Urgency of Change • The Krishnamurti Podcast

‘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 answer meeting in Saanen 1980, titled: How Do You Meet Pain? The second extract (11:18) is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in Bombay 1971, titled: Fear of Pain. The final extract in this episode (33:58) is from the first question and answer meeting in Saanen 1982, titled: Psychological and Physical Pain. Each episode of the Krishnamurti podcast is compiled from carefully chosen extracts from our archives, representing Krishnamurti’s different approaches to fundamental issues and questions we all face in our lives. This week’s theme is Pain. Upcoming themes are Responsibility, Teaching and Wholeness. This is a podcast from Krishnamurti Foundation Trust. Please visit the official YouTube channel for hundreds of advert-free full-length video and audio recordings of Krishnamurti’s talks. In addition, the Foundation’s own channel features hundreds of specially selected clips. You can also find our regular quotes and videos on Instagram, TikTok and Facebook at Krishnamurti Foundation Trust. If you enjoy the podcast, please leave a rating or review on Apple Podcasts, which helps our visibility.

‘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 from the third question and answer meeting in Ojai 1982, titled: Are There Levels of Spirituality? The second extract (20:58) is from the first question and answer meeting at Brockwood Park in 1985, titled: Are Spiritual Experiences Illusional? The third extract (40:06) is from Krishnamurti’s fourth talk in Saanen 1980, titled: There Is No Spiritual Authority. The fourth extract (54:38) is from the third question and answer meeting in Saanen 1983, titled: What Is a Spiritual Life? The final extract in this episode (1:01:57) is from the seventh talk in New Delhi 1963, titled: The Religious Spirit. Each episode of the Krishnamurti podcast is compiled from carefully chosen extracts from the archives, representing different approaches to many of the fundamental issues and questions that we all face in our lives. This week’s theme is Spirituality. Upcoming themes are Pain, Responsibility and Teaching. This is a podcast from Krishnamurti Foundation Trust, based at Brockwood Park in Hampshire, UK. Brockwood is also home to Brockwood Park School, a unique international boarding school offering a personalised holistic education for around 70 students. It is deeply inspired by Krishnamurti’s teaching, which encourages academic excellence, self-understanding, creativity and integrity. Please visit brockwood.org.uk for more information. You can also find our regular Krishnamurti quotes and videos on Instagram, TikTok and Facebook at Krishnamurti Foundation Trust. If you enjoy the podcast, please leave a review or rating on Apple Podcasts, which helps our visibility.

‘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 1949, titled: Why Do We Discipline Ourselves? The second extract (25:19) is from the fourth talk in Bombay 1964, titled: Discipline Means to Learn. The final extract in this episode (46:08) is from Krishnamurti’s sixth talk in Ojai 1949, titled: Discipline in Meditation. Each episode of the Krishnamurti podcast is compiled from carefully chosen extracts from our archives, representing different approaches to many of the fundamental issues and questions we all face in our lives. This week’s theme is Discipline. Upcoming themes are Spirituality, Pain and Responsibility. This is a podcast from Krishnamurti Foundation Trust. Please visit our updated website at kfoundation.org, where you can find a new introduction to Krishnamurti, a growing collection of articles,    a wide selection of quotes and a new index of topics for easy access to carefully selected texts and recordings. Our online store stocks all available Krishnamurti books and ships worldwide. You can also find our regular quotes and videos on Instagram, TikTok and Facebook at Krishnamurti Foundation Trust. If you enjoy the podcast, please leave a review or rating on Apple Podcasts, which helps our visibility.

‘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 1981, titled: What Is Insight? The second and final extract in this episode (22:38) is from the second talk in Saanen 1972, titled: Constant Insight Without Conclusion. Each episode of the Krishnamurti podcast is compiled from carefully chosen extracts from the archives, representing Krishnamurti’s different approaches to many of the fundamental issues and questions we all face in our lives. This week’s theme is Insight. Upcoming themes are Discipline, Spirituality, and Pain. This is a podcast from Krishnamurti Foundation Trust, based at Brockwood Park in the UK, which is also home to the Krishnamurti Retreat Centre. Situated in the beautiful countryside of the South Downs National Park, the Krishnamurti Centre offers individual and group retreats for those wishing to inquire into themselves in light of Krishnamurti’s teachings. Please visit krishnamurticentre.org.uk for more information. You can also find our regular Krishnamurti quotes and videos on Instagram, TikTok and Facebook at Krishnamurti Foundation Trust. If you enjoy the podcast, please leave a rating or review on Apple Podcasts, which helps our visibility.

