Philosophy audiobooks

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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: 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

Happiness

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh’s key teaching is that through mindfulness, we can learn to live in the present moment and develop a sense of peace. Accessible to those new to Buddhist teachings as well as more experienced practitioners, Happiness is the only book that collects all practices adapted and developed by Thich Nhat Hanh in his more than... 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