Krishnamurti Winter Study-Intensive & Retreat Program / 2010 / for College Students and Adults
The Krishnamurti Foundation of America is excited to present
the new 9-Day Winter Study-Intensive & Retreat Program
Saturday, January 9 to Sunday, January 17, 2010:
"The Ground of Silence, the Ending of Thought,
and the Emergence of Creativity"
Within an atmosphere of affection and support, we will enter into 2 penetrating dialogues together each day. By using J. Krishnamurti's core teachings as our guide, we will discover for ourselves why we experience a sense of limitation that prevents us from meeting life with a fresh, creative mind.
Please contact Richard Waxberg, the director of the Krishnamurti 2010 Winter Study-Intensive & Retreat Program by email or call him directly: 805.640.0532.
When emailing Richard, please include your contact information, including cell phone number and a brief description of yourself. Richard will contact you as soon as he has read your email. He will be glad to answer any questions you may have about the program and it is his pleasure to help you in any way he can.
This fully-immersive 9-day Study-Intensive Program is designed for College Students and Adults interested in an in-depth penetrating inquiry into the core essentials of Krishnamurti's teachings, with an emphasis on awakening an entirely different level of intelligence, which Krishnamurti called "insight," by which one can begin to "see" and understand the hidden operations of the mind. Through dialoguing together twice each day, this dormant intelligence can be awakened to flower in our minds.
We will work together, in dialogue, to find out for ourselves what it means to create a ground for a transformation of human consciousness, and what we must understand in order to bring about a shift from the old linear thought-based mind, with its dead habits and mechanical repetitive life, to a fresh mind possessing great vitality and clarity. Once this dormant intelligence is awakened and becomes active, a new understanding is born in our ability to meet life with a perceptual clarity and dynamic energy that can change our relationship to life forever.
We will enter together into 2 dialogues each day with lovely hikes, or quiet meditations in-between. We will also spend a day in beautiful Santa Barbara, with a trip to the beach and a walk and tea on the colorful main streets. Also Yoga workshops are included as part of the program with acclaimed yoga teacher, Pam Stewart.
In this program both college students and adults will explore together the ground of silence from which everything arises, the implications of what it means to end the dominance of thought as the sole vehicle of intelligence, and how that directly impacts on the emergence of true creativity in our lives.
Professor Satish Telegar, Richard Waxberg and Deborah Kerner will co-facilitate this exciting program.
We have conveniently scheduled the Winter Study-Intensive so that it occurs within a one-week work-period for working adults (weekend to weekend), and during the college winter-break for college students. Ojai is particularly beautiful in the winter, with mild sunny days and a sea of nightly stars. Majestic mountains, and orange and avocado groves create lovely vistas for the work we will be sharing together.
Please come and join us for this unique opportunity to delve deeply into the life-changing teachings of J. Krishnamurti. Our objective is to make the teachings our own, to experience for our-selves the awakening of intelligence and the birth of insight and the dynamic energy of the dialogue process, and to understand directly, inwardly, the ground from which true creativity arises.
Special Note to College Students:
The KFA is making available several Tuition Discounted Scholarships to college students for the Krishnamurti Winter Study-Intensive & Retreat Program / 2010.
Qualifying students will receive $500 off the regular Tuition price making their Discounted Scholarship Tuition $950. This offer is made available thanks to donor grants made by very dedicated and generous people who believe that Krishnamurti's teachings should be studied and explored by college students. The donors understand that our program is possibly a once-in-a-lifetime chance for college students to study Krishnamurti's teachings within the atmosphere of a fully-immersive and sustained interactive dialogical exploration, with its emphasis on deep penetrating inquiry with like-minded students and adults from around the world.
Unlike traditional college programs that emphasize passive listening to lectures and numbing memorization, our program works with a very dynamic dialogue process that is a thoroughly active and alive means of creative exploration. Just as important, the dialogical process helps us to open ourselves up so that we are stimulated to look much more deeply than we would on our own, into the hidden operations of the mind that prevent us from making a leap of awareness. This explorative process helps to create intense energies that can be used by each of us to penetrate to the root of our inquiry.
The aim of our work together is to find out for ourselves what Krishnamurti is pointing to in his life-changing teachings, that can lead each of us directly to a deeper understanding through self-knowledge and self-discovery. The ground created through this shared exploration can be used for the rest of our lives.
Here is a chance for college students to find out for themselves, through self-examination and self-discovery, what is preventing humanity from a transformation of consciousness, the role conditioning plays in our perception of what is real, the hidden operations of the mind that trap our creative energy within concretized dead structures, what it means to awaken true intelligence within our own minds (what Krishnamurti called "insight"), how fear limits our awareness and secretly shapes our lives, and what we can actively do to create a ground for a totally new relationship with life, a totally fresh mind that is not bound by time, nor dependent on the accumulated knowledge of the past.
What is Dialogue, as we use it in the Krishnamurti Winter Study-Intensive & Retreat Program?
We gather twice each day to dialogue together, to explore together, to examine the hidden operations of the mind and to discover for ourselves the effects conditioning, through untested belief and absorbed dogma, has had on limiting our perceptual life, our ability to meet life freshly. We want to discover what is blocking humanity from evolving into a totally wholistic dimension of awareness, that no longer carries the distortions of a fear-based-mind.
Krishnamurti understood that anything we "learn" from memorization, or that is forced onto us from an "authority", or is the result of endless repetitions, only numbs us and dulls our minds. All accumulated knowledge gets stored in the dead-zone of memory where it languishes with the rest of our knowledge-based systems.
