Urgency of Change • The Krishnamurti Podcast

‘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 Ne...

‘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...

‘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 t...

‘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 ques...

‘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 thir...

‘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...

‘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 Wor...

‘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...

‘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 P...

‘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 ...

‘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 (...

‘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 six...

‘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.

‘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...

‘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, title...

‘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 w...

‘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 Krishnamur...

‘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: Think...