The Intention
In honor of Krishnamurti’s wish that Pine Cottage, now the Krishnamurti Educational Center Library, become a place for those serious and intent upon exploring the teachings, we hold regular dialogues every Wednesday night and on the second, third and fifth Saturday of the month. The intention is to give guests to the KC, both new and old, one more way to engage with the teachings, perhaps for the first time, in relationship with each other.
What to Expect
The dialogue will begin at 4:00 p.m. in Pine Cottage and will be facilitated by Terry O’Connor and Kathy Franklin, Howard Ward or Nandini Patnaik. (Bios below). The first few minutes will be dedicated to a brief explanation by the facilitator of what dialogue is intended to bring about. A Krishnamurti passage, audio or video on a dedicated theme, will then be shared, followed by a brief period of silence, after which point, we will begin the open dialogue. The dialogue will end at 9:00 p.m. on Wednesdays and 6:00pm on Saturdays.
What is Dialogue?
“A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continues till a question is left without an answer. Thus the question is suspended between two persons involved in this answer and question. It is like a bud with untouched blossoms. If the question is left totally untouched by thought, it then has its own answer because the questioner and answerer, as persons, have disappeared. This is a form of dialogue in which investigation reaches a certain point of intensity and depth, which then has a quality which thought can never reach. It is not a dialectical investigation of opinions, ideas, but rather exploration by two or many serious, good brains.”
“In dialogue, we can discover the need to completely set aside our personal conditioning—to die to our own beliefs and formulated experiences—making it possible to see in that unique mirror of relationship the whole truth of “what is”. Then, if we share in the same spirit of inquiry, intensity and affection, we may actually find ourselves “thinking together”—not necessarily agreeing or disagreeing but, seeing, understanding and, thereby sharing as one the same reality.”
“In exploring the limitations of our conditioning, perhaps together we will be able to create a new culture, spontaneously and effortlessly, in which we can live with sensitivity, insight and love. The first step, which is really the last step, is to willingly surrender, or suspend, what we know to be our old ways of thinking and feeling, which separate us from life as it actually is.”
Quotes by — J. Krishnamurti
Kathy Franklin and Terry O’Connor are retired psychotherapists who found Krishnamurti’s teachings invaluable in their work. They have hosted a dialogue in their home since 1992, and have organized the annual Memorial Day Krishnamurti Dialogue and Gathering in Maryland since it began in 1995.
Nandini Patnaik has been associated with the work of J. Krishnamurti for more than four decades. A longtime teacher of English language and literature, Nandini has authored four books on Krishnamurti in English, including two biographical works, J. Krishnamurti: The Making of a World Teacher, Beyond the Pathless – Anecdotes from the Life of J. Krishnamurti, Living Is Not a Choice: You, Me, and Krishnamurti, and Awareness in Daily Living. Her latest book, Living Is Not a Choice is a collection of short stories that are seamlessly appended by excerpts from Krishnamurti literature. The stories highlight universal existential relationship problems and offer to approach them nontraditionally.
Nandini has also written several books in Odia (an Indian language including a biography of Krishnamurti.
A member of KFI, Cuttack Centre, Nandini has contributed to the dissemination of the Teaching by translating into Odia a total of twenty-five publications of Krishnamurti. She is passionate about bringing the Teaching to people in self learning by offering them opportunity to ‘try it’, ‘do it’, and ‘see it’. She is now building a series of workable models that can be used in Krishnamurti Study Centers to let people live the teaching.
Howard Ward was first introduced to Krishnamurti Dialogue in the Fall of 1986 at the first KFA Dialogue Weekend after K’s death. Since that time he has been regularly attending and facilitating Krishnamurti dialogues in Ojai as well as in the Los Angeles area. He also attended a number of the David Bohm Seminars on dialogue and the nature of thought given by Prof.Bohm at the Oak Grove School in Ojai in the late 80’s and early 90’s.
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