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 Effort
June 08, 2022 04:30 - 1 hour - 60.8 MB‘All effort implies resistance, all effort implies contradiction, all effort involves an idea separate from action; and hence our daily lives are in contradiction.’ This week’s episode on Effort has four sections. The first extract (2:53) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in Madras 1964, titled ‘Why do we make effort?’ The second extract (17:15) is from the sixth talk in Saanen 1965, titled ‘Effort implies conformity.’ The third extract (29:04) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in New ...
Krishnamurti on The Observer
June 01, 2022 04:30 - 1 hour - 74.4 MB‘When the observer is looking at itself, the observer is absolutely silent. If the observer is absolutely quiet, you see what actually is. If the observer is totally silent, then that which is, is non-existent.’ This week’s episode on The Observer has six sections. The first extract (2:43) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk at Brockwood Park in 1974, titled ‘Who is the observer?’ The second extract (15:56) is from the first talk at Brockwood Park in 1970, titled ‘The observer is one of man...
Krishnamurti on the Future
May 25, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 97.5 MB‘If there is no future, because the future and the past are now, then what is action?’ This week’s episode on The Future has five sections. The first extract (2:44) is from the third question and answer meeting in Saanen 1982, titled ‘What is the future of mankind?’ The second extract (9:25) is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in Saanen 1976, titled ‘Is there such thing as tomorrow?’ The third extract (19:26) is from the second question and answer meeting at Brockwood Park in 1984, titled ...
Krishnamurti on The Future
May 25, 2022 04:30 - 1 hour - 97.5 MB‘If there is no future, because the future and the past are now, then what is action?’ This week’s episode on The Future has five sections. The first extract (2:44) is from the third question and answer meeting in Saanen 1982, titled ‘What is the future of mankind?’ The second extract (9:25) is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in Saanen 1976, titled ‘Is there such thing as tomorrow?’ The third extract (19:26) is from the second question and answer meeting at Brockwood Park in 1984, titled ...
Krishnamurti on Sleep and Dreams
May 18, 2022 04:30 - 1 hour - 90.8 MB‘When the brain is quiet in sleep, rejuvenation of its whole structure takes place and a quality of innocence comes into being.’ This week’s episode on Sleep and Dreams has four sections. The first extract (2:29) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk at Brockwood Park in 1969, titled ‘Can we understand ourselves by analysing our dreams?’ The second extract (31:12) is from the second talk at Brockwood Park in 1972, titled ‘The mind tries to create order through dreams’. The third extract (36...
Krishnamurti on Nothingness
May 11, 2022 04:30 - 1 hour - 107 MB‘It is only out of nothingness that creation takes place; out of that emptiness is that creation that is the summation of all energy.’ This week’s episode on Nothingness has six sections. The first extract (2:50) is from Krishnamurti’s fourth talk in London 1962, titled ‘Nothingness is not something mysterious’ The second extract (7:18) is from the fourth talk in Saanen 1978, titled ‘We are frightened to be nothing.’ The third extract (23:30) is from Krishnamurti’s fourth talk in Saanen ...
Krishnamurti on Struggle
May 04, 2022 04:30 - 59 minutes - 83.3 MB‘There is a way of living without conflict and struggle. It doesn’t mean becoming lazy, the mind becoming stagnant or dull. This way of living without effort can only come about if we understand the whole process of contradiction.’ This week’s episode on Struggle has four sections. The first extract (2:48) is from the 1974 film Problems of Living, titled ‘We are caught in the trap of endless struggle’. The second extract (8:44) is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in Bombay 1962, titled ‘Why...
Krishnamurti on Light
April 27, 2022 04:30 - 1 hour - 103 MB‘When you are a light to yourself you are a light to the world, because the world is you and you are the world.’ This week’s episode on Light has five sections. The first extract (2:45) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in Madras 1965, titled ‘Observation and light go together’. The second extract (20:54) is from the first question and answer meeting at Brockwood Park in 1981, titled ‘Can I be a light to myself?’ The third extract (32:44) is from Krishnamurti’s sixth talk in Saanen 1979...
Krishnamurti on Crisis
April 20, 2022 04:30 - 58 minutes - 80.8 MB‘The crisis is not in economics, politics or religion. The crisis is in our consciousness.’ This week’s episode on Crisis has four sections. The first extract (2:26) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in Ojai 1985, titled ‘Where is the crisis?’ The second extract (6:30) is from the fourth talk in Ojai 1981, titled ‘The crisis must be answered’. The third extract (28:15) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk in Ojai 1981, titled ‘To understand the crisis, we must be aware of thought’. The fi...
