Urgency of Change • The Krishnamurti Podcast

‘When the mind is learning all the time, it brings about its own sweet discipline. In this there is no conformity, no pattern, no formula, no suppression or obedience – it is living.’ This week’s episode on Patterns & Formulas has two sections. The first extract (2:37) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk at Rajghat in 1964, titled: Is revolution according to a pattern? The second and final extra...

‘When you are interested to find out, that very interest is the flame that makes the mind, the brain, the body quiet.’ This week’s episode on Quiet has four sections. The first extract (2:38) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk at Rajghat in 1967, titled: Can We Make the Mind Quiet? The second extract (16:39) is from Krishnamurti’s sixth talk in New Delhi 1963, titled: The Conscious Mind Must Be Co...

The format of this episode is different to the usual selection of longer extracts. During the course of Krishnamurti’s talks and dialogues, he would sometimes include a joke, anecdote or parable, relevant to what was being said. This episode compiles a collection of 26 of these from the 1970s and 80s, each one being much shorter than the usual extracts featured on the podcast. 

‘Clarity is seeing things as they are; seeing what is, without any opinion; seeing the movement of your mind, observing it very closely, minutely, diligently, without any purpose, without any directive.’ This week’s episode on Clarity has two sections. The first extract (2:51) is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in Saanen 1977, titled: Clarity, Skill and Compassion. The second and final extract in t...

‘You are the entire humanity. So if you are violent, you are contributing to violence; if you have ended sorrow, then you are bringing about freedom from the human mind's sorrow.’ This week’s episode on Humanity has four sections. The first extract (2:40) is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in Ojai 1983, titled: Can humanity live peacefully? The second extract (22:40) is from the first talk in Calcu...

‘As long as we live in opposites – jealousy and non-jealousy, the good and the bad, the ignorant and the enlightened – there must be constant conflict in duality.’ This week’s episode on Opposites has four sections. The first extract (2:27) is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in Calcutta 1982, titled: Do opposites exist? The second extract (14:08) is from the third talk at Brockwood Park in 1978, ti...

‘Solitude is a lovely word. It implies walking alone, looking, listening, not carrying your troubles, problems and anxieties; being absolutely alone, enjoying.’ This week’s episode on Solitude has six sections. The first extract (2:44) is from Krishnamurti’s second discussion in Saanen 1978, titled: Solitude is not loneliness. The second extract (13:24) is from the second question and answer meeti...

‘The fact is human beings are irrational. But there is a concept that human beings are rational, and we live according to that concept.’ This week’s episode on Rationality has five sections. The first extract (2:46) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk in Ojai 1980, titled: Are Human Beings Rational? The second extract (15:07) is from the fourth question and answer meeting in Ojai 1980, titled: Is th...

‘How is the unconscious to be exposed, without effort, without analysis, without the conscious mind which cannot examine it?’ This week’s episode on The Unconscious has four sections. The first extract (2:43) is from Krishnamurti’s fifth talk in London 1962, titled: Understanding the Unconscious. The second extract (22:42) is from the fifth talk in Saanen 1974, titled: Unconscious Hurts. The third...

‘Thinking together does not mean that you agree or disagree, accept or reject, defend or offend, but together find out if it is possible, by thinking together, to act together.’ This week’s episode on Thinking Together has four sections. The first extract (2:39) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk in Saanen 1979, titled: Thinking Together Without Barriers. The second extract (33:47) is from the seco...

‘The easiest thing for the mind, which is generally very lazy, is to follow what somebody else has said.’ This week’s episode on Following has two sections. The first extract (2:25) is from the first question and answer meeting at Brockwood Park in 1981, titled: Why do we follow? The second and final extract in this episode (43:39) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in Saanen 1970, titled: Followi...

‘There is only 'what is', and not the changing of 'what is'. The changing of 'what is' is the movement of thought in time.’ This week’s episode on What Is has four sections. The first extract (2:38) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in Ojai 1983, titled: ‘What is’ and ‘what should be’. The second extract (29:30) is from the third talk at Brockwood Park in 1978, titled: ‘What is’ has no opposite....

‘Desire for a car, desire for a woman or man, desire for position, desire for money, desire for enlightenment, are all on the same level.’ This week’s episode on Desire has four sections. The first extract (2:39) is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in Bombay 1979, titled: What Is Desire? The second extract (18:05) is from the fifth talk in Saanen 1979, titled: Is Desire Responsible For Fear? The thi...

