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United Kingdom & Ireland Information Centers Various individuals working with Committees and Foundations in organizing video and tape meetings and small libraries where people can borrow books and tapes.
The prime objective is to provide information and make available Krishnamurti's
work in an undistorted way.
Worldwide Information Centers Various individuals working with Committees and Foundations in countries all over the world in organizing video and tape meetings and small libraries where people can borrow books and tapes.
The prime objective is to provide information and
make available Krishnamurti's work in an undistorted way.
Retreat Centers The Krishnamurti Centers are intended for the study of the teachings of J. Krishnamurti. It is for people who would like to be in a quiet environment where they could give full attention to these teachings and their implications in their own lives.
It
is hoped and intended that people will use the Center, the teachings of Krishnamurti
and the atmosphere of quiet enquiry here to deepen their
understanding.
There is an extensive range of Krishnamurti books, videotapes, audiotapes and other records.
Schools Krishnamurti started several schools in India, one in England and one in U.S.A. Since Krishnamurti did not lay down a method or philosophy, these schools are different in their approach.
However, they share a common interest in providing an education that is more than teaching of knowledge and skills and in attempting to educate for the art of living.
Job Opportunities
Working at Brockwood Park in any capacity is more than a job opportunity - it is a lifestyle. A sincere interest in Krishnamurti's work and a commitment to creating a serious environment in (sometimes intense) co-operation with others are essential. All residential staff
receive the same salary of £7.046 per annum regardless of function, along
with food and accommodation. There are no pension or other material benefits. The successful candidate will be resident in the European Union or otherwise be free to work within the UK.
Krishnamurti Foundation of America
Local Dialogues & Study Groups All over the country there are groups of people getting together to screen a Krishnamurti video or listen to a talk, and perhaps to explore the dialogue process as a way to look into fundamental questions. To post your dialogue/study group, contact Troy Sumrall. For help starting your own group, see the Introducing K to Others section
DVD's from the Pathless Path
Click on above graphic to access DVD's on the work of Krishnamurti "What is life, the origin of all this the rivers, the valleys, the glory of the land? Where are we at the end of two million years? Hasn't man always sought something through religion? Is the brain different from the mind? Can the brain communicate with the mind? When genetic engineering and computers meet what are you as a human being? What is creation and what is invention? What gives life to a blade of grass? Is there meditation without effort with no routine, measurement, or comparison? Is there a brain that is not muddled up muddied by environment, by tradition, by society?"
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J. Krishnamurti – Soul Friend - Mo Anam Cara J. Krishnamurti would probably count as my greatest soul friend. He is the reason why this writing happens. Without him there is the probability that the invitation from this soul friend to all you reading this would not be happening. I was a very unhappy young man during my twenties. Inside I felt very empty and alone. I spent time when I did not want to continue to exist in form. I fought to stay alive. I grounded myself in Yoga and a love that sustained me. This was a love of spiritual instruction that nurtured a heart devoid of nurture.
I was traveling into
Central London by train. The
day was bright and I had with me a book by J. Krishnamurti.
In this book he was writing about the meaning of what it is
to understand. When
Krishnamurti is writing about understanding he isn’t talking about
intellectual understanding. He
is talking about knowing and being the direct experience of
Universal Intelligence.
I was absorbed with this
passage on understanding. I
would read it line by line and began to be in love with it.
While absorbed in the invitation to real understanding I
happened to glance outside the window and a window inside me opened.
In that moment, which seemed to last for a very long time,
time in fact disappeared and I entered a paradox.
Understanding
can never
J.
