I go in and out reading text from the book to adding my own comments. The image is of my own notes from summarizing this highly dense foreword. It is helping me make sense not only of the whole book but also how to present this in a limited timeline.
“What has meaning is the coming upon Reality and from there, living in society, living in this world, then there is beauty & love–otherwise, there is nothing.” Jiddu Krishnamurti To me, this is what it feels like after meditating on a challenge. It feels like something substantial has happened. When he says “coming upon reality,” …
September 10th, 2020 ~ I attended the first of 4 classes of a course on Mindfulness in the Workplace. It is based on Marc Lesser’s book “7 Practices of a Mindful Leader.” I began to journal–that was one of the assignments along with reading the first part of the book. I am quite familiar with …
The past 6 days, I attended a 6 day online retreat. We met everyday at 430pm til 630pm. It was organized by the Krishnamurti Foundation in Vancouver British Vancouver. The guest leader was Mukesh Gupta. He woke every morning in India at 430am and led us. I was hesitant to join, partly because I …
~ To learn Buddhist logic or philosophy as an academic subject would be a waste of time to any but the professional philosopher, particularly where that philosophy is made available by Western classical scholars steeped as they are in process thinking. What is suggested is that we rediscover the complementary discipline as a Western discipline, …
April 26th ~ You cannot be sensitive if you are not passionate. Do not be afraid of that word passion. Most religious books, most gurus, swamis, leaders, and all the rest of them say, “Don’t have passion.” But if you have no passion, how can you be sensitive to the ugly, to the beautiful, to …
With this approach, all the elements within the situation are allowed to maintain their full concreteness and yet at the same time be juxtaposed to other elements that may well be logically incompatible with them. The implications that this manifold of elements has are then allowed to find their own expression through the natural wisdom …
April 27th ~ Obviously there must be passion, and the question is how to revive that passion. Do not let us misunderstand each other. I mean passion in every sense, not merely sexual passion, which is a very small thing. And most of us are satisfied with that because every other passion has been destroyed–in …
We shall therefore explore this problem at length to show some of the elements that have to be taken into account. The limitations of our habitual way of thinking about things will be exemplified by the difficulty of truly expressing this not-two, not-one aspect of the company, and we shall see that this has very …
April 28th ~ A passionate mind is groping, seeking, breaking through, not accepting any tradition; it is not a decided mind, not a mind that has arrived, but it is a young mind that is ever arriving. Now, how is such a mind to come into being? It must happen. Obviously, a petty mind cannot …