Science & Technology audiobooks

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

The Benediction of Meditation

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

"The benediction of meditation - 17 November 1968 • We shall explore together into this life, existence, in which is included relationship, love and death, not merely as a phenomenon but as something tremendously significant, to be cherished, deeply lived. Meditation is the approach to this problem of living. • It is only a free mind that is... Read more

Is thought detrimental?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

"Is thought detrimental? - 15 August 1965 • 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? • Time is detrimental. •... 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

The Action of intelligence

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: No

"The action of intelligence - 14 September 1972 • Q: Why don't we see the division between the observer and the observed? • How does the division come about which causes conflict and misery? • Are we aware that we are fragmented? Why does contradiction exist? • Can we have a mind that is not fragmented and contradictory? • Can the mind live... Read more

If I don't change now what will the future be?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

"If I don't change now what will the future be? - 10 September 1972 • Is thought responsible for fragmentation? • Does fragmentation have its own activity? • What is the energy that perceives the total and doesn't live in fragmentation? • Does comparison bring about fear and pleasure? • Is thought seeking security in belief and dogma? • Can the... 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

If Freedom is Responsibility, How do I act?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

"If freedom is responsibility, how do I act? - 16 September 1972 • Q: What is the action that will be a total response to the world around us? • Can one respond totally without learning about love and death in relation to daily life? • Do we live, or do we tolerate living? • Do we live according to ideas and conclusions based on belief, dogma... Read more

To come upon the new, thought must be quiet

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

" To come upon the new, thought must be quiet - 17 September 1972 • If one is serious, one must learn for oneself if there is such a thing as the im measurable. • Thought cannot find the immeasurable because thought is measurement and time. • Can thought, realizing its limitations, be quiet? • Can the mind without effort see its content clearly,... Read more

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

Direct perception is freedom

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Direct perception is freedom - 10 February 1971 • Can the mind living in this world ever be free, not only superficially but profoundly, at the very root of its existence? • 'Freedom from' is an abstraction, but freedom in observing 'what is' and going beyond it is actual freedom. How do I observe greed? Do I observe it as an outsider looking in... Read more

Love is that quality of mind in which there is no division

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

"Love is that quality of mind in which there is no division - 14 February 1971 • To live in this world with intelligence, in spite of all the complications. • Is it possible to be free of fear, not only the superficial fear in relationship but the deep-rooted fear? • Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure. • When... Read more

A mind in meditation is concerned only with meditation, not with the meditator.

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

"A mind in meditation is concerned only with meditation, not with the meditator - 17 February 1971 • If you can put aside your favourite systems, if you can understand that concentration is merely a resistance and therefore constant conflict and wastage of energy, then we can find out for ourselves what is necessary for a mind that is in a state... Read more

You Can Learn Only If you Do Not Know

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Does learning require thinking, or only awareness? - To be aware is to be conscious, to be in relationship with what you observeoutwardly and also our inward reactions. - Awareness reveals that I have a conclusion from which I act, which prevents thefree flow of energy. - You see that you have many opinions and conclusions. - You don't know... 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

When one observes a fact without knowledge then one can learn

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

"When one observes a fact without knowledge then one can learn - 28 May 1967 • Why do we dream at all? • Isn't dreaming at night a waste of energy, when the brain needs to be completely at rest? • When do you actually learn? • When I learn through Freud about myself I am not observing myself, I am observing the image which Freud has created... 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

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

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

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

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

What does it mean to be totally free?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

What does it mean to be totally free? May 24, 1967 What takes place when one falls in love? Why has sex taken on such extraordinary importance? How will you know that it is stupid to be a nationalist? You see or understand only when the mind is quiet, when you are aware without any choice. When I say, 'I love you,' I have blocked myself... Read more