Philosophy audiobooks

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

One can Learn easily when there is an atmosphere of Freedom and Friendship

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 4 hours 53 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

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 state of not-knowing is intelligence

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti & Jacob Needleman

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

1. The role of the teacher - 26 March 1971 Duration: 56 minutes • 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... Read more

Can insight be awakened in another?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

"Can insight be awakened in another? - 19 April 1980 • What is the relationship to society of a man who has insight? What is his action with regard to war and the whole world? • Q: What is the significance of mankind in the universe, or in the 'ground'? • 'Y' is concerned with 'Show me, prove it to me, what benefit it has, will I get my... Read more

Death has very little meaning

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: No

"Death has very little meaning - 17 April 1980 • Is there a totally different way of approaching the whole turmoil of life? • As long as the centre is creating darkness, and thought is operating in that dark ness, there must be disorder, there must be everything as society now is. To move away from that you must have insight. • Insight can only... 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

The ending of psychological knowledge

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

J. KRISHNAMURTI Jiddu Krishnamurti (May 12, 1895–February 17, 1986) was a world renowned writer and speaker on philosophical and spiritual subjects. His subject matter included: the purpose of meditation, human relationships, the nature of the mind, and how to enact positive change in global society. Krishnamurti was born into a Telugu Brahmin... Read more

The intelligence of love

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

"The intelligence of love - 16 September 1980 • Can the mind, brain, the whole psychological structure ever be free from all conflict, from all shadow of disturbance? • Thought is the outcome of psychological accumulation. That accumulation gives a sense of continuity, which is time. • Why do all human beings throughout the world have the urge... Read more

Cosmic order

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

"Cosmic order - 7 June 1980 • Is there an order which is not man-made? • Can the brain ever be free from the impositions, pressures, wounds, bruises, all the trivialities of existence? • Time is my whole existence. I take refuge in the past, which cannot be changed. Why does the brain accept this way of living, and why doesn't it break it... Read more

Is there in the brain anything untouched by culture?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

"Is there in the brain anything untouched by culture? - 6 August 1975 • Can there be a total perception which completely heals the brain? • What benefit has culture? • Does speech come before thought? • Is it possible to say something without the operation of thought? • Is there in the brain anything untouched by culture? • Is attention a... Read more

What is the substance of thought?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

"What is the substance of thought? - 25 July 1975 • What is the basic reason for thought to be fragmented? • What is the substance of thought? Is it a material process, a chemical process? • There is a total perception, which is truth. That perception acts in the field of reality. That action is not the product of thought. • Thought has no place... Read more

If thought cannot achieve, why should it suffer?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: No

"If thought cannot achieve, why should it suffer? - 18 July 1975 • How does science investigate the mysterious? • If thought cannot achieve, why should it suffer? • Can consciousness, which is filled with the things of thought, empty itself? • Thought cannot possibly apprehend, comprehend or be aware of the whole. • Time. • Krishnamurti's early... Read more

Perceiving without the perceiver

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

"Perceiving without the perceiver - 28 June 1975 • Can thought naturally cease? • Perceiving without the perceiver • Facing the truth of death • Krishnamurti's 'process' and early years. • Kundalini • If you can understand suffering, face it and not escape from it, that has quite a different energy. • Truth is a pathless land. • There is... Read more

Attention implies that there is no centre

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"Attention implies that there is no centre - 22 June 1975 • Consciousness, because it is in constant movement, has never found an energy which is not contradictory, which is not produced by desire and thought. • Can thought ever see its own movement and the futility of its own movement? • Attention implies that there is no centre. • Is there a... Read more

How does Desire Arise From Perception ?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Why has desire become such an extraordinarily important thing in life? - How does desire arise from perception? - Can I desire truth? - Is the energy of nothingness different from the energy of things? - Is that nothingness a hypothesis, a theory, a verbal structure, or truth? - In dying to the reality only then there is nothingness. Read more

Thought cannot bring about an insight

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

"Thought cannot bring about an insight - 31 May 1975 • Is there a thinking without the word? • The action brought about by thought into the investigation of an analysis is always incomplete. • Insight is complete. It is not fragmented as thought is. So thought cannot bring about an insight. • I must have an insight into conditioning otherwise I... Read more

Seeing 'what is' is action

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

"Seeing 'what is' is action - 24 May 1975 • If truth is something totally different from reality then what place has action in daily life, in relation to truth and reality? • Seeing 'what is' is action. • What place has love in truth? • When I separate you, in that separation love cannot exist. • How are you to convey the sense of truth to a... Read more

Can the brain free itself from all self-delusion?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti & David Bohm

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

"Can the brain free itself from all self-delusion? - 11 October 1975 • Thought and the brain. • Can the brain free itself from all self-delusion? • Why has the self become important? • Can there be only sensation, thought, and no desire? • Can desire - which brings illusion, self-deception and all the complications of changing desires – can the... Read more