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.” […]
Inquiry Sunday KECC April 1, 2018 Our morning session featured a video of Shakti Catarina Maggi speaking at the most recent Science and Nonduality Conference in San Francisco on the topic of embodiment. A student of Rupert Spira, Catarina integrates awareness as our true nature with being intimately present with our every experience. Her suggestions […]