Inquiry Sunday July 6, 2014 Afternoon Session Six people met to view a DVD of Krishnamurti in the Evelyn Blau series, this one entitled “What is the Religious Mind?” Krishnamurti spoke on what is not religion, not the sacred, and the necessity of putting aside what it is not. What is left […]
Krishnamurti Study Group Saturday, July 5, 2014 Ten people participated in the study session, again based on the text Freedom From the Known. Chapter 13 is focused on thinking and understanding the beginning of thought, among other topics. After reading some of the chapter we took some quiet time to explore within ourselves […]
Krishnamurti Video Showing Victoria, June 8, 2014 The public Krishnamurti video showing and dialogue for the month of June in Victoria was held at the Church of Truth location on Superior Street. Twelve people attended the presentation of an interview from 1981 wherein a British BBC personality, Bernard Levin, spoke with K […]
Krishnamurti Study Group Saturday, June7, 2014 This week we studied Chapter 12 in Freedom From the Known. The subject was “The Observer and the Observed”, one of the topics that K speaks of most frequently in his talks and which seems to be very central to his inquiry into the nature of […]
“We see a rainbow, but what we have is drops of rain and light—a process. Similarly, what we ‘see’ is a self; but what we actually have is a whole lot of thoughts going on in consciousness. Against the backdrop of consciousness we are projecting a self, rather than a rainbow. If you walk toward the rainbow you will never get […]
Inquiry Sunday June 1, 2014 In the afternoon session of our Inquiry Sunday on June 1 eight people attended the showing of Krishnamurti speaking on “Love: The Flame Without Smoke”. It was a half hour video in the Evelyn Blau series “Beyond Myth and Tradition”. The main thrust of K’s treatment of […]
Krishnamurti Study Group Saturday, May 24, 2014 A small group of four gathered for the study session, which focused on the second half of chapter 11 in Freedom From the Known. The main topics of the chapter are looking and listening, which Krishnamurti treats as the same. He also goes into the nature […]
I returned to Swanwick this past weekend to attend the “Approaches to Meditation” spiritual retreat facilitated by Dr. Hillary Rodrigues. I didn’t expect to return to the centre for a retreat quite so soon, but a new friend related how powerful his retreats have been for her, and so I decided it would likely be […]
“Approaches to Meditation” Weekend retreat, May 16 – 18, 2014 Dr. Hilary Rodrigues, Professor of Comparative Religion at the University of Lethbridge, has facilitated a weekend retreat once a year for the past six years at the Swanwick Centre/Krishnamurti Educational Centre of Canada. This year the title of his workshop was “Approaches to Meditation”. […]
“Who am I?” It’s a strange thing, how the answer to this question eludes us even as it drives us to build our lives the way we do, always striving to protect or solidify some “functional” sense of self. Taking society’s lead, many people fill in this blank with doing, and they come to associate […]