‘Space implies a movement, an energy which is boundless like the heavens. In the heavens there is complete order. Where there is vast space there is order. When there is no space, there is disorder.’ This week’s episode on Space has six sections. The first extract (2:40) is from Krishnamurti’s sixth talk in Madras 1976, and is titled: We Must Have Space. The second extract (11:08) is from the fourth talk at Rajghat in 1964, and is titled: Space Without an Object Is Freedom. The third extract (26...
Jun 19, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 5Ep. 41
‘A mind that is not clear, a mind that is confused, will inevitably choose. But for a mind that sees very clearly, there is no choice at all.’ This week’s episode on Choice has three sections. The first extract (2:40) is from Krishnamurti’s fourth talk in New Delhi 1972, and is titled: Choice Implies Duality and Confusion. The second extract (30:52) is from the third talk in Saanen 1965, and is titled: Choice and the Will to Change. The final extract in this episode (1:00:52)) is from Krishnamur...
Jun 12, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 5Ep. 40
'Thought is matter. You may not accept it but go into it, examine it. Is there something beyond matter? How will you find out?’ This week’s episode on Matter has four sections. The first extract (2:27) is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in Saanen 1974, and is titled: Is All Existence Matter? The second extract (29:41) is from the first question and answer meeting at Rajghat in 1981, and is titled: Is Thought a Material Process? The third extract (33:09) is from Krishnamurti’s sixth talk in Ojai 1...
Jun 05, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 5Ep. 39
‘I have anxiety and I have projected a state of not being anxious. To arrive at that state, I think I need time. But I never ask: Can this anxiety be changed immediately?’ This week’s episode on Depression & Anxiety has five sections. The first extract (2:42) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk in Paris 1966, and is titled: We Separate Ourselves From Anxiety. The second extract (16:32) is from the first question and answer meeting in Saanen 1983, and is titled: Love, Loneliness, Depression and...
May 29, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Season 5Ep. 38
'Your mind is chattering and your mind is you. When you see the actual truth that you and the chattering are one, all your effort to change it comes to an end. Then what takes place?’ This week’s episode on Chattering has five sections. The first extract (2:41) is from the fourth question and answer meeting in Ojai 1980, and is titled: Why Does the Mind Chatter? The second extract (8:47) is from Krishnamurti’s fifth talk in Ojai 1978, and is titled: Chattering Takes Up Space. The third extract (...
May 22, 2024•1 hr•Season 5Ep. 37
‘The desire for continuity is the way of time, and time breeds fear; and thought as time dreads death.’ This week’s episode on Continuity has five sections. The first extract (2:42) is from Krishnamurti’s sixth talk in Madras 1979, and is titled: We Seek Safety in Continuity. The second extract (19:02) is from the sixth talk in Bombay 1962, and is titled: Thinking Establishes Continuity. The third extract (31:44) is from Krishnamurti’s fourth talk in Ojai 1985, and is titled: Is There a Continui...
May 15, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Season 5Ep. 36
‘Many people carry guilt all their life. It is like a wound never healing because they always remember guilt and it destroys their life.’ This week’s episode on Guilt has six sections. The first extract (2:40) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in Ojai 1985, and is titled: Forms of Guilt. The second extract (13:30) is from the second talk at Brockwood Park in 1972, and is titled: Does the Word ‘Guilt’ Strengthen the Feeling? The third extract (18:43) is from the second question and answer meetin...
May 08, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Season 5Ep. 35
‘Is there a perception not born of memory, not born of knowledge, a perception that sees the whole nature and structure of conflict, a perception this is whole?’ This week’s episode on Perception has four sections. The first extract (2:37) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk at Brockwood Park in 1978, and is titled: Perception and Desire. The second extract (12:45) is from the first talk at Brockwood Park in 1971, and is titled: A Different Kind of Perception. The third extract (22;20) is from Kr...
May 01, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Season 5Ep. 34
‘One must go beyond words, beyond names, beyond symbols to really find out, to search very deeply, to inquire without restraint and without limitation.’ This week’s episode on Symbols has four sections. The first extract (2:36) is from Krishnamurti’s eighth talk in Madras 1961, and is titled: The Influence of Symbols. The second extract (24:12) is from the first question and answer meeting at Brockwood Park in 1980, and is titled: We Invent a Symbol Then Worship It. The third extract (32:08) is ...
Apr 24, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Season 5Ep. 33
‘Learn to look at the whole of life from a level which is comprehensive, which has no fragmentation at all. And being non-fragmentary, act from there – a total action.’ This week’s episode on Fragmentation has three sections. The first extract (2:29) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in Madras 1971, and is titled: Are You Aware That You Are Fragmented? The second extract (23:05) is from the second talk at Brockwood Park in 1972, and is titled: Can We Be Free of Thought’s Fragmentation? The fina...
