Urgency of Change • The Krishnamurti Podcast

By Krishnamurti Foundation Trust

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What's Urgency of Change • The Krishnamurti Podcast about?

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 150 weekly 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.

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Krishnamurti on Following

11.29.2023

‘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 ...

Urgency of Change • The Krishnamurti Podcast episodes:

11.29.2023 Krishnamurti on Following ‘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 ...
11.22.2023 Krishnamurti on ’What Is’ ‘There is only 'what is', and not the changing of 'what is'. The changing of 'what is' is the movement of thought in time.’This week’s episode on What Is has four sections. The first extract (2:38) is from Krishnamurti’s second ...
11.15.2023 Krishnamurti on Desire ‘Desire for a car, desire for a woman or man, desire for position, desire for money, desire for enlightenment, are all on the same level.’ This week’s episode on Desire has four sections. The first extract (2:39) is from Krishnamurti’s ...
11.08.2023 Krishnamurti on Creation ‘There cannot be compassion and love without death, which is the ending of everything. Then there is creation.’ This week’s episode on Creation has three sections. The first extract (2:39) is from the first question and answer meeting in Saanen ...
11.01.2023 Krishnamurti on Division ‘There is division between the Jew and the Arab, between the Hindu and the Muslim, between various forms of ideologies. Wherever there is a division, inwardly and outwardly, there must be not only conflict and struggle, but war.’ This week’s ...
10.25.2023 Krishnamurti on Virtue ‘Virtue has nothing whatsoever to do with society and its so-called morality. Virtue can come about only when there is psychological order within oneself.’ This week’s episode on Virtue has four sections. The first extract (2:35) is from Krishnamurti’s ¬¬¬¬third ...
10.18.2023 Krishnamurti on Illusion ‘When the mind sees thought is the creator of illusion, you have an insight into the whole nature of illusion. It is that insight that dissolves all illusions.’ This week’s episode on Illusion has three sections. The first extract (2:36) ...
10.11.2023 Krishnamurti on Joy ‘Is there a way of life, having understood pleasure and fear, which is joyous, which is enjoyment, not the carrying over of pleasure from day to day?’ This week’s episode on Joy has five sections. The first extract (2:42) is ...
10.04.2023 Krishnamurti on Work ‘Shall I seek a job according to my idiosyncrasies, which means, according to my conditioning? My conditioning is the result of society which says prestige and status are most important, not function.’ This week’s episode on Work has five sections. ...
09.27.2023 Krishnamurti on Belief ‘Belief is a projection or an invention of thought. But we are attached to it because it gives a certain feeling of security, however illusory it is.’ This week’s episode on Belief has five sections. The first extract (2:33) is ...
09.20.2023 Krishnamurti on Sex ‘Why has sex such an important part in our life? Though it is one of our primary urges, why has it assumed such fantastic magnitude?’ This week’s episode on Sex has four sections. The first extract (2:38) is from the ...
09.13.2023 Krishnamurti on Ending 'When you end the past, there is not only a new observation but a sense of extraordinary freedom and movement.' This week’s episode, the first in Season 5, is on Ending. It has four sections. The first extract (2:23) is ...
08.16.2023 Krishnamurti on Tradition ‘Tradition can be 10,000 years old or two days old, and according to that I live. This means I live in the past and am therefore betraying the present.’ This week’s episode on Tradition has five sections. The first extract ...
08.09.2023 Krishnamurti on Being and Becoming ‘As you observe with attentive passion, that very attention puts an end to becoming, which is of time and thought.’ This week’s episode on Being and Becoming has four sections. The first extract (2:42) is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in ...
08.02.2023 Krishnamurti on Hurt ‘Can your mind know it has been hurt, be aware of it, and not react at the conscious or unconscious level?’ This week’s episode on Hurt has three sections. The first extract (2:40) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in Bombay ...
07.26.2023 Krishnamurti on Seriousness ‘Life is serious and it is only one who is really serious that knows how to live, not the flippant or those who are merely seeking entertainment.’ This week’s episode on Seriousness has four sections. The first extract (2:39) is ...
07.19.2023 Krishnamurti on Reward and Punishment ‘Is there an action that is not mechanistic, which is not based on reward and punishment?’ This week’s episode on Reward and Punishment has five sections. The first extract (2:30) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk at Rajghat in 1965, titled: ...
07.12.2023 Krishnamurti on Discontent ‘The flame of discontent, because it has no outlet, because it has no object in which it can fulfil itself, becomes great passion.’ This week’s episode on Discontent has five sections. The first extract (2:45) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk ...
