Weekend Events at the Centre

  Krishnamurti Study Group Saturday, August 2, 2014   Seven people gathered to study Chapter 14 in Freedom From the Known by J. Krishnamurti.   The first part of the chapter focuses on the need for a quiet mind and the issue of resolving psychological problems.   K challenges us to find the way to solve a problem immediately by seeing how the problem itself is created by thought.   There was some reading of the text and then some focused discussion of the issues raised.  Participants were very attentive and present to the exploration and it seemed like some valuable insights occurred.  There was a period of silence during which we looked at what prevents a quiet mind and the immediate resolution of a problem.  Further interesting discussion followed.     Inquiry Sunday Sunday, August 3, 2014 In the afternoon a video of Krishnamurti was shown on the topic of Death:  Leaving the Stream.  The half hour compilation is one of the Evelyn Blau series “Beyond Myth and Tradition”.   There were some comments from the six participants that this video was a particularly clear and direct presentation of a central aspect of K’s teachings.  After the DVD the group broke up into pairs and explored what was significant about what had been heard and how it was relevant the our lives.  A group dialogue followed during which the question “What does it mean to die psychologically every day, every moment?”  was addressed by the group among other topics.   The beautiful weather allowed us to sit outdoors frequently over the weekend, which seems to add a certain quality of expansiveness and broader attention.