Krishnamurti This is a paradox where you become the intelligence that forms worlds from the formless. This experience is the certain knowing that the energy that creates this ever becoming we call life and is the feeling experience of Love. So it was in a British railway carriage I came to the grace of the real way of living as one who understands who they are. This is as one who lives the understanding of creation as Love in form. Love creates for the joy of creation. In such an experience there is a living paradox. You know you live in form in a body in time and space and you also know you live in eternity as the formless. All fear goes and all doubt goes. This experience is not a theological debate. The one who knows is the knowing and not the knowing about. There is the certain knowing stated in the Bible, “God is Love.” Because you are not separate from this you can also say with certainty that you are Love. This is very different from being loved. For you to be loved there has to be a subject-object relationship. This is the nature of duality but is not the direct experience of Oneness. This subject object dichotomy is not the experience J. Krishnamurti refers to when he writes about understanding. In the spiritual journey this would be called an initiation. In Buddhism, it is called stream entry. This is a point on the journey when all those invitations, in whatever way they come to you, are realized to be more real than anything you could ever imagine or think about. The intensity of such an experience will tend to fade but if one pays fidelity to such an experience then the scent of the perfume of the eternal remains. It is the perfume of the eternal that is the invitation contained in the writings of The Anam Cara Experience. It is the invitation to the opening of the window of the soul so that you can befriend what the Sufi’s in their glorious poetry refer to as “The Friend.” This Friend is the universal intelligence that creates all forms for the joy of creation. This Friend is never separate from its total transformational embrace or what the Celtic poet John O'Donohue calls The Invisible Embrace. This initiation is not enlightenment but it is the perfume of enlightenment. Will it make your life easier? Did it make my life easier? What I will say for certain is that I cannot imagine what living life without this grace experience would be like. It has made me more loving and given me a real confidence in my ability to love. I am not at a loss for love and I suspect now I never will be. Often in my life people have come to me and asked, “Tony, what is it that you know that I don’t?” Of course, what I know isn’t intellectual knowing. I don’t claim that what I know is mine because it comes from beyond. I do claim that I have lived in time and form the awareness of what it is to live eternally. I do not claim the physical body lives eternally but that the awareness that animates the body, without which life in form cannot be, does live eternally In one sense all that I have written above are only words. They are not the essence of that living experience. They are not the perfume of eternal life but merely a description. Still, words are important as pointers. This perfume of the eternal was poured in and through me via the transmission of the written word. It can be poured through you while making love, watching a sunset, walking on a beach (as happened to my sister Mary) or in a myriad of ways. This perfume isn’t something you earn. It is more a process of allowing than one of acquisition. It is really who you are. When you allow it to flow through you, in truth you cannot say it is yours. You can say it is the gift of Creation as the movement of Love in form coming through you. What do you do with this movement of Love through you? If the experience is true then all you will really want to do is to pour this gift into the heart of everyone you meet. This is not to be confused with promoting some religious teaching that one is attached to. You will also want to hang onto it as I did. It will give you everything you want. If you want love, as I did, then you will get it in a way you might never have imagined. If you are after money then it will be yours. If you are after sex, again this will be what will be poured into and through you. Your life will become sensational. In time you will lose the intensity of that direct connection to Love. Then the next stage of the journey begins. It is the stage when you go searching to find it again. Except this time you are a little wiser and, hopefully, somewhat more humble.
This is not a practiced humility. It is a humility that arises from the realization of the gift available to you from Creation to be one who knows they are living and loving flow of forever. This time you are aware that the primary dimension is timeless. Your work then becomes the work of discipline and surrender to the paradox of the emptiness in you that is forever full. You empty yourself in order that the fullness, power and glory of Creation can pour into you and express as the healing power of Love in action. Is there a greater journey than this? For me, as one who is graced the perfume of knowing, I can say a categorical, "No." This journey is the only real journey. It is the unending journey into higher and higher expressions of Love in form. This is real in-form-ation. This is true understanding. It comes from the Celtic spiritual tradition that values the longing for Love. This is also the Sufi way – the mystical way of Islam. This is the heart's longing to be in union with the Friend. This is the beginning of soul friendship. It is the invitation extended by this writer in the Anamcara Experience. The great German mystic Meister Eckhart said, “If you can say thank you only once then this will be enough.” My thank you would go to the one J. Krishnamurti who graced me what it means to understand.
Another Soul Friend "click on graphic."
At the beginning of this book the Irish mystic George Russell (AE) wrote:
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THE ANAMCARA INVITATION The invitation to Soul Friendship is always available. There is, however, a price to pay. You are invited to trade rags for riches. You are invited to give away doubts, fears, sorrows and other rags for the diamond that you already are. There is no greater invitation than to become an Anam Cara - a friend to your soul. To learn more about this radiant diamond within and how to awaken your beauty from its sleep of many years you are invited to subscribe to our FREE weekly Newsletter entitled The Anamcara Experience This Newsletter includes articles which invite all the experiences listed above. These articles include spiritual stories, articles about songs - modern and old, articles about the power of spiritual poetry and many other aspects of spiritual development and much more. As a thank you for being willing to accept this invitation you will receive a short but powerful FREE REPORT entitled "7 Ways to a Wonderful Life." Simply subscribe now without obligation and begin today the journey into a wonderful life of an Anam Cara - soul friend
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Amidst
all this angst came a light.
