Urgency of Change • The Krishnamurti Podcast

This week’s podcast has five sections. The first extract (2:11) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in New Delhi 1962, titled ‘Breaking down authority’. The second extract (18:20) is from the fourth talk at Brockwood Park in 1975, titled ‘We accept the authority of gurus’. The third extract (25:12) is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in Bombay 1967, titled ‘Spiritual authority is an evil thing’. The...

This week’s podcast has four sections. The first extract (2:06) is from Krishnamurti’s fifth talk in Saanen 1962, titled ‘Awareness of habits’. The second extract (24:24) is from the first question and answer meeting at Brockwood Park in 1983, titled ‘Ending the habit of chattering’. The third extract (39:28) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk in Saanen 1970, titled ‘Listening ends habit’. The fina...

This week’s podcast has five sections. The first extract (2:10) is from Krishnamurti’s second question and answer meeting in Saanen 1985, titled ‘Partial versus holistic intelligence’. The second extract (15:17) is from the sixth talk in Saanen 1979, titled ‘Intelligence is perception and action’. The third extract (25:36) is from the third question and answer meeting in Saanen 1984, titled ‘Unlim...

This week’s podcast has five sections. The first extract (2:16) is from Krishnamurti’s first question and answer meeting at Brockwood Park in 1983, titled ‘Why am I jealous?’ The second extract (12:30) is from the second talk at Brockwood Park in 1978, titled ‘Is jealousy part of love?’ The third extract (24:54) is from the second talk at Brockwood Park in 1975, titled ‘Can you live without compar...

This week’s podcast has six sections. The first extract (2m 10s) is from Krishnamurti’s second question and answer meeting in Bombay 1985, titled ‘To understand the human psyche is more important than to talk about God’. The second extract (9m 10s) is from the second question and answer meeting in Madras 1981, titled ‘Does God exist?’ The third extract (18m 20s) is from the third talk in Saanen 19...

This week’s podcast has six sections. The first extract (2m 6s) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in Rajghat 1967, titled ‘Looking at anger totally’. The second extract (6m 26s) is from the second discussion in Madras 1971, titled ‘Is it possible to be free of irritation?’ The third extract (11m 30s) is from the first talk in New Delhi 1967, titled ‘Being attentive to anger’. The fourth extract (...

This week’s podcast has six sections. The first extract (2m 10s) is from Krishnamurti’s first question and answer meeting in Saanen 1980, titled ‘What is self-knowledge?’ The second extract (9m 42s) is from the fifth discussion in Saanen 1977, titled ‘Observing oneself in relationship’. The third extract (22:38) is from the third talk at Brockwood Park in 1970, titled ‘We look at ourselves with kn...

This week’s podcast has six sections. The first extract (2:07) is from Krishnamurti’s fourteenth talk in Ojai 1949, titled ‘Why are we seeking happiness?’ The second extract (8:32) is from the second talk in Bombay 1974, titled ‘What is the meaning of life?’ The third extract (31:06) is from the fourth talk in Ojai 1978, titled ‘The moment you say you are happy, you are not happy’. The fourth extr...

This week’s podcast has five sections. The first extract (2:08) is from Krishnamurti’s fourth talk in Madras 1983, titled ‘Intellection cannot go very far’. The second extract (8:54) is from the sixth talk in Saanen 1980, titled ‘Intellect has little place in compassion’. The third extract (14:12) is from the fifth talk in Saanen 1970, titled ‘Intelligence is beyond the interpretation of the intel...

This week’s podcast has five sections. The first extract (2:12) is from Krishnamurti’s first discussion at Brockwood Park in 1977, titled ‘What is violence?’ The second extract (8:06) is from the second talk in Bombay 1983, titled ‘Facing the fact of violence’ The third extract (15:14) is from the first question and answer meeting in Saanen 1982, titled ‘Does violence have an opposite?’ The fourth...

Linda Strawn was a presenter at Pacifica Radio. This conversation with Krishnamurti was recorded in Ojai, California in 1984. Topics include: Is it possible to look at the external and internal simultaneously? Why does the brain immediately create images when meeting someone? Is there security psychologically? Is it possible to uncondition the brain? As long as you are conditioned, do what you wil...

This week’s podcast has four sections. The first extract, starting at 2:07, is from Krishnamurti’s discussion Ojai 1975, titled ‘Why are we educated?’ The second extract, starting at 12:29, is from the fifth question and answer meeting in Saanen 1980, titled ‘Education is cooperative’. The third extract, starting at 18:23, is from the first question and answer meeting Madras 1981, titled ‘Teaching...

