Meditation and Inner Freedom A Weekend Retreat with Dr. Ashwani Kumar May 25-27, 2018 Dr. Ashwani Kumar is currently a professor of Education at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax. He has been seriously engaged with J. Krishnamurti’s work for more than 14 years and has spoken at Krishnamurti schools and study centers in the […]
Earlier in May, Stillness Within members were able to share an extraordinary Eckhart Tolle talk: The Deeper I Thanks to Suzanne Stewart for hosting a great gathering and preparing the summary below! After a few minutes of shared stillness, we watched in awed presence as Eckhart introduced his “Deeper I.” He starts with “the […]
Krishnamurti Study Session Saturday, May 19, 2018 Five participants gathered at the Krishnamurti Educational Centre in Metchosin to study Q & A # 29, “Truth and Lie”, in the book The First and Last Freedom by J. Krishnamurti. It was a lovely day, enabling us to sit on the grass in front of the main […]
Sunday May 13th, 2018 One Seamless, Intimate, Indivisible Substance In today’s audio, Rupert led us through a series of contemplations involving hearing, seeing and thinking. Through these exercises we came to realize the unreality of the mind-identified world and that reality emanates from awareness alone. Everything we experience is simply a modulation of […]
Krishnamurti Study Session Saturday, May 5, 2018 Three people gathered to study the book The First and Last Freedom by J. Krishnamurti. The chapter for study this week was Q & A #28 “On the Known and the Unknown”. The question asked of K is as follows: “Our mind knows only the known. What is […]
This week’s text for study was from The First and Last Freedom by J. Krishnamurti, Q & A # 27, “On Naming.” We had finished half way through the chapter in our previous meeting. The focus is on the process of naming a feeling or an emotion and thereby reducing it to an abstraction. K […]
Spirituality East and West – Krishnamurti and Gurdjieff Weekend Retreat with Ravi Ravindra April 13 – 15, 2018 For the sixth consecutive year Ravi Ravindra offered a weekend retreat at the Krishnamurti Educational Centre of Canada. A Ph. D and former professor of physics and philosophy, Ravi resides in Halifax. The retreat opened with a […]
In this chapter, Rupert discusses three possibilities for ourselves—(1) to be a body and a mind (2) to be the witness of the body-mind world, or (3) to be pure Knowing—not just the witness of all experience but the substance of which it is made. In today’s audio, he led us into a contemplation […]
Krishnamurti Study Session Saturday, April 7, 2018 The chapter for study in this meeting was Q & A # 27, “On Naming.” Before looking into the chapter in the Krishnamurti book The First and Last Freedom, the three participants had a spontaneous conversation about the self, the idea of doership, and awareness. K’s frequent saying […]
Krishnamurti Victoria Event Church of Truth Friday, April 6, 2018 The subject of this month’s meeting was “Awareness”. Three people were present at the Church of Truth to watch a video from the “Beyond Myth and Tradition” series by Evelyn Blau featuring selections from J. Krishnamurti’s talks and interviews. The episode was entitled “Choiceless Awareness.” […]