Philosophy audiobooks

Living with a sustained seriousness

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"Living with a sustained seriousness - 21 February 1970 • What does it mean to be serious? • Becoming • Why do I compare myself with you or with somebody else? • Do I look at people through images?" Read more

Can the brain operate without recourse to the past?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

"Can the brain operate without recourse to the past? - 22 February 1970 • Is there self-progress? • Conflict • Security • Any form of division within oneself is a source of conflict. • Can the brain be quiet?" Read more

What makes one control?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 45 minutes

Abridged: No

"What makes one control? - 14 March 1970 • Violence • Why do you control? • Security means to be in a state in which there is no choice at all. • The mind has become sensitive because it has observed, not because it has experienced. • Either you see the fact with the past or you see the fact as it is now. • The word is of the past." Read more

Being serious without belief

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

"Being serious without belief - 15 March 1970 • Can the intellect, a fragment, ever be serious? Serious in the sense of a sustained observation without any distortion. • Control • What is living? • How does it happen that one can be completely harmonious? • What does awareness mean?" Read more

Attention leads to learning

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

"Attention leads to learning - 21 March 1970 • Inattention and attention. • Observingwithouttheword. • What is the function of sleep? • Is love a matter of culture, a thing of pleasure and therefore dependency?" Read more

Fear in consciousness

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

"Fear in consciousness - 22 March 1970 • How does it happen that the deep layers hidden in consciousness can be exposed? • Comparison between what is with what has been and what will be, is the process of fear. • Can the mind observe without comparison?" Read more

What is order?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

"What is order? - 28 March 1970 • Orderanddisorder. • Why does the mind accumulate? • How do you receive something that is not of the mind? " Read more

How is one to be entirely free of fear?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

"How is one to be entirely free of fear? - 29 March 1970 • Fear • All the escaping and the strengthening of fear comes because we are inattentive. • Whatissleep?" Read more

What is truth and what is reality?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"What is truth and what is reality - 18 May 1975 • What is truth and what is reality? • Anything that thought thinks about or reflects upon or projects, that is reality. And that reality has nothing to do with truth. • The art of seeing is to place reality where it is, and not move that in order to get truth. You can't get truth. • How am I to... Read more

Truth does not belong to an individual

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"Truth does not belong to an individual - 27 September 1975 • Krishnamurti's 'process' and his early years. • Suffering. • The Indian tradition says that there is a manifestation of goodness which happens very rarely. • Truth does not belong to an individual. • What one says is truth. But it becomes truth to me only when I have washed away my... Read more

What is wisdom which is not a movement of thought?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

"What is wisdom which is not a movement of thought? - 4 October 1975 • Wisdom, intelligence and truth. • If there is attention is there choice? • Why has man divided perception? • What is wisdom which is not the movement of thought? • What place has the man who perceives truth in this world of reality? • Truth operating in one brain clears that... Read more

Can the brain free itself from all self-delusion?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti & David Bohm

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

"Can the brain free itself from all self-delusion? - 11 October 1975 • Thought and the brain. • Can the brain free itself from all self-delusion? • Why has the self become important? • Can there be only sensation, thought, and no desire? • Can desire - which brings illusion, self-deception and all the complications of changing desires – can the... Read more

Seeing 'what is' is action

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

"Seeing 'what is' is action - 24 May 1975 • If truth is something totally different from reality then what place has action in daily life, in relation to truth and reality? • Seeing 'what is' is action. • What place has love in truth? • When I separate you, in that separation love cannot exist. • How are you to convey the sense of truth to a... Read more

Thought cannot bring about an insight

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

"Thought cannot bring about an insight - 31 May 1975 • Is there a thinking without the word? • The action brought about by thought into the investigation of an analysis is always incomplete. • Insight is complete. It is not fragmented as thought is. So thought cannot bring about an insight. • I must have an insight into conditioning otherwise I... Read more

How does Desire Arise From Perception ?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Why has desire become such an extraordinarily important thing in life? - How does desire arise from perception? - Can I desire truth? - Is the energy of nothingness different from the energy of things? - Is that nothingness a hypothesis, a theory, a verbal structure, or truth? - In dying to the reality only then there is nothingness. Read more

Attention implies that there is no centre

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"Attention implies that there is no centre - 22 June 1975 • Consciousness, because it is in constant movement, has never found an energy which is not contradictory, which is not produced by desire and thought. • Can thought ever see its own movement and the futility of its own movement? • Attention implies that there is no centre. • Is there a... Read more

Perceiving without the perceiver

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

"Perceiving without the perceiver - 28 June 1975 • Can thought naturally cease? • Perceiving without the perceiver • Facing the truth of death • Krishnamurti's 'process' and early years. • Kundalini • If you can understand suffering, face it and not escape from it, that has quite a different energy. • Truth is a pathless land. • There is... Read more

If thought cannot achieve, why should it suffer?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: No

"If thought cannot achieve, why should it suffer? - 18 July 1975 • How does science investigate the mysterious? • If thought cannot achieve, why should it suffer? • Can consciousness, which is filled with the things of thought, empty itself? • Thought cannot possibly apprehend, comprehend or be aware of the whole. • Time. • Krishnamurti's early... Read more

What is the substance of thought?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

"What is the substance of thought? - 25 July 1975 • What is the basic reason for thought to be fragmented? • What is the substance of thought? Is it a material process, a chemical process? • There is a total perception, which is truth. That perception acts in the field of reality. That action is not the product of thought. • Thought has no place... Read more

Is there in the brain anything untouched by culture?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

"Is there in the brain anything untouched by culture? - 6 August 1975 • Can there be a total perception which completely heals the brain? • What benefit has culture? • Does speech come before thought? • Is it possible to say something without the operation of thought? • Is there in the brain anything untouched by culture? • Is attention a... Read more

The Ending Of Time

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 19 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

1. The roots of psychological conflict - 1 April 1980 Duration: 82 minutes • Has humanity taken a wrong turn? • What is the root of this tremendous inward conflict of humanity? • When I am trying to become something it is a constant battle. • Can the brain itself see that it is caught in time and as long as it is moving in that direction... Read more

Cosmic order

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

"Cosmic order - 7 June 1980 • Is there an order which is not man-made? • Can the brain ever be free from the impositions, pressures, wounds, bruises, all the trivialities of existence? • Time is my whole existence. I take refuge in the past, which cannot be changed. Why does the brain accept this way of living, and why doesn't it break it... Read more

The liberation of insight

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

"The liberation of insight - 14 September 1980 • Can insight wipe away, banish or dissolve the whole movement of being tied, attached, dependent and lonely? • Is there an order which is not man-made? • Measurement can exist only where there is disorder. • We live in a man-made world, we are the result of man-made minds. Can the mind uncondition... Read more

The intelligence of love

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

"The intelligence of love - 16 September 1980 • Can the mind, brain, the whole psychological structure ever be free from all conflict, from all shadow of disturbance? • Thought is the outcome of psychological accumulation. That accumulation gives a sense of continuity, which is time. • Why do all human beings throughout the world have the urge... Read more