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Learning is action
- Author
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Narrator
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Publisher
- Krishnamurti Foundation Trust
- Publish Date
- 30 November 2015
- Run Time
- 56 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
"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 express from something already accumulated it is a deadly bore, but if you are all the time watching, not only yourself but the world, you are learning. • Q: You say that a mantra is an escape. Do you think that people use drugs as an escape or because they want to become closer? • When I observe myself I cannot learn if I condemn what I find. • We observe through our imagination, through our image, through our knowledge."
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Details
- Author
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Narrator
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Duration
- 56 minutes
- Release Date
- 30 November 2015
- ISBN
- 9781911140429
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Krishnamurti Foundation Trust
- Genre
- Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy
Synopsis
"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 express from something already accumulated it is a deadly bore, but if you are all the time watching, not only yourself but the world, you are learning. • Q: You say that a mantra is an escape. Do you think that people use drugs as an escape or because they want to become closer? • When I observe myself I cannot learn if I condemn what I find. • We observe through our imagination, through our image, through our knowledge."
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