Science & Technology audiobooks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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