Michael Mendizza Book

UNCONDITIONALLY FREE

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Date(s) - Fri, May 15, 2020 - Tue, May 19, 2020
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location: Online

UNCONDITIONALLY FREE
The Life and Insights of J. Krishnamurti
An Online Event with Michael Mendizza
May 15-19, 2020 (5 Sessions), from 4 – 5:30 pm (new time!)  Pacific Daylight Time

These sessions are based on a new book, with the same title, by Michael Mendizza that is about to be published. Unconditionally Free is a sweeping overview view of the life and insights of J. Krishnamurti.  Highlights of J. Krishnamurti’s talks and dialogues, are followed by highlights of insightful explorations of the ‘other’ state pointed to by Krishnamurti and its resonance with classic Tibetan Buddhist teachings, followed by an inquiry into what prevents most from experiencing what the speaker pointed to all his life.

This global view involves understanding a few critical concepts, similar to the legend on a map, that define and provide a reference for the journey Krishnamurti’s insights invite. This view is functional and holographic, focused on seeing the whole in all of its parts rather than attempting to come to wholeness through the parts.

The overall message is clear: to change the world, before it is too late, each of us must bring about our own inner-revolution. This total transformation is not the product of thought, time or methods. It is a change in the very root of human consciousness, in the state of the mind and heart, and from that, its content. Unconditionally Free brings this possibility closer, clearer and more urgent than ever.

 

Friday, May 15:  Session One – Over Forty Years

My journey: What I have learned these past forty years and what new insights emerged writing and compiling the most comprehensive overview of Krishnamurti’s insights to date.

What Makes Krishnamurti Different.

A survey of K’s talks, writings and insights throughout the decades.


Saturday, May 16:  Session Two – Exploring the Vacant Mind

  • What Happened Under the Pepper Tree in 1922?
  • Krishnamurti with quantum physicist David Bohm
  • Why is the vacant mind relevant?


Sunday, May 17:  Session Three – Do We Come with a Begging Bowl?

  • Why is it apparently so difficult to experience what the teachings describe?
  • Taking Thought Too Seriously
  • Silence, Emptiness, Space
  • To Me or Not To Me
  • The Awakening of This Other Intelligence
  • Self-Deception on Steroids
  • There Are No Teachings

Monday, May 18:  Session Four Always Awakening – Conversations with Samdhong Rinpoche

  • Krishnamurti Did Not Conform to Any System
  • Begin with Emptiness
  • Maya and the Power of Self-Deception
  • No Psychological Becoming
  • If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him
  • Krishnamurti’s Mission Is to Challenge

Tuesday, May 19:  Session Five – A Map

  • Experiencing Directly
  • A Unique Use of Language
  • Personal Self-Image and Its Twin, Culture, Falsely Assume Supreme Importance
  • With Complete Attention, There Is No Observer
  • Space and Insight: Creating Room for Intelligence to Act
  • Conditioned Thought, including Knowledge and Time, Is Not Intelligence
  • Attention, not content, opens the door

Michael is an entrepreneur, author, educator, documentary filmmaker and founder of Touch the Future, focusing on optimizing human potential beginning with the parent-child relationship. Michael’s close relationship with Krishnamurti began the 1970s. He directed ‘The Challenge of Change’, the first feature documentary on the life of Krishnamurti, produced by Evelyne Blau,  and a second film: ‘With a Silent Mind, Beyond Myth and Tradition’, a collection of over 100 First Generation interviews, the publication of the book ‘Flowering’. Drawing on the First Generation interviews, a new and educational series, also titled ‘Unconditionally Free‘, is being produced. Michael is the author of ‘Always Awakening: Buddha’s Realization Krishnamurti’s Insight’ with Rinpoche Samdhong, the first Prime Minister of Tibet in Exile.

For a more detailed outline of the new book on which these sessions are based, click Unconditionally Free.

These sessions are online Zoom meetings that include live talks by Michael and allow registrants to ask questions. They can be attended in their totality or separately.

Anyone on a computer, tablet or cellphone and a Wifi connection will be able to participate. There is no need to download Zoom before. Registrants will be invited to participate before each session.


Registration Fee:

$80 CAD for all 5 Sessions, or $20 CAD (Canadian Dollars) per Session. 

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