Krishnamurti on Understanding
April 13, 2022 04:30 - 1 hour - 97.5 MB‘In the state of understanding, there is no barrier between the fact and yourself. When you understand something, your whole attention is given to it.’ This week’s episode on Understanding has six sections. The first extract (2:50) is from Krishnamurti’s fourth talk in Madras 1964, titled ‘In what sense are we using the word ‘understand’?’ The second extract (8:24) is from the first talk in Saanen 1962, titled ‘Will mental exploration bring about understanding?’ The third extract (16:06)...
Krishnamurti on Identification
April 06, 2022 04:30 - 1 hour - 111 MB‘When I identify myself with a group, idea, belief or conclusion, that identification is the very essence of being occupied with myself.’ This week’s episode on Identification has four sections. The first extract (2:43) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk in Saanen 1978, titled ‘The movement of identification.’ The second extract (20:50) is from the eighth talk in Ojai 1949, titled ‘Identification is the basis of illusion’. The third extract (35:30) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in Sa...
Krishnamurti on Ideals
March 30, 2022 04:30 - 1 hour - 115 MB‘If we can put away all ideals, understanding their escaping and postponing quality, and face something as it is, directly, immediately, give our full attention to it, then there is a possibility of transforming it.’ This week’s episode on Ideals has four sections. The first extract (2:52) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk in Ojai 1978, titled ‘Why do we live with the pressure of ideals?’ The second extract (17:48) is from the third talk in Saanen 1979, titled ‘Is there security in ideals...
Krishnamurti on Aggression
March 23, 2022 04:30 - 1 hour - 107 MB‘Aggression is the pattern from childhood - the education, our parents and society. Those around me are aggressive and it gives me pleasure. I accept this and become more aggressive’ This week’s episode on Aggression has four sections. The first extract (2:28) is from Krishnamurti’s sixth talk in Saanen 1970, titled ‘We are conditioned to be aggressive.’ The second extract (12:02) is from the fourth question and answer meeting in Ojai 1980, titled ‘The pattern of aggression.’ The third e...
Krishnamurti on Actuality
March 16, 2022 04:30 - 1 hour - 96.7 MB‘We are not pursuing ideas or ideologies, but facing actuality. In actuality, and going beyond that actuality, is the truth.’ This week’s episode on Actuality has four sections. The first extract (2:47) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk in Washington DC, 1985, titled ‘We have done everything possible to run from actuality’. The second extract (20:51) is from the first talk at Brockwood Park in 1974, titled ‘Deal with actuality, not ideas’. The third extract (32:48) is from Krishnamurti’s...
Krishnamurti on War and Killing
March 09, 2022 05:30 - 1 hour - 115 MB‘Psychologically we are one. Unless human beings deeply realise this, we are going to have wars, we are going to be eternally in conflict.’ This week’s episode on War and Killing has five sections. The first extract (2:31) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk in Bombay 1984, titled ‘What is the cause of wars?’ The second extract (20:08) is from the first talk in New Delhi 1965, titled ‘Is there such thing as a righteous war?’ The third extract (33:16) is from Krishnamurti’s talk at the Unit...
Krishnamurti on the Psyche
March 02, 2022 05:30 - 1 hour - 115 MB‘If thought, reason, knowledge or experience will not bring about a radical revolution in the psyche, what will?’ This week’s episode on The Psyche has four sections. The first extract (2:52) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in Ojai 1976, titled ‘The psyche is put together by thought’. The second extract (26:05) is from the second talk in San Francisco 1983, titled ‘Time and the psyche’. The third extract (46:32) is from Krishnamurti’s fifth talk in New York 1966, titled ‘What will bri...
Krishnamurti on Measurement
February 23, 2022 05:30 - 1 hour - 103 MB‘When you are free, when the brain is free of measurement, the very brain cells that have been used to measurement, conditioned by measurement, have suddenly awakened to the truth.’ This week’s episode on Measurement has five sections. The first extract (2:26) is from the fifth question and answer meeting in Saanen 1980, titled ‘We have fallen into the habit of measurement’. The second extract (28:18) is from Krishnamurti’s sixth talk in Saanen 1983, titled ‘The ‘better’ is measurable.’ ...
