The Buddha, Rodin’s Thinker and a Pair of Birds: An Exploration into the Nature of Human Consciousness
Two birds, inseparable companions, cling to the self-same tree. Of these, one eats the sweet fruit and the other looks on without eating.
‘To Know Is Not Enough’: Critical Thinking in a Krishnamurti School
Underneath the obvious critical situation of the economy and the environment, isn’t the world today actually suffering from a crisis in knowing and thinking?
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An Experiment in Self-Observation
One of the vexing questions in Krishnamurti’s teachings is how to become aware of the contents of our consciousness.
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Educating for the Art of Living
What is education about? In what general context does it find its meaning, its raison d’être?
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Teaching Peace
As you mellow, the urge to compromise hits oftener, but latecomers continue to annoy me.
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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Speaking of God
In every human being there is the quest for the unknown, and in every consciousness, whether young or old, whether traditional or modern, there is a notion of God.
Freedom is to be a light to oneself
High in the mountains there were hardly any birds; there were some crows, there were deer and an occasional bear.
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Education and the Environmental Issue
Why focus on the environmental crisis? It seems clear that the activities of humankind are leading, in an irrational way, to self-destruction.
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