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
2Introduction: Talking things over together as two friends…
3Part I: To free the mind of the observer
4Part II
5To be a light to oneself.
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6When the observer is completely absent, then there is unity.
7Seeing without the observer is love.
8What is the observer?
9The observer is always casting its shadow….
10It is like a vast river in which man is caught.
11The actual and the abstraction.
12No contact with reality.
13The observer dissociates from suffering.
14Consciousness is its content.
15The diamond cannot be separated from its qualities.
16The phenomenon of the observer and the observed is not a dual process, but a single one….
17There is no thinker, only conditioned thinking.
18The thinker gives continuity to pleasure, desire and pain.
19The observer and desire.
20What is and what should be
21To live with a living thing such as fear….
22Observer and the fear of death.
23Becoming creates the sense of time.
24There is a time-interval, and therefore conflict.
25Meaningless division
26A mind that is confused, whatever it does, brings about confusion.
27Naming externalizes feelings.
28The analyser is the analysed.
29The controller and the controlled
30The observer is the image-maker.
31Awareness without choice.
32Awareness is not introspection.
33Awareness is not consciousness.
34There must be silent awareness of naming…
35With all your senses …
36Total seeing.
37If you can listen, you will find an astonishing transformation in your heart, your mind.
38Perceiving without the perceiver.
39Profound attention.
40Attention without any center.
41At the moment of experience, there is neither the observer nor the observed.
42There is no ‘how’.
43Without the word, a fundamental transformation takes place.
44The state of mind that has decided to observe is not observation at all.
45The observer cannot be suppressed.
46To end the chattering mind.
47When the word is not, the measureless is.
48Can we observe without making an abstraction or idea of what we observe?
49You must die to every thing that you know psychologically.
50To empty the mind, yet retain practical knowledge.
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