Krishnamurti on Attention and Inattention
February 16, 2022 05:30 - 1 hour - 88.4 MB‘Is there a sustained attention? Of course not. So, it is important to understand why there is inattention.’ This week’s episode on Attention and Inattention has five sections. The first extract (2:41) is from the first question and answer meeting in Bombay 1985, titled ‘Why aren’t we capable of sustaining attention?’ The second extract (13:53) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk at Rajghat in 1967, titled ‘What takes place when you give complete attention?’ The third extract (27:08) is fr...
Krishnamurti on Krishnamurti
February 09, 2022 05:30 - 54 minutes - 75.2 MB‘I am nobody. It is as simple as that. I am nobody.’ This week’s episode on Krishnamurti has seven sections. The first extract (2:33) is from the first talk in Saanen 1972, titled ‘I know why I am here’. The second extract (11:11) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in Ojai 1981, titled ‘I am not a teacher’. The third extract (17:54) is from an interview by Roy Tuckman in Ojai 1983. The fourth extract (25:26) is from the third question and answer meeting in Saanen 1983, titled ‘Krishnamu...
Krishnamurti on Health
February 02, 2022 05:30 - 1 hour - 93 MB‘One has to have a very good, healthy body, and a brain that is capable of thinking rationally, healthily, objectively, efficiently, a brain that is absolutely quiet.’ This week’s episode on Health has seven sections. The first extract is (2:46) from Krishnamurti’s seventh talk in Saanen 1970, titled ‘Yoga and health’. The second extract (12:50) is from the second discussion in Saanen 1975, titled ‘Health implies wholeness’. The third extract (21:35) is from the fourth question and answe...
Krishnamurti on Fulfilment
January 26, 2022 05:30 - 59 minutes - 82.4 MB‘We have always thought of desire in terms of fulfilment, achieving, gaining, and getting rich inwardly or outwardly.’ This week’s episode on Fulfilment has five sections. The first extract (2:22) is from Krishnamurti’s fourth talk in Saanen 1966, titled ‘Is there such thing as fulfilment?’ The second extract (9:22) is from the seventh talk in London 1961, titled ‘The search for fulfilment. The third extract (32:14) is from Krishnamurti’s fourth talk in Madras 1964, titled ‘In fulfilment...
Krishnamurti on Order
January 19, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 85.5 MB‘How is your mind to have complete, total order in action, in thought, in every movement, psychologically as well as physiologically?’ This week’s episode on Order has five sections. The first extract (2:51) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk at Brockwood Park in 1978, titled ‘How is one to have complete order in oneself?’ The second extract (17:48) is from the second talk in Saanen 1971, titled ‘Can control bring order?’ The third extract (33:23) is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in Bom...
Krishnamurti on the Mind
January 12, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 96.5 MB‘A religious mind never thinks in terms of growth and evolution. It is always jumping out of time.’ This week’s episode on The Mind has five sections. The first extract (2:36) is from the tenth talk in London 1961, titled ‘The shallow mind’. The second extract (16:26) is from the fourth talk at Brockwood Park in 1980, titled ‘Why is the mind caught in time?’ The third extract (38:28) is from Krishnamurti’s eighth talk in Madras 1961, titled ‘The scientific mind and the religious mind’. ...
Krishnamurti on Values
January 05, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 92.7 MB‘Is there action that is correct under all circumstances, not based on values?’ This week’s episode on Values has three sections. The first extract (2:35) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk at Rajghat 1969, titled ‘Question your values and traditions’. The second extract (30:20) is from the third talk in Saanen 1980, titled ‘Our actions are based on values.’ The final extract (56:42) in this episode is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in Ojai 1949, titled ‘We have taken our values and belie...
Krishnamurti on Pleasure
December 29, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 92.2 MB‘At the moment of perception there is no pleasure. There is only perception.’ This week’s episode on Pleasure has five sections. The first extract (2:23) is from Krishnamurti’s fourth talk in Saanen 1973, titled ‘Is pleasure the meaning of life?’ The second extract (21:32) is from the second talk at Brockwood Park 1976, titled ‘Continuance of pleasure’. The third extract (31:58) is from Krishnamurti’s fifth talk in Saanen 1975, titled ‘Thought pursues pleasure.’ The fourth extract (51:2...
