‘I am nobody. It is as simple as that. I am nobody.’ This week’s episode on Krishnamurti has seven sections. The first extract (2:33) is from the first talk in Saanen 1972, titled ‘I know why I am here’. The second extract (11:11) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in Ojai 1981, titled ‘I am not a teacher’. The third extract (17:54) is from an interview by Roy Tuckman in Ojai 1983. The fourth extract (25:26) is from the third question and answer meeting in Saanen 1983, titled ‘Krishnamurti’s exp...
Feb 09, 2022•54 min•Season 3Ep. 21
‘One has to have a very good, healthy body, and a brain that is capable of thinking rationally, healthily, objectively, efficiently, a brain that is absolutely quiet.’ This week’s episode on Health has seven sections. The first extract is (2:46) from Krishnamurti’s seventh talk in Saanen 1970, titled ‘Yoga and health’. The second extract (12:50) is from the second discussion in Saanen 1975, titled ‘Health implies wholeness’. The third extract (21:35) is from the fourth question and answer meetin...
Feb 02, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 3Ep. 20
‘We have always thought of desire in terms of fulfilment, achieving, gaining, and getting rich inwardly or outwardly.’ This week’s episode on Fulfilment has five sections. The first extract (2:22) is from Krishnamurti’s fourth talk in Saanen 1966, titled ‘Is there such thing as fulfilment?’ The second extract (9:22) is from the seventh talk in London 1961, titled ‘The search for fulfilment. The third extract (32:14) is from Krishnamurti’s fourth talk in Madras 1964, titled ‘In fulfilment there i...
Jan 26, 2022•59 min•Season 3Ep. 19
‘How is your mind to have complete, total order in action, in thought, in every movement, psychologically as well as physiologically?’ This week’s episode on Order has five sections. The first extract (2:51) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk at Brockwood Park in 1978, titled ‘How is one to have complete order in oneself?’ The second extract (17:48) is from the second talk in Saanen 1971, titled ‘Can control bring order?’ The third extract (33:23) is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in Bombay 1984...
Jan 19, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Season 3Ep. 18
‘A religious mind never thinks in terms of growth and evolution. It is always jumping out of time.’ This week’s episode on The Mind has five sections. The first extract (2:36) is from the tenth talk in London 1961, titled ‘The shallow mind’. The second extract (16:26) is from the fourth talk at Brockwood Park in 1980, titled ‘Why is the mind caught in time?’ The third extract (38:28) is from Krishnamurti’s eighth talk in Madras 1961, titled ‘The scientific mind and the religious mind’. The fourt...
Jan 12, 2022•1 hr 23 min•Season 3Ep. 17
‘Is there action that is correct under all circumstances, not based on values?’ This week’s episode on Values has three sections. The first extract (2:35) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk at Rajghat 1969, titled ‘Question your values and traditions’. The second extract (30:20) is from the third talk in Saanen 1980, titled ‘Our actions are based on values.’ The final extract (56:42) in this episode is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in Ojai 1949, titled ‘We have taken our values and beliefs for g...
Jan 05, 2022•1 hr 20 min•Season 3Ep. 16
‘At the moment of perception there is no pleasure. There is only perception.’ This week’s episode on Pleasure has five sections. The first extract (2:23) is from Krishnamurti’s fourth talk in Saanen 1973, titled ‘Is pleasure the meaning of life?’ The second extract (21:32) is from the second talk at Brockwood Park 1976, titled ‘Continuance of pleasure’. The third extract (31:58) is from Krishnamurti’s fifth talk in Saanen 1975, titled ‘Thought pursues pleasure.’ The fourth extract (51:24) is fro...
Dec 29, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Season 3Ep. 15
‘Seeing the whole structure and nature of dependence and how it makes the mind stupid, dull, and inactive, seeing of the totality of it, frees the mind.’ This week’s episode on Dependence has five sections. The first extract (2:46) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in Saanen 1967, titled ‘We all depend on something.’ The second extract (27:40) is from the second question and answer meeting in Saanen 1980, titled ‘Dependence in relationship.’ The third extract (44:58) is from the second question...
Dec 22, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 3Ep. 14
'There must be a revolutionary change, a complete mutation at the very root of our being, otherwise our problems, both economic and social, will inevitably increase.' This week’s episode on Mutation has five sections. The first extract (2:40) is from the fourth talk in Saanen 1964, titled ‘There must be a mutation and it must take place now’. The second extract (28:59) is from Krishnamurti’s fifth talk in Saanen 1983, titled ‘What is going to happen to the human brain?’ The third extract (50:14)...
Dec 15, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Season 3Ep. 13
'The most creative energy has no identification; it comes with freedom, and that energy is creation.' This week’s episode on Energy has six sections. The first extract (2:35) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in Madras 1986, titled ‘What is energy?’ The second extract (16:19) is from the second question and answer meeting in Ojai 1983, titled ‘How do we waste energy?’ The third extract (26:46) is from Krishnamurti’s fourth talk at Brockwood Park in 1974, titled ‘An energy that resolves our prob...
