Notes From Krishamurti Workshop
Last month, I attended a workshop in Ojai, CA on Krishnamurti's teachings. He is my favorite philosopher and I find his ideas on thinking fascinating. Krishnamurti gave talks under an oak tree in Ojai from 1926 to 1986. Ojai is a beautiful place and the workshop was held at Krishnamurti's former residence which is a public library now.
Following are my random notes from the workshop:
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| Krishnamurti teaching under the oak tree in Ojai |
2. What is attention if it has nothing to do with thought?
3. Desire is the essence of will.
4. Attention = hearing + seeing + learning
5. Attention is not concentration because the idea behind concentration is to build resistance to all other thought except the one you want to concentrate on.
6. Awareness without choice (i.e. no comparison) is required for attention. In that attention there is no "me".
7. All the thinking is about something? But, what is thinking? What is the cause of thinking?
8. Thought comes out of memory.
9. Experience is an event that has taken place in the past.
10. You see something for the first time, you name it (i.e. you compare it with something) and it becomes a memory. Look at everything like you are seeing it for the first time without naming it.
11. If you don't have memory of something, you pay attention to that something.
12. Memory affects your ability to see things how they are.
13. Thinking brings fear.
14. The thought is always in the past.
15. To be free of fear is to not think about the past and the future.
16. Where there is fear, there is no love. In other words, no thinking is love.
17. When you have internal bliss nothing bothers you. If somebody does something or says something that you don't like, it feels like someone dropped a drop of red ink in the ocean. You notice it but it has no effect.
18. Emptying of mind is meditation.
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| Under the oak tree where Krishamurti taught for 60 years |
You can see notes from my previous Krishamurti workshop here.
