‘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 It Possible To Live Without Control? Each episode of the Krishnamurti podcast is compiled from caref...
Apr 05, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Season 4Ep. 31
‘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 talk in Saanen 1963, titled: Is There a Present Untouched by the Past? The third extract (30:34) is fro...
Mar 29, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Season 4Ep. 30
'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 first talk in Ojai 1977, titled: Is There Security in Nationalism? The final extract in this episod...
Mar 22, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 4Ep. 29
‘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 Saanen 1973, titled: Can Wholeness Be Brought About by Thought? The third extract (35:52) is from the t...
Mar 15, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 4Ep. 28
‘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 Is the Function of a Teacher? The final extract in this episode (53:08) is from Krishnamurti’s first...
Mar 08, 2023•1 hr•Season 4Ep. 27
‘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 second talk in Santa Monica 1974, titled: Freedom and Responsibility Go Together. The third and final ext...
Mar 01, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 4Ep. 26
‘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 extract in this episode (33:58) is from the first question and answer meeting in Saanen 1982, titled:...
Feb 22, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 4Ep. 25
‘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 answer meeting at Brockwood Park in 1985, titled: Are Spiritual Experiences Illusional? The third extrac...
Feb 15, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Season 4Ep. 24
‘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. The final extract in this episode (46:08) is from Krishnamurti’s sixth talk in Ojai 1949, titled: Di...
Feb 08, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Season 4Ep. 23
‘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 Insight Without Conclusion. Each episode of the Krishnamurti podcast is compiled from carefully chosen ...
Feb 01, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 4Ep. 22
‘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 Madras 1979, titled: Can the Brain Only Register What Is Necessary? The final extract in this episode ...
Jan 25, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Season 4Ep. 21
‘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 talk in Saanen 1978, titled: Why Are We So Appallingly Selfish? The third extract (33:40) is from the ...
Jan 18, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Season 4Ep. 20
‘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 second talk in Bombay 1985, titled: Why Are We So Insecure? The third extract (30:06) is from the second ...
Jan 11, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 4Ep. 19
‘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 Invading Our Consciousness. The second extract (12:55) is from the first talk in Ojai 1981, titled: Is t...
Jan 04, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Season 4Ep. 18
‘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 Krishnamurti’s thirteenth talk in Ojai 1949, titled: You Must Be Alone To Understand. The third extract ...
Dec 28, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Season 4Ep. 17
‘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 fourth talk in New Delhi 1966, titled: Most of Us Depend on Stimulation. The third extract (21:11) is f...
Dec 21, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Season 4Ep. 16
‘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 talk in Saanen 1983, titled: Opinions Bring Conflict. The third extract (25:10) is from the fourth ...
Dec 14, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Season 4Ep. 15
‘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 Right Guru, Only the Wrong Guru. The final extract in this episode (29:07) is from the first question ...
Dec 07, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Season 4Ep. 14
‘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 Fundamental Anxiety, Frustration and Despair? The second extract (21:23) is from Krishnamurti’s seventh talk ...
Nov 30, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 4Ep. 13
‘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 Cause. The third extract (1:00:40) is from the second question and answer meeting in Saanen 1982, title...
Nov 23, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Season 4Ep. 12
‘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 extract (39:51) is from Krishnamurti’s fourth talk in Paris 1965, titled: Virtue Has Nothing To Do Wi...
Nov 16, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 4Ep. 11
‘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 first talk in Madras 1969, titled: In Learning, There Is No Authority. The third extract (24:23) is fr...
Nov 09, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Season 4Ep. 10
‘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 in Saanen 1972, titled: Are We Afraid To Be Unoccupied? The third extract (23:57) is from the secon...
Nov 02, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Season 4Ep. 9
‘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 Transformation in Human Consciousness. The second extract (8:55) is from the first talk in Saanen 1973, ti...
Oct 26, 2022•1 hr 20 min•Season 4Ep. 8
‘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 the fifth talk in Paris 1965, titled: The Ending of Contradiction. The final extract in this episode (...
Oct 19, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Season 4Ep. 7
‘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 from Krishnamurti’s fourth talk in Bombay 1966, titled: The Word Is Not the Fact. The third extract ...
Oct 12, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 4Ep. 6
‘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 Bombay 1967, titled: An Innocence Not Touched by Thought. The third extract (24:20) is from Krishnam...
Oct 05, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 4Ep. 5
‘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 Saanen 1972, titled: Can There Be Unity Between Conditioned Minds? The third extract (25:39) is from ...
Sep 28, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 4Ep. 4
‘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 the third question and answer meeting in Ojai 1980, titled: Ending Conflict Now Is Far More Importan...
Sep 21, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Season 4Ep. 3
‘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 Rejecting. The second extract (29:38) is from the six talk in Ojai 1982, titled: Doubt Is a Great Purifi...
Sep 14, 2022•57 min•Season 4Ep. 2