‘There cannot be compassion and love without death, which is the ending of everything. Then there is creation.’ This week’s episode on Creation has three sections. The first extract (2:39) is from the first question and answer meeting in Saanen 1985, titled: What is Creation? The second extract (17:15) is from Krishnamurti’s talk at Los Alamos in 1984, titled: Creation Can Only Take Place When Tho...

‘There is division between the Jew and the Arab, between the Hindu and the Muslim, between various forms of ideologies. Wherever there is a division, inwardly and outwardly, there must be not only conflict and struggle, but war.’ This week’s episode on Division has three sections. The first extract (2:43) is from Krishnamurti’s talk in Rome 1973, titled: Where There Is Division There Is Always Con...

‘Virtue has nothing whatsoever to do with society and its so-called morality. Virtue can come about only when there is psychological order within oneself.’ This week’s episode on Virtue has four sections. The first extract (2:35) is from Krishnamurti’s ¬¬¬¬third talk in Saanen 1962, titled: Respectability Is Not Virtue. The second extract (13:14) is from the fourth talk in Paris 1965, titled: Orde...

‘When the mind sees thought is the creator of illusion, you have an insight into the whole nature of illusion. It is that insight that dissolves all illusions.’ This week’s episode on Illusion has three sections. The first extract (2:36) is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in Saanen 1979, titled: Security in Illusion. The second extract (37:56) is from the second question and answer meeting in Ojai...

‘Is there a way of life, having understood pleasure and fear, which is joyous, which is enjoyment, not the carrying over of pleasure from day to day?’ This week’s episode on Joy has five sections. The first extract (2:42) is from Krishnamurti’s fourth talk in New Delhi 1966, titled: Joy Is Entirely Different From Pleasure. The second extract (13:41) is from the fourth talk in Saanen 1977, titled:...

‘Shall I seek a job according to my idiosyncrasies, which means, according to my conditioning? My conditioning is the result of society which says prestige and status are most important, not function.’ This week’s episode on Work has five sections. The first extract (2:48) is from the second question and answer meeting in Saanen 1980, titled: Right Living, Right Livelihood. The second extract (14:...

‘Belief is a projection or an invention of thought. But we are attached to it because it gives a certain feeling of security, however illusory it is.’ This week’s episode on Belief has five sections. The first extract (2:33) is from Krishnamurti’s sixth talk in Ojai 1976, titled: Religion Is Not Belief. The second extract (12:54) is from the second talk in Saanen 1975, titled: Belief Is Incorrect...

‘Why has sex such an important part in our life? Though it is one of our primary urges, why has it assumed such fantastic magnitude?’ This week’s episode on Sex has four sections. The first extract (2:38) is from the second question and answer meeting at Brockwood Park in 1979, titled: Why Have We Given Sex Such Importance? The second extract (14:00) is from Krishnamurti’s third talk at Brockwood...

'When you end the past, there is not only a new observation but a sense of extraordinary freedom and movement.' This week’s episode, the first in Season 5, is on Ending. It has four sections. The first extract (2:23) is from Krishnamurti’s sixth talk in Saanen 1978, titled: Find Out What It Means to End. The second extract (21:05) is from the third talk in Saanen 1982, titled: Ending Without a Cau...

‘Tradition can be 10,000 years old or two days old, and according to that I live. This means I live in the past and am therefore betraying the present.’ This week’s episode on Tradition has five sections. The first extract (2:39) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in New Delhi 1962, titled: Tradition Is Habit Seasoned in Time. The second extract (13:19) is from the first talk in Bombay 1974, title...

‘As you observe with attentive passion, that very attention puts an end to becoming, which is of time and thought.’ This week’s episode on Being and Becoming has four sections. The first extract (2:42) is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in Saanen 1983, titled: Most of Us Want To Become Something. The second extract (11:16) is from the second talk in Saanen in 1980, titled: Becoming Is the Movement...

‘Can your mind know it has been hurt, be aware of it, and not react at the conscious or unconscious level?’ This week’s episode on Hurt has three sections. The first extract (2:40) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in Bombay 1974, titled: What Is It That Gets Hurt? The second extract (22:29) is from the fifth talk in Saanen 1974, titled: The Tradition of Hurt. The final extract in this episode (3...