Philosophy audiobooks

Can thought bring order?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

"Can thought bring order? - 18 July 1974 • Are thoughts, feelings, reactions and relationships merely mechanical? Is there any other movement? • Where there is a cause there is time and so living becomes relative. • Is my relationship with another based on opinions, memories, demands and sexual appetites? • Is there a way of living which has no... Read more

Can the mind not be a slave to knowledge?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: No

"Can the mind not be a slave to knowledge? - 21 July 1974 • When consciousness invents a super-consciousness is it a part of thought aware of the past? • Is there a part of the brain which has not been touched by the known? • Is it our education to escape from 'what is' through ideals? • Has the mind been trained to operate and function in the... Read more

Wisdom comes through the understanding of suffering

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

"Wisdom comes through the understanding of suffering - 23 July 1974 • Do we respond to the whole field of existence? Must not there be love to do that? • To love, to be responsible for the whole, one must go beyond suffering. • Can we know the nature, structure and function of suffering? • Is isolation one of the major causes of suffering? • Is... Read more

Meditation is to discover an area in which there is no movement of thought

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Meditation is to discover an area in which there is no movement of thought - 28 July 1974 • Has the world and its thought-based activity bred fear? • Can hidden fears and subtle forms of pleasure be exposed through analysis? • What is a mind to do when it sees the falseness of analysis and introspective examination? • Is the controller different... Read more

To look without a concept is to be aware of the observer and the thing observed

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

"To look without a concept is to be aware of the observer and the thing observed - 20 May 1967 • 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? • The first and last... Read more

Is it possible to renew the mind?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In Is It Possible to Renew the Mind?, the renowned philosopher and spiritual teacher J. Krishnamurti explores the fundamental question of whether the human mind can break free from its conditioning and be completely renewed. Krishnamurti challenges the reader to examine deeply rooted patterns of thought, behavior, and societal influences that... 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

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

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

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

Is there such thing as free will?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

"s there such thing as free will? - 31 May 1967 • Is freedom partial? • Why should I be bound to destiny? Born in India with the tremendous cultural traditions, why should I be caught in it? • Man is more important than the frame into which he is put. • Is it possible for a human being to free himself from society, psychologically? • Human... 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

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

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

A Radical transformation in the psyche itself

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

"A radical transformation in the psyche itself - 8 November 1968 • 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 transformation, which is so essential in... Read more

Am I aware of the process of thinking?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

In Am I Aware of the Process of Thinking?, J. Krishnamurti invites readers to explore the nature of thought and consciousness. Through insightful dialogue and philosophical inquiry, Krishnamurti challenges us to question the automatic patterns of our thinking and become fully aware of how our thoughts shape our perception of reality. By... Read more

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

The Ending Of Time

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 19 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

1. The roots of psychological conflict - 1 April 1980 Duration: 82 minutes • Has humanity taken a wrong turn? • What is the root of this tremendous inward conflict of humanity? • When I am trying to become something it is a constant battle. • Can the brain itself see that it is caught in time and as long as it is moving in that direction... Read more

Happiness

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh’s key teaching is that through mindfulness, we can learn to live in the present moment and develop a sense of peace. Accessible to those new to Buddhist teachings as well as more experienced practitioners, Happiness is the only book that collects all practices adapted and developed by Thich Nhat Hanh in his more than... Read more

The Subjection of Women

By: John Stuart Mill

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

English society in the 1860's was on the brink of enormous change, and some of the biggest changes coming to birth in that time was the tremendous change in the status of women--changes affecting politics, economics, law, government, business, education, psychology, religion and sexuality, and the list goes on. The changes John Stuart Mill... Read more

The True Spirit Of Poet And Mystic Robert Lax

By: Michael N. McGregor

Narrated by: Phil Cousineau

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Lax is one of the great experimental poets of the 20th century, a daring and original avant-garde writer who was sought out as a sage and a mentor. He was a circus performer, a clown and a juggler, and well known for being a close friend of Thomas Merton. McGregor knew and loved this man and wrote a biography to make this remarkable man’s... Read more

Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It

By: Daniel Klein

Narrated by: James Jenner

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A humorous and philosophical trip through life, from the New York Times-bestselling coauthor of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar ... Daniel Klein's fans have fallen in love with the warm, humorous, and thoughtful way he shows how philosophy resonates in everyday life. Readers of his popular books Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar ... and... Read more

Toltec Insights And Truths

By: Don Miguel Ruiz

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Many of us have appreciated the four agreements brought to us by don Miguel Ruiz. For many years they have assisted us in altering old behavior patterns that no longer serve our lives. Briefly they are: do not take things personally, stop making assumptions, be impeccable with your words, and do your best. There is a fifth agreement added to... Read more

An Integral View of Spiritual Experience

By: Steve McIntosh, J.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A spiritual experience has been described by some as an encounter with the presence of the infinite within our finite universe of time and space. It takes on many forms and can be conceived of in a wide variety of ways.Here Steve McIntosh addresses such questions as: How do we gain a deeper understanding of such a spiritual experience and why is... Read more