The Krishnamurti Collection
The Krishnamurti Collection is an official podcast by Krishnamurti Foundation Trust. Across this wide selection of events, from public talks to in-depth conversations, Krishnamurti explores fundamental questions of human existence: the nature of thought, fear and desire; the roots of conflict and conditioning; and whether the mind can be free – questions that touch our daily lives and relationships. Each episode of the podcast features a full-length Krishnamurti recording from the Foundation’s archives, with a new series released every week. Krishnamurti is widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers and teachers of all time. For seven decades, he spoke to large audiences around the world, as well as with notable individuals and small groups. Krishnamurti stressed that ‘There is hope in humanity, not in society, not in systems, not in organised religious systems, but in you and in me.’ This podcast sits alongside 'Urgency of Change: The Krishnamurti Podcast', which features carefully curated extracts on over 200 topics. The Krishnamurti Collection, by contrast, makes complete recordings available in a convenient format, preserving the unedited, natural unfolding of each talk. Established by Krishnamurti in 1968, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust is a non-profit charity based at Brockwood Park in the UK, which is also home to The Krishnamurti Centre and Brockwood Park School. To learn more about our activities and retreat programmes, and to donate, please visit: Krishnamurti Foundation Trust: kfoundation.org The Krishnamurti Centre: krishnamurticentre.org.uk Brockwood Park School: brockwood.org.uk Newsletter: kfoundation.org/newsletter Donations: kfoundation.org/donate Get in touch at podcast@kfoundation.org Please consider leaving a review, which helps the visibility of the podcast.
Episodes
Krishnamurti: A Wholly Different Way of Living San Diego 1974, Conversations with Allan W. Anderson 1/18: Knowledge and the Transformation of Man
Q: Is there freedom in knowledge?
It is our business as human beings to realize the enormous suffering, misery, confusion in the world. Do we realize with all seriousness our responsibility to the whole of mankind?
Do we see the basic factor that we are the world, that the world is not se...
Krishnamurti: A Wholly Different Way of Living San Diego 1974, Conversations with Allan W. Anderson 2/18: Knowledge and Conflict in Human Relationships
Q: What place has knowledge in relationship?
There must be freedom from the known, otherwise the known is merely the repetition of the past, the tradition, the image.
The observer is tradition, the past, the conditioned mind that looks at things, at itself, at the world.
When the ob...
Krishnamurti: A Wholly Different Way of Living San Diego 1974, Conversations with Allan W. Anderson 3/18: What Is Communication With Others?
Q: What does it mean to be serious?
In the word ‘communication’ is implied the art of listening.
Listening demands a quality of attention in which there is a real sense of having an insight as we go along, each second.
Communication implies that we must be at the same level at the ...
Krishnamurti: A Wholly Different Way of Living San Diego 1974, Conversations with Allan W. Anderson 4/18: What Is a Responsible Human Being?
Q: What is responsibility in human relationship?
What is your responsibility for human growth, human culture, human goodness? What is your responsibility to the earth?
When you feel responsible for a child there is a flowering of real affection and care and you don't train him or condition him...
Krishnamurti: A Wholly Different Way of Living San Diego 1974, Conversations with Allan W. Anderson 5/18: Order Comes From the Understanding of Our Disorder
Q: What is order in freedom?
Unless we understand the nature and structure of disorder we can never find out what is order. How has the whole phenomenon of disorder come about?
Is order something imposed, a discipline, which is conformity, suppression, imitation? Is order accep...
Krishnamurti: A Wholly Different Way of Living San Diego 1974, Conversations with Allan W. Anderson 6/18: The Nature and Total Eradication of Fear
Q: Can the mind be free of fear?
Physical fears and psychological fears are interrelated. There are conscious as well as unconscious fears.
The racial fears, the fears that society has taught me, the fears that the family has imposed, all those crawling, ugly, brutal things that are hidd...
Krishnamurti: A Wholly Different Way of Living San Diego 1974, Conversations with Allan W. Anderson 7/18: Understanding, Not Controlling, Desire
Q: What is pleasure? What is desire?
We are not condemning pleasure but observing it. To go into the question of pleasure one has to look into desire. Through propaganda desire is inflamed.
What is desire? How does it come about that this very strong desire is born, cultivated? Must desire...
Krishnamurti: A Wholly Different Way of Living San Diego 1974, Conversations with Allan W. Anderson 8/18: Does Pleasure Bring Happiness?
Q: What relationship has pleasure to joy? Is pleasure happiness?
Is there any relationship between pleasure and enjoyment? What is pleasure and what keeps it going? What is the pursuit, the constant direction of it?
A single tree standing on the hill. You see that it is really beautiful, the flowe...
