(Talk delivered by Prof. P.Krishna, Krishnamurti Foundation India, Rajghat Fort, Varanasi at the TS convention in Adyar, Chennai on 26 Dec. 2012) The theme of this Convention is ‘The Present Shapes the Future’ and I wish to investigate it in this talk.. We could divide the world as a whole into two parts: the material world which is studied by…
Rector, Rajghat Education Centre, Krishnamurti Foundation India, Varanasi 221001, India The dictionary defines `Dialogue’ as a conversation between two or more people and also as an exchange of opinion or ideas. Krishnamurti gave to it a much deeper meaning and pointed out its importance as a means of religious inquiry into Truth, which he posited as the unknown. He distinguished…
Ex-Rector, Rajghat Education Centre, Krishnamurti Foundation India, Varanasi 221001, India We have seen that the conflict and violence in society arise from the conflict and violence that is there in our consciousness. And the conflict and violence that is in our consciousness arises from the ego process in our consciousness. So the next question that we must explore is what…
Friends,In this talk I wish to revisit a question that was posed by Krishnamurti way back in 1929, when he dissolved the Star of the East in Holland. I want to revisit it because it is in exploring a question afresh, without agreeing or disagreeing with any past conclusions, that we grow in our understanding and our own wisdom. If…
Ahimsa or non-violence in daily life is not merely a matter of deciding not to hit or kill another. That is just the outer manifestation of a feeling of anger or hatred within our consciousness. So long as such feelings arise within us we are not truly non-violent, just because we are able to control the outer manifestation of it…
I would like to go into this whole question of peace and conflict as a dialoguewith oneself. We learnt from Krishnamurti that if we really deeply want tounderstand an issue, we must not form opinions about it, one mustn’t sidewith a particular viewpoint, one must start with questions and rely onobservation of facts. Ask oneself deep fundamental questions and not…
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