Philosophy audiobooks

To perceive 'what is' is the basis of truth

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

"To perceive 'what is' is the basis of truth - 7 February 1971 • Wherethereisdivisiontheremustbeconflict.Amindinconflictmustinevitably be distorted and therefore it cannot possibly see clearly what is truth. • We need a total change, a deep revolution, psychological revolution, the inward revolution, without which you cannot possibly create a... Read more

Why Do We Live With Stress?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In this incredibly penetrating talk, Krishnamurti describes the psychological pressures of life and how these pressures affect right living: 'We were saying that any form of pressure on the brain affects our whole way of life. We were also saying that this pressure affects our activities, our attitudes, our character, and our way of living. The... Read more

Thought sustains fear and pleasure

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

"Thought sustains fear and pleasure - 4 February 1969 • To understand relationship and to end the conflict in it is our entire problem. • Can man live at peace, within himself and outwardly? • In relationship one becomes aware of the actual state of oneself. • The man that has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free man, a peaceful man. •... Read more

True revolution

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

"True revolution - 6 February 1969. • What is a religious mind? • Must one go to an expert to tell us what the unconscious is or can one find it for oneself? • Through the negation of disorder, order comes into being. • It is only the meditative mind that can find out, not the curious mind or the mind that is everlastingly searching. • To... Read more

Does self-knowledge come through searching?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

"1. Does self-knowledge come through searching? - 16 July 1949 • What is it that most of us are seeking? • Does clarity come through searching and trying to find out what others say? • Can incessant search and longing give you the extraordinary sense of reality or creative being that comes when you really understand yourself? • Without knowing... Read more

Without self-knowledge there cannot be complete action

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

"10. Without self-knowledge there cannot be complete action - 14 August 1949 • Can we act without ideation? • Immortality is not an idea. It is something beyond ideation, thought and the bundle of memory which is all the 'me'. • Love is not a thought process. • Q: What place has criticism in relationship? • Q: When you speak of timelessness, it... Read more

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

A Religious life is a life in which the self is not.

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

1. The circus of man's struggle - 27 March 1971 Duration: 56 minutes • Why do we divide the world, the human being and the divine? • When I realise that my consciousness is the consciousness of the world, and the consciousness of the world is me, whatever change takes place in me affects the whole of consciousness. • Can human consciousness... Read more

The seed of a million years

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

This series of six talks, given by Krishnamurti in Madras in 1979-80, marks a departure from his usual style of exposition. Usually in the opening talk he would dwell first on the problems of the world and then on the psychological factors underlying them. But here he starts straightaway with the most ancient quest of man to find that which is... Read more

Self-knowledge is the beginning of wisdom

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Seven Public Talks 1. Does self-knowledge come through searching? - 16 July 1949 Duration: 59 minutes • What is it that most of us are seeking? • Does clarity come through searching and trying to find out what others say? • Can incessant search and longing give you the extraordinary sense of reality or creative being that comes when you really... Read more

Knowledge and Learning are two Different things

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Three Public Talks 1. A radical transformation in the psyche itself - 8 November 1968 Duration: 80 minutes • To communicate we must know that the word is not the thing and also be in that state of mind whose quality is attention, care. That can only take place if we are serious. • We are the world and the world is us. To bring about a radical... Read more

Can There Be Complete Freedom Of Thought?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Public Talks 1. Complete freedom from thought - 9 September 1972 Duration: 76 minutes • Learning is instant perception and action. What place has thought in learning? • To learn about freedom must thought be completely silent? Does insight into freedom take time? • Can thinking, however rational, bring about a psychological revolution in us? •... Read more

One sees or understands only when the mind is quiet.

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

1. To look without a concept is to be aware of the observer and the thing observed - 20 May 1967 Duration: 88 minutes • Violence and sorrow are not limited to the West or the East; it is part of the human structure, psychologically. • Is it possible to bring about a change radically, a total revolution in the psyche itself, not through time? •... Read more

Interview by Frank Waters

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

What brings about receptivity? Speaking to the unconscious. The little self and the big self. How the teachings work. Myth. Destruction of the planet. Sleep. Kundalini. Read more

Can the mind observe without comparison?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

1. Living with a sustained seriousness - 21February 1970 Duration: 91 minutes • 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? 2. Can the brain operate without recourse to the past?- 22February 1970 Duration: 92 minutes • Is there self-progress? •... Read more

Can Thought Be Silent?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

1. Can the mind be free? - 3 February 1969 Duration: 99 minutes • The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state. • Where there is fear there is aggression. • For most of us, freedom is something that we don't want. • Inaction is total action. • What is the machinery that builds images? Questions from the audience followed... Read more

Is there a movement other than the movement of thought?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 18 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Public Talks 1. What is the operation of thought? - 14 July 1974 Duration: 84 minutes • 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... Read more

There Is insight when thought is absent

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Public Talks 1. Can I see wholly? - 16 July 1972 Duration: 71 minutes • Do we act casually, expecting division to end as a result of outer environment? • Does change demand immediate attention and action? • Freeing of the mind from conditioning and in that freedom bringing about a cooperative action. • Can one who is conditioned by the past... Read more

Being A Light To Oneself

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Four Small Group Discussions, Ojai, USA, 1972 1. Conflict and choice - 29 March 1972 Duration: 95 minutes • What do we mean by learning? • Why is one frightened of the past? • Knowing and looking at oneself. • Can that mess which is me be washed away? • How are you aware of conflict? • Choice and clarity. • Looking without any distortion. 2. A... Read more

To learn about oneself one has to learn anew each minute

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

1. To perceive 'what is' is the basis of truth - 7February 1971 Duration: 86 minutes • Where there is division there must be conflict. A mind in conflict must inevitably be distorted and therefore it cannot possibly see clearly what is truth. • We need a total change, a deep revolution, psychological revolution, the inward revolution, without... Read more

Thought, stillness and time

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

1. Is thought detrimental? - 15 August 1965 Duration: 63 minutes • Why does one seek pleasure? • Can the mind only face facts and not thought? • Why have I never said, 'Thought is poison,' to myself? • Meeting something one doesn't know, facing something which has no answer. • Acting without knowing. • What is a state of mind which is silent? •... Read more

To understand death we must understand living

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"To understand death we must understand living - 10 December 1965 • When you really love something, you put your whole heart, mind and body into that. • Is there a living without pain, anxiety or fear? • Q: When a man improves, why do other people feel jealous of him? • Q: How long will it take for national frontiers to disappear? • Q: When man... Read more

Why does one have to have order in life?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

"Why does one have to have order in life? - 7 December 1965 • You can learn easily when there is an atmosphere of freedom and friendship, a sense of happiness. That is denied when you are compelled. Compulsion is not righteous behaviour. • Q: What is the foundation of religion? • Q: Why does a man want success in life? • What are you going to be... Read more