Stillness Within meetup – Krishnamurti on Love (Part 2) We continued at the February meetup to reflect on K’s “Freedom from the Known” chapter on Love. The chapter continued from the previous month’s explorations of what love is not… with Krishnamurti emphasizing that some expressions that we tend to think of as love often involve […]
Krishnamurti Book Study Session March 3rd, 2019 KECC In David’s absence this session was facilitated by Rick Mickelson, whose report follows. In Attendance—Seven participants: Rick M, Rick R, Bill, Laurie, Angelique, Katherine, and a woman staying in the Gatehouse who did not sign the Guest Book. Today we read the passages from J. Krishnamurti’s text […]
Report for the Rupert Spira Session—February 10th, 2019. In this chapter, Rupert advises us to be knowingly the open, empty, luminous space of Awareness in which all experience arises. He makes a critical distinction at this point—the difference between thinking and experiencing. Thoughts tell us that a separate self exists and is made out of […]
Krishnamurti Study Session Sunday, February 3, 2019 Krishnamurti Educational Centre of Canada The session was facilitated by Laurie Sthamaan in David’s abscence. Her report follows. “Three of us met today to read the meditation (Jan 4) “Listening Without Thought” in J. Krishnamurti’s The Book of Life. We had a most lively and invigorating dialogue, going […]
The first meetup of 2019 was a really enjoyable exploration and book study! We pondered many reflections and insights as we read through the first part of Krishnamurti’s writings on “Love” in Freedom From the Known. Highlights from our reading and reflection are captured here: * We think we know what love is but […]
Krishnamurti Study Session Sunday, January 20, 2019 At Krishnamurti Educational Centre of Canada Seven participants were in attendance for this Sunday morning session at the Centre in Metchosin. We began the study of the Krishnamurti text, The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti. The first selections for the month of January focus on the […]
Approaches to Self-Inquiry Sunday, January 13, 2019 KECC Five people were in attendance for this Sunday afternoon session at the Centre in Metchosin. Ralph had purchased a feature-length movie entitled Closer than Close, which followed some of the process of a group of young men and women who were meeting over a period of time […]
Report for the Rupert Spira Session—January 13th, 2019 Chapter 23—The Open, Empty, Transparent Body In Attendance—Rick, Katherine, Charlene, Jim In this morning’s audio, Rupert took us deep into the body in a profound contemplation meant to reveal that our experience, if we stay with it, shows us the way to realization. It is the realization […]
Exploring Awareness January 6, 2019 Krishnamurti Educational Centre of Canada This afternoon session was attended by nine people. The purpose of these “Exploring Awareness” meetings is to invite an experiential understanding or direct experience of what the “choiceless awareness” spoken of by J. Krishnamurti actually is, and thereby to help activate the kind of transformation […]
Krishnamurti Study Session Sunday, January 6, 2019 Krishnamurti Educational Centre of Canada Six people were in attendance for this morning session. The chapter for study was Q & A # 38 from J. Krishnamurti’s book The First and Last Freedom, entitled “On Transformation”. The questioner asked Krishnamurti “What do you mean by transformation?” K begins […]