Approaches to Individual Transformation: Buddhism, Krishnamurti, and A Course in Miracles Professor Emeritus Theodore Kneupper Ted Kneupper, former professor of Philosophy at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania, led a weekend exploration into the perspectives and practices offered by three different teachings that have had a real impact in the world of self transformation. […]
Krishnamurti Study Group Saturday, July 16, 2016 This session we looked into chapter 17 in The First and Last Freedom, “The Function of the Mind”. K speaks of the importance of looking at ourselves without judgement and without opinions about how things “should” be. When we look through thought we enter a process […]
For those who might be interested in the upcoming retreat that discusses the similarities between K’s perspective, a Buddhist view and ACIM I did the Course a few years ago, and I really enjoy Paul’s NonDual perspective on ACIM. https://youtu.be/tq5sga_EFZE
The Stillness Within Meetup at the end of June was attended by a small group of five. The gathering profiled a talk given by Eckhart Tolle at a retreat in Norway in the fall of 2015. He noted that each of us is a one-of-a-kind yet indivisible part of the greater whole, and explored how it […]
Inquiry Sunday Sunday, July 3, 2016 For the morning session six of us listened to a forty-minute audio presentation of Adyashanti in conversation with a member of his organization. The topic of discussion was “True Love”. Adya started off commenting on the duality of good and evil and the field of consciousness beyond them both. […]
Krishnamurti Study Group Saturday, July 2, 2016 Four people showed up on the Saturday of the holiday weekend to explore the last half of chapter 16 in The First and Last Freedom by J. Krishnamurti. The subject of the chapter was “Can Thinking Solve Our Problems?” K goes into the limited nature of all thought […]
Krishnamurti Study Group Saturday, June 18, 2016 Four people met to study chapter 16 in The First and Last Freedom by J. Krishnamurti. The chapter is entitled “Can Thinking Solve Our Problems?” and K gives an unequivocal answer: No. The more we think about a problem, he says, the more complex it becomes. Realizing […]
Victoria Krishnamurti Event Church of Truth Sunday, June 12, 2016 Seven people gathered on Sunday afternoon at the Church of Truth in Victoria to consider the topic “The Art of Meditation.” We began with a reading on meditation from Krishnamurti’s book Freedom from the Known, followed by a fifteen minute silent sit where we looked […]
What Is Awareness? June 10 – 12, 2016 Ashwani Kumar, Associate Professor at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, joined us for the third year running to present a weekend workshop entitled “What Is Awareness?” A small group of seven were present for the event beginning on Friday evening. Ashwani immediately stated that his […]
Krishnamurti Study Group Saturday, June 4, 2016 Five people attended the session today in which we studied chapter 15 of The First and Last Freedom. The chapter is titled “The thinker and the Thought”. It explores the fallacy of believing that there is a thinker, an entity or person, separate from the thinking process which can act […]