Apr 17, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Season 5Ep. 32
‘We cannot live without cooperation. Life is relationship; life is cooperation. You and I cannot exist without cooperation, but to cooperate there must be freedom.’ This week’s episode on Cooperation has eight sections. The first extract (2:43) is from Krishnamurti’s sixth talk in Madras 1965, and is titled: The Only Cooperation We Know. The second extract (11:06) is from the sixth talk in Saanen 1968, and is titled: Cooperation Needs Humility. The third extract (15:21) is from the first discuss...
Apr 10, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 5Ep. 31
‘Is there psychological progress – the 'me' becoming better, nobler, wiser? The 'me' which is the past, which has accumulated so many things – insults, flatteries, pain, knowledge, suffering – can that progress to a better state?’ This week’s episode on Progress has five sections. The first extract (2:49) is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in Saanen 1973, and is titled: Are Human Beings Progressing? The second extract (6:48) is from the first talk in Santa Monica 1974, and is titled: Where Do We ...
Apr 03, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Season 5Ep. 30
‘Disorder implies conflict, conflict in our behaviour, conflict outwardly, conflict between nationalities, between classes, between vested interests, religiously or in business. So that is our life: great disorder.’ This week’s episode on Disorder has four sections. The first extract (2:52) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk in New York 1974, and is titled: Disorder is Spreading Across the World. The second extract (34:45) is from the fourth talk in Madras 1981, and is titled: Thought Is the Orig...
Mar 27, 2024•1 hr 17 min•Season 5Ep. 29
‘Most of us do question, and our questioning is a reaction. We do not like something, and we question it, reject it or modify it. This questioning is according to the urges and demands, and has a motive behind it.’ This week’s episode on Questioning has seven sections. The first extract (2:38) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk in Bombay 1962, and is titled: Two Types of Questioning. The second extract (12:49) is from the first question and answer meeting in Ojai 1985, and is titled: Letting a Qu...
Mar 20, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 5Ep. 28
‘We must inquire into the question of emptiness. It is an amazingly important question because if there is no emptiness, no new thing can be.’ This week’s episode on Emptiness has five sections. The first extract (2:23) is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in Paris 1965, and is titled: The Two Types of Emptiness. The second extract (16:42) is from the sixth talk in Saanen 1968, and is titled: What Are We To Do with Emptiness? The third extract (38:46) is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in Saanen 197...
Mar 13, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Season 5Ep. 27
‘There is an ending to effort, struggle, and all forms of resistance and escapes, when you understand the nature and the structure of will, which is born of choice and effort.’ This week’s episode on Will has three sections. The first extract (2:44) is from Krishnamurti’s seventh talk in Saanen 1977, titled: What Is the Nature and Structure of Will? The second extract (18:05) is from the third talk in Saanen 1976, titled: Is Change Dependent on Will? The final extract in this episode (44:29) is ...
Mar 06, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 5Ep. 26
‘We have to find out if there is a reality or not – a reality that is not invented by thought, a reality that is not projected by thought in the field of time.’ This week’s episode on Reality has four sections. The first extract (2:37) is from Krishnamurti’s fourth talk in Ojai 1976, and is titled: Our Mechanistic Reality. The second extract (20:59) is from the second talk in Saanen 1975, and is titled: Freedom and Order in the World of Reality. The third extract (41:51) is from Krishnamurti’s s...
Feb 28, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 5Ep. 25
‘If there is no escape of any kind, what is left?’ This week’s episode on Escapes has four sections. The first extract (2:28) is from Krishnamurti’s seventh talk in Madras 1964, titled: Our Escapes Become Problems. The second extract (16:01) is from the third talk in Madras 1974, titled: The Futility of Escapes. The third extract (29:11) is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in Madras 1966, titled: Fear Cannot Be Understood if There Is Any Form of Escape. The final extract in this episode (50:09) is...
Feb 21, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 5Ep. 24
‘Goodness is something totally divorced from evil. But we have mixed the two together and we say we must fight, resist, put away evil in order to be good.’ This week’s episode on Good and Evil has four sections. The first extract (2:33) is from the first question and answer meeting at Brockwood Park in 1984, titled: Is Goodness Related to Evil? The second extract (24:19) is from the second question and answer meeting at Brockwood Park in 1984, titled: Do Good and Evil Exist Outside of Ourselves?...
Feb 14, 2024•56 min•Season 5Ep. 23
‘When the mind is learning all the time, it brings about its own sweet discipline. In this there is no conformity, no pattern, no formula, no suppression or obedience – it is living.’ This week’s episode on Patterns & Formulas has two sections. The first extract (2:37) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk at Rajghat in 1964, titled: Is revolution according to a pattern? The second and final extract in this episode (15:54) is from the fourth talk in Bombay 1964, titled: Freedom Without a Pattern...
