Victoria Krishnamurti Event July 7, 2017 This month’s meeting at the Church of Truth focused on the topic “Observing Without the Observer.” Four people were in attendance as we began with a sixteen minute video clip of Krishnamurti speaking at Brockwood Park on August 28, 1979. He approached the issue of attachment and began by […]
Preparing the Ground for Meditation Weekend Reteat with Dr. Ashwani Kumar July 7 – 9 Krishnamurti Educational Centre of Canada 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 […]
Our morning session, attended by six people, focused on viewing a video of Gangaji on the topic of “Unravelling the Knot of Suffering”. It was made in 2002, but the subject matter was timeless in looking at the basic causes of suffering and the remedy for the condition. The issue of suffering was approached in […]
Canada Day was celebrated by four participants with an exploration of Q & A # 11 in J. Krishnamurti’s book The First and Last Freedom. The subject of the chapter was “On Fear” and began with looking at the idea of attempting to get rid of fear. Whatever is overcome has to be overcome again […]
A lovely Saturday afternoon welcomed 8 of us to Swanwick Centre for a series of group exercises or experiments in sensing and falling into awareness in deeper ways. The group who came together had walked many paths but all shared a passion for discovery, sharing and deepening into stillness or presence (we all gravitate to […]
DEFINITIONS SIMPLY DO NOT APPLY! Review of the Skype session with Darryl Bailey – Sunday June 25, 2017 On behalf of Robert Keegan, this post is an attempt to define the happening that we call a Skype session with a so-called nondual teacher/speaker labelled Darryl Bailey. The session started with Darryl guiding the participants through […]
Krishnamurti Study Group Saturday, June 17, 2017 This session we looked into Chapter # 10 in the Q & A section of The First and Last Freedom. The chapter was entitled “On War”. We first explored why such a topic might be relevant to our daily lives even though we are not actually […]
The June Stillness Within Meetup…. Brought 12 people together to enjoy a recorded talk by Eckhart Tolle which drew out many themes that resonated with the group. The Denver talk explored the many ways that stillness invites us in – both in the small day to day joys but also in the more challenging expressions […]
Krishnamurti Study Group Saturday, June 3, 2017 Five people were in attendance for the study session. We looked into the second half of Q & A chapter 9, ‘On Relationship”. According to K, the real value of relationship is in revealing ourselves to ourselves. If we are seeking comfort and gratification in our relationships […]
Inquiry Sunday June 4, 2017 Our morning session began with a video featuring Fred Davis and entitled “Truth, Dream, and the Teaching”. He began by relating that most seekers tell him that they understand the idea “Oneness” intellectually but are not actually experiencing it. He said that in this realm everything is backwards from the […]