Dec 08, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Season 3Ep. 12
'If a question is left in the air, it is like a rose bud that gradually unfolds to show its nature and depth; it has its own vitality, energy and drive. That is a dialogue, not just accepting or rejecting what the other is saying.' This week’s episode on Dialogue has five sections. The first extract (2:34) is from the first discussion in Saanen 1976, titled ‘What does a dialogue imply?’ The second extract (6:15) is from the third discussion in Saanen 1979, titled ‘Good relationship in dialogue’....
Dec 01, 2021•58 min•Season 3Ep. 11
‘What is sorrow? Why does one suffer? Will the discovery of the cause of suffering end suffering?’ This week’s episode on Sorrow has three sections. This first extract (2:58) is from Krishnamurti’s fifth talk in Saanen 1972, titled ‘What is sorrow?’ The second extract (33:23) is from the first question and answer meeting at Brockwood Park in 1980, titled ‘Is suffering necessary?’ The final extract (53:44) in this episode is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in Ojai 1985, titled ‘There can be no sor...
Nov 24, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 3Ep. 10
‘The real meaning of the word 'art' is to put everything in its right place, so that the mind is liberated.’ This week’s episode on The Arts of Looking, Listening and Learning has five sections. The first extract (2:46) is from the fourth talk in Ojai 1977, titled ‘In the art of listening there is freedom’. The second extract (11:07) is from Krishnamurti’s sixth talk in Madras 1978, titled ‘There is a great miracle in listening’. The third extract (17:19) is from the second talk in Colombo 1980,...
Nov 17, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Season 3Ep. 9
‘Experiences are always in the past, never at the moment, and any experience you have is recognisable, otherwise it is not an experience.’ This week’s episode on Experience has two sections. The first extract (2:49) is from Krishnamurti’s fifth talk in New York 1966, titled ‘Can experience bring about transformation?’. The second and final extract in this episode (54:42) is from the first question and answer meeting at Brockwood Park in 1985, titled ‘Is there experience without an experiencer? S...
Nov 10, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Season 3Ep. 8
“Where there is jealousy, there is hate. Has hate any relationship to love? Is love the opposite of hate?” This week’s episode on Hate has four sections. The first extract (2:27) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk in Saanen 1982, titled ‘Is hatred going to destroy us?’ The second extract (17:00) is from the seventh talk in Ojai 1949, titled ‘How am I to be free of hate?’ The third extract (33:49) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk at Brockwood Park in 1982, titled ‘The flame of attention burns awa...
Nov 03, 2021•59 min•Season 3Ep. 7
“If I don't escape, control, suppress or try to rationalise, my energy is concentrated. So I have enormous energy to deal with facts.” This week’s episode on Suppression has four sections. The first extract (2:48) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in Calcutta 1982, titled ‘Should we suppress desire?’ The second extract (22:30) is from the second discussion in Saanen 1972, titled ‘What happens if I don’t suppress anger?’ The third extract (33:11) is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in New Delhi 19...
Oct 27, 2021•1 hr•Season 3Ep. 6
‘If I allow time to be free from greed, I am still greedy. But to understand greed, the cause of greed, is the ending of greed.’ This week’s episode on Greed has six sections. The first extract (2:36) is from the first question and answer meeting in Bombay 1985, titled ‘We are educated to have more, more, more’. The second extract (7:20) is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in Madras 1982, titled ‘Trying to become non-greedy is still greed’. The third extract (17:51) is from the fourth discussion i...
Oct 20, 2021•48 min•Season 3Ep. 5
'Is it possible to live without comparison of any kind, never translating yourself in terms of comparison with another or with an idea or hero?' This week’s episode on Comparison has six sections. The first extract (2:34) is from Krishnamurti’s sixth talk in Saanen 1970, titled ‘We are conditioned to compare’. The second extract (8:27) is from the fourth talk in Bombay 1983, titled ‘We are always comparing’. The third extract (12:42) is from Krishnamurti’s fourth talk in Bombay 1967, titled ‘Can...
Oct 13, 2021•58 min•Season 3Ep. 4
'A radical revolution is necessary, a revolution that is not merely economic or social, but at much greater depth, at the very root of consciousness.' This week’s episode on Revolution has five sections. The first extract (2:28) is from Krishnamurti’s talk in Rishi Valley 1967, titled ‘Revolt is one thing, revolution another’. The second extract (32:57) is from the second talk in Bombay 1967, titled ‘A radical revolution is necessary’. The third extract (44:47) is from Krishnamurti’s seventh tal...
Oct 06, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Season 3Ep. 3
'When you live in a state of complete inward uncertainty, you will see that you meet any challenge with clarity and swiftness.' This week’s episode on Uncertainty has two sections. The first extract (2:44) is from Krishnamurti’s first question and answer meeting in Saanen 1980, titled ‘We move from certainty to uncertainty to certainty’. The second and final extract (14:04) in this episode is from the second talk in Bombay 1964, titled ‘Be free and live in a state of uncertainty’. Season three o...
