Urgency of Change • The Krishnamurti Podcast

Urgency of Change • The Krishnamurti Podcast

What are you doing with your life? Can anyone show you the way, or must you be a light to yourself? Do we see the urgency of change? One of the greatest spiritual teachers and philosophers of all time, J. Krishnamurti challenges us to question all that we know and discover our true nature in the here and now. This official podcast from Krishnamurti Foundation Trust now has over 250 episodes. Episodes 1-50 feature conversations between Krishnamurti and luminaries from many paths, along with readings of the classic book Commentaries on Living by actor Terence Stamp. Episode 51 onwards features carefully chosen extracts based on a theme explored by Krishnamurti. The extracts from our archives have been carefully selected to represent his different approaches to each of these universal and timelessly relevant themes. Get in touch at podcast@kfoundation.org. Please consider leaving a review, which helps the visibility of the podcast.

Episodes

June 30, 2025 78 mins

‘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) ...

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‘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...

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June 3, 2025 79 mins

‘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 ...

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May 20, 2025 76 mins

‘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...

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May 6, 2025 72 mins

‘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 ...

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April 22, 2025 75 mins

‘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...

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April 8, 2025 67 mins

‘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...

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‘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...

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March 12, 2025 68 mins

‘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...

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February 26, 2025 81 mins

‘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...

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February 12, 2025 67 mins

‘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...

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January 29, 2025 63 mins

‘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...

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January 15, 2025 63 mins

‘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...

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January 1, 2025 69 mins

‘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...

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December 18, 2024 63 mins

‘What prevents you from seeing is your condemnation and justification, which is the past. When you listen, when you see without condemnation, you are free of the past.’

This episode on Seeing has three sections.

The first extract (2:39) is from Krishnamurti’s fourth talk at Brockwood Park in 1970, and is titled: Seeing Is Action.

The second extract (30:01) is from the second talk in New Delhi 1962, and is titled: Seeing Without Con...

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‘Bliss is not pleasure; ecstasy is not brought about by thought; it is an entirely different thing. And you can only come upon that when you understand the nature of thought.’

This episode on Bliss, Ecstasy and Benediction has five sections.

The first extract (2:47) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in London 1969, and is titled: Bliss Is Not Pleasure.

The second extract (14:15) is from the third talk in San Diego 1970, and is tit...

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November 20, 2024 67 mins

'Knowing is far more important than acquiring knowledge. Knowing means learning. Knowing is always in the present.’

This episode on Knowing has four sections.

The first extract (2:34) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk at Rajghat in 1969, and is titled: Is Knowing Based on the Past?

The second extract (15:30) is from the second talk in Bangalore 1971, and is titled: Knowing What Love Is.

The third extract (28:55) is from Krishnamur...

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November 6, 2024 76 mins

‘We have divided time into yesterday, today and tomorrow, and hence we have invented the process of gradual achievement for freeing ourselves.’

This episode on Tomorrow has three sections.

The first extract (2:26) is from Krishnamurti’s fifth talk in New Delhi 1964, and is titled: Our Invented Tomorrow.

The second extract (23:21) is from the second talk at Brockwood Park in 1984, and is titled: Is There Security Tomorrow?

The final...

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October 22, 2024 73 mins

‘It is only the mind that is empty of what is false that can discover what is true.’

This episode on The False has four sections.

The first extract (2:37) is from Krishnamurti’s fourth talk in Saanen 1983, and is titled: Seeing the False.

The second extract (22:30s) is from the sixth talk in Paris 1961, and is titled: Denying the False.

The third extract (41:54) is from Krishnamurti’s fifth talk in Madras 1979, and is titled: Freed...

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October 8, 2024 72 mins

‘Meditation is the emptying of the content of consciousness, which is consciousness. That is the meaning and the depth of meditation: the emptying of all the content, which means thought coming to an end.’

This episode on Emptying Consciousness has four sections.

The first extract (2:45) is from Krishnamurti’s third talk at Brockwood Park in 1973, and is titled: What is Consciousness?

The second extract (11:15) is from the fifth di...

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