Feb 07, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Season 5Ep. 22
‘When you are interested to find out, that very interest is the flame that makes the mind, the brain, the body quiet.’ This week’s episode on Quiet has four sections. The first extract (2:38) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk at Rajghat in 1967, titled: Can We Make the Mind Quiet? The second extract (16:39) is from Krishnamurti’s sixth talk in New Delhi 1963, titled: The Conscious Mind Must Be Completely Quiet. The third extract (23:25) is from the second discussion in Saanen 1971, titled: When...
Jan 31, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 5Ep. 21
The format of this episode is different to the usual selection of longer extracts. During the course of Krishnamurti’s talks and dialogues, he would sometimes include a joke, anecdote or parable, relevant to what was being said. This episode compiles a collection of 26 of these from the 1970s and 80s, each one being much shorter than the usual extracts featured on the podcast.
Jan 24, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Season 5Ep. 20
‘Clarity is seeing things as they are; seeing what is, without any opinion; seeing the movement of your mind, observing it very closely, minutely, diligently, without any purpose, without any directive.’ This week’s episode on Clarity has two sections. The first extract (2:51) is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in Saanen 1977, titled: Clarity, Skill and Compassion. The second and final extract in this episode (56:55) is from the sixth talk in Madras 1964, titled: Clarity Is Essential. Each episod...
Jan 17, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 5Ep. 19
‘You are the entire humanity. So if you are violent, you are contributing to violence; if you have ended sorrow, then you are bringing about freedom from the human mind's sorrow.’ This week’s episode on Humanity has four sections. The first extract (2:40) is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in Ojai 1983, titled: Can humanity live peacefully? The second extract (22:40) is from the first talk in Calcutta 1982, titled: You are humanity. The third extract (49:05) is from Krishnamurti’s fifth talk in S...
Jan 10, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Season 5Ep. 18
‘As long as we live in opposites – jealousy and non-jealousy, the good and the bad, the ignorant and the enlightened – there must be constant conflict in duality.’ This week’s episode on Opposites has four sections. The first extract (2:27) is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in Calcutta 1982, titled: Do opposites exist? The second extract (14:08) is from the third talk at Brockwood Park in 1978, titled: Does freedom have an opposite? The third extract (28:30) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in...
Jan 03, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Season 5Ep. 17
‘Solitude is a lovely word. It implies walking alone, looking, listening, not carrying your troubles, problems and anxieties; being absolutely alone, enjoying.’ This week’s episode on Solitude has six sections. The first extract (2:44) is from Krishnamurti’s second discussion in Saanen 1978, titled: Solitude is not loneliness. The second extract (13:24) is from the second question and answer meeting at Brockwood Park in 1979, titled: Will solitude end our confusion? The third extract (26:39) is ...
Dec 27, 2023•55 min•Season 5Ep. 16
‘The fact is human beings are irrational. But there is a concept that human beings are rational, and we live according to that concept.’ This week’s episode on Rationality has five sections. The first extract (2:46) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk in Ojai 1980, titled: Are Human Beings Rational? The second extract (15:07) is from the fourth question and answer meeting in Ojai 1980, titled: Is there rational, sane justice in the world? The third extract (22:05) is from the first question and an...
Dec 20, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Season 5Ep. 15
‘How is the unconscious to be exposed, without effort, without analysis, without the conscious mind which cannot examine it?’ This week’s episode on The Unconscious has four sections. The first extract (2:43) is from Krishnamurti’s fifth talk in London 1962, titled: Understanding the Unconscious. The second extract (22:42) is from the fifth talk in Saanen 1974, titled: Unconscious Hurts. The third extract (34:48) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk at Brockwood Park in 1972, titled: Ending Uncons...
Dec 13, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Season 5Ep. 14
‘Thinking together does not mean that you agree or disagree, accept or reject, defend or offend, but together find out if it is possible, by thinking together, to act together.’ This week’s episode on Thinking Together has four sections. The first extract (2:39) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk in Saanen 1979, titled: Thinking Together Without Barriers. The second extract (33:47) is from the second talk in Ojai 1980, titled: Thinking Together to Eliminate Conflict. The third extract (46:03) is ...
Dec 06, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 5Ep. 13
‘The easiest thing for the mind, which is generally very lazy, is to follow what somebody else has said.’ This week’s episode on Following has two sections. The first extract (2:25) is from the first question and answer meeting at Brockwood Park in 1981, titled: Why do we follow? The second and final extract in this episode (43:39) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in Saanen 1970, titled: Following means we are second-hand human beings. Each episode of the Krishnamurti podcast features carefull...
Nov 29, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 5Ep. 12
