Centered Self without Being Self-Centered

Many readers will be familiar with both Krishnamurti and Ravi Ravindra, who has written an earlier monograph on K. This book may be one of the shortest I read this year - it is a talk given in Ojai - but it is sure to be one of the most memorable since Ravi cuts to the centre of the spiritual path. He speaks of K's knack of using 'transformative frustration' to block the clever moves of the rational mind, but, as he observes, 'trapped in the rational mind, we remain as we are'. Perhaps the pivotal point of the lecture is when Ravi remarks that a bridge cannot be built from here to There and asks if it can be built from There to here. In other words, the divided and fragmented rational mind cannot reach a unitive understanding but it can be permeated or infused by it from another level. The book is a real gem for the serious seeker.