Krishnamurti on Dependence
December 22, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 88.3 MB‘Seeing the whole structure and nature of dependence and how it makes the mind stupid, dull, and inactive, seeing of the totality of it, frees the mind.’ This week’s episode on Dependence has five sections. The first extract (2:46) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in Saanen 1967, titled ‘We all depend on something.’ The second extract (27:40) is from the second question and answer meeting in Saanen 1980, titled ‘Dependence in relationship.’ The third extract (44:58) is from the second ...
Krishnamurti on Mutation
December 15, 2021 05:30 - 1 hour - 84 MB'There must be a revolutionary change, a complete mutation at the very root of our being, otherwise our problems, both economic and social, will inevitably increase.' This week’s episode on Mutation has five sections. The first extract (2:40) is from the fourth talk in Saanen 1964, titled ‘There must be a mutation and it must take place now’. The second extract (28:59) is from Krishnamurti’s fifth talk in Saanen 1983, titled ‘What is going to happen to the human brain?’ The third extract...
Krishnamurti on Energy
December 08, 2021 05:30 - 1 hour - 83.3 MB'The most creative energy has no identification; it comes with freedom, and that energy is creation.' This week’s episode on Energy has six sections. The first extract (2:35) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in Madras 1986, titled ‘What is energy?’ The second extract (16:19) is from the second question and answer meeting in Ojai 1983, titled ‘How do we waste energy?’ The third extract (26:46) is from Krishnamurti’s fourth talk at Brockwood Park in 1974, titled ‘An energy that resolves ...
Krishnamurti on Dialogue
December 01, 2021 05:30 - 58 minutes - 67.9 MB'If a question is left in the air, it is like a rose bud that gradually unfolds to show its nature and depth; it has its own vitality, energy and drive. That is a dialogue, not just accepting or rejecting what the other is saying.' This week’s episode on Dialogue has five sections. The first extract (2:34) is from the first discussion in Saanen 1976, titled ‘What does a dialogue imply?’ The second extract (6:15) is from the third discussion in Saanen 1979, titled ‘Good relationship in dia...
Krishnamurti on Sorrow
November 24, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 73.5 MB‘What is sorrow? Why does one suffer? Will the discovery of the cause of suffering end suffering?’ This week’s episode on Sorrow has three sections. This first extract (2:58) is from Krishnamurti’s fifth talk in Saanen 1972, titled ‘What is sorrow?’ The second extract (33:23) is from the first question and answer meeting at Brockwood Park in 1980, titled ‘Is suffering necessary?’ The final extract (53:44) in this episode is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in Ojai 1985, titled ‘There can b...
Krishnamurti on The Arts of Looking, Listening and Learning
November 17, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 90.9 MB‘The real meaning of the word 'art' is to put everything in its right place, so that the mind is liberated.’ This week’s episode on The Arts of Looking, Listening and Learning has five sections. The first extract (2:46) is from the fourth talk in Ojai 1977, titled ‘In the art of listening there is freedom’. The second extract (11:07) is from Krishnamurti’s sixth talk in Madras 1978, titled ‘There is a great miracle in listening’. The third extract (17:19) is from the second talk in Colom...
Krishnamurti on Experience
November 10, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 83.9 MB‘Experiences are always in the past, never at the moment, and any experience you have is recognisable, otherwise it is not an experience.’ This week’s episode on Experience has two sections. The first extract (2:49) is from Krishnamurti’s fifth talk in New York 1966, titled ‘Can experience bring about transformation?’. The second and final extract in this episode (54:42) is from the first question and answer meeting at Brockwood Park in 1985, titled ‘Is there experience without an experie...
Krishnamurti on Hate
November 03, 2021 03:30 - 58 minutes - 68 MB“Where there is jealousy, there is hate. Has hate any relationship to love? Is love the opposite of hate?” This week’s episode on Hate has four sections. The first extract (2:27) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk in Saanen 1982, titled ‘Is hatred going to destroy us?’ The second extract (17:00) is from the seventh talk in Ojai 1949, titled ‘How am I to be free of hate?’ The third extract (33:49) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk at Brockwood Park in 1982, titled ‘The flame of attention b...
Krishnamurti on Suppression
October 27, 2021 03:30 - 1 hour - 70 MB“If I don't escape, control, suppress or try to rationalise, my energy is concentrated. So I have enormous energy to deal with facts.” This week’s episode on Suppression has four sections. The first extract (2:48) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in Calcutta 1982, titled ‘Should we suppress desire?’ The second extract (22:30) is from the second discussion in Saanen 1972, titled ‘What happens if I don’t suppress anger?’ The third extract (33:11) is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in New ...
