125th Birth Anniversary of J. Krishnamurti
R.E. Mark Lee
History will long remember the two-century span of the life of J. Krishnamurti (1895-1986). No one since the Gautama Buddha has had a teaching life as well chronicled and well documented as that of Krishnamurti. Whereas the Buddha renounced the temporal world as a prince to live as a monk, Krishnamurti renounced the traditional spiritual world to live for 90 years as the world teacher.
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Can the Mind Be Quiet?
New Book
Can the Mind be Quiet? is a new Krishnamurti book published in August of this year. It contains sixty conversations, previously unpublished, recalled and written down by Krishnamurti in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They contain probing inquiries into such topics as the self and consciousness, the essential qualities of good education, and the meditative and religious mind. As with all of his writings, the style is direct, eschews rhetoric, and states deep truths as obvious and factual information, available to any who will listen. The pieces also include Krishnamurtiâs much-loved descriptions of nature. This is a short excerpt from the chapter titled How we waste our life! |
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Opposition
Amanda Lezra & Liam O'Mara
Amanda Lezra and Liam OâMara will facilitate Opposition, a theme weekend that will take place October 4-5, 2019, at the Krishnamurti Center. The program will explore the movement and function of conflict in a series of dialogues and writing exercises, focusing on the specific relationship between language and conflict. Liam and Amanda are both nonfiction writers and activists currently based in Portland. This is an article written by them on Opposition.
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Freedom from the Known: The Krishnamurti Perspective
Explorations Conference
We hosted a very interesting Explorations Conference this year at the Krishnamurti Center on the theme of Freedom from the Known. The intent of the conference is to bring together individuals from different disciplines to delve into the questions raised by Krishnamurti, from different angles, and in new ways. It features a series of formal presentations and discussion sessions, with ample opportunities for informal exchanges. This is a short excerpt from the presentation given by Cory Fisher who is the Archivist and Publications Director of the KFA.
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Oak Grove School
The Power of the Published Word
The spaciousness to ask both practical and perennial questions is an essential part of the Oak Grove educational program. Through academic inquiry (Socratic, scientific, normative, conceptual, etc.), dialogue, Council, as well as reflective practices, students and teachers explore questions about the world outside and within.
The student newspaper, The Oak Grove Times, is a place students may give form to such inquiry â a public forum. Students choose an area of focus and are supported to develop questions, a clear direction, and to establish a detailed research plan (focus groups, data, etc.).
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Archives & Publications
Cory Fisher
The Krishnamurti Archive is the repository of original material pertaining to the teachings of Krishnamurti. This includes handwritten manuscripts, letters, photographs, original audio and video recordings, and related materials. Its mission is to preserve the teachings of Krishnamurti as they were written and spoken, without distortion or interpretation. The Krishnamurti Archive also exists to give scholars and others doing research access to original documents.
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