Beauty and Sensitivity in a Troubled World November 20 – 22, 2020 Zoom Online This retreat was led by Cynthia Overweg from Ojai, California, where she has been involved with the work of the Krishnamurti Foundation of America. The three-session retreat consisted of three Zoom meetings of one and a half hours each which […]
Self Study Meeting Sunday, November 15, 2020 Zoom online This Sunday morning meeting online was attended by 16 participants, all included. We continued with a question asked by Mukesh in his presentation a week previously: “Is There a Completely Different Way of Living?” The Self Study Meetings have been using The Book of Life: […]
The Urgency of Change Dialogue Group Meeting Sunday, November 8, 2020 Zoom online A few members of the group could not attend our gathering this time, resulting in a meeting of five participants. Our focus was on the chapter entitled “Discipline” in the Krishnamurti book The Urgency of Change. As well as some references to […]
Is There a Different Way of Living in This World of Confusion and Uncertainty? With Mukesh Gupta November 7, 2020, online This was the last in a series of eight presentations by Mukesh Gupta on the general topic of “Meditative Self-Inquiry” which began in July and took place twice a month. Twenty-three people in total […]
Self Study Meeting Sunday November 1, 2020 Zoom online Eleven of us joined this Sunday morning meeting via Zoom. Our focus was the study of the July readings from The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti. The entries were excerpts from K’s teachings on happiness and suffering: how to access the former and […]
Self Study Meeting Sunday, October 18, 2020 Zoom online We had sixteen people present for this meeting. The usual format of the group is to start with readings from The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti and to discuss what insights and questions have been awakened by the study of the readings assigned […]
Meditative Self-Inquiry with Mukesh Gupta Saturday, October 17, 2020 Zoom online There were twenty people in attendance, all included, for this presentation by Mukesh Gupta, who was himself in Varanasi, India. The title of the talk and dialogue was “What Prevents Us from Living Fully Now?” Mukesh began, after a short silent meditation, by […]
The Urgency of Change Dialogue Group Tuesday, October 13, 2020 Zoom online Five participants were able to attend this weekday meeting of the group which has now been functioning for nine months. We have been using the Krishnamurti book The Urgency of Change to focus our inquiry and to keep us close to K’s […]
Self Study Meeting October 7, 2020 Zoom online Present: 9 This was the make-up meeting for one that had to be postponed on October 4 due to technical difficulties. The topic was meditation in daily life, which was introduced by Mukesh’s presentation on Saturday and also through readings from […]
Meditative Self-Inquiry with Mukesh Gupta Saturday, October 3, 2020 Zoom online This was the sixth of eight presentations by Mukesh on various aspects of Self-Inquiry, with an emphasis on J. Krishnamurti’s teachings on the same subject. In total there were 23 participants for the online session which was broadcast from Varanasi, India. This presentation […]