Krishnamurti Education & Poetry
Weekend Program
September 27-29
The backdrop for our explorations will be the questions that Krishnamurti discusses with students, parents and teachers about education, centering on these themes: conditioning, fear, flowering in goodness, vocation, arts of listening, observing, asking, and the mirror of relationship.
We will also look at the transformative power of metaphor juxtaposed to words that intellectually and habitually ensnare LIFE. Words (most) often separate and compartmentalize life⦠yet the words in a poem can inspire a kind of wondering, an awakening of the heart or widening of perspective. Reading or writing a poem can transcend languageâs normal limitations and offer something translucent. During the weekend we will immerse in good poems that have the potential to shed the skin of superficiality and invite insight. |
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Itâs Never âGoodbyeâ
Oak Grove School
Each year, Oak Grove students transitioning into high school go through a thoughtful process of reflection and anticipation, culminating in a written speech. Near the end of the school year, eighth-grade students present their Gateway Speech to faculty, fellow students, and family.
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Coming to the Ultimate
In-Depth Study Program
September 9-13
Krishnamurti pointed out that the observer is the observed. Does this have any bearing on what science is observing and seeking in its endeavors to understand actuality? Is it possible that science, and we, tend to look through a conditioned perspective that in turn frames what is seen? Are our perceptions and scientific observations of reality in fact a reflection of a perspective that creates for itself space-time, separate objects (including self), etc., as an experience, even as it moves?
In seeking the Ultimate, is science in fact in search for itself, without knowing it? |
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OppositionâOn freedom and fixation
Weekend Program
October 4-6
The purpose of this program is to intentionally create space for the astonishing faculty of observation Krishnamurti describes, and to delve into the nature and movement of internal and interpersonal conflict, paying close attention to the role languageâverbal, written, and nonverbalâplays in generating and perpetuating it.
We will use a variety of mediumsâincluding writing exercises, dialogue, video, and stillnessâto closely observe the lifespan of conflict on a personal and social level.
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