Probing the Mystery: J. Krishnamurti’s Process
Author:
R. E. Mark Lee
Category:
Philosophy, Self-help
ISBN: 9789388302586
Binding: 8.5 x 5.5 inch
Dimensions: Paperback
Number of Pages: 206
One of the greatest thinkers of the age.
~ H. H. The Dalai Lama
Throughout his life from 1922 to 1986 Krishnamurti experienced mysterious states of extreme pain, transcendental bliss, and contact with forces unrecognizable to most people. J. Krishnamurti’s Process is a compendium of the full and unedited eyewitness accounts, including his own, of those mysterious and other-worldly states of being. Included are Krishnamurti’s own perceptions on how the conditioned mind turns experience into belief, and concretizes what is subtle, beautiful, and pure. While the mystery of the Process remains today, some appreciation of it provides a further understanding of Krishnamurti’s teachings.
“R. E. Mark Lee has done a great service in gathering all the available material referring to the Process which radically transformed Krishnamurti’s whole being. Whatever one can gather from the descriptions, the Process, which started in 1922 and continued throughout Krishnamurti’s life, seems to have been unique in human history, as if some subtle forces were conducting surgical operations on various parts of Krishnamurti’s body, especially the brain, causing much pain but bringing great insights. On one occasion Krishnamurti himself had taken me to the tree under which the Process had taken place. When I asked him about the exact nature of the Process, he looked at me sadly and said, “This is what everyone wants to know. Then they will start imitating it and faking it. No, it cannot be said.” So the mystery remains about the precise nature of the Process and the forces behind it. One result of the Process was an increasing emphasis by Krishnamurti on self-inquiry and self-dependence, not asking anything from outside and dwelling in the Truth discovered in the purity of inner being.”
~ Ravi Ravindra, Professor for Philosophy and Physics, author
R. E. Mark Lee
R. E. Mark Lee grew up in Santa Barbara, California, USA, and received a Master’s degree in education from the University of California in 1977. Most of his professional career was spent in schools in India and America. He was the founding director of the Oak Grove School in Ojai, California. He served as executive director of the Krishnamurti Foundation of America for 20 years and was director of Krishnamurti Publications for five years. He was the chief editor of the 17 volumes of The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, The Book of Life, and The Little Book on Living. From 1995 to 2010, Lee was the owner-publisher of Edwin House Publishing, which specialised in memoirs of Krishnamurti’s associates. His interests include architecture, gardening, travel, and reading. For the past 40 years he has lived with his wife and daughters in Ojai.