Sep 29, 2021•57 min•Season 3Ep. 2
'If you are doing yoga there must be no effort at all, no forcing the body. If you force the body it is not yoga.' This week’s episode on Yoga has six sections. The first extract (2:30) is from the fourth talk at Brockwood Park in 1972, titled ‘The origins of yoga’. The second extract (5:36) is from the fourth talk in Amsterdam 1971, titled ‘Which is more important, a healthy body or a healthy mind?’ The third extract (12:23) is from Krishnamurti’s fourth discussion at Brockwood Park School in 1...
Sep 22, 2021•54 min•Season 3Ep. 1
[ Please note the Urgency of Change podcast is taking a break; we will be back with a new season in September. ] ‘In silence is that quality of energy you have never touched before, and that is the transforming factor, the real creative movement of life.’ This week’s episode on Silence has seven sections. The first extract (2:27) is from the first question and answer meeting in Ojai 1984, titled ‘Why is silence necessary?’ The second extract (9:08) is from the first question and answer meeting i...
Aug 11, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 50
‘Is there security at all? There is when there is intelligence. Intelligence is the most positive force of security’. This week’s episode on Security has four sections. The first extract (2:24) is from the second question and answer meeting at Brockwood Park in 1982, titled ‘Is there any security?’ The second extract (17:26) is from Krishnamurti’s sixth talk in Saanen 1974, titled ‘Our physical security is being threatened’. The third extract (34:51) is from the first talk in Saanen 1977, titled...
Aug 04, 2021•57 min•Season 2Ep. 49
‘Enlightenment is not of time. It is not a process. It is not something that you gradually come to.’ This week’s episode on Enlightenment has five sections. The first extract (2:22) is from the second question and answer meeting in Ojai 1982, titled ‘What is enlightenment?’ The second extract (12:51) is from the first question and answer meeting at Brockwood Park in 1980, titled ‘The one who says, “I know,” does not know’. The third extract (20:51) is from the fourth question and answer meeting ...
Jul 28, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Season 2Ep. 48
‘Can the mind be aware of the content of its conditioning only, and not try to go beyond it?’ This week’s episode on Conditioning has two sections. The first extract (2:24) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in Saanen 1973, titled ‘Freeing the mind from the web of conditioning’. The second and final extract (51:25) is from the seventh talk in Saanen 1981, titled ‘Can one specialise yet function wholly?’ Each weekly episode in this season of the Krishnamurti podcast is based on a major theme of t...
Jul 21, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 47
‘Where there is love, then do what you will, it will be right action’. This week’s episode on Love has five sections. The first extract (2:16) is from Krishnamurti’s fourth talk in Ojai 1984, titled ‘What is love?’ The second extract (10:28) is from the sixth talk in Saanen 1973, titled ‘Love in relationships’. The third extract (24:26) is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in Saanen 1975, titled ‘Is love a movement in time?’ The fourth extract (36:22) is from the third talk at Brockwood Park in 198...
Jul 14, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 46
‘Religion is not the authoritarian, accepted form of religion, the state religion, the religion of belief, of faith, of dogma, of rituals, of worshipping a symbol.’ This week’s episode on Religion has five sections. The first extract (2:24) is from Krishnamurti’s sixth talk in Ojai 1982, titled ‘What is religion?’ The second extract (19:07) is from the fourth talk in Madras 1974, titled ‘Religion is the core of a new culture’. The third extract (33:38) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in Londo...
Jul 07, 2021•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 45
‘There is great beauty in being totally anonymous. And the whole world is seeking identity, power, position.’ This week’s episode on Anonymity and Creativity has four sections. The first extract (2:32) is from Krishnamurti’s third question and answer meeting in Ojai 1980, titled ‘In anonymity is true creativity.’ The second extract (19:03) is from the fourth talk at Brockwood Park in 1978, titled ‘Total anonymity and humility’. The third extract (28:42) is from Krishnamurti’s seventh talk in Saa...
Jun 30, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 44
‘Where there is division there must be conflict. That is a law, and we all know this.’ This week’s episode on Conflict has four sections. The first extract (2:32) is from Krishnamurti’s second question and answer meeting in Ojai 1981, titled ‘Where there is division there is conflict.’ The second extract (28:51) is from the fifth talk in Saanen 1977, titled ‘Is it possible to live without conflict?’ The third extract (39:02) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk at Brockwood Park in 1984, titled ‘Is...
Jun 23, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 43
‘Most of us are concerned with trimming fear, like we trim branches of a tree. And we think this is good enough, but we don’t challenge ourselves whether it is possible to be completely free of fear.’ This week’s episode on Fear has five sections. The first extract (2:24) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in San Francisco 1983, titled ‘We are two friends discussing fear’. The second extract (9:34) is from the fifth talk in Saanen 1981, titled ‘What is fear?’ The third extract (23:52) is from Kr...
Jun 16, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 42
