It’s very rare and important for one to get beyond words, measures and meanings, beyond the totally conditioned mind with its desires and fears, to live and have our being and happiness rooted in what one is that fully satisfies: affectionate awareness: love, peace, beauty and joy in being. ~ James Waite ~ You’re […]
“Experiencing is challenge and response, and this experiencing, together with naming or recording of it, – this total process, at different levels, is consciousness, is it not? ..Thought is always the superficial, the conclusion. Consciousness is the recording of the superficial..[ ] This concluding process is consciousness. The conclusion, the result, is self-consciousness. ..The self […]
We are used to accepting authority, not only the outside authority but also our own peculiar authorities, secret authorities. We are apt to follow rather than investigate into the whole question of authority, the authority of the priest and your own authority of experience and knowledge. When you accept authority inwardly, you are merely following, and […]
Aware Living Caf’é January 6, 2024 with James Waite Zoom online session There were 12 attendees for the entire 90 min. Zoom. The “Book of Life” themes were Listening and Learning, with full page readings from each. There were two kinds of listening discussed: listening casually, externally, through conditioned mind filters, and listening from aware […]
Today I came across this quote by Krishnamurti that I would like to share with you: “It is the mind, it is thought, that creates time. Thought is time, and whatever thought projects must be of time; therefore, thought cannot possibly go beyond itself. To discover what is beyond time, thought must come […]
These are the reflections on What is meditation? presented by a member of the Vancouver Krishnamurti Group at a recent session: Meditation is a way to discover the basic flaw in our perception that the World ‘out there’ is different form the World that I perceive. There is no World ‘out there’, outside of my […]
When K talks about ‘choiceless awareness’ without the observer, it seems to imply the existence of an observer who chooses. But is there really choice at all? What Does Quantum Theory Tell us About Free Will? by Chris Fields, November 1, 2014 One often hears that quantum theory saves free will from classical […]
An introduction to Krishnamurti on this theme took place at the University of Victoria this week. The first in this setting, it was attended by 13 participants. A ‘Krishnamurti on Freedom’ video, narrated by Prof. Allan Anderson, and a talk by K on ‘Freedom from Fear’ from the 1966 Real Revolution series were followed by a lively […]
This morning this poignant inquiry into a perennial favorite emerged from cyberspace and struck a chord: “Do you know what it means to love another? Have you ever loved anybody? Is love dependence? Is love desire? Is love pleasure? I don’t love my wife; she doesn’t love me. We are two separate individuals. We may […]
Came across this reminder today about the art of listening, with nature, the great teacher, now in full bloom at the Centre: “Bring awareness to the many subtle sounds of nature-the rustling of leaves in the wind, raindrops falling, the humming of an insect, the first birdsong at dawn. Give yourself completely to the […]