Urgency of Change • The Krishnamurti Podcast
239 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 197 ratingsWhat are you doing with your life? Can anyone show you the way, or must you be a light to yourself? Do we see the urgency of change?
One of the greatest spiritual teachers and philosophers of all time, J. Krishnamurti challenges us to question all that we know and discover our true nature in the here and now.
This official podcast from Krishnamurti Foundation Trust now has over 200 weekly episodes. Episodes 1-50 feature conversations between Krishnamurti and luminaries from many paths, along with readings of the classic book Commentaries on Living by actor Terence Stamp. Episode 51 onwards features carefully chosen extracts based on a theme explored by Krishnamurti. The extracts from our archives have been carefully selected to represent his different approaches to each of these universal and timelessly relevant themes.
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Krishnamurti on Culture
May 24, 2023 04:30 - 1 hour - 96.1 MB‘What is it that brings about a culture totally different from the mechanistic culture we have accepted for thousands of years?’ This week’s episode on Culture has five sections. The first extract (2:24) is from Krishnamurti’s sixth talk in Ojai 1982, titled: What Is Culture? The second extract (9:45) is from the second talk in Saanen 1973, titled: Trapped in This Culture, How Am I To Change? The third extract (22:58) is from Krishnamurti’s fourth talk in Saanen 1973, titled: Our Culture...
Krishnamurti on Urgency
May 17, 2023 04:30 - 1 hour - 113 MB‘There can be understanding only when there is tremendous urgency. When there is an urgency, there is attention; and out of that comes freedom.’ This week’s episode on Urgency has five sections. The first extract (2:40) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk in Ojai 1966, titled: When There Is Urgency There Is Attention. The second extract (34:29) is from the fourth talk in Saanen 1970, titled: The Very Urgency of Change Is the Change. The third extract (38:51) is from Krishnamurti’s second t...
Krishnamurti on Conformity
May 10, 2023 04:30 - 1 hour - 90.3 MB'Only when we are free of conformity can we find out what is original, essential, true. Unless we find that out, we will always live a counterfeit, second-hand life of imitation.' This week’s episode on Conformity has four sections. The first extract (2:43) is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in Madras 1964, titled: Most of Us Live a Life of Conformity. The second extract (16:54) is from Krishnamurti’s fifth talk in Saanen 1965, titled: To What Extent Can Conformity Be Ended? The third ext...
Krishnamurti on Words and Language
May 03, 2023 04:30 - 1 hour - 102 MB‘Words divide the fact from the observer. The word, or the screen of words, has separated the observer and the observed.’ This week’s episode on Words and Language has five sections. The first extract (2:40) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in New Delhi 1963, titled: A Mind Caught in Words. The second extract (13:19) is from the fifth discussion in Saanen 1976, titled: Separating Words From Facts. The third extract (30:20) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk in Ojai 1978, titled: The Pre...
Krishnamurti on Sensation
April 26, 2023 04:30 - 1 hour - 91.1 MB‘We live by the senses, by sensation, and it is only when thought creates the image out of sensation that all the complexities of desire arise.’ This week’s episode on Sensation has four sections. The first extract (2:29) is from Krishnamurti’s fourth talk in Saanen 1966, titled: Our Lives Are Based on Sensation and Desire. The second extract (13:53) is from the eighth talk in Ojai 1949, titled: Ideas Are the Result of Sensation. The third extract (32:59) is from Krishnamurti’s third ta...
Krishnamurti on Conclusions
April 19, 2023 04:30 - 1 hour - 88.4 MB‘Distortion exists because you have opinions and conclusions. To observe, the mind must be free to look with no distortion, so that it is fresh to look and to learn.’ This week’s episode on Conclusions has three sections. The first extract (2:58) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk in San Francisco 1973, titled: Can the Mind That Functions on Conclusions Be Free? The second extract (17:15) is from the second talk in Santa Monica 1974, titled: Preventing Conclusions in Relationship. The fin...
