“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 […]
Recently we had a dialogue at this centre from 2 pm to 4pm. There were 8 of us. We read 2 or 3 pages from Freedom From The Known. It was about the art of looking and listening. How do we look at objects, nature and people around us? Is there clarity, freshness and beauty in our […]
The books which have attracted and affected my life most are J. Krishnamurti’s COMMENTARIES ON LIVING. These Commentaries were published in three volumes from the notebooks of Krishnamurti. The first volume was published in 1956, the second in 1958 and the third in 1960. These Commentaries contain beautiful descriptions of nature and dialogues with people […]
Recently I had the pleasure of attending a retreat at the Krishnamurti Centre in Metchosin, British Columbia. The centre itself is located on a majestic estate which was a Krishnamurti school from 1977 to 1981, and is currently being used for a variety of spiritual retreats and gatherings. It was certainly refreshing to relax in […]
Krishnamurti Study Group Meeting Saturday, May 3, 2014 Eight people met to study another chapter in Freedom From the Known. We began with reading the first half of Chapter 11 on looking and listening, then engaged in a ten minute exercise exploring how we are observing. Is there an observer and an object being […]
E-mail to P. F. Dziuban Sent May 4, 2014 at 8:47 am Good morning Peter… Found myself at Swanwick Centre yesterday in one of the Krishnamurti enquiry sessions. The subject was his famous saying “observe without the observer.” Now it is understood that he is referring to the apparent conditioned mind or thinker. But wouldn’t […]
Krishnamurti Study Session Saturday, April 19, 2014 Nine people gathered to study the second half of chapter 10 in Freedom From the Known. Some of the challenges posed by K in this segment are: what it means to really care about our children or other human beings, seeing not with our minds but from “the […]
Krishnamurti Video and Dialogue Event Sunday, April 13, 2014. Location: Church of Truth in Victoria The video showing of a talk by J. Krishnamurti was attended by ten people. An Ojai talk from 1982 focusing on the causes of conflict was shown, followed by a group dialogue. K spoke about the […]
A friend sent this K quote yesterday. At one time I seemed to be totally in love with his teaching or non-teaching, which I am sure he would prefer. I think I read almost all of his books and watched many hours of his recorded video talks. But I, like a lot of other so-called […]
A Gathering with Ravi Murmurs hover over steaming mugs of tea in the main house as people gather for the next adventure in truth (a path less land according to Krishnamurti) It’s tough going at times, listening to Krishnamurti’s recordings – a compact yet intensely vehement man from another era, so brisk in […]