07.05.2023 Krishnamurti on Power ‘Every human being wants power in some form or other.’ This week’s episode on Power has five sections. The first extract (2:48) is from Krishnamurti’s seventh talk in Saanen 1978, titled: Why Do We Want Power? The second extract (15:11) ...
06.28.2023 Krishnamurti on Limitation ‘I cling to my limitation, you cling to your limitation, and therefore there is perpetual conflict.’ This week’s episode on Limitation has four sections. The first extract (2:37) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in Bombay 1980, titled: Is There an ...
06.21.2023 Krishnamurti on Reaction ‘You have to understand your reactions, from which your daily action springs. We react, we revolt, we accumulate, we defend, we resist, we acquire, we submit - all these are reactions.’ This week’s episode on Reaction has five sections. The ...
06.14.2023 Krishnamurti on Seeking ‘When you seek, you are seeking something away from the actual fact, towards something that will give you greater pleasure. One seeks because one is dissatisfied with the normal, shallow, narrow, cunning existence.’ This week’s episode on Seeking has three ...
06.07.2023 Krishnamurti on Humility ‘Humility is not the subjugation of the desire that seeks fulfilment in success. Nor is it the religious humility of monks, saints and priests that cultivated austerity brings about.’ This week’s episode on Humility has four sections. The first extract ...
05.31.2023 Krishnamurti on Resistance ‘There is an action in which there is no resistance, no interference of the past, no response of the 'me'. That action is not in the field of time; it is instantaneous and therefore complete.’ This week’s episode on Resistance ...
05.24.2023 Krishnamurti on Culture ‘What is it that brings about a culture totally different from the mechanistic culture we have accepted for thousands of years?’ This week’s episode on Culture has five sections. The first extract (2:24) is from Krishnamurti’s sixth talk in Ojai ...
05.17.2023 Krishnamurti on Urgency ‘There can be understanding only when there is tremendous urgency. When there is an urgency, there is attention; and out of that comes freedom.’ This week’s episode on Urgency has five sections. The first extract (2:40) is from Krishnamurti’s first ...
05.10.2023 Krishnamurti on Conformity 'Only when we are free of conformity can we find out what is original, essential, true. Unless we find that out, we will always live a counterfeit, second-hand life of imitation.' This week’s episode on Conformity has four sections. The ...
05.03.2023 Krishnamurti on Words and Language ‘Words divide the fact from the observer. The word, or the screen of words, has separated the observer and the observed.’ This week’s episode on Words and Language has five sections. The first extract (2:40) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk ...
04.26.2023 Krishnamurti on Sensation ‘We live by the senses, by sensation, and it is only when thought creates the image out of sensation that all the complexities of desire arise.’ This week’s episode on Sensation has four sections. The first extract (2:29) is from ...
04.19.2023 Krishnamurti on Conclusions ‘Distortion exists because you have opinions and conclusions. To observe, the mind must be free to look with no distortion, so that it is fresh to look and to learn.’ This week’s episode on Conclusions has three sections. The first ...
04.12.2023 Krishnamurti on Wisdom ‘Perception reveals the truth, and out of that perception wisdom comes. Intelligence is the action of that wisdom in daily life.’ This week’s episode on Wisdom has six sections. The first extract (2:45) is from Krishnamurti’s fourth talk in Paris ...
04.05.2023 Krishnamurti on Control ‘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 ...
03.29.2023 Krishnamurti on the Present ‘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 ...
03.22.2023 Krishnamurti on Nationalism '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 ...
03.15.2023 Krishnamurti on Wholeness ‘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) ...
03.08.2023 Krishnamurti on Teaching ‘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 ...
03.01.2023 Krishnamurti on Responsibility ‘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 ...
02.22.2023 Krishnamurti on Pain ‘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 ...
02.15.2023 Krishnamurti on Spirituality ‘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 ...
02.08.2023 Krishnamurti on Discipline ‘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 ...
02.01.2023 Krishnamurti on Insight ‘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 ...
01.25.2023 Krishnamurti on the Brain ‘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 ...
01.18.2023 Krishnamurti on Selfishness ‘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 ...
01.11.2023 Krishnamurti on Insecurity ‘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 ...
01.04.2023 Krishnamurti on Technology ‘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.’ ...
12.28.2022 Krishnamurti on Aloneness ‘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 ...
12.21.2022 Krishnamurti on Stimulation ‘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) ...
12.14.2022 Krishnamurti on Opinion and Judgment ‘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 ...
12.07.2022 Krishnamurti on Gurus ‘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 ...
11.30.2022 Krishnamurti on Frustration ‘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 ...

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