Krishnamurti on Wisdom
April 12, 2023 04:30 - 1 hour - 102 MB‘Perception reveals the truth, and out of that perception wisdom comes. Intelligence is the action of that wisdom in daily life.’ This week’s episode on Wisdom has six sections. The first extract (2:45) is from Krishnamurti’s fourth talk in Paris 1965, titled: Wisdom and Self-knowledge. The second extract (17:45) is from the second public discussion in Saanen 1973, titled: Wisdom and Clarity. The third extract (32:02) is from Krishnamurti’s fifth talk in Saanen 1972, titled: Wisdom and H...
Krishnamurti on Control
April 05, 2023 04:30 - 1 hour - 107 MB‘Who is the controller whom all the time exercises authority to control? Who is the controller? Are they different from the controlled?’ This week’s episode on Control has two sections. The first extract (2:35) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in Saanen 1971, titled: Does Control Bring Order? The second and final extract in this episode (47:11) is from the fourth talk in Madras 1973, titled: Is It Possible To Live Without Control? Each episode of the Krishnamurti podcast is compiled fr...
Krishnamurti on the Present
March 29, 2023 04:30 - 1 hour - 99.5 MB‘The future is the past, modified by the accidents of the present. Tomorrow is yesterday, reshaped by the experiences, reactions and knowledge of today. This is what we call time.’ This week’s episode on The Present has four sections. The first extract (2:49) is from Krishnamurti’s fifth talk in Paris 1966, titled: Living Is in the Active Present. The second extract (15:21) is from the seventh talk in Saanen 1963, titled: Is There a Present Untouched by the Past? The third extract (30:34...
Krishnamurti on Nationalism
March 22, 2023 05:30 - 1 hour - 89.5 MB'As long as you have sovereign governments - that is, nationalistic separate governments with their armies - you are bound to have wars.' This week’s episode on Nationalism has three sections. The first extract (2:32) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk at Rajghat in 1965, titled: As Long as We Have Separate Nationalistic Governments, We Are Bound To Have Wars. The second extract (29:35) is from the first talk in Ojai 1977, titled: Is There Security in Nationalism? The final extract in thi...
Krishnamurti on Wholeness
March 15, 2023 05:30 - 1 hour - 93.8 MB‘To find out a deep, abiding, unshakeable honesty, which is integrity, wholeness, is to discover a state of the brain in which there is no movement at all.’ This week’s episode on Wholeness has four sections. The first extract (2:46) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk at Brockwood Park in 1980, titled: A Sense of Wholeness, of Global Reality. The second extract (26:39) is from the fifth talk in Saanen 1973, titled: Can Wholeness Be Brought About by Thought? The third extract (35:52) is fr...
Krishnamurti on Teaching
March 08, 2023 05:30 - 59 minutes - 82.8 MB‘Teaching is the highest profession in the world. The highest profession because teachers are responsible for the future generation.’ This week’s episode on Teaching has three sections. The first extract (2:34) is from the first question and answer meeting in Madras 1981, titled: Teaching Is the Highest Profession. The second extract (15:42) is from the third discussion in Ojai 1977, titled: What Is the Function of a Teacher? The final extract in this episode (53:08) is from Krishnamurti...
Krishnamurti on Responsibility
March 01, 2023 05:30 - 1 hour - 85.8 MB‘We must lay the foundation not on sands but on the responsibility of our daily life, and try to bring about a tremendous revolution in that life.’ This week’s episode on Insight has three sections. The first extract (2:39) is from the second question and answer meeting in Ojai 1985, titled: What Is Our Responsibility to Ourselves and Others? The second extract (19:09) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in Santa Monica 1974, titled: Freedom and Responsibility Go Together. The third and f...
