The presenter began the session by citing Krishnamurti’s description of the layers of consciousness, with a first superficial level, below which is memory, under which is the will to become and, surrounding it all, a vast emptiness. The driving force is the will to become, which is an escape from the ocean of nothingness enveloping […]
In this dialogue session the group explored the question of irritation, anger and frustration in our everyday lives. These particular states are banal in their commonality and everyday occurrence; and yet universal in their bondage of us. Is it possible to understand the nature of these states more deeply and will this understanding free […]
Life is relationship. That was Krishnamurti’s basic statement, implying that all existence involves a profound network of cosmic interconnectedness. The focus of this exploration, however, fell on human relationships, which involve such aspects as love, sex, attachment and happiness. While love as the heart of relationship implies the total absence of separation, the actuality of […]
We continued our inquiry from the last session into the whole topic of consciousness. Is consciousness the description of a dimension far beyond what we can possibly comprehend; or is consciousness the term used for our conscious and unconscious living state which has been conditioned over time? Is the field of consciousness built from a […]
In this second session of the six-part series on The Urgency of Change (1970), we took up the theme of ‘Awareness’, which covered the chapter of that title and the related chapters ‘Perception’, ‘Seeing the Whole’, ‘Discipline’ and ‘Learning’. The presentation explored Krishnamurti’s teachings about awareness, perception, discipline and learning. Beginning at the superficial sensory […]
Three new friends joined our dialogue meeting: they were asked if they would open the session with possible questions to the group. In turn the group then expressed what they felt was the general approach in this group. It emerged that we were understanding Krishnamurti but also experimenting with direct observation that might reveal itself […]
In this first session of the six-part series on The Urgency of Change (1970), we took up the theme of ‘How to Live in this World’, which covered the chapter of that title and the related chapters ‘Conflict’, ‘The Individual and the Community’, ‘Suicide’ and ‘Order’. How to live in this world is a question […]
The overall theme of our dialogue session was the duality of consciousness. What exactly is that duality and one of the group asked whether the separation between observer and observed is real. Is the understanding of this duality an abstraction of the mind: in other words a mental description of duality; or, can the nature […]
We began with the directive to stay within the fertile realm of self inquiry (and resist drifting toward group therapy or therapeutic interventions on each other). We did this by reminding ourselves: “Whenever any of us feel tempted to do an intervention on another participant (such as inviting them to consider something OUR way instead […]
The dialogue session began with questions around being watched by others which includes an impression of self-consciousness. This led us to consider the difference between self-consciousness and self-awareness. When we say we are watching ourselves or others, is there a sense of a “watcher” present? Are we judging ourselves or are we attempting to figure […]