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 is the highest profession’. The final extract, starting at 29:29, this week is from the second ques...
Nov 18, 2020•50 min•Season 2Ep. 12
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 intellect and emotion’. The fourth extract, starting at 23:17, is from the third discussion in Saanen...
Nov 11, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 11
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 observe clearly, the mind must be quiet.’ The final extract, starting at 29:17, this week is from th...
Nov 04, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 10
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. The final extract this week, starting at 41:19, is from the fourth talk in Saanen 1973, titled Inte...
Oct 28, 2020•46 min•Season 2Ep. 9
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 consciousness when one dies? The final extract this week, starting at 55:14, is from the fourth talk in N...
Oct 21, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 8
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 change The fourth extract, starting at 34:13, is from later in the same talk, titled Total transformation...
Oct 14, 2020•1 hr 18 min•Season 2Ep. 7
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, starting at 45:13, is from the first talk in San Juan 1968, titled Freedom is not at the end, i...
Oct 07, 2020•56 min•Season 2Ep. 6
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 final extract this week, starting at 51:19, is from the sixth talk in Saanen 1978, titled When you under...
Sep 30, 2020•56 min•Season 2Ep. 5
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 weekly episode is based on a major theme of Krishnamurti’s teachings, such as self-knowledge, author...
Sep 23, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 4
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 week’s podcast has four sections. The first extract (starting at 2:07) is from Krishnamurti’s...
Sep 16, 2020•50 min•Season 2Ep. 3
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 timelessly relevant themes. This week’s podcast has three sections. The first extract (starting at 2:1...
Sep 09, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 2
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 is right living? Can society be changed? How is man to be free? Find us online at kfoundation.org an...
Sep 02, 2020•32 min•Season 1Ep. 1
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 universal and timelessly relevant themes. This week’s theme is Listening. Upcoming themes are Images, Passio...
Sep 02, 2020•56 min•Season 2Ep. 1
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 of Riches, Repetition and Sensation, The Radio and Music, Authority, Meditation, and Anger. Terence ...
Aug 26, 2020•45 min•Season 1Ep. 50
This conversation between Krishnamurti and Alain Naude was recorded in Malibu, California, in 1972. Subjects include: Is there any connection between the supernatural and religion? Is a religious life to lead a good life? A religious life is a life in which the self is not. We get caught in the so-called mysterious. But when the self is not, there is a greater, vaster mystery. Self-knowing is much more important than acquiring some kind of power. What place has meditation in religious life? Medi...
Aug 19, 2020•45 min•Season 1Ep. 49
This conversation between Krishnamurti and Ravi Ravindra was recorded in Ojai, California, in 1985. The inquiry includes: What do we mean by energy? The brain has tremendous energy. Is it possible for me to know what happens when I die, without inventing theories? Is all I have collected different from the ‘I’? The world is in disorder and 99% of people are disorderly. We rarely ask what death is. What does it mean to die? How do you find out? Ravi Ravindra was born in India and later moved to C...
Aug 12, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 48
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 ‘The Known and the Unknown’, ‘The Search for Truth’, ‘Sensitivity’, ‘The Individual and Society’, ‘The Self’, and ‘Belief’...
Jul 29, 2020•44 min•Season 1Ep. 46
This interview with Krishnamurti was recorded for television in Ojai 1975, in the context of the foundation of The Oak Grove School. Questions asked include: You are working toward the realisation of a new school in the Ojai Valley. Why another school? Would you mind explaining the words: ‘whole’, ‘sane’ and ‘holy’? You say a school is a place where one learns both the importance of knowledge and its irrelevance. Can you explain ‘irrelevance’? I’d like to ask you about three more words: ‘thought...
Jul 22, 2020•45 min•Season 1Ep. 45
This second conversation between Krishnamurti and Pupul Jayakar from 1982 was recorded at Brockwood Park. They ask: Is it possible to keep the mind very young, and yet ancient? What is consciousness? Is it possible to completely end the whole content of my consciousness, of human consciousness, which has grown through millennia? Can the brain ever be free from its own bondage? Is it possible to look at life as a whole, without fragmentation? Pupul Jayakar, was a trustee of Krishnamurti Foundatio...