Krishnamurti on Pain
February 22, 2023 05:30 - 1 hour - 93 MB‘As long as you think about pain, you intensify the memory of it. Therefore, thinking about pain increases the fear of it.’ This week’s episode on Pain has three sections. The first extract (2:23) is from the fourth question and answer meeting in Saanen 1980, titled: How Do You Meet Pain? The second extract (11:18) is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in Bombay 1971, titled: Fear of Pain. The final extract in this episode (33:58) is from the first question and answer meeting in Saanen 1982,...
Krishnamurti on Spirituality
February 15, 2023 05:30 - 1 hour - 103 MB‘What is a spiritual life? Is a spiritual life a life of total freedom? Freedom from sorrow, freedom from fear, freedom from all conditioning. To be free.’ This week’s episode on Spirituality has five sections. The first extract (2:52) is from the third question and answer meeting in Ojai 1982, titled: Are There Levels of Spirituality? The second extract (20:58) is from the first question and answer meeting at Brockwood Park in 1985, titled: Are Spiritual Experiences Illusional? The thir...
Krishnamurti on Discipline
February 08, 2023 05:30 - 1 hour - 102 MB‘Is happiness found through discipline? By practising a certain rule, a certain discipline, a mode of conduct, are you ever free?’ This week’s episode on Discipline has three sections. The first extract (2:40) is from Krishnamurti’s fifth talk in Ojai 1949, titled: Why Do We Discipline Ourselves? The second extract (25:19) is from the fourth talk in Bombay 1964, titled: Discipline Means to Learn. The final extract in this episode (46:08) is from Krishnamurti’s sixth talk in Ojai 1949, ti...
Krishnamurti on Insight
February 01, 2023 05:30 - 1 hour - 93.8 MB‘Insight is not brought about through will, through desire, through memory. It is immediate perception and therefore action.’ This week’s episode on Insight has two sections. The first extract (2:39) is from the first question and answer meeting in Saanen 1981, titled: What Is Insight? The second and final extract in this episode (22:38) is from the second talk in Saanen 1972, titled: Constant Insight Without Conclusion. Each episode of the Krishnamurti podcast is compiled from carefully...
Krishnamurti on the Brain
January 25, 2023 05:30 - 1 hour - 111 MB‘Here you have the clue or the key: to observe without the old brain responding. When the old brain doesn't respond, there is the quality of a new brain coming into being.’ This week’s episode on The Brain has three sections. The first extract (2:28) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in Saanen 1983, titled: What Is the Function of the Brain? The second extract (38:16) is from the sixth talk in Madras 1979, titled: Can the Brain Only Register What Is Necessary? The final extract in this ...
Krishnamurti on Selfishness
January 18, 2023 05:30 - 1 hour - 111 MB‘Selfishness is what it is. To observe it purely, without any distortion or pressure, that very observation exposes the whole consequences of selfishness and cleanses the mind of selfishness.’ This week’s episode on Selfishness has five sections. The first extract (2:50) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in Bombay in 1982, titled: We Are All Selfish. The second extract (8:13) is from the first talk in Saanen 1978, titled: Why Are We So Appallingly Selfish? The third extract (33:40) is f...
Krishnamurti on Insecurity
January 11, 2023 05:30 - 1 hour - 86.7 MB‘If we can find out together what is insecurity and why we are insecure, then in the unfolding of it, in the causation of it, security naturally comes about.’ This week’s episode on Insecurity has four sections. The first extract (2:40) is from the second question and answer meeting at Brockwood Park in 1982, titled: The Nature of Insecurity. The second extract (17:39) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in Bombay 1985, titled: Why Are We So Insecure? The third extract (30:06) is from the...
Krishnamurti on Technology
January 04, 2023 05:30 - 1 hour - 100 MB‘The brain has put man on the moon, it has invented terrible things that kill, and also technology has given man great comfort, hygiene and communication. But the brain is limited because, at present, it is incapable of going inward.’ This week’s episode on Technology has four sections. The first extract (2:49) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk at Brockwood Park in 1982, titled: Technology Is Invading Our Consciousness. The second extract (12:55) is from the first talk in Ojai 1981, title...