Krishnamurti on Greed
October 20, 2021 03:30 - 47 minutes - 55.7 MB‘If I allow time to be free from greed, I am still greedy. But to understand greed, the cause of greed, is the ending of greed.’ This week’s episode on Greed has six sections. The first extract (2:36) is from the first question and answer meeting in Bombay 1985, titled ‘We are educated to have more, more, more’. The second extract (7:20) is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in Madras 1982, titled ‘Trying to become non-greedy is still greed’. The third extract (17:51) is from the fourth disc...
Krishnamurti on Comparison
October 13, 2021 03:30 - 58 minutes - 67.9 MB'Is it possible to live without comparison of any kind, never translating yourself in terms of comparison with another or with an idea or hero?' This week’s episode on Comparison has six sections. The first extract (2:34) is from Krishnamurti’s sixth talk in Saanen 1970, titled ‘We are conditioned to compare’. The second extract (8:27) is from the fourth talk in Bombay 1983, titled ‘We are always comparing’. The third extract (12:42) is from Krishnamurti’s fourth talk in Bombay 1967, tit...
Krishnamurti on Revolution
October 06, 2021 03:30 - 1 hour - 85.7 MB'A radical revolution is necessary, a revolution that is not merely economic or social, but at much greater depth, at the very root of consciousness.' This week’s episode on Revolution has five sections. The first extract (2:28) is from Krishnamurti’s talk in Rishi Valley 1967, titled ‘Revolt is one thing, revolution another’. The second extract (32:57) is from the second talk in Bombay 1967, titled ‘A radical revolution is necessary’. The third extract (44:47) is from Krishnamurti’s sev...
Krishnamurti on Uncertainty
September 29, 2021 03:30 - 57 minutes - 66.7 MB'When you live in a state of complete inward uncertainty, you will see that you meet any challenge with clarity and swiftness.' This week’s episode on Uncertainty has two sections. The first extract (2:44) is from Krishnamurti’s first question and answer meeting in Saanen 1980, titled ‘We move from certainty to uncertainty to certainty’. The second and final extract (14:04) in this episode is from the second talk in Bombay 1964, titled ‘Be free and live in a state of uncertainty’. Season...
Krishnamurti on Yoga
September 22, 2021 03:30 - 54 minutes - 63.3 MB'If you are doing yoga there must be no effort at all, no forcing the body. If you force the body it is not yoga.' This week’s episode on Yoga has six sections. The first extract (2:30) is from the fourth talk at Brockwood Park in 1972, titled ‘The origins of yoga’. The second extract (5:36) is from the fourth talk in Amsterdam 1971, titled ‘Which is more important, a healthy body or a healthy mind?’ The third extract (12:23) is from Krishnamurti’s fourth discussion at Brockwood Park Sch...
Krishnamurti on Silence
August 11, 2021 03:30 - 1 hour - 70.5 MB[ Please note the Urgency of Change podcast is taking a break; we will be back with a new season in September. ] ‘In silence is that quality of energy you have never touched before, and that is the transforming factor, the real creative movement of life.’ This week’s episode on Silence has seven sections. The first extract (2:27) is from the first question and answer meeting in Ojai 1984, titled ‘Why is silence necessary?’ The second extract (9:08) is from the first question and answer m...
Krishnamurti on Security
August 04, 2021 03:30 - 57 minutes - 66.4 MB‘Is there security at all? There is when there is intelligence. Intelligence is the most positive force of security’. This week’s episode on Security has four sections. The first extract (2:24) is from the second question and answer meeting at Brockwood Park in 1982, titled ‘Is there any security?’ The second extract (17:26) is from Krishnamurti’s sixth talk in Saanen 1974, titled ‘Our physical security is being threatened’. The third extract (34:51) is from the first talk in Saanen 1977...
Krishnamurti on Enlightenment
July 28, 2021 03:37 - 1 hour - 88 MB‘Enlightenment is not of time. It is not a process. It is not something that you gradually come to.’ This week’s episode on Enlightenment has five sections. The first extract (2:22) is from the second question and answer meeting in Ojai 1982, titled ‘What is enlightenment?’ The second extract (12:51) is from the first question and answer meeting at Brockwood Park in 1980, titled ‘The one who says, “I know,” does not know’. The third extract (20:51) is from the fourth question and answer m...
