Krishnamurti Study Intensive & Retreat Programs
Our program is truly a journey of self-discovery.
This Inquiry-based program gives each of us the opportunity to work together in exploring Krishnamurti's teachings directly. We inquire together twice a day within a nurturing atmosphere of encouragement, affection and support. We are interested in applying Krishnamurti's approach of directly "seeing" and directly "listening" within the depth of our inquiries, to reach levels of awareness normally beyond the reach of our daily range of perception.
Our program allows us to tap into the deepest areas of the mind where operations take place that shape our sense of the real, yet usually remain inaccessible to our ability to examine them. Krishnamurti pointed out that our conditioning, our unexamined beliefs and fears of every kind, including the very structures of thought that dominate our minds, are rarely ever examined, and therefore rarely ever "seen" in operation in our minds. In our program, we work together to directly "see" and to render transparent those limiting operations of the mind perhaps for the first time. We want to expose these hidden operations so that we can become familiar with them and understand them. In this way we actually allow the unconscious mind to become fully conscious, so that we can begin to think wholistically with precision and clarity, and so move beyond fear and confusion and the darkness of the hidden shadow areas of the mind. Through our work together, we can release potentially transformative energies that have been trapped as conditioned mechanical responses in our unconscious mind, since childhood. The release of these vital energies occurs spontaneously as we gain a deeper understanding and clarity into what is preventing each of us from a transformation of consciousness.
This program invites us to actually meet Krishnamurti's teachings inwardly while being fully aware... while being fully awake and capable of "seeing" and "listening" with that quality of awareness that Krishnamurti's characterized as "Can one observe without the observer?"The intention of our work together is to free the mind. When the mind is free of its accumulated distortions, there is space for a new wholistic dimension of awareness to enter. We want to meet life freshly, with unrestricted energy, unburdened by the accumulation of psychological residue and conditioning of the past.
Areas of exploration that our program covers
- Can a new penetrating intelligence be born in the mind
- What is the source of all psychological suffering
- Why we experience a sense of limitation in our lives
- Our unexamined beliefs
- The illusion of separation
- Our psychological need for security
- Is thought the only means of accessing wisdom in our lives
- The true nature of a creative mind
- What it really means to be free
- Stepping out of psychological time
- What is the essence of true meditation
- Can we bring supreme clarity to our thinking
- Discovering for ourselves unknown dimensions of awareness
Upcoming Programs
2012 Winter Study Intensive
Exploring the Potential for Transformation and Awakening Deep Listening
January 8 - January 15, 2012
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