Krishnamurti on Aloneness
December 28, 2022 05:30 - 1 hour - 103 MB‘Aloneness is something entirely different. Only the mind which is alone is not influenceable. This means the mind has understood the principle of pleasure, and therefore nothing can touch it.’ This week’s episode on Aloneness has six sections. The first extract (2:30) is from the second talk in Saanen 1972, titled: It Is Important To Stand Completely Alone. The second extract (14:39) is from Krishnamurti’s thirteenth talk in Ojai 1949, titled: You Must Be Alone To Understand. The third ...
Krishnamurti on Stimulation
December 21, 2022 05:30 - 1 hour - 103 MB‘When you realise that any form of outward or inward stimulation breeds indifference and dullness, when one sees the truth of it, the stimulation naturally will drop away.’ This week’s episode on Stimulation has four sections. The first extract (2:49) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk at Brockwood Park in 1983, titled: This Is Not Intellectual Stimulation. The second extract (9:13) is from the fourth talk in New Delhi 1966, titled: Most of Us Depend on Stimulation. The third extract (21:...
Krishnamurti on Opinion and Judgment
December 14, 2022 05:30 - 1 hour - 100 MB‘Observe your opinions, watch them, and by watching, not rationalising, not justifying, just watching, you will see that opinions do not matter at all.’ This week’s episode on Opinion and Judgement has five sections. The first extract (2:44) is from the second question and answer meeting in Ojai 1984, titled: Why Cling to Opinions, Not Facts? The second extract (16:41) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk in Saanen 1983, titled: Opinions Bring Conflict. The third extract (25:10) is from the...
Krishnamurti on Gurus
December 07, 2022 05:30 - 1 hour - 96.6 MB‘Why do you ask help of another? This is a very serious problem because gurus are multiplying, with enormous wealth.’ This week’s episode on Gurus has three sections. The first extract (2:44) is from the first question and answer meeting in Saanen 1980, titled: Doubt What Gurus Are Saying. The second extract (19:20) is from the first question and answer meeting in Ojai 1983, titled: There Is No Right Guru, Only the Wrong Guru. The final extract in this episode (29:07) is from the first q...
Krishnamurti on Frustration
November 30, 2022 05:30 - 1 hour - 107 MB‘We want to fulfil ourselves but are prevented by circumstances, by our lack of capacity, by our desire to be secure, and so we are frustrated. Even if we do fulfil ourselves, there is always in fulfilment the shadow of frustration.’ This week’s episode on Frustration has four sections. The first extract (2:40) is from the seventh talk in New Delhi 1963, titled: Is There a Way Out of Our Fundamental Anxiety, Frustration and Despair? The second extract (21:23) is from Krishnamurti’s sevent...
Krishnamurti on Cause and Effect
November 23, 2022 05:30 - 1 hour - 106 MB‘When you discover the cause, the effect can be wiped away. But we are always dealing with effects.’ This week’s episode on Cause and Effect has four sections. The first extract (2:43) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk at Brockwood Park in 1982, titled: Ending the Cause of Conflict. The second extract (24:08) is from the third talk in Saanen 1982, titled: The Effect Can Be Ended by Ending the Cause. The third extract (1:00:40) is from the second question and answer meeting in Saanen 198...
Krishnamurti on Morality
November 16, 2022 05:30 - 1 hour - 90.4 MB‘Social conformity is called morality. But if you go into it very deeply, you see that such morality is immoral.’ This week’s episode on Morality has four sections. The first extract (2:35) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk in Madras 1971, titled: Our Social Morality Is Immorality. The second extract (19:02) is from the second talk in Madras 1969, titled: Is There Security in Morality? The third extract (39:51) is from Krishnamurti’s fourth talk in Paris 1965, titled: Virtue Has Nothing ...