Krishnamurti: A Wholly Different Way of Living San Diego 1974, Conversations with Allan W. Anderson 9/18: Sorrow, Passion and Beauty
Q: What is beauty?
We are becoming more and more artificial, superficial and verbal. Has man lost touch with nature? Has he lost the delicacy, the sensitivity of the mind, heart and body?
What is beauty? Must it be expressed? Does it need the word, the stone, the colour, the paint, or is it some...
Krishnamurti: A Wholly Different Way of Living San Diego 1974, Conversations with Allan W. Anderson 10/18: The Art of Listening
Q: What is seeing? What is listening? What is learning?
Do we see actually or through a screen darkly, through a screen of prejudice, a screen of our experiences, wishes, pleasures, fears, between us and the object of perception? Do we ever see the thing at all?
Does the act of listening bring about comple...
Krishnamurti: A Wholly Different Way of Living San Diego 1974, Conversations with Allan W. Anderson 11/18: Being Hurt and Hurting Others
Q: What is a religious life?
The word ‘religion’ means gathering together all energy, at all levels, so that it will bring about great attention. Can the mind be so totally attentive that the unnameable comes into being?
What is the quality, structure, nature of a mind, and therefore o...
Krishnamurti: A Wholly Different Way of Living San Diego 1974, Conversations with Allan W. Anderson 12/18: Love, Sex and Pleasure
Q: What is love?
Is love pleasure, the expression of desire? Is love the fulfilment of sexual appetite?
Is love the pursuit of a desired end? Is love a thing that can be cultivated?
Love has been identified with sex which means, basically, with pleasure. Why have we made sex such an enormous, fanta...
Krishnamurti: A Wholly Different Way of Living San Diego 1974, Conversations with Allan W. Anderson 13/18: A Different Way of Living
Q: What is living?
What actually is existence, living, this whole field of man's endeavour to better himself, not only in the technological world but also psychologically? Man wants to be different, he wants to be more than he is.
Isn't the way we live most impractical, an insane way of living, destru...
Krishnamurti: A Wholly Different Way of Living San Diego 1974, Conversations with Allan W. Anderson 14/18: Death, Life and Love Are Indivisible
Q: What is death?
If one is not frightened then what is death? What is it one is frightened of in death? Is it of losing the content of consciousness?
Death becomes living when the content of consciousness, which makes its own frontier, its own limitations, comes to an end. Can that content...
Krishnamurti: A Wholly Different Way of Living San Diego 1974, Conversations with Allan W. Anderson 15/18: Religion, Authority and Education - Part 1
Q: What is religion?
In the West and the East, in the world of Islam, Buddhism or Christianity the same principle goes on, worshipping an image which has been created. It is the human being that has created the image. Can the mind observe this phenomenon and see its own demand for sec...
Krishnamurti: A Wholly Different Way of Living San Diego 1974, Conversations with Allan W. Anderson 16/18: Religion, Authority and Education - Part 2
How am I to inquire into religion?
What is religion, what is God, what is immortality, what is beauty? Can the mind put aside totally the structure of thought with regard to religion?
Can the mind be free of the authority of another, however divine or not divine? Can the mind put away...
Krishnamurti: A Wholly Different Way of Living San Diego 1974, Conversations with Allan W. Anderson 17/18: Meditation, a Quality of Attention That Pervades All of One’s Life
Q: What is meditation?
Do we accept the orthodox, traditional, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi meditation, or could we put away all that and ask: what is meditation?
To start from not knowing what meditation is, then I'm free to flow in the inquiry.
Is m...
Krishnamurti: A Wholly Different Way of Living San Diego 1974, Conversations with Allan W. Anderson 18/18: Meditation and the Sacred Mind
Q: What place has will in meditation?
Can you be choicelessly aware of this movement of desire, control, will, action?
What is space? Do we have space? Can the mind have space? When the mind is occupied with family, business, God, drink, sex, is there space? When knowledge occupies the whole fiel...
Krishnamurti: Meditation Is the Total Release of Energy Brockwood Park 1971, Public Meetings 1/6: Being Free of the Deepest Conditioning
Can man ever be free, not only of the superficial conditioning of a particular culture, but also of the much deeper conditioning, of which most of us are unconscious?
The demand for psychological security is much deeper than the demand for physiological security.
How is thought to function beautif...
Krishnamurti: Meditation Is the Total Release of Energy Brockwood Park 1971, Public Meetings 2/6: Action Without the Authority of the Image
Can we have a relationship, and therefore co-operation, without the authority of the image?
How am I consciously to examine all the images which lie hidden in the recesses of my mind?
Q: If the mind is in a state of disorder, what can it do?
When there is no observer in attention there is no im...
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