This week’s podcast has eight sections. The first extract, starting at 2:10, is from Krishnamurti’s fifth talk in Saanen 1976, titled ‘Emotions are natural, healthy, normal’. The second extract, starting at 5:25, is from the third discussion in Saanen 1976, titled ‘Emotion untouched by thought’. The third extract, starting at 14:06, is from the fourth talk in Saanen 1970, titled ‘Thought divides i...

This week’s podcast has four sections. The first extract, starting at 2:11, is from Krishnamurti’s first talk in Madras 1969, titled ‘Seeing exactly what is.’ The second extract, starting at 7:54, is from the first question and answer meeting in Ojai 1980, titled ‘Can the observer be absent in observation?’ The third extract, starting at 20:22, is from the forth talk in San Diego 1970, titled ‘To...

This week’s podcast has four sections. The first extract, starting at 2:06, is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in Ojai 1984, titled What is action? The second extract, starting at 7:10, is from the first talk in Amsterdam 1981, titled The cycle of thought and action. The third extract, starting at 19:24, is from Krishnamurti’s first talk at Brockwood Park in 1978, titled Complete, immediate action....

This week’s podcast has four sections. The first extract, starting at 2:07, is from Krishnamurti’s first talk in Saanen 1981, titled Consciousness is common to all mankind. The second extract, starting at 20:51, is from the fourth talk at Brockwood Park 1977, titled Observing consciousness. The third extract, starting at 38:06, is from the third talk in Bangalore 1974, titled What happens to consc...

This week’s podcast has five sections. The first extract, starting at 2:12, is from Krishnamurti’s fifth talk in Saanen 1974, titled If you change, humanity changes. The second extract, starting at 7:37, is from the second question and answer meeting in Madras 1981, titled Why don’t we change? The third extract, starting at 23:06, is from the second talk in Saanen 1973, titled The urgency of chang...

This week’s podcast has five sections. The first extract, starting at 2:07, is from Krishnamurti’s second Q&A meeting at Brockwood in 1980, titled What is freedom? The second extract, starting at 11:40, is from the fourth talk in Saanen 1965, titled Freedom and order. The third extract, starting at 30:17, is from the first talk at Brockwood in 1972, titled Freedom from thought. The fourth extract,...

This week’s podcast has four sections. The first extract, starting at 2:10, is from Krishnamurti’s first talk in Rajghat 1984, titled The future is now The second extract, starting at 12:30, is from the third talk in Ojai 1980, titled Your consciousness is the essence of time The third extract, starting at 28:36, is from the forth talk at Brockwood 1973, titled Thought is time as movement The fina...

This week’s podcast has two sections. This first, longer, extract (starting at 2:16) is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in New York 1966, titled Action born of confusion leads to more confusion. The second, shorter, extract (starting at 1:00:40) is from the fourth talk in Madras 1970, titled Confusion tells its own story. This episode is the fourth in a new season of the Krishnamurti podcast. Each...

This episode is the third in the new season of the Krishnamurti podcast. Each weekly episode is based on a major theme of Krishnamurti’s teachings, such as self-knowledge, authority, beauty, death and meditation. Extracts from our extensive archives have been carefully selected to represent Krishnamurti’s different approaches over the years to each of these universal and timelessly relevant themes...

This episode is the second in the new season of the Krishnamurti podcast. Each episode, released each week, is based on a major theme of Krishnamurti’s teachings, such as freedom, self-knowledge, authority, beauty, death and meditation. Extracts from our extensive archives have been carefully selected to represent Krishnamurti’s different approaches over the years to each of these universal and ti...

This interview with Krishnamurti was first broadcast in 1981. Recorded at Brockwood Park in Hampshire, as part of The Levin Interview TV series, it serves as a good introduction to Krishnamurti’s work. Bernard Levin was one of Britain’s best-known journalists. Questions explored include: Why don't we realise the damage we are doing in the world? Is it wrong to seek happiness? What is action? What...

This episode marks the first of a new season of the Krishnamurti podcast. The next 50 episodes, released each week, are based on major themes of Krishnamurti’s teachings, such as freedom, self-knowledge, authority, beauty, death and meditation. Extracts from our extensive archives have been carefully selected to represent Krishnamurti’s different approaches over the years to each of these universa...

Commentaries on Living is one of Krishnamurti’s most well-known and best loved books. In it, he recalls many of the private conversations with those who came to see him. With encouragement from Aldous Huxley these meetings were written down by Krishnamurti and published in 1956. Two further volumes were published in 1958 and 1960. Chapters included in this episode are titled Silence, Renunciation...