Urgency of Change • The Krishnamurti Podcast

‘Life is serious and it is only one who is really serious that knows how to live, not the flippant or those who are merely seeking entertainment.’ This week’s episode on Seriousness has four sections. The first extract (2:39) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in London 1966, titled: What Is It To Be Serious? The second extract (11:05) is from the first talk in Saanen 1973, titled: I Don’t Know Ho...

‘Is there an action that is not mechanistic, which is not based on reward and punishment?’ This week’s episode on Reward and Punishment has five sections. The first extract (2:30) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk at Rajghat in 1965, titled: Do Reward and Punishment Help Us To Change? The second extract (19:09) is from the third talk in Madras 1985, titled: Pleasure, Reward and Punishment. The thi...

‘The flame of discontent, because it has no outlet, because it has no object in which it can fulfil itself, becomes great passion.’ This week’s episode on Discontent has five sections. The first extract (2:45) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk in Rishi Valley 1967, titled: Discontent Is One Thing, Revolt Another. The second extract (15:13) is from the second talk at Brockwood Park in 1980, titled:...

‘Every human being wants power in some form or other.’ This week’s episode on Power has five sections. The first extract (2:48) is from Krishnamurti’s seventh talk in Saanen 1978, titled: Why Do We Want Power? The second extract (15:11) is from the second talk at Brockwood Park in 1984, titled: Power Is Evil. The third extract (21:03) is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in New Delhi 1983, titled: We...

‘I cling to my limitation, you cling to your limitation, and therefore there is perpetual conflict.’ This week’s episode on Limitation has four sections. The first extract (2:37) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in Bombay 1980, titled: Is There an Energy That Is Limitless? The second extract (23:54) is from the third talk in Saanen 1978, titled: Thought Is Everlastingly Limited. The third extrac...

‘You have to understand your reactions, from which your daily action springs. We react, we revolt, we accumulate, we defend, we resist, we acquire, we submit - all these are reactions.’  This week’s episode on Reaction has five sections. The first extract (2:37) is from Krishnamurti’s fifth talk in Bombay 1962, titled: We Move From Reaction to Reaction. The second extract (12:20) is from the first...

‘When you seek, you are seeking something away from the actual fact, towards something that will give you greater pleasure. One seeks because one is dissatisfied with the normal, shallow, narrow, cunning existence.’ This week’s episode on Seeking has three sections. The first extract (2:47) is from Krishnamurti’s fourth talk in Madras 1967, titled: What Are You Seeking? The second extract (44:14)...

‘Humility is not the subjugation of the desire that seeks fulfilment in success. Nor is it the religious humility of monks, saints and priests that cultivated austerity brings about.’ This week’s episode on Humility has four sections. The first extract (2:51) is from Krishnamurti’s fourth talk in Bombay 1962, titled: Without Humility You Cannot Learn. The second extract (11:47) is from the tenth t...

‘There is an action in which there is no resistance, no interference of the past, no response of the 'me'. That action is not in the field of time; it is instantaneous and therefore complete.’ This week’s episode on Resistance has three sections. The first extract (2:47) is from Krishnamurti’s eighth talk in New Delhi 1962, titled: Our Lives Are Built on Resistance. The second extract (23:32) is f...

‘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...

‘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 Ver...

'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 Krishnamurt...

‘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 Fact...

‘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:...

‘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 t...

‘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...

‘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...

‘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 tal...

'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...

‘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 Saa...

‘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...

‘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 secon...

‘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 e...

‘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 answ...

‘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....