Events Calendar 2023

Recurring Events

• Library & Center Hours
  • Tues-Fri 10:30 am – 2:30 pm
  •  Sat-Sun 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
  • On official US holidays, 10:00am-5:00pm
• Wednesday Dialogue (More Info)
  • 7:00-9:00 pm
• Saturday Dialogue (More Info)
  • 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 5th Saturday of the month 4:00-6:00 pm
• Monthly Video Dialogue: Looking, Listening and Shared Inquiry (More Info)
  • 1st Saturday of the month 6:00-10:00 pm

PROGRAMS: Online and In-person

January/ February/March

• In-Person Weekend Program, Can I Live Without Influence?, In this weekend intensive we shall be looking into the whole nature of influence, it’s affect on us and our awareness of it. When we explore together are we free of psychological direction or goals? Do we need to fix and solve our questions or can we investigate without the leverage of conclusions or answers. Do we want to have sway over each other or rather, do we wish to think together? Are we seeking to be positively influenced this weekend or can we think for ourselves and learn in a completely new way?
  Friday Jan 20 – Sunday, Jan 22, 2023
• In-Person Weekend Program, Silent Retreat, This program is a unique opportunity to come together in silence at the Krishnamurti Center in Ojai, CA. The intention of this weekend program is to be a retreat in the deepest sense.
  Friday, Jan 27 – Sunday, Jan 29, 2023
• In-Person In-Depth Study Program,  A completely different kind of observation, Am I aware that the observer, me, wishes to see what it expects and unconsciously modifies to avoid disappointment? Is the observer divided from what it observes? Does this division distort the very thing it observes that affects all subsequent thinking, feeling and action? Is there an observation without distortion?
  Monday, Feb 6 – Friday, Feb 10, 2023
• Online In-Depth Study Program, Is Attachment Love?, “Is attachment love? Does attachment breed fear, jealousy and anxiety? You are attached because of your insufficiency and loneliness. Out of your insufficiency, loneliness and sense of lacking, you cling to another. Where there is attachment, there must be exploitation.” -Krishnamurti
  Monday, Feb 13 – Friday, Feb 17, 2023
• In-person Explorations into Freedom Intensive Retreat, Awakening From the Unburdened Mind, This is a rare opportuity for any person who has been exposed to Krishnamurti’s teachings to take the next important step into a deeper dimension of what he is pointing to, a transformation of human consciousness and a profound realization of the unburdened mind beyond conflict and fear.
  Sunday, Feb 19 – Sunday, Feb 26, 2023
• In-Person Weekend Program, The Driving Force of Pleasure,
  “This immense structure of pleasure is one of the factors of our consciousness. Perhaps it may be one of the major factors. So why? You can’t answer, not a verbal answer. Observing this fact of pleasure – why we are asking has man pursued it for millions of years? Which is you!”  -Krishnamurti
  Pleasure seeking seems to be a major driving force in our everyday existence and an ever growing value in the modern world. During our weekend intensive we propose a deep dive into this issue of pleasure and how increasingly bound we are to it, as well as propelled by it.
  Friday Mar 3 – Sunday, Mar 5, 2023
• Online In-Depth Study Program, Dying to Separateness, Is there dying to being separate in which no one “does” it and in which no one dies? In which there was never anyone separate to begin with? In which being separate disappears into not being separate? In which we (as human beings) are present yet are not separate at the same time?Perhaps this is the same as dying to what is; to not be separate from whatever is happening, right now.  Can we look into all of this together and find out? Can we move as one?
  Monday, Mar 13 – Friday, Mar 17, 2023
• Evening Talk, Krishnamurti and Tradition, There is a strong tendency among the adherents of Krishnamurti’s teaching as well as others that he was against tradition. In 1981 during a walk in Ojai, K turned to me and said, “What do you think is wrong with India?” I kept silent and looked at him, willing to hear. He said, “The trouble with India is that the Brahmins have forgotten the tradition.” In this presentation we will explore K’s relationship with tradition.
  Monday, Mar 27, 2023 (7:30 – 9:00 pm)

