Victoria Krishnamurti Event Friday, January 5, 2018 The monthly meeting at the Church of Truth in Victoria was entitled “Self Transformation”. There were three of us in attendance on a very wet, rainy night. The session started with some discussion of J. Krishnamurti’s teachings on self-knowledge and awareness. There were several handouts available, including one […]
A dozen of us gathered for a year-end meetup, enjoying the film – Being Here – A Beginner’s Guide to Non-Duality. As a follow up from film-makers’ production of “Who’s Driving the Dream Bus“, Being Here was released in fall of 2017, capturing an ambling drive through the UK countryside as filmmakers re-visit a few […]
Krishnamurti Study Session Saturday, December 16, 2017 We continued with our study of J. Krishnamurti’s book The First and Last Freedom. Five people were present as we looked at the Q & A section 21 “On Sex.” The questioner asked how we can deal with the problem that sex seems to create in our lives. […]
At the December meetup, six of us gathered to enjoy a recent talk by Eckhart Tolle. The talk delved into the two ways of knowing: conceptual and intuitive. Eckhart emphasized that while both are necessary, in modern society we have over-valued conceptual knowledge, leading to widespread habitual or even compulsive thinking. He also suggests that […]
The Direct Path to Peace and Happiness Weekend Retreat with Rupert Spira December 8-10, 2017 This weekend retreat involved a video presentation of a retreat given in Amstersam in March of this year. The nine participants who attended our retreat were able to immerse themselves in the teaching and guidance provided by Rupert Spira, well […]
Inquiry Sunday December 3, 2017 For our morning session we showed part of a talk by Jac O’Keefe at a recent Science and Nonduality Conference in Italy and a full talk given at SAND in San Francisco. The first talk, entitled “Trust and Spirituality”, dealt with the importance of trusting one’s own intuition and insight […]
Krishnamurti Study Session Saturday, December 2, 2017 Five participants engaged in reading and discussion of Q & A # 20, “On the Conscious and Unconscious Mind,” in J. Krishnamurti’s book The First and Last Freedom. As the chapter begins, K soon dives into an elucidation of how the thinking mind is always moving between the […]
This month’s session at the Church of Truth was focused on the topic of “The New Mind”. On a dark, rainy night only one person joined me for the event. We started by watching a Krishnamurti video from the Evelyn Blau series “Beyond Myth and Tradition”. This selection was entitled “The Religious Mind” and it […]
On Remembrance Day, eleven members got together to watch and reflect on a recently released Eckhart Tolle talk. The talk focused on the tendency for human beings to derive a sense of purpose from jobs, accomplishments, appearance and roles. Eckhart pointed to an inner awareness as a path to experience a deeper truth beyond the […]
This session we looked into Q & A # 19 in The First and Last Freedom by J. Krishnamurti. The question concerned prayer as a way to God. K’s response included an investigation of prayer, concentration, and meditation. Prayer, he says, usually involves asking God to clear up the mess and confusion that we ourselves […]