Krishnamurti on Conditioning
July 21, 2021 03:36 - 1 hour - 72.1 MB‘Can the mind be aware of the content of its conditioning only, and not try to go beyond it?’ This week’s episode on Conditioning has two sections. The first extract (2:24) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in Saanen 1973, titled ‘Freeing the mind from the web of conditioning’. The second and final extract (51:25) is from the seventh talk in Saanen 1981, titled ‘Can one specialise yet function wholly?’ Each weekly episode in this season of the Krishnamurti podcast is based on a major th...
Krishnamurti on Love
July 14, 2021 03:34 - 1 hour - 77.6 MB‘Where there is love, then do what you will, it will be right action’. This week’s episode on Love has five sections. The first extract (2:16) is from Krishnamurti’s fourth talk in Ojai 1984, titled ‘What is love?’ The second extract (10:28) is from the sixth talk in Saanen 1973, titled ‘Love in relationships’. The third extract (24:26) is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in Saanen 1975, titled ‘Is love a movement in time?’ The fourth extract (36:22) is from the third talk at Brockwood Pa...
Krishnamurti on Religion
July 07, 2021 04:38 - 59 minutes - 69.3 MB‘Religion is not the authoritarian, accepted form of religion, the state religion, the religion of belief, of faith, of dogma, of rituals, of worshipping a symbol.’ This week’s episode on Religion has five sections. The first extract (2:24) is from Krishnamurti’s sixth talk in Ojai 1982, titled ‘What is religion?’ The second extract (19:07) is from the fourth talk in Madras 1974, titled ‘Religion is the core of a new culture’. The third extract (33:38) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk ...
Krishnamurti on Anonymity and Creativity
June 30, 2021 04:37 - 1 hour - 72.3 MB‘There is great beauty in being totally anonymous. And the whole world is seeking identity, power, position.’ This week’s episode on Anonymity and Creativity has four sections. The first extract (2:32) is from Krishnamurti’s third question and answer meeting in Ojai 1980, titled ‘In anonymity is true creativity.’ The second extract (19:03) is from the fourth talk at Brockwood Park in 1978, titled ‘Total anonymity and humility’. The third extract (28:42) is from Krishnamurti’s seventh tal...
Krishnamurti on Conflict
June 23, 2021 04:34 - 1 hour - 79.3 MB‘Where there is division there must be conflict. That is a law, and we all know this.’ This week’s episode on Conflict has four sections. The first extract (2:32) is from Krishnamurti’s second question and answer meeting in Ojai 1981, titled ‘Where there is division there is conflict.’ The second extract (28:51) is from the fifth talk in Saanen 1977, titled ‘Is it possible to live without conflict?’ The third extract (39:02) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk at Brockwood Park in 1984, ti...
Krishnamurti on Fear
June 16, 2021 03:30 - 1 hour - 82.1 MB‘Most of us are concerned with trimming fear, like we trim branches of a tree. And we think this is good enough, but we don’t challenge ourselves whether it is possible to be completely free of fear.’ This week’s episode on Fear has five sections. The first extract (2:24) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in San Francisco 1983, titled ‘We are two friends discussing fear’. The second extract (9:34) is from the fifth talk in Saanen 1981, titled ‘What is fear?’ The third extract (23:52) is ...
Krishnamurti on Ambition
June 09, 2021 03:30 - 1 hour - 71.4 MB‘Ambition is the same, whether it is in the world or turned towards God.’ This week’s episode on Ambition has four sections. The first extract (2:18) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk in London 1962, titled ‘Denying ambition totally.’ The second extract (13:46) is from the sixth talk in Saanen 1981, titled ‘Where there is ambition, can love exist?’. The third extract (25:52) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk at Brockwood Park in 1973, titled ‘Ambition is a waste of energy’. The final ext...
Krishnamurti on Peace
June 02, 2021 03:30 - 1 hour - 88.2 MB‘Peace is necessary in order to grow, to flower, to understand, to have time to look around, to explore into ourselves and what we find there. We must have peace.’ This week’s episode on Peace has three sections. The first extract (2:26) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk in Saanen 1983, titled ‘Is it possible to live in peace?’ The second extract (30:32) is from the second question and answer meeting at Brockwood in 1984, titled ‘Peace requires intelligence’. The final extract (58:08) thi...