Krishnamurti on Learning
November 09, 2022 05:30 - 1 hour - 100 MB‘A mind that is continually moving from the unknown to the unknown, learning, learning, learning, such a mind is a most extraordinarily sensitive mind and therefore a free mind.’ This week’s episode on Learning has four sections. The first extract (2:45) is from the second discussion with students in Rishi Valley 1981, titled: Holistic Learning. The second extract (12:01) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk in Madras 1969, titled: In Learning, There Is No Authority. The third extract (24:2...
Krishnamurti on Occupation
November 02, 2022 05:30 - 1 hour - 94 MB‘When one is occupied with oneself, with one's body, with one's beauty - this constant occupation with oneself - you deny all relationship.’ This week’s episode on Occupation has six sections. The first extract (2:33) is from the second question and answer meeting at Brockwood Park in 1981, titled: Why Are Our Minds Perpetually Occupied? The second extract (13:58) is from Krishnamurti’s sixth talk in Saanen 1972, titled: Are We Afraid To Be Unoccupied? The third extract (23:57) is from th...
Krishnamurti on Transformation
October 26, 2022 04:30 - 1 hour - 111 MB‘The chief concern for a serious person is the total transformation of the human mind - total not partial, a complete revolution in the psyche - because that is the first movement which can transform the outward environment.’ This week’s episode on Transformation has five sections. The first extract (2:42) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk at Brockwood Park in 1976, titled: There Must Be a Transformation in Human Consciousness. The second extract (8:55) is from the first talk in Saanen 1...
Krishnamurti on Contradiction
October 19, 2022 06:15 - 1 hour - 96.4 MB‘If there is no becoming, no attempting to be something, then there is no sense of fear. Then there is no contradiction, no lie in us at any level, consciously or unconsciously.’ This week’s episode on Contradiction has three sections. The first extract (2:46) is from Krishnamurti’s thirteenth talk in Ojai 1949, titled: Why Is There Contradiction in Ourselves? The second extract (18:03) is from the fifth talk in Paris 1965, titled: The Ending of Contradiction. The final extract in this e...
Krishnamurti on Facts
October 12, 2022 04:30 - 1 hour - 90.3 MB‘To meet a fact totally implies meeting it not only intellectually but emotionally. This process of learning about the fact is not possible when you approach it with thought which already has known.’ This week’s episode on Facts has four sections. The first extract (2:48) is from the first question and answer meeting at Brockwood Park in 1983, titled: What Is a Fact? The second extract (20:49) is from Krishnamurti’s fourth talk in Bombay 1966, titled: The Word Is Not the Fact. The third ...
Krishnamurti on Innocence
October 05, 2022 04:30 - 1 hour - 92.6 MB‘The mind must be innocent, though it has gone through experiences. For the mind to realize that state of innocency, the accumulations of experience must come to an end.’ This week’s episode on Innocence has four sections. The first extract (2:36) is from Krishnamurti’s ninth talk in Saanen 1964, titled: An Innocent Mind Is Empty of Experience. The second extract (9:27) is from the second talk in Bombay 1967, titled: An Innocence Not Touched by Thought. The third extract (24:20) is from ...
Krishnamurti on Unity
September 28, 2022 04:30 - 1 hour - 86.5 MB‘There can be unity only when there is no division. I am divided because of my images, my conclusions, my opinions. When I have no conclusion, no image, there is no division.’ This week’s episode on Unity has four sections. The first extract (2:49) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk at Brockwood Park in 1979, titled: Can Religion Bring Unity? The second extract (19:26) is from the fourth talk in Saanen 1972, titled: Can There Be Unity Between Conditioned Minds? The third extract (25:39) ...
Krishnamurti on Reincarnation
September 21, 2022 04:30 - 1 hour - 99.2 MB‘Knowing you are going to die, there is fear and you have the comforting hope of reincarnation. You have never inquired what it is that reincarnates, but there is that hope.’ This week’s episode on Reincarnation has four sections. The first extract (2:39) is from the third question and answer meeting in Saanen 1983, titled: What Is It That Is Going To Be Reborn? The second extract (20:17) is from the third question and answer meeting in Ojai 1980, titled: Ending Conflict Now Is Far More I...