 April/ May/ June

• Online In-Depth Study Program, The Mirror or Relationship, “Relationship is the mirror in which we see ourselves as we are. All life is amovement in relationship. There is no living thing on earth which is not related to something or other. Even the hermit, a man who goes off to a lonely spot, is related to the past, is related to those who are around him. There is no escape from relationship. In that relationship which is the mirror in which we can see ourselves, we can discover what we are—our reactions, our prejudices, our fears, depression, anxieties, loneliness, sorrow, pain, grief.” -Krishnamurti
  Monday, April 3 – Friday, April 7, 2023
• In-Person Weekend Program, On Right Livelihood, “We are asking each other: is there a way of living which will naturally bring about a right livelihood and at the same time enable us to live without a single shadow of conflict?” – Krishnamurti
  Friday, Apr 14 – Sunday, Apr 16, 2023
• In-Person Weekend Program, Yoga + Inquiry: Flowering, Krishnamurti frequently uses the imagery of flowering in his talks to point to a state of being. In this 3-day retreat, you will have the opportunity to fully engage in embodied self-inquiry in a reflective, sharing, and friendly atmosphere. Together, we explore the coordination of movement with breath to bring attention to the subtle movements of the body, breath, and mind. We listen to and read Krishnamurti on subjects such as sensitivity, relationship, meditation, intelligence, and transformation; we sit together in dialogue to explore these subjects. Join us for three days of movement practices, dialogue, short periods of silence, time in nature, and delicious vegetarian meals.
  Friday, Apr 21 – Sunday, Apr 23, 2023
• In-Person and Online Annual May Gathering, Choiceless Awareness, We invite you to our May Gathering, May 6 and 7, 2023. This event is free of charge and will be held in-person and online at the lovely Oak Grove school campus.  Should the Covid situation worsen it will be online only.
  Sat, May 6 – Sun, May 7, 2023
• Online In-Depth Study Program, Individual and Society, The present society is not concerned with our inner development but with turning out efficient and respectable citizens. But without the cultivation of the inner, society will always be in danger, for the inner invariably overcomes the outer. We may have the best legal system, but if greed and the pursuit of power predominate, then the law will be subverted or bypassed. We isolate ourselves through our identification with country, class, race, ideology and belief. Such isolation, as in nationalism, is a fundamental cause of war. Without the foundation of self-knowledge and freedom from conditioning, there will be no peace on earth.
  Monday, May 22 – Friday, May 26, 2023
• In-Person Weekend Program, Yoga + Inquiry: TBD, Full program description coming soon.  Join us for three days of movement practices, dialogue, short periods of silence, time in nature, and delicious vegetarian meals.
  Friday, Jun 2 – Sunday, Jun 4, 2023
• In-person Explorations into Freedom Intensive Retreat, A Glimpse into Total Freedom, The Explorations into Freedom Intensive Retreat invites us to explore together Krishnamurti’s insights that point to the possibility of a transformation of consciousness. This explorative journey we take together into our understanding of what Krishnamurti referred to as deep ‘listening and seeing’ is the open door through which unexamined beliefs, concepts, and ideas can be revealed without judgment or resistance. This dimension of ‘seeing’ and ‘listening’ is like turning a light on our conditioned responses, the normally hidden unconscious layers of thinking. We create an atmosphere together of freedom, affection, and mutual support in order to inquire into what is preventing us from unburdening ourselves from the past and our feelings of psychological limitation.
  Sunday, June 18 – Sunday, June 25, 2023

  July/ August/ September

• In-Person Weekend Program, Silent Retreat, This program is a unique opportunity to come together in silence at the Krishnamurti Center in Ojai, CA. The intention of this weekend program is to be a retreat in the deepest sense.
  Friday, Jul 14 – Sunday, Jul 16, 2023
• In-Person Weekend Program, Choiceless Awareness, Full program description coming soon.
  Friday, Aug 11 – Sunday, Aug 13, 2023
• Online In-Depth Study Program, TBD, Full program description coming soon.
  Monday, Aug 21 – Friday, Aug 25, 2023
• Online In-Depth Study Program, The Observer is the Observed, Full program description coming soon.
  Monday, Sep 11 – Friday, Sep 15, 2023
• In-Person Weekend Program, Yoga + Inquiry: TBD, Full program description coming soon.  Join us for three days of movement practices, dialogue, short periods of silence, time in nature, and delicious vegetarian meals.
  Friday, Sep 22 – Sunday, Sep 24, 2023

• In-person Explorations into Freedom Intensive Retreat, Death and Rebirth Beyond Time, The Explorations into Freedom Intensive Retreat invites us to explore together Krishnamurti’s insights that point to the possibility of a transformation of consciousness. Krishnamurti describes ‘psychological death’ as the falling away of the belief in the ‘me-consciousness’, and ‘rebirth’ as an unburdening of the mind in the timeless present, beyond conflict and fear, and the frustrations of endless seeking.
  Sunday, Oct 15 – Sunday, Oct 22, 2023
• In-Person Weekend Program, Yoga + Inquiry: TBD, Full program description coming soon.  Join us for three days of movement practices, dialogue, short periods of silence, time in nature, and delicious vegetarian meals.
  Friday, Nov 3 – Sunday, Nov 5, 2023
• Online In-Depth Study Program, On Living and Dying, Full program description coming soon.
  Monday, Nov 13 – Friday, Nov 17, 2023
• In-Person Weekend Program, Silent Retreat, This program is a unique opportunity to come together in silence at the Krishnamurti Center in Ojai, CA. The intention of this weekend program is to be a retreat in the deepest sense.
  Friday, Dec 1 – Sunday, Dec 3, 2023
• In-Person In-Depth Study Program,  On Becoming-Exploration on Thought and the Self, During this week, we will have an opportunity to inquire together into the nature of the self and our thought processes. We will use some passages from Krishnamurti’s teachings as a jumping off place to explore together and inquire into the possibility of a wider perspective. Exploring and inquiring into the possibility of perceiving beyond and through our conditioned thinking, is a central theme in Krishnamurti’s teachings.
  Monday, Dec 11 – Friday, Dec 15, 2023