Philosophy audiobooks

Why do we want to dominate or be subservient to another?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

"Why do we want to dominate or be subservient to another? - 20 August 1949 • Why is it that we dominate, consciously or unconsciously? • To submit oneself to another is the negative form of domination. We shall not be able to solve this problem by thinking in terms of opposites. • Is not domination a process of isolation, which denies... Read more

Why do we seek a method or technique?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

"Why do we seek a method or technique? - 21 August 1949 • The problems of life do not demand a method, because they are so vital and alive that if we approach with a method we totally misunderstand and don't adequately meet that problem. • Where there is efficiency there is ruthlessness. • The means and the end are not separate. • Reality or God... Read more

Simplicity comes into being when there is freedom from the desire to achieve.

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"implicity comes into being when there is freedom from the desire to achieve - 27 August 1949 • One who is sincere can never be simple because he who is trying to be sincere always has the desire to pattern or approximate himself to an idea. • Self-knowledgecanbediscoveredmorefully,deeply,widely,onlywhenthereis passive awareness, which is not... Read more

Why do we seek a method or technique?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

"Why do we seek a method or technique? - 21 August 1949. • The problems of life do not demand a method, because they are so vital and alive that if we approach with a method we totally misunderstand and don't adequately meet that problem. • Where there is efficiency there is ruthlessness. • The means and the end are not separate. • Reality or... Read more

Relationship has significance only when it is a process of self-revelation

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

"Relationship has significance only when it is a process of self-revelation - 17 July 1949 • Where there is authority there can be no discovery of something new. • Relationship based on an idea cannot be a self-revealing process. • Self-knowledge is understood, uncovered and its process revealed through relationship. • Is it possible to love... Read more

If we had no belief what would happen to us?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

"If we had no belief what would happen to us? - 23 July 1949 • Without self-knowledge we cannot go beyond the self-projected illusions of the mind. • It's only in relationship that one can know oneself as one is. • A mind that is filled with beliefs, dogmas, assertions and quotations is an un creative, repetitive mind. • Can we look at ourselves... Read more

Simplicity cannot be found unless one is free inwardly

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

"Simplicity cannot be found unless one is free inwardly - 24 July 1949 • Only when the mind and heart are really simple is one able to solve the many problems that confront us. • A religious man is he who is inwardly simple. • Q: I have been a member of various religious organizations but you have destroyed them all. I am utterly bored and work... Read more

How is one to be aware?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"How is one to be aware? - 30 July 1949 • Does the understanding of ourselves demand a specialization? • What is it that we need capacity for? • How is one to be capable of meeting life as a whole? • How are we aware of something? • To understand relationship there must be an awareness which is not aggressively positive. • Q: All religions have... Read more

To understand 'what is' there must be no prejudice

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

"To understand 'what is' there must be no prejudice - 6 August 1949. • To understand reality, or for that immensity to come into being, one must understand the process of one's own thinking. • How is it possible to go into the deeper layers of consciousness? • If we do not name then perhaps it's possible to go into the deeper layers of... Read more

Experiencing the state of immortality without ideation

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"8. Experiencing the state of immortality without ideation - 7 August 1949. • There is no mind without idea, thought and verbalization. • There is no experiencer and the experience; there is only a state of experiencing. • One cannot think about immortality. If one can live in the state of only experiencing then there is a state in which... Read more

Ideals and Ambition

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

"Ideals and ambition - 13 August 1949 • Q: In listening to you, I feel that the distinction or space between ideal and practice is illusory. Is this so? • Q: I am free from ambition. Is there something wrong with me?" Read more

Attention implies the total abandonment of the 'me.

