Philosophy audiobooks

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

Encounters In Yoga and Zen

By: Trevor Leggett

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Madeline Brolly, Gerard McDerm...

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Gleaned from the author's experiences over many years Yoga and Zen training as well as from conversations with teachers, folk stories and temple magazines, this is a fascinating and enlightening compendium of tales from the Yoga and Zen traditions. Stories such as these are used in many spiritual schools' teaching – they're the flint or steel... Read more

Lotus Lake Dragon Pool

By: Trevor Leggett

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Madeline Brolly, Gerard McDerm...

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Collected by the author over many years, these stories from the Yoga and Zen traditions are the flint and steel that strike a spark that lights up the mind with insights that one should ponder daily to bring to light ever deeper meaning. They may be similar in intent to Zen Koans – but they are rather different in content. In many Zen Koans... Read more

Krishnamurti's Notebook

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Anthony Wren

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

When Krishnamurti's Notebook first became available in 1976, it was soon realized that it was a spiritually unique document giving his perceptions and experiences and describing his states of consciousness. It is a kind of diary but one that is little concerned with the day to day process of living, though very much aware of the natural world.... 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

Why does one have to have order in life?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

"Why does one have to have order in life? - 7 December 1965 • You can learn easily when there is an atmosphere of freedom and friendship, a sense of happiness. That is denied when you are compelled. Compulsion is not righteous behaviour. • Q: What is the foundation of religion? • Q: Why does a man want success in life? • What are you going to be... Read more

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 role of the teacher

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

" The role of the teacher - 26 March 1971 • 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 problem. Not being able... Read more

Senility and the brain cells

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

"Senility and the brain cells - 1 June 1980 • Is the human brain deteriorating? • The human brain is not a particular brain, it doesn't belong to me or to anyone else, it is the human brain which has evolved for millions of years. • Can the brain not only be aware of its own movement but can the brain itself have enough energy to break all... 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

"Can insight bring about a mutation of the brain cells? - 15 April 1980 • Can insight change the brain cells? • In the brain is there an activity which is not touched by consciousness? • Insight is not dependent on the material process, which is thought. • Where there is violence, peace cannot exist. Where there is peace, is there violence? • As... 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