Awareness In Daily Life January 22 – 24, 2016 This weekend retreat was designed to invite as much as possible a concrete experience of living as non-dual awareness. It was facilitated by Lynne Walker and David Bruneau, both of whom have been working at the Krishnamurti Educational Centre of Canada for some years […]
Krishnamurti Study Group Saturday, January 16, 2016 A small group of three were present for this session. We were reading from chapter 10 in The First and Last Freedom by J. Krishnamurti entitled “Fear”. The participants were regular inquirers who immediately jumped into the topic at some depth. We looked closely at how thought […]
Victoria Event Sunday, January 10, 2016 The monthly meeting at the Church of Truth was attended by nine people. We began with a short video of Krishnamurti speaking on love from the Evelyn Blau series Beyond Myth and Tradition. He asked a number of questions about love, inquiring if love is pleasure or desire, and […]
Krishnamurti Study Group Saturday, January 2, 2016 Four of us, all very regular participants in these K study sessions, met to continue exploring chapter ten in The First and Last Freedom. The reading of the text quickly stimulated some dialogue about the subject of fear in relation to Krishnamurti’s words equating fear with the […]
Inquiry Sunday January 3, 2016 The morning session was a showing of an interview with Peter Dziuban, author of Consciousness is All, conducted by Chris Hebard of Stillness Speaks. Chris does an excellent job of drawing out his interview subjects in ways that highlight their teachings in a clear manner. The talk with Peter, […]
The New Beginnings Non-Duality Weekend was timely for many who attended. After the festive season gatherings, hosting, visiting, eating and shopping, the event was a welcome chance to unplug and restore. There were 28 people in total who attended over the two days, from three different Meetup groups (New Beginnings Non-Duality group; the Stillness Within group and […]
Krishnamurti Study Group Saturday, December 19, 2015 We continued with the study of Krishnamurti’s The First and Last Freedom at the centre in Metchosin. We began in the middle of chapter ten, on the topic of fear, and immediately entered a deep sharing of what it has meant to us to go beyond self […]
This was a weekend based on a retreat in Amsterdam last spring. We showed five videos which included guided meditations and talks by Rupert as well as his responses to questions posed by the Amsterdam retreat participants. We had our own group discussions and time for quiet contemplation and walks in nature. The wild, windy […]
Krishnamurti Study Group Saturday, December 5, 2015 This week we were studying chapter ten in The First and Last Freedom by J. Krishnamurti. The topic of the chapter is fear, and K looks at different aspects of it while pointing to the central factors which create and maintain fear in us. One of these is […]
For the November Stillness Within meetup gathering, there were 9 of us who enjoyed this final talk from Eckhart Tolle’s 2014 Australian retreat. The talk explored the tendency for life to be in constant change and strategies for meeting particularly challenging times head on. These can be potential opportunity for deeper states of awakening. Many of us, upon returning […]