About 12 or so seekers gathered to enjoy an interview with Elizabeth Lesser, one of the founders of the Omega Institute where Eckhart was offering a retreat. There was a lighthearted talk about creating conscious communities, activism, and some very interesting and humorous stories about the making of A New Earth live broadcast with Oprah […]
“Secret of the Heart”, Part 2 On Saturday and Sunday Burt focused in turn on the rest of the K quote: not trying to change what you are, and the transformation that occurs. He also spoke of love and the barriers to its full emergence. We are generally seeking safety, love and […]
Weekend Retreat with Burt Harding “The Secret of the Heart” March 27 – 29, 2015 Twenty participants (including the facilitators) took part in this weekend retreat with Burt Harding, a spiritual teacher from Vancouver. Burt has been a physiotherapist and hypnotherapist and has had a long experience with the teachings of Ramana […]
On the golf course is my favourite place to practice. Both my golf game and mind game. Today, as seems to be the ‘usual’ Plan, I was able to play the front nine by myself. For whatever reason, to me, being on the golf course is a perfect setting for practicing ‘seeing’ or two-way attention. […]
Inquiry Sunday Afternoon Event In the afternoon a Krishnamurtij video was shown from the Evelyn Blau series Beyond Myth and Tradition. The topic was “Choiceless Awareness”, and K spoke of the quality of attention needed for a significant transformation to take place in the human psyche. Afterwards participants questioned whether K […]
Inquiry Sunday Sunday, March 22, 2015. Five people gathered for the Sunday event held in the meditation room. The morning session started with a video of Rupert Spira entitled The Transparency of Things: Contemplating the Nature of Experience. In this interview he guides us through various explorations of our actual experience […]
Krishnamurti Study Group Saturday, March 21, 2015 The warm and sunny weather allowed us to sit outside for the K study meeting, attended by four people seriously interested in looking at ourselves and possibly gaining significant insight into our own minds and hearts. We used the last part of Chapter 2 […]
Dialogue Group Meeting Sunday, March 15, 2015 Five people met at the Swanwick Centre for an afternoon of unstructured dialoguing. Lynn was not able to facilitate due to a cold, so by default I, David, became the leaderless leader. On the drive to the Centre I had been thinking about my […]
Victoria Video and Dialogue Sunday, March 8, 2015 On a beautiful Sunday afternoon eight participants showed up for a session held at the Church of Truth in Victoria. These meetings are structured around material from the Krishnamurti book Freedom From the Known and this month we were looking at the topic […]
Krishnamurti Study Group Saturday, March 7, 2015 Five people gathered on another sunny day to continue with the study of the Krishnamurti book The First and Last Freedom. Again we were able to sit outside and enjoy the lovely setting, with the ocean and mountain views, the trees, and the sounds of […]