The Ending of Time: Fifteen Conversations with David Bohm, Ojai, USA, 1980

I was introduced to Krishnamurti in 1975 by a friend and contemporary of his. I wasn't, yet, ready for such a revelation as Krishnamurti represented. "The Ending Of Time" is perhaps the most significant book I've read in my almost fifty years on this planet. He punctures the bell jar of that Garden of Delusion and Deception humankind has created. This is the first perspective not to insult me intellectually. As I read the series of dialogues between Krishnamurti and Dr. Bohm in 1980 I found myself correctly anticipating where the conversation was going. For the past twenty-five years I've been heading in this direction. I'm not one for romantic notions, mythical excapades and fantasy or in need of an emotional fix to save my soul. I was looking for something that was both intellegent and spoke to me directly.I had recently finished "The Tao Of Physics" by Fritjof Capra for the third time. Capra's book serves as an excellent practical guide and springboard into the likes of a Krishnamurti; in fact, I think it was reading "The Tao Of Physics" that allowed me to have the type of foundation and understanding to make the quantum leap into the realm of Krishnamurti. I am currently reading "Star In The East". I'm interesting in understanding Krishnamurti's personal history. The one thing that strikes me most is, his "enlightenment" is because and, more importantly, inspite of his involvement with the Theosophical Society. The contrast that emerges between one like Krishnamurti and those who have obviously not punctured that invisible bell share of delusion and deception is glaring, and serves to make Krishnamurti even more poignant and relevant.Anyone with a similar appreciation for Krishnamurti please contact me. I would very much like to learn and have a dialogue on both this lovely man and his state of mind.

What is to blame for the suffering in the world? What process is at the root of this never ending problem?Krishnamurti, through the lens of personal experience, engages in a dialog with Bohm, a brilliant thinker in his own right in an attempt to elucidate the granular nature of human experience.Interestingly, that answer turns out to be quite simple. Simple that is, if one reads this book through the lens of personal experience rather than intellectual abstraction. Said another way, Krishnamurti makes it clear that it is essential to look inside ourselves if we are to understand the world as a whole. If and when we do we will come to understand the following:We as humans are constantly looking outside ourselves in an attempt to find out what is true. Those attempts manifest as a never ending desire to become more of some things and less of others. Rich, healthy, enlightened, whatever; the nature of the goal makes no difference. These intentions by definition include the underlying fact that change requires time. That sort of time is in itself a form of suffering. They imply that we are dissatisfied with the status quo (the experience of the present) and need to bide our time until future happiness arrives. This habitual tendency becomes a never ending cycle. It's obvious, time drags when we are suffering and flies when we are happy. But what happens when we take striving out of the picture, when we accept things (ourselves) as they are?This process of constantly trying to fix, Krishnamurti says, is not A problem, it is THE problem. The solution? That's what this book attempts to reveal.I read this book the first time in 2009 and again this year. After conducting my own inner search I've found this book to contain many subtle insights I could not see before. My guess is that if I read it again I will understand even more.This book is definitely a keeper.

If your searching for answers seek no further. I have read and reread dozens of Krishnamurti's works and still can't get enough. The conversations he has with Dr. Bohm are fascinating. Krishnamurti is a spiritual teacher and Bohm is a world renowned physicist. They talk about life from two different perspectives and come to the same conclusions. They discuss the most fundamental issues of our human existence and uncover the truth of our existence right before your eyes. If you haven't read Krishnamurti before I'd recommend another book such as Think on These Things or Total Freedom. This book maybe a little overwhelming for someone who hasn't read him before. Krishnamurti has been a life changing experience for me and I encourage anyone looking the meaning of life to read him. Words can't describe what he has done for me.

This contains a conversation between two brilliant thinkers of the 20th century, David Bohm and Krishnamurti. While I am not that well versed in Krishnamurti's work, I do know that the work of David Bohm is imperative to humankind. That is, if we are to survive and even evolve beyond what we are now. But beware, or be aware, these men take you deeply beyond what is conventional in Western Culture. The work may be hard for those conditioned in dualistic, western thought to comprehend. Yet, they take you into realms that cultures that are beyond Western Culture know quite well and are comfortable with.

Read Krishnamurti all through the 60's and wanted to see how it read now. . .David Bohm is one of my favorite scientific minds we have

A very nice way to very logically deduce what Buddha has described in a very logical way too, but Krishnamurti is closer to us in time, and Bohm helps a lot clarifying all the terms and concepts. A must read

I've read and re-read this book for years. I highly recommend it! I wore out my old copy, bought a new one and gave it as a gift and ordered another for myself.

Wandering, unstructured, seemingly aimless exchange between a mystic and a physicist. For a trained Aristotelian-Thomist, the book seems pointless.

This set of conversations between these two giants, describe the work of these two minds, trying to show us the way forward.It is a unique dialogue between two completely free men, who were able to see how we can go beyond "knowledge-thought-time". They do not pretend to explain something that is impossible to convey though pure thought but they give to all of us some hints to allow us to try do do it ourselves. Some parts of this long and deep conversation is quite dramatic and even full of suspense when they get closer and closer to the core of the entire philosophy... It is literally a unique event in the history of the humanity. Just few times man has been able to achieve the hight of these two unique personalities. As Mr Krishnamurti said, if only 10 people would be able to get to that free state at the same time, the world would be a different place.

I have tried to finish the book several times. However, it is a difficult book and one needs to be really serious to complete the book. It is very difficult to fully comprehend K. It is an arduous journey and the book is only for those who are serious. It is an amazing book by two brilliant and serious people.

'The Ending of Time' would have to be one of, if not, the most profound and in depth examination of humanities predicament, spirituality, truth, the cosmos and their relationship. Together with Dr. Bohm, Krishnamurt explores the possibility of human transformation or mutation to a new human, one could say, to a Homo sapiens-mutant. A human mind in direct contact with the cosmic. This work is not an easy read. Dr. Bohm suggests that prior to studying the Ending of Time, a much shorter dialogue series entitled 'The Future of Humanity' would serve as a useful introduction, while considering other facets not illucidated in the larger work.I should also like to suggest that another series of dialogues between the two luminaries, along the same lines, is 'The Limits of Thought'The precision with which Bohm and K deal with what is considered the ineffable is astounding.

The 'time' in question is what the participants in this series of conversations refer to as psychological time,that is the habitually created illusion of the self that is in a perpetual struggle for improvement motivated through illusions created by desire,hope and fear. Various topics surrounding mans inability to let go of his illusory self and relieve himself from suffering are approached from different angles.It took me 200 pages till the ideas started to resonate and I could relate to what was and had been said,or not said, as the no concept as concept approach and the fact that thought tends to end in paradox means that what they are attempting to explain is a state beyond the limits of normal verbal human communication,and is more zen-like but less intellectually elitist. I found it hard going at times,but not tedious, as the texts are word for word transcripts of exploratory conversations,and as such are not edited for clarity but left in their natural state, so the whole thing relies on the participants ability to express themselves coherently.This they do quite admirably, but there are a few redundancies,and for most of the time I got the impression Krishnamurti was directing the conversation as he was much more familiar with expressing himself and his ideas in a public arena.

Can't wait to read it