Science & Technology audiobooks

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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