Urgency of Change • The Krishnamurti Podcast

‘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 Ins...

‘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 Ma...

‘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 ta...

‘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 secon...

‘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 Inva...

‘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 Kris...

‘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 fou...

‘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...

‘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 Ri...

‘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 Fundament...

‘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 Cau...

‘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 e...

‘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 fi...

‘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...

‘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 Transf...

‘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 th...

‘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...

‘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...

‘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 S...

‘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...

‘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 Reje...

‘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, title...

‘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 s...

‘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...

‘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, titl...