira.

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Matt Ridley, Neal Stephenson, Taleb, Borges, Ted Chiang, Anthony DeMello, Osho, J Krishnamurti, Harari, Asimov, Bradbury, Greg Egan, Feynman, Schrödinger, Bohr, Chris Alexander, the Durants, Darwin, Adam Smith, David Deutsch, Karl Popper, Douglas Hofstader, Douglas Adams

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He’s not an easy read. “The Book of Life” is the least unapproachable.

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I don’t have a single one, but the easiest one to start with is The Book of Life. I probably have reread Total Freedom the most.

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I didn’t know what to make of Watts either. He translates East to West pretty well, but Osho, Krishnamurti, de Mello, Lao Tzu, Upanishads, Vedic texts all feel more “real” to me.

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Too many. But read Osho, Krishnamurti, DeMello, Michael Singer, and @KapilGuptaMD

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“The Book of Life.” He is a hard read. Osho is much easier, can try “The Great Challenge.”

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“The Great Challenge” and “The Book of Life.”

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I’ve read Watts, thanks. He’s extremely eloquent but for whatever reason, I get more out of Osho and Krishnamurti.

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What is the one thing I learned from Jiddu Krishnamurti that impressed me the most? Actually the thing that I learned when I read Krishnamurti (he was the first of these sort of enlightenment philosophers that I've read): It just struck me how little I knew. How I've been completely externally focused my entire life and there was so much that I didn't even know about myself.

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2018-04-30 on pscp.tv

I still recommend Snow Crash. If anybody here is into sci-fi at all and has not read Snow Crash, it is an incredible cyberpunk novel written probably 20 years ago now. Still incredibly forward looking; in some ways it predicted cryptocurrencies, it predicted virtual reality, it predicted parts of the internet. Amazing book, had a huge influence on me. Now, that may not speak to you anymore. It’s 20 years later, [and] you’re probably younger than me, so the right book at the right time will speak to you in a way the right book at the wrong time just won’t. In fact, the same book picked up 20 years later can have a huge impact. That’s how Krishnamurti was for me. I read him in my twenties; didn’t make sense. I read him in my late thirties; changed my life. You know sometimes you’re just not ready for the book, or the book is a conversation between the reader and the author and ... one party isn’t ready.

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2018-02-12 on pscp.tv

I would probably also give my kids a copy of Richard Feynman's Six Easy Pieces and Six Not-So Easy Pieces. Richard Feynman is a famous physicist. I love both his demeanor as well as his understanding of physics. I'd also give them a copy of Jiddu Krishnamurti's The Book of Life. But I'll tell them to save it until they're older because it won't make much sense while you're younger. But whatever you tell your kids, they're probably going to do the opposite.

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2017-01-28 on killingbuddha.co

To answer your question - shortcut to Munger, M Ridley, Harari, Feynman, Darwin, J Krishnamurti. It'll be different next year ;-)

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Feynman, Darwin, J Krishnamurti, Hitchens, Ridley, Harari, Aurelius, Seneca, Lao Tzu, Newton, Munger, Borges, D. Adams, Hesse...

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Great read but beginner fare. Go straight to J Krishnamurti or Osho...

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Krishnamurti was incredibly influential on me. When I first read him in my late thirties, it was like a bomb went off in my head. He was speaking in a language that was completely removed from my own. He wrote in a very complex form of English where he used certain words in a way that didn't line up with what I had learned over my entire life. But it had the feel of truth to it. He laid out a clear, consistent, and integrated philosophy of what it means to be conscious and free. That said, it's a very advanced read. I've given Krishnamurti to some of my friends and they just hand it back and tell me that it didn't make any sense to them. I think it's better to start with something simpler like Eckart Tolle, Adyashanti, Jed McKenna, or Osho.

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2016-10-17 on killingbuddha.co

@erkanhuseyin Book of Life by Krishnamurti

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@Pascal1505 It's a very difficult read, but once you see it, you can't unsee it.

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@AustinGreen It's probably not what you have in mind, but J Krishnamurti is in a class by himself.

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And [I] definitely [gift] Krishnamurti’s The Book of Life, Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, Meditations, Marcus Aurelius. These are all fantastic books.

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2015-08-08 on tim.blog

@markhughes No, but recently read Tao, Gita, Aurelius, Krishnamurti, Hagakure. Evolution still has strong predictive power in my reality.

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