Jul 15, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 44
This conversation between Krishnamurti and Pupul Jayakar was recorded at Brockwood Park in 1982. The inquiry includes: What is the source of all existence, all life, all action? What is the approach of a mind that wants to inquire into something that it doesn’t know, something that demands an extraordinary quality of deep subtlety, deep capacity of order? Why doesn’t one feel totally responsible for the wars, the brutality, the terrible things that are happening in the world? Human beings have c...
Jul 08, 2020•1 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 43
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 Experiencing, Virtue, Simplicity of the Heart, Facets of the Individual, Sleep, and Love in Relationship. Terence Stamp is...
Jul 01, 2020•37 min•Season 1Ep. 42
This conversation was recorded in Ojai, California in 1980. Subjects explored include: Our conditioning is irrational. Will doubt help me to find out what truth is? Is there a listening without the word, without recognition? Thought can see itself in action. We have got many toys which absorb us. Is it possible to get rid of them? An occupied mind is always limiting itself, narrowing its activity. Donald Ingram Smith was a well-known Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) broadcaster from Syd...
Jun 24, 2020•52 min•Season 1Ep. 41
This conversation between Krishnamurti and Naude was recorded in Malibu in 1972. Naude begins by asking: Are the various scriptures of India and the Middle East similar to or in contradiction to your teaching? Krishnamurti later asks: Can thought end right through one’s consciousness? Must thought not end for something new to be observed? How does the mind look at itself? Does it look as an observer different from the observed, or without the observer and therefore there is only the observed? Ca...
Jun 17, 2020•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 40
This conversation between Krishnamurti and Naude was recorded in Malibu in 1972. They ask: Is there in us a place where there is no corruption, where there is real, absolute peace and order? The stream of vulgarity in the world has its source in the self, ‘the me’, the ego. When there is no self, there is a responsibility for humanity. What is the relationship between this stream, the self which is perpetuating the stream, and the unknown? How is one who is in the stream to understand instantly,...
Jun 10, 2020•1 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 39
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. Chapters included in this episode are titled The Rich & The Poor, Ceremonies & Conversion, Knowledge, Respectability, and Politics, none of which have been released previously. Terence Stamp is an Oscar-nominated...
Jun 03, 2020•34 min•Season 1Ep. 38
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. Chapters included in this episode are titled Three Pious Egoists, Identification, Gossip & Worry, Thought & Love, Aloneness & Isolation, and Pupil & Master. Terence Stamp is an Oscar-nominated actor, know...
May 27, 2020•37 min•Season 1Ep. 37
This conversation between Krishnamurti and Titmus was recorded at Brockwood Park in 1984. Krishnamurti asks: What do we mean by the word ‘meditation’? Why should we meditate? Do we need to be taught how to meditate? Have we extended ambition from this world to the spiritual world? Who is the controller that controls thought? Christopher Titmuss, a former Buddhist monk, is a teacher and writer in the Buddhist tradition. He teaches and hold retreats in many countries around the world and many of h...
May 20, 2020•46 min•Season 1Ep. 36
This conversation took place at Brockwood Park in 1982. Krishnamurti asks: Do you accept that intelligence is not the product of thought? What do you have you left when you don’t use the brain to inquire? What is not contaminated by thought? Can your brain observe something whole without any kind of fragmentation? Krishnamurti and Asit Chandmal were friends for many years, and Krishnamurti would often stay with him when in Bombay. Chandmal studied engineering in London, where he later taught mat...
May 13, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 35
This conversation from 1981 between Krishnamurti and Pupul Jayakar looks at ending and death. What is ending? The mind cannot enter into a totally new dimension if there is a shadow of memory. If the movement of thought ends, consciousness as we know it is not. Thought is the enemy of compassion. What significance has death? Have we seen the meaning of death, the extraordinary beauty of ending something? Pupul Jayakar, was a trustee of Krishnamurti Foundation India, and for decades was a friend ...
May 06, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 34
This conversation between Krishnamurti and Pupul Jayakar was recorded at Brockwood Park in 1981. Jayakar begins by asking if they can discuss and investigate into the nature of God. They go on to question whether we can negate completely the whole movement of knowledge – except the knowledge of driving a car, speaking a language, technological knowledge? Can one totally empty the whole accumulation of a million years? We never say, ‘I don’t know.’ That is an absolutely motionless state of mind, ...
Apr 29, 2020•1 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 33
