Can the Mind Be Quiet?
Annual May Gathering 2020
May 2-3
We invite you to our Annual May Gathering at the Oak Grove School in Ojai. Friends both local and from around the world come to listen to speakers, participate in dialogues, attend workshops, or simply enjoy the beauty of our campus. Choose from different programs on topics such as consciousness and education, or engage with teachers from our schools and scholars of Krishnamurti’s teachings who share their understanding.
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Relationship With the Natural Environment
Oak Grove School
Being in relationship with the natural environment is a fundamental aspect of our philosophy. This is why our campus is largely kept natural and unlandscaped. This is also why our students spend so much of the day outdoors and why we send them to the meadows, forest, mountains, ocean, rivers, and lakes. Nature is an amazing teacher.
Spring trips have begun! The freshman and sophomore classes will back-pack through Rose Valley. Our juniors will travel through the Southwest. Highlights include rafting on the Kern River, visiting the Grand Canyon, and hiking up Angel’s Landing in Zion National Park. Kindergarten students and their families camp on our athletic field. |
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The Immeasurable
Podcast
The Immeasurable Podcast is powered by the spirit of inquiry, echoing K’s words that one must “look for oneself” and “go into this question of what is consciousness” for oneself. Some early topics include, what is dialogue?; what is the residential student experience like?; what does Krishnamurti mean that a change in the individual is also a change in society?; etc. We aim to convey how relevant the teachings are today and that the spirit of inquiry is ongoing.
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Individual & Society
Explorations Conference 2020
April 24-26
The topic of this year’s conference is Individual & Society. There is no question that Krishnamurti’s primary focus was on the individual. Particularly on the ‘inner’ state of the individual, in terms of conditioned thoughts, feelings and behaviors. For K, this conditioned inner state is the fundamental cause of human conflict and suffering, and freedom from the effects of conditioning is the beginning of the realization of the highest human potential. Yet, K spoke extensively about the present state of society; the nature of the relationship between the individual and society; why a radical change or transformation is warranted in the present state of society; and how such transformation might come about.
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One Thousand Suns
Back in Print
"The idea for this book came while I was with Krishnamurti in Madras in January 1980. It occurred to me that there was no dichotomy between his life and his teachings. The teachings were intellectual, logical, and rigorous. His daily life and conversations were simple. He was an ordinary human being in private life, yet the other Krishnamurti, the teacher, was clearly of extraordinary energy, intelligence, and insight. The man on the public platform and the man away from it were different, but there was no contradiction between what he said and what he did."
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When Dialogue Goes Well
Terry O’Connor | Dialogue Facilitator
"One year at our annual four-day dialogue gathering in Maryland, there was a small group in which there was much unkindness. The participants complained in the community group. Someone said the group wasn’t safe. Not realizing how bad it was, I said something to the effect that we were all attached to our self-images, and part of what we were doing was putting them at risk. One of the men responded that he was a mountain climber who had no problem with risk, but when he was climbing, he wanted to damn well know he could trust the people he was roped to."
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