Living in Presence, March 15, 2020

Living in Presence
March 15, 2020,
At KECC

This was the first meeting in a new series of offerings at the Krishnamurti Centre in Metchosin featuring questions and answers with Eckhart Tolle, whose teaching he considers to be an expression of the same “teaching stream” as that of J. Krishnamurti. The meeting was attended by six participants including the two facilitators. As an introduction a movie was shown of Eckhart reading from Krishnamurti’s Notebook and making comments on what K is pointing to in the selected passages. Eckhart chose a number of nature descriptions and shared his deep appreciation for the quality of the awareness and attention displayed in K’s descriptions, a quality Eckhart calls “presence”.
After the viewing Ralph mentioned that Eckhart did not encourage discussion of such material afterwards as it could easily become conceptual and abstract. The group quietly disbanded, enjoyed some snacks provided by Luis, and headed out for a walk on the property or back to Victoria.