Krishnamurti Study Group Saturday, April 2, 2016 Six people were present at the Krishnamurti Educational Centre of Canada in Metchosin to study Chapter 13 in The First and Last Freedom. The subject of the chapter was desire. K emphasizes the importance of understanding what desire is and whether it can be transformed. After some […]
“Setting Your Heart Free” Weekend Retreat with Burt Harding March 25 – 27, 2016 Burt Harding returned to the Krishnamurti Centre for the third year running to offer a weekend of exploration into the nature of who we really are and the possibility of living from and as “the Heart”. Burt was freshly energized […]
Krishnamurti Study Group Saturday, March 19, 2016 Six people gathered to read and discuss chapter 12 in The First and Last Freedom by J. Krishnamurti. The subject of the chapter was “awareness”. We began with a short guided meditation on being completely with the experience that is present without trying to change anything, then […]
Victoria Krishnamurti Event Sunday, March 13, 2016 The topic for this meeting at the Church of Truth in Victoria was “Transcending Dualistic Perception”. Five people were present as we started and two more joined us as the session progressed. We began with a video of Krishnamurti speaking at Brockwood Park about attachment and looking at […]
The Stillness Within Meetup enjoyed a recently published talk by Eckhart Tolle – a talk given in India which explored “The Arising of True Intelligence”. There were eleven of us at the event and we enjoyed some discussion on parts of the talk that resonated with each of us. Some really found that there were […]
It was an exceptional weekend retreat for the 11 of us who took part. Participants were from near and far, having poured in from across BC, as far east as Grand Prairie, Alberta with one driving up through Washington State. One of the early Eckhart Tolle talks suggested that dedicated time away from work and […]
The group was very small with a number of people away at the time of the meeting. We looked at chapter 10 “Fear” in the book The First and Last Freedom. A good discussion and group inquiry focused on different dimensions of fear. Often we talk of fear of the unknown, however Krishnamurti points out […]
At this month’s video showing at Church of Truth, there were a dozen or so in attendance and we enjoyed four videos (two were Krishnamurti talks, one was Rupert Spira, and one was Eckhart Tolle). One of the key points made was that listening is often difficult amidst a constant stream of mind-based judgements, […]
The focus of our early February book study was on the self’s struggle with ‘what is’. As K. points, the self is always in tension – always trying to escape – looking to become more ‘this’ or ‘that’ – generally moving away from ‘what is’. We came to the conclusion that in our continued self-inquiry, […]
January’s Eckhart Tolle video get-together showed a talk given by Eckhart in Belfast, Ireland. The talk explored the process of awakening of consciousness, from early egoic formation through to life after the realisation of our essential nature. The seven of us who attended found it to be an interesting and contemplative talk which emphasised (like Krishnamurti) […]