Today on the podcast, I share readings and contemplations drawn from the journals of Jiddu Krishnamurti, as published in Krishnamurti’s Notebook.
In June 1961 Krishnamurti began to keep a daily record of his perceptions and states of consciousness. Apart from about fourteen days he kept up this record for seven months. He wrote clearly, in pencil, and with virtually no erasures. The first seventy-seven pages of the manuscript are written in a small notebook; from then until the end (p. 331 of the manuscript) a larger, loose-leaf book was used. The record starts abruptly and ends abruptly. Krishnamurti himself cannot say what prompted him to begin it. He had never kept such a record before, nor has he kept one since. The manuscript has received the minimum amount of editing. Krishnamurti's spelling has been corrected; a few punctuation marks have been put in for the sake of clarity; some abbreviations, such as the ampersand he invariably used, have been spelt out in full; some footnotes and a few interpolations lations in square brackets have been added. In all other respects the manuscript is presented here as it was written.
— Krishnamurti’s Notebook, on the nature of these journal entries.
Footnotes: Recorded outdoors in a forester’s ruin amidst the eucalyptus trees of Alentejo, Portugal. On Monday 17 August at 16:00 London/Lisbon time, I’ll be in conversation with Rebecca Razzall, tea person and filmmaker, on Instagram live, from this same location. Follow me on Instagram for updates.
To discover how to keep a spiritual journal of your own, join me to learn from Krishnamurti and other spiritual journalists, in the Quiet Notes journalling course.
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Krishnamurti's way of seeing