The July Eckhart Tolle Meetup was set against the backdrop of a light summer drizzle, refreshing after such warm weather this summer. The talk focused on the egoic identity that seems to want problems in order to thrive. Eckhart described how the ‘self-identity’ can be somewhat addicted to thinking and in particular, projecting forward, looking […]
Inquiry Sunday Sunday, July 5, 2015 A small group of four people showed up for the Sunday event. The morning session included two videos by Dorothy Hunt, a non-dual psychotherapist and student of Adyashanti, and Rick Linchitz, a former doctor and cancer researcher who was himself diagnosed with and died from cancer. Both talks were […]
Krishnamurti Study Group Saturday, July 4, 2015 The topic of study this week was chapter 6 in Krishnamurti’s classic The First and Last Freedom. The chapter looks into the issue of belief and asks some challenging question of the reader, such as “Can you as an individual be free from this urge, this […]
Thanks once again to KECC for hosting our get-together. The June video talk was engaging – attended by 10 or so of us, we heard Eckhart explore the true power of deep surrender to ‘what is’. He talked about noise or internal judgements that we sometimes carry, and how it can prevent or fetter our […]
Krishnamurti Study Group Saturday, June 20, 2015 Six people gathered to explore chapter 6 in The First and Last Freedom by J. Krishnamurti. The topic of the chapter is “Belief” and K begins by stating that he is not attacking beliefs but rather questioning why we seem to need them and what our […]
The past lives in our minds. It dictates our experience of the present from a very powerful position, operating as the very self we identify as “I”. This I is like an impostor from within our own consciousness, claiming our life experiences for its own and distorting them based on its conditioning. We see the world […]
Krishnamurti Video Event in Victoria Sunday, June 14, 2015 The subject of the video and dialogue event at The Church of Truth in Victoria this month was “Dealing with Difficult Emotions”. Eight people attended the meeting. We began with an excerpt of an Ojai talk by Krishnamurti in which he focused mainly on fear but […]
Yesterday, I attended David Bruneau’s video showing of one of J Krishnamurti’s talks on what seems like K’s favourite topic “fear.” The discussion that ensued after brought to light that perhaps the most primary and widespread fear is the fear of death and it brought up thoughts of a famous Zen Master on his deathbed… […]
Krishnamurti Study Group Saturday, June 6, 2015 Five of us gathered on a beautiful Saturday afternoon to continue with the study of Chapter 5 in the Krishnamurti book The First and Last Freedom. The chapter explores the subject of Action and Idea and proposes the question of acting without any concepts or thinking, […]
Can freedom come from control? The very nature of bondage is control, and yet most of us seek freedom through greater and greater control in our lives. Is there a link between psychological suffering and the pervasive need to feel that we are in control? History repeats itself, every single day. When we watch ourselves—when […]