Krishnamurti on Doubt
September 14, 2022 04:30 - 57 minutes - 79.7 MB‘Most of us so easily accept things, especially in religious and so-called spiritual matters, where authority assumes it knows and that you don't know. But it is necessary to discover what truth is, and for this there must be doubt.’ This week’s episode on Doubt has three sections. The first extract (2:45) is from Krishnamurti’s seventh talk in Saanen 1980, titled: Doubting Is Not the Same as Rejecting. The second extract (29:38) is from the six talk in Ojai 1982, titled: Doubt Is a Great...
Krishnamurti on Krishnamurti Schools
September 07, 2022 04:30 - 1 hour - 84.9 MB‘We saw the necessity of a new school. The meaning of the word 'school' is leisure, leisure in which to learn; and a place where students and teachers can flower as human beings, without fear, without confusion, with great integrity.’ This week’s episode on Krishnamurti Schools has six sections. The first extract (2:39) is from the first question and answer meeting at Brockwood Park in 1980, titled: Why do you have schools and foundations? The second extract (9:30) is from the first quest...
Krishnamurti on Methods and Systems
August 31, 2022 04:30 - 1 hour - 65 MB‘Systems have been created by man in his search for security, and the search for security through systems is destroying man.’ This week’s episode on Methods and Systems has three sections. The first extract (3:00) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in Saanen 1968, titled ‘No system is going to help us’. The second extract (25:26) is from the fourth talk in New York 1974, titled, ‘Systems are not sane’. The final extract (53:40) in this episode is from Krishnamurti’s sixth talk in Ojai 19...
Krishnamurti on Hope
August 24, 2022 04:30 - 1 hour - 62.6 MB‘I hope to be; I hope to become; I hope to achieve; I hope to fulfil; I hope to reach heaven, enlightenment. All this psychologically demands time.’ This week’s episode on Hope has four sections. This first extract (2:47) is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in Ojai 1973, titled ‘Is hope a reaction to despair?’ The second extract (14:36) is from the first question and answer meeting at Brockwood Park in 1981, titled ‘We hope somebody will cure us’. The third extract (37:43) is from Krishnam...
Krishnamurti on Entertainment
August 17, 2022 04:30 - 1 hour - 61.8 MB‘We are going to lose ourselves in organised religion, or in entertainment of every kind. As a result, humanity will become more and more superficial.’ This week’s episode on Entertainment has four sections. The first extract (2:52) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk in San Francisco 1973, titled ‘This is not entertainment’. The second extract (21:30) is from the seventh talk in Saanen 1964, titled ‘Are we being consumed by entertainment?’ The third extract (34:11) is from Krishnamurti’...
Krishnamurti on Problems
August 10, 2022 04:30 - 1 hour - 67 MB‘Social problems, economic problems, mechanical problems, computer problems, and our own problems in our daily life, in our relationships - why do we have problems at all? Is it necessary to have problems?’ This week’s episode on Problems has four sections. The first extract (2:34) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk in Bombay 1983, titled ‘What is a problem?’ The second extract (20:21) is from the first talk at Brockwood Park in 1985, titled ‘A brain free to solve problems’. The third ext...
Krishnamurti on Simplicity
August 03, 2022 04:30 - 1 hour - 95.9 MB‘The modern world is becoming very, very complicated, and one must therefore make one's own life extraordinarily simple. That simplicity demands a great deal of intelligence.’ This week’s episode on Simplicity has three sections. The first extract (2:57) is from Krishnamurti’s eighth talk in Bombay 1962, titled ‘Simplicity and virtue in a complex world’. The second extract (25:07) is from the seventh talk in Saanen 1965, titled, ‘Simplicity comes with the understanding of sorrow’. The fi...
