The February UVic meet-up brought eight of us together for quietness and ponderous readings from Krishnamurti’s Notebook. This was new material for almost everyone in the group and the absolute poetic beauty of K’s day-to-day observations had a reverberating affect within many of us. We reflected on Krishnamurti’s intimate descriptions of his moments in a […]
Krishnamurti Study Session Sunday, March 1, 2020 At KECC For the March 1 study session there were four in attendance. The text for study was The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti. In David’s absence Laurie facilitated the group and sent in the following report. “We read and discussed the February 7 entry, “When […]
Krishnamurti Study Session Sunday, February 16, 2020 At KECC I, David, was absent for this session. Bill Brown stood in for me and here is his brief report on the group’s reading of the February 6 entry in The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti. Three people were present for the meeting. “We discussed […]
The January 24th UVic Stillness Within “Waking Up” meet up was well attended by nine people. The topic – waking up – was very provocative we looked at what it means (e.g. spiritual awakening, enlightenment, self-realization, liberation and many other definitions). There was a fulsome discussion of how that happens for people, different spiritual teachers’ […]
Krishnamurti Study Session February 2, 2020 At KECC These study sessions focus on The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti. In David’s absence the study session was led by Laurie. Here is her report. “There were six of us at the reading group today. Three of the people were on their first visit to […]
Krishnamurti Study Session Sunday, January 19, 2020 At KECC There were three of us in attendance for this Sunday morning meeting to study The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti. Our selection was the February 3 entry entitled “Can the Crude Mind Become Sensitive?” It was suggested by David at the beginning that this […]
Approaches to Self-Inquiry Sunday, January 12, 2020 At KECC There were five participants present for this Sunday afternoon meeting at the Krishnamurti Centre in Metchosin. We watched a video presentation by JC Tefft entitled “Consciousness: The Last Frontier”, the first in a series of three video presentations by the same author. The presentation was about […]
Exploring Awareness Sunday, January 5, 2020 At KECC Nine of us were present for this Sunday afternoon session at the Gatehouse. The meeting began with a short description of some aspects of Krishnamurti’s teachings which then led into a meditation guided by David inviting an experience of what K calls “choiceless awareness.” The guidance alternated […]
Krishnamurti Study Session Sunday, January 5, 2020 At KECC Five people were in attendance for this Sunday morning meeting to study The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti. We began with reading the February 1 entry entitled “Becoming is Strife”, in which K points out that becoming is a constant struggle, pain, and strife. […]
Krishnamurti Study Session Sunday, December 15, 2019 At KECC There were just two of us present for this Sunday morning meeting. The book we are studying is The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti, and the selection was the January 31 entry entitled “Relationship is a Mirror”. Self-knowledge, K says, “comes into being when […]