My Introduction to J Krishnamurti’s Teachings
I did not know J Krishnamurti personally and had only one occasion to see and hear him, but this talk is very vivid in my memory.
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Communication: Studying a Krishnamurti Text
This article is the result of a study, by teachers and parents at Shibumi, of a letter from the book The Whole Movement of Life is Learning.
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Education
Question: What kind of education should my child have, in order to face this chaotic world?
On Retreats
From ancient times to the present, seekers of truth have felt the call to dwell in mountain silences, to live in the hush and shadows of the forests or even to go to the deserts where nature is shorn of all excess, to get away from the throng and maddening crowd, and discover an invincible peace.
An Invitation to Look Inward
Krishnamurti felt quite strongly that one of the major functions of education is to nurture the capacity to look inward.
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Learning about Oneself
Questioner: Could you describe how you are aware that you are inattentive?
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Exploring Krishnamurti’s Insights
BeautyThe perception of beauty is an essential aspect of the teachings of J.
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Physical Education: An Integrated Approach
We see around us three kinds of attitudes related to the body.
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A Philosophical Look at Modern Culture
Philosophy, perhaps more than any other academic discipline, is thought to deal with intellectual things, or ‘ideas’.
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Curriculum for an Inquiring Mind
In our ongoing engagement with the daily business of teaching and more generally with education, we come up against the question–what are we doing with our children?
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What Makes a Teacher
The question is sometimes raised, why the Krishnamurti schools do not have greater purchase in the educational community and, with the exception of the schools of the Rural Education Programme at Rishi Valley, do not have wider applicability.
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Innocent Prejudice
Eleven pairs of bright black eyes stare at me from eleven attentive faces, their pencils hovering over the page.
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Being Nothing, Doing Nothing: Cultivating the ‘Other Part’ of the Brain
Because our minds are crowded, we crowd our lives — with busy schedules, multiple activities, plans and projects for a better life.
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On the Long Vision
I think most of us know what is happening in the world—the threat of war, the nuclear bomb, the many tensions and conflicts that have brought about new crises.
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When does the Seed Sprout?
As the sun sets on a three-day conference centred around the theme of Creativity and Insight, I watch the lengthening shadows and hear the twitter of the birds at dusk.
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What is meditation?
How can the mind know if it has found what it calls the ultimate, the immeasurable, the nameless, the most sublime?
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On Nurturing a Non-verbal Movement of the Mind
In educating children, apart from developing their physical, intellectual and aesthetic capacities, are we not concerned with a non-verbal movement of the mind, with a heightened quality of attention, of observation and listening?
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Science and Insight
The greatest challenge facing a science teacher (I have been one for more than a decade now) is this whole matter of the student’s intuition.
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Creating the Attention Classroom
As a teacher who has spent over ten years teaching senior school students in those tumultuous years when they are growing up, facing the pressures of a performance-dominated society, I have time and again returned to the question of the place of the larger vision of education – of this whole concern with the art of living correctly – in my class.
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On Boredom and Sense-stimulation
Suppose you are sitting around at home one day feeling somewhat bored.
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Learning Through Dialogue
Krishnamurti has emphasised the need for students and teachers to learn about themselves while they are teaching and learning about the world around them, through the planned curriculum and activities of the school.
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A Quiet Mind
To understand anything, any human or scientific problem, what is important, what is essential?
A True Art of Learning: Dialogue in Education
The history of intellectual and religious inquiry is replete with great minds and great schools.
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Krishnamurti and the Scientific Mind
In teaching science, it is more important to help students to under-stand the scientific approach to life and develop a scientific temper than it is to impart scientific knowledge or train them in specific scientific techniques.
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