Freedom from the Known, November 14 – 17, 2024

Freedom from the Known 

A 4-day workshop with Javier Gomez Rodriguez 

November 14-17, 2024 (Thursday – Sunday:  10 am Pacific Time, 19:00 CET) 

  

The book Freedom from the Known was edited by Mary Lutyens from a selection of talks from the years 1963 to 1967 to produce what she called a ‘Krishnamurti primer’. The title, which was K’s idea, is a key aspect of his approach to human freedom and wholeness.  

Javier introduced the study of the book in the following way. “Our inquiry will take us sequentially through the sixteen chapters (i.e., four chapters per session) in the book. In our four meetings we will be taking a journey through the fields of awareness and self-knowledge, the issue of conflict and violence in relationship, the conditioned structure of thought and consciousness, and the nature of meditation and the religious mind. None of these aspects are separate from each other but continuously and inherently interwoven. Naturally, each of them subsumes many other issues that we will do our best to include. 

Each session will include a talk and time for discussion. As the participatory exploration that it is, it is expected that those taking part will bring a quality of mutual consideration and sensitive probing to the dialogue.”