Urgency of Change • The Krishnamurti Podcast

‘We need political, religious, social and psychological change, deep down at the very roots. How is this to be brought about, and where do we begin?’

This episode on Politics has six sections.

The first extract (2:48) is from the third discussion with young people in Saanen 1968, and is titled: Does Change Begin Politically?

The second extract (15:48) is from the fourth question and answer meeting in Ojai 1982, and is titled: Polit...

‘There is a stillness which is not dependent on anything. It is only that quality of stillness, that absolute silence of the mind that can see the eternal, timeless, nameless.’

This episode on Stillness has six sections.

The first extract (2:36) is from the fourth small group discussion at Brockwood Park in 1973, and is titled: Does Controlling the Mind Lead to Stillness?

The second extract (24:07) is from the seventh discussion in...

‘In the awakening of intelligence is the beginning of total happy security of human beings. Nowhere else will you have security except in that.’

This episode on Awakening has four sections.

The first extract (2:19) is from the second question and answer meeting in Saanen 1981, and is titled: Intelligence Cannot Be Cultivated.

The second extract (13:12) is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in Saanen 1977, and is titled: The Three Essen...

‘A heart that has no jealousy or envy, that knows no competition, that has no fear, that knows what it means to love – only such a heart and mind can respond to the phenomena going on in the world.’

This episode on The Heart has four sections.

The first extract (2:39) is from Krishnamurti’s fourth talk in Bombay 1969, and is titled: A New Quality of Mind and Heart.

The second extract (23:24) is from the third discussion in Saanen 1...

‘Organisations will never succeed in bringing about peace because human beings individually, collectively, nationally, are in conflict.’

This episode on Organisations has six sections.

The first extract (2:40) is from a phonograph recording of Krishnamurti, and is titled: Truth Cannot Be Organised.

The second extract (8:18) is from the first talk in Santa Monica 1971, and is titled: Organisations Have Not Solved Our Problems.

The t...

‘The really scientific mind and the really religious mind are the only two minds that can exist now, not the superstitious, believing, temple-going, church-worshipping mind.’

This episode on The Scientific Mind and the Religious Mind has two sections.

The first extract (2:47) is from Krishnamurti’s eleventh talk in London 1961, and is titled: The Scientific and Religious Spirit.

The second and final extract in this episode (53:01) ...

‘Without sensitivity there is no intelligence, and therefore no love. And where there is no love, there is no beauty.’

This episode on Sensitivity has three sections.

The first extract (2:38) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk at Rajghat in 1967, and is titled: Most of Us Are Insensitive.

The second extract (22:47) is from the second talk at Brockwood Park in 1969, and is titled: Extraordinary Sensitivity.

The final extract in this...

‘Thinking is mechanical; thinking can never be free. It can be reasonable, sane and logical, but thinking can never be free.’

This episode on Thinking has three sections.

The first extract (2:30) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk at Rajghat in 1985, and is titled: What Is Thinking?

The second extract (37:36) is from the first talk in Saanen 1982, and is titled: Is Thinking Individual?

The final extract in this episode (1:03:50) is ...

‘The flowering of goodness can never take place when the mind is respectable, when the mind is conforming to a pattern – the social pattern, an ideological pattern or a religious pattern.’

This episode on Respectability has two sections.

The first extract (2:45) is from Krishnamurti’s fourth talk in Bombay 1965, and is titled: The Framework of Respectability.

The second and final extract (45:54) in this episode is from the sixth ta...

‘Thought is a material process, a movement. When there is no movement, there something totally original, totally untouched by humanity, untouched by all the movement of thought.’

This episode on Movement has three sections.

The first extract (2:48) is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in Saanen 1973, and is titled: Thought Is Movement in Time.

The second extract (29:46) is from the seventh talk in Saanen 1976, and is titled: When the ...

‘The problem is you. The problem, the crisis, the challenge is in you, and you have to reply adequately. You are the world.’

This episode on You Are the World has three sections.

The first extract (2:46) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk in Madras 1977, and is titled: It is an absolute, irrevocable fact that you are the world.

The second extract (23:26) is from the third talk in New Delhi 1963, and is titled: There Is No Division B...

‘What does it all mean, the existence that we lead? What is the meaning of all the work, misery, confusion, and this sense of meaningless existence?’

This episode on Existence has four sections.

The first extract (2:40) is from Krishnamurti’s fifth talk in Bombay 1981, and is titled: What Is the Most Important Thing In Our Existence?

The second extract (18:27) is from the sixth talk in Saanen 1972, and is titled: The Mind Finds Its...

‘Where there is compassion, there is supreme intelligence. Not the artificial intelligence of a computer, nor the artificial intelligence of thought.’

This episode on Artificial Intelligence and Computers has seven sections.

The first extract (2:33) is from a small group discussion in Ojai 1981, and is titled The Intelligence of Thought Is Also Artificial.

The second extract (8:26) is from the first discussion with scholars at Rajg...

‘The great painters, great musicians and great architects have extraordinary capacities and talent, but in their daily life they are like you and me, and like everybody else.’

This episode on Talent and Skill has five sections.

The first extract (2:40) is from a question & answer meeting at Rajghat in 1964, and is titled: Talent and Fulfilment.

The second extract (15:30) is from the fifth question & answer meeting in Saanen...

‘As long as the mechanical way of living continues, there must be degeneration of the human mind and heart, and in the society in which we live.’

This episode on Mechanical Living has three sections.

The first extract (2:37) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk in Bombay 1974, and is titled: Are You Living Mechanically?

The second extract (21:22) is from the first question and answer meeting in Saanen 1983, and is titled: Can the Mech...

‘When there is grief, we try every form of escape, but it is always there. Apparently, humanity has not resolved grief.’

This episode on Grief and Loss has four sections.

The first extract (2:35) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk in Amsterdam 1981, and is titled: Living With Grief.

The second extract (12:32) is from the fifth talk in Saanen 1981, and is titled: Why Is There Grief and Hurt?

The third extract (24:30) is from Krishnam...

‘There is no abstraction, there is only 'what is', there is only the seeing. And when you see, you act.’

This episode on Abstraction has three sections.

The first extract (2:35) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk in Bombay 1974, and is titled: Abstractions, Conclusions and Ideas.

The second extract (29:02) is from the second talk at Brockwood Park in 1973, and is titled: Why Does the Mind Draw Abstractions?

The final extract in this...

‘We are incapable, so we look, we search, we find somebody to tell us what to do, and we put our faith in those people. But faith and trust have no value.’

This episode on Trust and Faith has five sections.

The first extract (2:24) is from the second question and answer meeting in Saanen 1980, and is titled Trust and Certainty.

The second extract (13:42) is from Krishnamurti’s fifth talk in Madras 1964, and is titled: Trust and Fai...

‘Leisure is extraordinarily important – not to have a mind that is constantly occupied, constantly chattering. It is only in that unoccupied mind a new seed of learning can take place.’

This episode on Leisure has five sections.

The first extract (2:35) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in Ojai 1977, and is titled: The Importance of Leisure.

The second extract (21:06) is from the sixth talk at Rajghat in 1962, and is titled: We Ha...