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WHwarsInc
What is your favourite philisophical book. It could be by any one from any culture with any religion. and then explain what its about. hey you might find a new great book to read.

My favourite philisophical book...... thats a hard one anything related to Aikido of course but if i had to name one it would be either The Book Of 5 Rings by Miamoto Musashi which is a collection of is techings and way of the sword. and the other would be the Art Of Peace by Morehei Ushiba its just a collection of quotes about being centered and at peace.

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ocalhoun
Walden by Thoreau... Though that is a mix of philosophy, semi-poetry, and mundane diary.

Some of the things that book says will factor heavily into the new 'religion' I'm working on.

I also enjoyed Synchronicity by Jung... Which I see as more philosophical than scientific, though I think he did wrong by digressing into astrology.
deanhills
I vary all the time, but the one that came to mind first was Krishnamurti, an Indian philosopher, who did most of his teaching and writing of books in California. The core of his teaching is:
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The core of Krishnamurti's teaching is contained in the statement he made in 1929 when he said 'Truth is a pathless land'. Man cannot come to it through any organisation, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, not through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the contents of his own mind, through observation and not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection. Man has built in himself images as a fence of security - religious, political, personal. These manifest as symbols, ideas, beliefs. The burden of these images dominates man's thinking, his relationships and his daily life. These images are the causes of our problems for they divide man from man. His perception of life is shaped by the concepts already established in his mind. The content of his consciousness is his entire existence. This content is common to all humanity. The individuality is the name, the form and superficial culture he acquires from tradition and environment. The uniqueness of man does not lie in the superficial but in complete freedom from the content of his consciousness, which is common to all mankind. So he is not an individual.

Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not a choice. It is man's pretence that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is without motive; freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man but lies in the first step of his existence. In observation one begins to discover the lack of freedom. Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence.

Thought is time. Thought is born of experience, of knowledge, which are inseparable from time. Time is the psychological enemy of man. Our action is based on knowledge and therefore time, so man is always a slave to the past.

When man becomes aware of the movement of his own consciousness he will see the division between the thinker and the thought, the observer and the observed, the experiencer and the experience. He will discover that this division is an illusion. Then only is there pure observation which is insight without any shadow of the past . This timeless insight brings about a deep radical mutation in the mind.

Source: http://www.kfa.org/coreofteachings.php

I read a few of his books, but the one that made the greatest impression, probably because I read it first was: "Awakening of Intelligence". I found the following excerpt to give an example of the content of the books, which are mostly in a discourse style:
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Krishnamurti: Felicity and so on. Now what is good? I feel goodness is total order. Not only outwardly, but especially inwardly. I think that order can be absolute, as in mathematics I believe there is complete order. And it is disorder that leads to chaos, to destruction, to anarchy, to the so-called evil.

Naude: Yes.

Krishnamurti: Whereas total order in one's being, order in the mind, order in one's heart, order in one's physical activities - the harmony between the three is goodness.

Naude: The Greeks used to say that perfected man had attuned in total harmony his mind, his heart and his body.

Krishnamurti: Quite. So we shall say for the moment that goodness is absolute order. And as most human beings live in disorder they contribute to every form of mischief, which ultimately leads to destruction, to brutality, to violence, to various injuries, both psychic and physical. For all that one word may be used: "evil". But I don't like that word "evil" because it is loaded with Christian meaning, with condemnation and prejudice.

Source: https://bookstore.kfa.org/cat/catalog/awakening-intelligence-p-1006.html
RubySlasher
The Sneetches by Dr. Seuss

IT CONTAINS A POWERFUL MESSAGE.
deanhills
RubySlasher wrote:
The Sneetches by Dr. Seuss

IT CONTAINS A POWERFUL MESSAGE.
Am curious. What is the message? Smile
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