This was our first on-site meeting of the year and part of the Centre facility’s reopening after the winter season. We met on the grounds in front of the main house on a sunny, warm afternoon. Oda Lindner, who is joining us from Ontario for the month of April, was our facilitator. We began simply […]
This was the last of the six-part series on The Urgency of Change, entitled ‘The Religious Life’. The presenter framed K’s approach in the historical context of the clash between science and religion in the 19th century. Science dismissed religion as superstitious and philosophers proclaimed that God was dead. In contrast, the theosophists felt that […]
The presenter began the meeting by reviewing the series of The Urgency of Change and the unfolding of the universal human challenge of how to live in this world. He emphasized the central importance of awareness in meeting that challenge, as it is the factor that makes for right perception and the ending of conflict, […]
In this dialogue session the group explored the nature of meditation, the self, and states such as depression, loneliness, and inner conflict. These experiences, though deeply personal, revealed themselves as shared movements of the human mind. Is meditation a method, or is it the simple act of observing what is? The group questioned whether analysis […]
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 […]