‘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 sections. The first extract (2:28) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in Saanen 1983, titled: What Is the Function of the Brain? The second extract (38:16) is from the sixth talk in Madras 1979, titled: Can the Brain Only Register What Is Necessary? The final extract in this episode (47:27) is from Krishnamurti’s seventh talk in Saanen 1970, titled: Can the Brain Be Quiet? Each episode of the Krishnamurti podcast is compiled from carefully chosen extracts from our archives, representing Krishnamurti’s different approaches to fundamental issues and questions we all face in our lives. This week’s theme is The Brain. Upcoming themes are Insight, Discipline and Spirituality. This is a podcast from Krishnamurti Foundation Trust. Please visit the official YouTube channel for hundreds of advert-free full-length video and audio recordings of Krishnamurti’s talks. In addition, the Foundation’s own channel features hundreds of specially selected clips. You can also find our regular quotes and videos on Instagram, TikTok and Facebook at Krishnamurti Foundation Trust. If you enjoy the podcast, please leave a rating or review on Apple Podcasts, which helps our visibility.

‘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 (2:50) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in Bombay in 1982, titled: We Are All Selfish. The second extract (8:13) is from the first talk in Saanen 1978, titled: Why Are We So Appallingly Selfish? The third extract (33:40) is from the second question and answer meeting in Saanen 1981, titled: Total Dissipation of Selfishness. The fourth extract (42:16) is from Krishnamurti’s fifth talk in Bombay 1980, titled: Trying Not To Be Selfish Is Selfish. The final extract in this episode (51:59) is from the sixth talk in Saanen 1975, titled: Stepping Out of the Stream of Selfishness. Each episode of the Krishnamurti podcast is compiled from carefully chosen extracts from the archives, representing different approaches to many of the fundamental issues and questions that we all face in our lives. This week’s theme is Selfishness. Upcoming themes are The Brain, Insight and Discipline. This is a podcast from Krishnamurti Foundation Trust, based at Brockwood Park in Hampshire, UK. Brockwood is also home to Brockwood Park School, a unique international boarding school offering a personalised holistic education for around 70 students. It is deeply inspired by Krishnamurti’s teaching, which encourages academic excellence, self-understanding, creativity and integrity. Please visit brockwood.org.uk for more information. You can also find our regular Krishnamurti quotes and videos on Instagram, TikTok and Facebook at Krishnamurti Foundation Trust. If you enjoy the podcast, please leave a review or rating on Apple Podcasts, which helps our visibility.

‘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 (2:40) is from the second question and answer meeting at Brockwood Park in 1982, titled: The Nature of Insecurity. The second extract (17:39) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk in Bombay 1985, titled: Why Are We So Insecure? The third extract (30:06) is from the second talk in Saanen 1982, titled: Total Insecurity. The final extract in this episode (53:45) is from Krishnamurti’s second talk at Rajghat in 1962, titled: Why This Insistence To Be Secure? Each episode of the Krishnamurti podcast is compiled from carefully chosen extracts from our archives, representing different approaches to many of the fundamental issues and questions we all face in our lives. This week’s theme is Insecurity. Upcoming themes are Selfishness, The Brain, and Insight. This is a podcast from Krishnamurti Foundation Trust. Please visit our updated website at kfoundation.org, where you can find a new introduction to Krishnamurti, a growing collection of articles, a wide selection of quotes and a new index of topics for easy access to carefully selected texts and recordings. Our online store stocks all available Krishnamurti books and ships worldwide. You can also find our regular quotes and videos on Instagram, TikTok and Facebook at Krishnamurti Foundation Trust. If you enjoy the podcast, please leave a review or rating on Apple Podcasts, which helps our visibility.

