‘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 () is from Krishnamurti’s seventh talk in Saanen 1961, and is titled: Positive and Negative Thinking.

Each episode of the Krishnamurti podcast is based on a significant theme of his talks. Extracts have been carefully selected to represent Krishnamurti’s different approaches to these universal and timeless topics. This episode’s theme is Thinking. Upcoming themes are Sensitivity, The Scientific and Religious Mind, and Organisations.

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‘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 talk in London 1961, and is titled: Respectability and Conditioning.

Each episode of the Krishnamurti podcast is based on a significant theme of his talks. Extracts from the archives have been selected to represent Krishnamurti’s different approaches to these universal and timelessly relevant topics. This episode’s theme is Respectability. Upcoming themes are Thinking, Sensitivity and The Scientific and Religious Mind.

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‘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 Movement of the Past Meets the ‘Now’.

The final extract in this episode (1:04:49) is from a direct recording by Krishnamurti in 1970, and is titled: Ending the Movement of Association.

Each episode of the Krishnamurti podcast is based on a significant theme of his talks. Extracts from the archives have been selected to represent Krishnamurti’s different approaches to these universal and timelessly relevant topics. This episode’s theme is Movement. Upcoming topics are Respectability, Thinking and Sensitivity.

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