A colleague and I were having a short americano at Starbucks after a gruelling game of badminton, and as usual our conversation took a turn towards Truth. Somehow the subject of humour came up and recollections of John Cleese and his humourous antics in “Faulty Towers”, “A Fish Called Wanda,” and of course the “Monte […]
I was surfing the website of K’s quotes and landed on 14 that had to do with belief. Here is one of them… The screen of belief… “You believe in God, and another does not believe in God, so your beliefs separate you from each other. Belief throughout the world is organized as Hinduism, Buddhism, […]
Living the Inquiries Retreat November 21 – 23, 2014 This weekend retreat was facilitated by Scott Kiloby, author of a number of books on self inquiry and addiction as well as the founder of the Kiloby Centre for treatment of addiction and compulsions, located in Palm Springs, Florida. Scott has developed a […]
About ten years back when I was hosting a “K” study group in Ontario, one of the new participants, who was clearly unfamiliar with his ‘stuff’, made the statement… “If Krishnamurti is supposed to be so enlightened, then what’s with the comb-over?” After the laughter died down, there was much discussion around the usual expectations […]
Krishnamurti Study Group Saturday, November 15, 2014 Five people attended the session which would potentially bring us to the end of the book Freedom From the Known. The last part of Chapter 16 asks a number of profound questions with which K is challenging us to find the “passion” to live fully […]
It was suggested that I might want to check out the official Krishnamurti site for possible blog content… http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/index.php So today I did just that, and low and behold… “Sausage and Chips!” Here is “K’s” beautiful daily quote… A Problem that Thought Cannot Resolve “The self is a problem that thought cannot resolve. There must […]
Eckhart Tolle Meet-up – The Ripple and the Ocean For the November get-together at Swanwick, we watched a recent talk by Eckhart where he explored the transition from surface knowledge to ‘depth knowledge’. Like Krishnamurti, he talked about a deeper realization of who we are. He proposed that this realization can be inclusive of both […]
Krishnamurti Study Group Saturday, November 1, 2014 Nine participants showed up for this ongoing exploration of the book Freedom From the Known by J. Krishnamurti. We began to read half way through the last chapter of the book but only progressed a couple of paragraphs because there was immediately a great […]
Krishnamurti Study Group Saturday, October 25, 2014 Four people gathered at the Swanwick Centre to continue with the ongoing study of the text Freedom From the Known. We covered the first half of Cbapter 16, which is the last chapter of the book. The subjects explored by K in this segment are total revolution, the […]
The link below brings to mind K’s classic ‘Freedom from the Known’. Freedom from the known is knowing You are the Unknown. http://youtu.be/R5wZT2E78cY