Matter of culture

Commentaries on Living, how ever, which came two years later, proved even more important. During the previous ten years Krishnamurti had travelled extensively in Europe, India and America, and hundreds of men and women everywhere had met him individually and discussed with him the innumerable personal problems of their varied lives, spontaneously and freely. These self-revelations and ponderings had been expressions of intensely emotional experiences and not merely philosophical inquiries or the intellec tual, speculative search for solu tions and remedies. Often there had been a complete communion of minds, earnest seeking and sudden illumination. This direct communion and deep listening had brought valuable discoveries in the world of human consciousness.
Now and then, during these years, Krishnamurti noted down recollected conversations, relating them to the surroundings of Nature. Nothing was imagined or invented: he wrote down simply and truly what happened. It was from the resulting notebooks that Commentaries on Living was edited; and its success was such that we felt encouraged to issue two further selections from Krishnamurti's notebooks, under the title Commentaries on Living, Second Series and Commentaries on Living, Third Series.