Science & Technology audiobooks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

Meditation means a life that is totally different every minute of the day

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

"Meditation means a life that is totally different every minute of the day - 14 March 1971 • A mind that inquires into this whole question of meditation must have tremendous discipline. • When you observe'what is'without the interference of the past, there is complete change of 'what is'. • Is there a way of seeing the whole content of... Read more

Is pleasure love?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"Is pleasure love? - 13 March 1971 • Can thought ever solve the whole problem of existence? • What is the function of thought? • Why has sex become so extraordinarily important? • Chastity is the freedom from all image. • Is love desire? • A new thing can take place only when there is an ending of the old. Question topics following the talk... Read more

Violence, pleasure and fear

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

"Violence, pleasure and fear - 7 March 1971 • We have accepted violence as a way of life and yet at the same time we want peace. • Can one live a life in which there is no comparison at all? • Pleasure is the continuance of an experience that is never finished. • We are living in the past. • How can the conscious mind investigate the total... Read more

Attention implies the total abandonment of the 'me.

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

"Attention implies the total abandonment of the 'me' - 6 March 1971 • Can the mind undergo a radical revolution? • How do you observe the world? • What solves our human problem is observing the whole process of ourselves without judging, condemning, translating or rejecting – just to observe. Question topics following the talk include: being... 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

To understand 'what is' there must be no prejudice

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

"To understand 'what is' there must be no prejudice - 6 August 1949. • To understand reality, or for that immensity to come into being, one must understand the process of one's own thinking. • How is it possible to go into the deeper layers of consciousness? • If we do not name then perhaps it's possible to go into the deeper layers of... Read more

Simplicity cannot be found unless one is free inwardly

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

"Simplicity cannot be found unless one is free inwardly - 24 July 1949 • Only when the mind and heart are really simple is one able to solve the many problems that confront us. • A religious man is he who is inwardly simple. • Q: I have been a member of various religious organizations but you have destroyed them all. I am utterly bored and work... 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

If we had no belief what would happen to us?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

"If we had no belief what would happen to us? - 23 July 1949 • Without self-knowledge we cannot go beyond the self-projected illusions of the mind. • It's only in relationship that one can know oneself as one is. • A mind that is filled with beliefs, dogmas, assertions and quotations is an un creative, repetitive mind. • Can we look at ourselves... Read more

Relationship has significance only when it is a process of self-revelation

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

"Relationship has significance only when it is a process of self-revelation - 17 July 1949 • Where there is authority there can be no discovery of something new. • Relationship based on an idea cannot be a self-revealing process. • Self-knowledge is understood, uncovered and its process revealed through relationship. • Is it possible to love... Read more

Why do we seek a method or technique?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

"Why do we seek a method or technique? - 21 August 1949. • The problems of life do not demand a method, because they are so vital and alive that if we approach with a method we totally misunderstand and don't adequately meet that problem. • Where there is efficiency there is ruthlessness. • The means and the end are not separate. • Reality or... 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

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

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