Krishnamurti on Achievement
July 27, 2022 04:30 - 1 hour - 85.6 MB‘What is it each one of us wants to achieve? More enlightened? To achieve heaven, nirvana or moksha?’ This week’s episode on Achievement has five sections. The first extract (2:39) is from the fourth talk in Saanen 1982, titled ‘Is it natural to want to achieve?’ The second extract (16:47) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in New Delhi 1983, titled ‘We use time to achieve’. The third extract (27:45) is from the first question and answer meeting in Madras 1985, titled ‘Achievement is the...
Krishnamurti on The Immeasurable
July 20, 2022 04:30 - 1 hour - 94.4 MB‘You cannot invite the immeasurable - it then becomes a plaything. You cannot lay down the path for another to follow - it is not to be put into words.’ This week’s episode on The Immeasurable has five sections. The first extract (2:49) is from the second question and answer meeting at Brockwood Park in 1985, titled ‘Can discipline lead to the immeasurable?’ The second extract (11:36) is from Krishnamurti’s fifth talk in Saanen 1971, titled ‘Inquiring into the immeasurable without illusio...
Krishnamurti on Attachment
July 13, 2022 04:30 - 1 hour - 104 MB‘Where there is attachment to a problem, to an idea, to an ideal, to a person, to a dogma, to a ritual, to an organisation, there must be corruption.’ This week’s episode on Attachment has five sections. The first extract (2:29) is from Krishnamurti’s sixth talk in Saanen 1972, titled ‘Why are we attached?’ The second extract (11:04) is from the fifth question and answer meeting in Saanen 1980, titled ‘The consequences of attachment’. The third extract (23:14) is from Krishnamurti’s seco...
Krishnamurti on Help
July 06, 2022 04:30 - 1 hour - 102 MB‘Logically, sanely, I observe that nobody can help me. It is not that I become cynical; it is a fact. And so am I willing to stand alone?’ This week’s episode on Help has four sections. The first extract (2:49) from Krishnamurti’s seventh talk in Bombay 1964, titled ‘We have always sought help from others’. The second extract (23:10) is from the first question and answer meeting at Brockwood Park in 1981, titled ‘Why do I ask for help from another?’ The third extract (52:24) is from the ...
Krishnamurti on Ideas
June 29, 2022 04:30 - 1 hour - 95 MB‘Ideas play an extraordinarily important part in our life: what we think, what we feel, the beliefs and ideas in which we are conditioned.’ This week’s episode on Ideas has four sections. The first extract (2:30) is from Krishnamurti’s seventh talk in Bombay 1965, titled ‘God is an idea’. The second extract (21:42) is from the second talk in New Delhi 1964, titled ‘Is there an action without the idea?’ The third extract (33:12) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk at Brockwood Park in 1974...
Krishnamurti on Accumulation
June 22, 2022 04:30 - 1 hour - 103 MB‘Accumulation is the centre, the 'me', the ego, and to learn about it one must be free of accumulation.’ This week’s episode on Accumulation has three sections. The first extract (2:39) is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in Madras 1971, titled ‘Learning is a constant movement with no accumulation’. The second extract (15:30) is from the fifth talk in Saanen 1982, titled ‘The accumulating brain is mechanical’. The final extract (38:03) in this episode is from Krishnamurti’s fifth talk in M...
Krishnamurti on The Sacred
June 15, 2022 04:30 - 1 hour - 68.5 MB‘The things that have been put in the churches, temples and mosques are not sacred, but yet we worship them. We worship symbols created by thought and pray to them. We project that which is sacred according to our conditioning.’ This week’s episode on The Sacred has four sections. The first extract (2:35) is from the second question and answer meeting in Ojai 1982, titled ‘Is thought sacred?’ The second extract (10:26) is from Krishnamurti’s sixth talk in Ojai 1982, titled ‘Is there anyth...