‘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.’ This week’s episode on Technology has four sections. The first extract (2:49) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk at Brockwood Park in 1982, titled: Technology Is Invading Our Consciousness. The second extract (12:55) is from the first talk in Ojai 1981, titled: Is the Crisis One of Technology or Is It in Ourselves? The third extract (37:32) is from the first talk in Madras 1982, titled: Can the Brain Go in a Direction Other Than Technological? The final extract in this episode (1:04:45) is from the seventh talk in Saanen 1978, titled: Technology Stems From Measurement. Each episode of the Krishnamurti podcast is compiled from carefully chosen extracts from the archives, representing Krishnamurti’s different approaches to many of the fundamental issues and questions we all face in our lives. This week’s theme is Technology. Upcoming themes are Insecurity, Selfishness and The Brain. This is a podcast from Krishnamurti Foundation Trust, based at Brockwood Park in the UK, which is also home to the Krishnamurti Retreat Centre. Situated in the beautiful countryside of the South Downs National Park, the Krishnamurti Centre offers individual and group retreats for those wishing to inquire into themselves in light of Krishnamurti’s teachings. Please visit krishnamurticentre.org.uk for more information. You can also find our regular Krishnamurti quotes and videos on Instagram, TikTok and Facebook at Krishnamurti Foundation Trust. If you enjoy the podcast, please leave a rating or review on Apple Podcasts, which helps our visibility.

‘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 extract (2:30) is from the second talk in Saanen 1972, titled: It Is Important To Stand Completely Alone. The second extract (14:39) is from Krishnamurti’s thirteenth talk in Ojai 1949, titled: You Must Be Alone To Understand. The third extract (26:08) is from the third talk in Saanen 1962, titled: The Mind Is Alone When It Has Understood Influence. The fourth extract (38:52) is from Krishnamurti’s third talk in Madras 1964, titled: Aloneness Is Not Loneliness. The fifth extract (44:35) is from the fourth talk in London 1961, titled: In Aloneness There Is No Fear. The final extract in this episode (59:46) is from Krishnamurti’s sixth talk in Madras 1966, titled: Silence Comes Because There Is Aloneness. Each episode of the Krishnamurti podcast is compiled from carefully chosen extracts from our archives, representing Krishnamurti’s different approaches to fundamental issues and questions we all face in our lives. This week’s theme is Aloneness. Upcoming themes are Technology, Insecurity and Selfishness. This is a podcast from Krishnamurti Foundation Trust. Please visit the official YouTube channel for hundreds of advert-free full-length video and audio recordings of Krishnamurti’s talks. In addition, the Foundation’s own channel features hundreds of specially selected clips. You can also find our regular quotes and videos on Instagram, TikTok and Facebook at Krishnamurti Foundation Trust. If you enjoy the podcast, please leave a rating or review on Apple Podcasts, which helps our visibility.

‘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) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk at Brockwood Park in 1983, titled: This Is Not Intellectual Stimulation. The second extract (9:13) is from the fourth talk in New Delhi 1966, titled: Most of Us Depend on Stimulation. The third extract (21:11) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk in Ojai 1949, titled: Relationship Is Not Stimulation. The fourth extract (35:07) is from the sixth talk in Bombay 1965, titled: Is Beauty Stimulation? The final extract in this episode (42:58) is from Krishnamurti’s fifth discussion in Saanen 1965, titled: Stimulants in Any Form Dull the Mind. Each episode of the Krishnamurti podcast is compiled from carefully chosen extracts from the archives, representing different approaches to many of the fundamental issues and questions that we all face in our lives. This week’s theme is Stimulation. Upcoming themes are Aloneness, Technology and Insecurity. This is a podcast from Krishnamurti Foundation Trust, based at Brockwood Park in Hampshire, UK. Brockwood is also home to Brockwood Park School, a unique international boarding school offering a personalised holistic education for around 70 students. It is deeply inspired by Krishnamurti’s teaching, which encourages academic excellence, self-understanding, creativity and integrity. Please visit brockwood.org.uk for more information. You can also find our regular Krishnamurti quotes and videos on Instagram, TikTok and Facebook at Krishnamurti Foundation Trust. If you enjoy the podcast, please leave a review or rating on Apple Podcasts, which helps our visibility.