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

"Attention implies the total abandonment of the 'me' - 6 March 1971 • Can the mind undergo a radical revolution? • How do you observe the world? • What solves our human problem is observing the whole process of ourselves without judging, condemning, translating or rejecting – just to observe. Question topics following the talk include: being... Read more

Violence, pleasure and fear

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

"Violence, pleasure and fear - 7 March 1971 • We have accepted violence as a way of life and yet at the same time we want peace. • Can one live a life in which there is no comparison at all? • Pleasure is the continuance of an experience that is never finished. • We are living in the past. • How can the conscious mind investigate the total... Read more

Is pleasure love?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"Is pleasure love? - 13 March 1971 • Can thought ever solve the whole problem of existence? • What is the function of thought? • Why has sex become so extraordinarily important? • Chastity is the freedom from all image. • Is love desire? • A new thing can take place only when there is an ending of the old. Question topics following the talk... Read more

Meditation means a life that is totally different every minute of the day

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

"Meditation means a life that is totally different every minute of the day - 14 March 1971 • A mind that inquires into this whole question of meditation must have tremendous discipline. • When you observe'what is'without the interference of the past, there is complete change of 'what is'. • Is there a way of seeing the whole content of... Read more

Thought is not the instrument of change

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

"Thought is not the instrument of change - 31 July 1974 • Q: How is thought to end completely? • All cultures have given importance to thought. • Is there another instrument besides thought? • Can thought be silent when the mind is observing? • My concern is to observe and this is prevented when there is any movement or flutter of thought. •... Read more

What is our responsibility?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: No

"What is our responsibility? - 2 August 1974 Duration: 93 minutes • Q: How do I put the feeling of responsibility into action? • We approach a problem from the outer to the inner and the inner to the outer. It is an endless ebb and flow. • Who has created the division, this structure as the outer and the inner? We are educated in that and are... Read more

What is the relationship between attention and lack of attention?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

"What is the relationship between attention and lack of attention? - 3 August 1974 • We are educated to follow, accept and conform. This is tradition, second-hand. • When you become aware of conformity without reaction is that awareness the act of intelligence? • Does the mind realize the nature of conformity, intelligence and awareness? • I am... Read more

What is a chaste mind?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"What is a chaste mind? - 4 August 1974 • The word 'chaste' means pure, clean, untouched. • Have we a chaste mind, a mind that has not been hurt, has no image, is free from the pleasure of yesterday and is innocent? • Is chastity a quality of the mind? • Can the mind be free of the word, symbols and the condemnation and approval of the word? •... Read more

What is the operation of thought?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

"What is the operation of thought? - 14 July 1974 • In the world around us and inside us, is there a relationship between the inner and the outer? • Are you free to listen or do you listen with interpretation and prejudices? • Do I observe the content of my consciousness as an outsider? Can one observe the content without choice? • If you look... Read more

Is there energy not based on idea or ideology?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

"Is there energy not based on idea or ideology? - 16 July 1974 • Why is thought divisive? • The desire to change in a particular direction gives an energy that is divisive. • Will you free the mind taking time, through analysis, or can you look totally and therefore be totally free? • Does choiceless rejection of the false give a different kind... Read more

Can thought bring order?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

"Can thought bring order? - 18 July 1974 • Are thoughts, feelings, reactions and relationships merely mechanical? Is there any other movement? • Where there is a cause there is time and so living becomes relative. • Is my relationship with another based on opinions, memories, demands and sexual appetites? • Is there a way of living which has no... Read more

Can the mind not be a slave to knowledge?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: No

"Can the mind not be a slave to knowledge? - 21 July 1974 • When consciousness invents a super-consciousness is it a part of thought aware of the past? • Is there a part of the brain which has not been touched by the known? • Is it our education to escape from 'what is' through ideals? • Has the mind been trained to operate and function in the... Read more

Wisdom comes through the understanding of suffering

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

"Wisdom comes through the understanding of suffering - 23 July 1974 • Do we respond to the whole field of existence? Must not there be love to do that? • To love, to be responsible for the whole, one must go beyond suffering. • Can we know the nature, structure and function of suffering? • Is isolation one of the major causes of suffering? • Is... Read more