Anxiety, Openness and Freedom
Do animals feel fear? On the face of it, this seems to be an absurd question, for of course, animals do feel fear.
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Educating the Educator: Self-Inquiry for Parents and Teachers
To give knowledge which does not become an end in itself and to educate the mind to have a long vision, a wide comprehension of life, is not possible if education is based on authority.
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Editorial
…seeing all these outward things without condemnation, without choice, you can ride on the tide of inner awareness.
The Hedgehog and the Fox: Reflections on a Father-Son Dialogue
This is a book* for many of those modern persons who hover on the brink of religion, those who wish to have faith but are unable to, and who say “Lord, I disbelieve, help thou my belief.” In a fatherson dialogue recorded over a length of three hundred closely printed pages, the book exposes the basic questions involved in this perennial human predicament in its modern form.
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Art, Creativity and All That
Painting harnesses eternity —Van Gogh All the achievements of the great painters, poets and composers are the activity of thought: the composer, inwardly hearing the marvellous sound, commits it onto paper.
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The Unbearable Ennui of being Sherlock Holmes: A Meditation in Three Movements
Sherlock Holmes, as is well known, was a person who was subject to violent fluctuations of mood.
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Concept and Awareness: Two Approaches to Truth
One of the persistent and nagging concerns of the Krishnamurti schools seems to be that of ‘locating the place of academics in the total vision of education’ .
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Knowing and Being – The Two Aspects of Education
‘We teach what we know, but educate what we are’
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Review of “A History of Civilizations”, Fernand Braudel
Ever since History emerged as a major and independent field of study during the time of the 18th Century European Enlightenment – the time of Voltaire, Gibbon, Rousseau and the French Encyclopaedists – the study of history has been subject to pulls in two different directions.
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