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The Swanwick Centre is a truly magical place. I spent almost an entire month here and found everything I needed to heal, gather new strength, and find new inspiration for the next steps on my path. It was wonderful to get away from the city for a little while and spend some quiet time surrounded by all the beautiful things nature has to offer. I loved going for walks on the property, discovering new treasures every day, relaxing by the beach, saying hello to the rabbits every night and every morning, playing the piano in the guest cottage, among so many other things. Read more »

At our last Inquiry Sunday we showed an interesting talk on the convergence of “Quantum Physics and the Nature of the Self”, by Dr. Lothar Schaefer at the 2012 Science and Non-Duality Conference. Here are some excerpts (emphasis added):

After the materialism of classical physics, a new way of thinking:

The basis of the material world is non-material. Read more »

Weekend Retreat with Dr. Ravi Ravindra, March 15 - 17, 2013
"Effortless Living: the Yoga of Krishnamurti".

Dr. Ravi Ravindra, invited to hold a retreat here, had personal contact with Krishnamurti on numerous occasions. He also had a long and varied academic career with degrees in Physics, Philosophy, and Religious Studies and taught many years at Dalhousie University in Halifax. Read more »

This past winter Centre friend Jeannette Sloan and her husband Don travelled from Victoria BC to India for two months.  Their trip included a stay at several Krishnamurti schools.  Here they describe their stay at Rishi Valley School in Andhra Pradesh, northwest of Chennai (Madras): Read more »

“Is the observer different from the thing which he observes? It is different only as long as he gives it a name; but if you do not give it a name, the observer is the observed. There is an integration between the observer and the observed which exists only when there is no naming.” – J. Krishnamurti

Any form of conscious meditation is not the real thing; it can never be.  Deliberate attempt to meditate is not meditation.  It must happen; it cannot be invited. Meditation is not the play of the mind, nor of desire or pleasure. All attempts to meditate is the very denial of it. Only be aware of what you are thinking and doing and nothing else...Every form of meditation leads inevitable to deception, to illusion - for desire blinds.

J.Krishnamurti

Annual Retreat and Course for Teachers

in Ojai, California

June 22nd – July 1st 2012

The Krishnamurti Education Center (KEC)

Re-envisioning Education and the Craft of Teaching

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J. Krishnamurti, the great Indian philosopher and spiritual teacher, spoke and traveled almost continuously all over the world for more than fifty years attempting to convey through words—which are content—that which is beyond words, beyond content. At one of his talks in the later part of his life, he surprised his audience by asking, “Do you want to know my secret?” Everyone became very alert. Many people in the audience had been coming to listen to him for twenty or thirty years and still failed to grasp the essence of his teaching. Read more »

J. Krishnamurti, the great Indian philosopher and spiritual teacher, spoke and traveled almost continuously all over the world for more than fifty years attempting to convey through words—which are content—that which is beyond words, beyond content. At one of his talks in the later part of his life, he surprised his audience by asking, “Do you want to know my secret?” Everyone became very alert. Many people in the audience had been coming to listen to him for twenty or thirty years and still failed to grasp the essence of his teaching. Read more »

“As human beings we are all capable of inquiry, of discovery, and this whole process is meditation. Meditation is inquiry into the very being of the meditator. You cannot meditate without self-knowledge, without being aware of the ways of your own mind, from the superficial responses to the most complex subtleties of thought. I am sure it is not really difficult to know, to be aware of oneself; but it is difficult for most of us because we are so afraid to inquire, to grope, to search out. Our fear is not of the unknown but of letting go of the known. Read more »