The Observer Observed
A selection of passages from the teachings of J Krishnamurti.By J Krishnamurti
Length2h 49m
About this audiobook
In this incredibly penetrating talk, Krishnamurti describes the psychological pressures of life and how these pressures affect right living: We were saying that any form of pressure on the brain affects our whole way of life. We were also saying that this pressure affects our activities, our attitudes, our character, and our way of living. The pressure--economic, social, ethical, and religious--invariably distorts not only our actions but the quality of the brain ... ideals affect, oppress, and act as pressure upon our daily life. Is it possible not to have any ideals but only deal with actually what is? --then there is no pressure whatsoever. Krishnamurti goes on to say that, unless the mind is free of pressure, there is no new way of living. He states that this insight on freedom requires a great deal of investigation into the whole nature and movement of pressure.
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GenrePhilosophy
Length2 hrs 49 mins
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Publish dateAug 8, 2012
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Observer and the Observed
29The controller and the controlled
2Introduction: Talking things over together as two friends…
30The observer is the image-maker.
3Part I: To free the mind of the observer
31Awareness without choice.
4Part II
32Awareness is not introspection.
5To be a light to oneself.
33Awareness is not consciousness.
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6When the observer is completely absent, then there is unity.
34There must be silent awareness of naming…
7Seeing without the observer is love.
35With all your senses …
8What is the observer?
36Total seeing.
9The observer is always casting its shadow….
37If you can listen, you will find an astonishing transformation in your heart, your mind.
10It is like a vast river in which man is caught.
38Perceiving without the perceiver.
11The actual and the abstraction.
39Profound attention.
12No contact with reality.
40Attention without any center.
13The observer dissociates from suffering.
41At the moment of experience, there is neither the observer nor the observed.
14Consciousness is its content.
42There is no ‘how’.
15The diamond cannot be separated from its qualities.
43Without the word, a fundamental transformation takes place.
16The phenomenon of the observer and the observed is not a dual process, but a single one….
44The state of mind that has decided to observe is not observation at all.
17There is no thinker, only conditioned thinking.
45The observer cannot be suppressed.
18The thinker gives continuity to pleasure, desire and pain.
46To end the chattering mind.
19The observer and desire.
47When the word is not, the measureless is.
20What is and what should be
48Can we observe without making an abstraction or idea of what we observe?
21To live with a living thing such as fear….
49You must die to every thing that you know psychologically.
22Observer and the fear of death.
50To empty the mind, yet retain practical knowledge.
23Becoming creates the sense of time.
51A fusion of the thinker and his thoughts.
24There is a time-interval, and therefore conflict.
52You can’t go very far if you don’t begin very near.
25Meaningless division
53Is there an end to sorrow?
26A mind that is confused, whatever it does, brings about confusion.
54A sacredness that thought has never been able to conceive.
27Naming externalizes feelings.
55Without the center, an immense space, something sacred.
28The analyser is the analysed.
56You became them, they were you and the grass and the clouds.
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