Philosophy audiobooks

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

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

Living with a sustained seriousness

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"Living with a sustained seriousness - 21 February 1970 • 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?" Read more

When the mind is completely quiet, how can there be time?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

"When the mind is completely quiet, how can there be time? - 29 August 1965 • What does time mean to you, as a human being? • Is there such thing as existence? • Quietness has come because I have understood the nature of time, function, thought and pleasure. • What takes place when there is great intensity? • Thought has a movement in function.... Read more

Am I aware of the process of thinking?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Am I aware of the process of thinking? 18 August 1965. Duration: 60 minutes. Can I see that thought is destructive, except where it is essential? Why is it that we don't see something immediately? Do you know when you are thinking? Is the thing that we call thinking thinking at all? Do you think from the background noise when a problem arises?... 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

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

Thought is the cause of fear

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

"Thought is the cause of fear - 10 November 1968 • Though we have plenty of energy, apparently we lack the drive, enthusiasm, vitality to bring about a change in ourselves. • As long as there is fear there must be violence, aggression, anger, hatred. Thought is the source of fear. • Is it possible to live everyday life without thought... Read more

The mind that is free of authority is a very intense, alive mind

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

"The mind that is free of authority is a very intense, alive mind - 15 November 1968 • Can a mind be free of authority so that there is no impingement of the past, so that the mind is always alert, learning in the present? • Can the mind experience, go through a challenge so completely that it leaves no mark? • The mind must purge itself of the... Read more

Can the mind be free of thought?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 20 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

Is it possible to end the thousand yesterdays?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

"Is it possible to end the thousand yesterdays? - 13 November 1968 • Living together amicably, creatively, in complete relationship with one another – if that is what is essential then we need not only a different kind of mind but also a different quality of affection, love. • What is the function of a religious mind? • Our struggle in life is... Read more

Learning is action

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

"Learning is action - 12 November 1968 • Oureducationisconcernedwiththeaccumulationofknowledge.Veryfewofus are capable of living a life without the influence of specialists. • What is the point of going to a university, getting a degree and disappearing into the vast structure of society? • Q: How shall we approach the idea of study? • If you... Read more

Freedom of Choice is not Freedom

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

"Freedom of choice is not freedom - 11 November 1968 • What do we mean by free will? Is there such thing? • Is choice ever necessary? • Freedom exists only when I perceive very clearly, when the mind sees things as they are. • Q: Is it possible to be free in society? • Q: Is love the absence of hate? • To find out what truth is you must be free... 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

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

It is only a very silent mind that can actually see

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

• Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear, violence and non-violence. • A mind that is in a state of inquiry is entirely different from a mind that is seeking. Seeking implies effort, conformity, authority and therefore conflict. • Without space in which there is no boundary, the mind is incapable of... Read more

Can thought stop?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

"Can thought stop? - 28 May 1967 • When there is a process of recognition it is the projection of the past. The mind is always functioning within the field of time, which is of memory. Can the mind go beyond that? • What is pleasure and what is desire? • How is it possible, without control, subjugation or denying, for thought not to allow itself... Read more

Is it possible to renew the mind?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

"Is it possible to renew the mind? - 24 May 1967 • When the mind is living through imagination and thought, it is incapable of living in the complete fullness of the present. • Thought has created time, not chronological time but psychological time. That is, 'I will be,' 'I should be.' • Is it possible for the brain to be quiet, to give an... Read more

Where there is pleasure there is the shadow of pain

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

"Where there is pleasure there is the shadow of pain - 21 May 1967 • The whole movement of living, which is relationship, is a movement in action. • What is consciousness? When do you say, 'I am conscious, I am aware, I am attentive'? • Is there actually a division between the conscious and the unconscious, or it is a total movement, operating... Read more