conscience 3 Replies

instead of findingit really is all our faultguilt does us no good jiminy cricketas if it were not our faultfeeling resentment?! Continue

Started by Therese Okamoto. Last reply by Therese Okamoto yesterday.

This is not Love. 52 Replies

This is not love.Talking about matters, talking about being a better person, making lifestyle changes, looking for moral and ethical answers, reading words of wisdom, and passing it on, giving correction, all of that, is the standard approach to change. The question of love may not even get asked. Change is treated as a mechanical development, a technological achievement, and consequently is considered an esoteric knowledge, for which poor souls like me can't possibly understand. The reviewer,…Continue

Started by Peter Stephens. Last reply by Therese Okamoto on Saturday.

This is Samsara -interview with Tenzin Palmo 23 Replies

http://www.mro.org/mr/archive/23-3/articles/samsara.htmlI have read this interview and am fascinated with Tenzin Palmo, a Western Buddhist Nun who spent 12 years meditating in a cave.I was wondering if anyone would be kind enough to read this interview and comment on it, on some of the things she says compared to Krishnamurtis teachings. Does anything she say really contradict Ks teachings or is she a helpful addition to Ks…Continue

Started by SDS. Last reply by Therese Okamoto Nov 26.

The Second Tree From The Corner 2 Replies

"Ever have any bizarre thoughts?" asked the doctor.Mr. Trexlor failed to catch the word. "What kind?" he said."Bizarre," repeated the doctor, his voice steady.  He watched his patient for any slight change of expression, any wince. It seemed to Trexlor that the doctor was not only watching him closely but was creeping slowly toward him like a lizard toward a bug.  Trexlor shoved his chair back an inch and gathered himself for a reply.  He was about to say "Yes" when he realized that if he said…Continue

Started by Therese Okamoto. Last reply by Therese Okamoto Nov 24.

Kulture? 123 Replies

Is it possible to create a new culture based on K's teachings?Not based on greed, glamour, acquisition, domination, fear, longing, sorrow, and escape?Not based on "me" and "you" but "us"?A culture where artists don't sign their name?Where no entertainment lawyers are needed?What would such a culture be like, this K-culture?."Without that creativeness which is not of time, which is not of thought, we cannot bring about a vitally different culture, a different state of human relationship? Is it…Continue

Started by anyone. Last reply by anyone Nov 23.

Extensional Awareness - What, How 30 Replies

It is good that we resist the urge to quote reams of what Krishnamurti said. If we are not expressing our own understanding and holding that up to our peers for review then we may as well just watch K on you tube or whatever. I prefer to use my own words and will continue to do so. However i freely admit to being less than consensual and as Sky described a pedagogue. Given that good intentions are no excuse I would like to at least start with a K excerpt and finish with what i hope will be seen…Continue

Started by Lyn Mccormack. Last reply by Therese Okamoto Nov 23.

acting out 2 Replies

 i have no idea what i am going to say and isn't that always the way with me, my sense of time is so tuneful that when i got an extra hour of daylight savings this week it seemed to make a whole lot of difference somehow, i had a lot of extra time, and it made me realize how much an hour really is....  there is a poem in the Paris View about the timelessness of god and it is sad for me, the poet is struggling and i don't really see anyway to help her, i suppose i could go into it, it's like…Continue

Started by Therese Okamoto. Last reply by skyblack Nov 23.

Comparison and competition are the root cause of suffering . 17 Replies

Comparison and competition are the root causes of suffering whatever may be the field for competition,say, sports,scientific discoveries,acquisition of any kind of wealth,learning,business,arts culture,painting, writing,donations,any type of skill etc.As soon as we can understand this ,we save ourselves from great calamities,so clearly observed as a result ,in the societies and the world at large.we may understand this and change our living patterns.Continue

Tags: painting, art, learning, science, change

Started by kant. Last reply by paul mohad dhib Nov 22.

Setting things straight. 10 Replies

It is often said we have to drop our  interference and talk about the topic. This is an authoritarian approach. Of course there are topics, as there are the people. Let's start from there. All of us people reading, and talking disparately about some topic. What is the authority? It is this I, you, me, self, the person, the writer, reader, the author, trying to set things straight. I experience chaos, and I want to find order. Isn't it obvious this is where we start? The authority and all of its…Continue

Started by Peter Stephens. Last reply by skyblack Nov 20.

Immortality 3 Replies

Now I say there is immortality, to me it is a personal experience; but it can be realized only when the mind is not looking to a future in which it shall live more perfectly, more completely, more richly. Immortality is the infinite present. To understand the present with its full, rich significance, mind must free itself from the habit of self-protective acquisition; when it is utterly naked, then only is there immortality. - JKContinue

Started by shashi mehta. Last reply by anyone Nov 12.