Philosophy audiobooks

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

You can understand yourself very simply when you are quiet

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

"You can understand yourself very simply when you are quiet - 4 December 1965 • When you are really quiet, alone with yourself, you begin to know yourself and to see the intricacies of your mind. • Q:Whydoesthemindgetdisturbedwhenitisinastateofrevoltandhowcanit quieten down? • Q: Is communication possible in all conditions? J. KRISHNAMURTI • Q:... 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

Inner space

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

"Why are you being educated? - 1 December 1965 • What is the function of education? • Q: Some people say that we must live now and others say that we must be concerned further, beyond the present. • Q: Can man really be human without any effort? • Q: What is the difference between affection and love? • Q: How am I to know that I am bad? How am I... Read more

The role of the teacher

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

" The role of the teacher - 26 March 1971 • Q: There is much talk of a spiritual revolution among young people. Do you see in this very mixed phenomenon any hope of a new flowering for civilisation or possibility of growth? • One can go into oneself at tremendous depths and find out everything. To go into oneself is the problem. Not being able... Read more

Senility and the brain cells

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

"Senility and the brain cells - 1 June 1980 • Is the human brain deteriorating? • The human brain is not a particular brain, it doesn't belong to me or to anyone else, it is the human brain which has evolved for millions of years. • Can the brain not only be aware of its own movement but can the brain itself have enough energy to break all... Read more

The ground of being, and the mind of man

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"Can insight bring about a mutation of the brain cells? - 15 April 1980 • Can insight change the brain cells? • In the brain is there an activity which is not touched by consciousness? • Insight is not dependent on the material process, which is thought. • Where there is violence, peace cannot exist. Where there is peace, is there violence? • As... Read more

The ground of being, and the mind of man

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"The ground of being, and the mind of man - 12 April 1980 • Why has having ideas become so important? • What is the difference between a religious mind and a philosophic mind? • What is the human mind's relationship to the 'ground'? • Why has man accumulated knowledge? • When you love somebody there is no 'me', it is love. In the same way, when... Read more

Breaking the pattern of egocentric activity

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

". Breaking the pattern of egocentric activity - 10 April 1980 • What will make a human being change, deeply, fundamentally, radically? • Will I, as a human being, give up my egocentric activity completely? • The more knowledge I have acquired, as I have evolved, as I have grown, as I have experienced, it has strengthened me, and I have been... Read more

Why has man given supreme importance to thought?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

"Why has man given supreme importance to thought? - 8 April 1980 • Q: Is the 'ground' indifferent to mankind, as the physical universe appears to be? • How does one find out if there is something more than the merely physical? • Q: Why is it that theories are necessary and useful in organising facts about matter outwardly, and yet inwardly,... Read more

Cleansing the mind of the accumulation of time

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

"Cleansing the mind of the accumulation of time - 2 April 1980 • Time is the enemy of man. • Is there a beginning which is not enmeshed in time? • We said nothingness is everything and so it is total energy. It is undiluted pure, uncorrupted energy. Is there something beyond that? • Has man ever been free from the 'I'? • That emptiness can only... Read more

Can human problems be solved?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"Can human problems be solved? - 27 September 1980 • Why have human beings throughout the world not been able to resolve human, daily problems of life? What are the things that prevent the solution of these problems completely? • When there is attention there is no centre from which I attend. • A poor man wants to be rich and a rich man wants to... Read more

The mind in the universe

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

"The mind in the universe - 20 September 1980 • Is thought a material process? • Is it possible to have a mind that is really completely empty of all the things that thought has put together? • Only the insight into the nature of reaction ends psychological reaction. • There is absolute stillness and in that stillness, or from that stillness,... Read more