In order for Krishnamurti to bring to life what he was helping us to "see", so that it wasn't just a dead canon or a dull lifeless series of principals, he himself used the intense interactive process of dialogue as his teaching method. He worked with scientists and educators and openly explored with them questions that could open them up to seeing what is actually taking place in our minds and in our life by a careful observation and examination of "what is".
Krishnamurti discovered that when we ourselves begin to probe into these fundamental questions of life and no longer depend on experts, or gurus, or so-called spiritual authorities, that a powerful potential awareness arises in each of us that can shift our perceptions into another dimension of "seeing" that is beyond the field of thought and is no longer bound by time. He called this new dimension of seeing, "insight". Krishnamurti felt that "insight" has the potential to light-up a wholistic vision of the entire field of inquiry without the fragmentation and limitations inherent in the linear thought-based-mind which carries within it distortions of every kind. By shining a powerful light into these darkened spaces of the mind we begin to see for ourselves all of these hidden operations, and a new understanding can arise.
In this way, we discover for ourselves that dialoguing together with like-minded people in a fully-immersive and sustained atmosphere of true exploration is vital in helping us to create a ground for a transformation of consciousness.
Programs Fees
The Krishnamurti Winter Study-Intensive Program, Tuition fee for Adults is: $1450.
The Krishnamurti Winter Study-Intensive Program, Discounted Scholarship Tuition fee for College Students, is: $950.
There is a one-time Registration fee, for all participants, of $35.
The Tuition covers a lovely shared room in the Pepper Tree Retreat, all meals, the full-Program and all supporting materials, and round-trip transportation from Ventura, California, to Ojai (everyone arriving in LAX airport, will take a round-trip shuttle from LAX to Ventura), we also cover transportation for a visit to Santa Barbara, California, during the Program.
We ask all participants to please pay half of the Tuition fee plus the Registration fee as a Deposit, to hold your place in the Program.
The cut-off date for Registration to the Krishnamurti Winter Study-Intensive & Retreat Program / 2010, is December 1, 2009.
Quotes from 2009 program participants:
"This intensive program helped me to experience the power of observation and inquiry into the nature of the conditioned patterns of perceiving, thinking and feeling that is real for all humans. I am deeply indebted to Richard, Deborah and Satish, as program directors, for giving me the freedom to experience the core teachings of Krishnamurti. With gratitude, Ann"
"On the onset I would like to thank you for your kind hospitality and care for all of us at the summer program. I would like to share with you that I have been attending dialogues and gatherings for the last few years but have not felt the intensity that I felt in your program, and also it was accompanied with a lot of sensitivity and compassion which helped make us go deeper. I was also touched by the way you kept the fire of the dialogue alive. I really do wish you conducted more of these programs as it is the need of the day in the circumstances in the world. I'd also like to mention the beautiful way Richard, Deborah and Satish complement each other and help us to go further. I feel I am watching myself from a deeper place than I have ever touched before. Thank you. Warm greetings, Mansha"
"The Krishnamurti Summer Study Intensive has been a deeply revealing, superbly energizing, absolutely clarifying, and truly insightful sharing of intelligence! What a purely vital and significant transformation that has been catalyzed by this uniquely open and warm hearted atmosphere. It's been such a clarifying and inspiring sharing of life during the Intensive with you! During the intensive it was wonderful to be able to deeply see what is preventing listening from occurring. This Intensive is awesome!! Thanks so much! Kevin"
Program Coordinators and co-facilitators
Richard Waxberg is the Director of both Krishnamurti Summer Study-Intensive & Retreat Programs. Richard Waxberg, Professor Satish Telegar and Deborah Kerner co-facilitate the Summer Study Program.
Richard Waxberg has been a college teacher for over 20 years. He has taught and developed a variety of courses for Parsons School of Design in New York City and at the Rishi Valley School in India. He has taught many subjects including art history, aesthetics, traditional artistic skills including painting, drawing and sculpture, and advanced computer graphics and design. He has also been involved in teacher training, and has designed special programs that help teachers to communicate with students from different cultural backgrounds. Richard is a practicing artist and novelist. He has studied and participated in Native American shamanic spiritual practices with traditional elders from several Native American tribes over a 10 year period. He has created, developed and directed the Krishnamurti College Student Summer Study Program and the Krishnamurti Adult Summer Study-Intensive & Retreat Program for the last 4 years.
Dr. Satish Telegar, PhD, is a full-time professor of ancient and classical-to-modern world philosophy and religious studies at Towson University. He has taught at the Rishi Valley School in India and several prestigious universities in the USA. Satish also teaches special programs at Towson that include the teachings of J.Krishnamurti within the context of ancient and classical-to-modern world philosophical and spiritual traditions. He is a respected scholar of the Vedantic and Buddhist spiritual traditions and texts. He also directs and facilitates a Krishnamurti Dialogical Study Group at Towson University. Satish has played a vital part in the development of both the Krishnamurti College Student Summer Study Program and the Adult Summmer Study-Intensive & Retreat Program for the last 4 years.
Deborah Kerner has taught numerous workshops in graphic design and computer graphics for major publishing houses in New York City, and has also taught a variety of artistic and design subjects at the Rishi Valley School in India. Deborah continues to have a highly distinguished career as a book designer, with clients such as Random House, Penguim Putnam, St Martins Press, Doubleday and HarperCollins. Deborah has also studied and participated in Native American shamanic spiritual practices with traditional elders from several Native American tribes over a 10 year period. She is a practicing artist and poet. Deborah has been instrumental in the development of both the Krishnamurti College Student Summer Study Programs and the Adult Summmer Study-Intensive & Retreat Program for the last 4 years.
For further details please call Richard Waxberg, director of the KFA Study Intensives at 805-640-0532 or email Richard.
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