A video screening in Hamilton

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A Video Screening - Teachings of J Krishnamurti

You are invited to a Video Screening of the Teachings of J
Krishnamurti.
Sunday 1 April 2012, Venue: Celebrating Age Centre, River Lounge
2.30pm to 4.30pm followed by afternoon tea and informal discussion
FREE admission. Donations are welcome to cover costs.

You are welcome to bring along friends and pass this on to any
interested persons.
Please if you could indicate your availability for this event for
catering purposes.
For further enquiries please email Neeraj on duggal...@gmail.com
or phone 021-1476855
The following statement, which contains the essence of the teaching,
was written by Krishnamurti himself on October 21, 1980.



"The core of Krishnamurti's teaching is contained in the statement he
made in 1929 when he said: 'Truth is a pathless land'. Man cannot come
to it through any organization, through any creed, through any dogma,
priest or ritual, not through any philosophic knowledge or
psychological technique. He has to find it through the mirror of
relationship, through the understanding of the contents of his own
mind, through observation and not through intellectual analysis or
introspective dissection. Man has built in himself images as a fence
of security—religious, political, personal. These manifest as symbols,
ideas, beliefs. The burden of these images dominates man's thinking,
his relationships and his daily life. These images are the causes of
our problems for they divide man from man. His perception of life is
shaped by the concepts already established in his mind. The content of
his consciousness is his entire existence. This content is common to
all humanity. The individuality is the name, the form and superficial
culture he acquires from tradition and environment. The uniqueness of
man does not lie in the superficial but in complete freedom from the
content of his consciousness, which is common to all mankind. So he is
not an individual."

"Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not a choice. It is man's
pretence that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure
observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward.
Freedom is without motive; freedom is not at the end of the evolution
of man but lies in the first step of his existence. In observation one
begins to discover the lack of freedom. Freedom is found in the
choiceless awareness of our daily existence and activity. Thought is
time. Thought is born of experience and knowledge which are
inseparable from time and the past. Time is the psychological enemy of
man. Our action is based on knowledge and therefore time, so man is
always a slave to the past. Thought is ever-limited and so we live in
constant conflict and struggle. There is no psychological evolution."

"When man becomes aware of the movement of his own thoughts he will
see the division between the thinker and thought, the observer and the
observed, the experience and the experiencer. He will discover that
this division is an illusion. Then only is there pure observation
which is insight without any shadow of the past or of time. This
timeless insight brings about a deep radical mutation in the mind.
Total negation is the essence of the positive. When there is negation
of all those things that thought has brought about psychologically,
only then is there love, which is compassion and intelligence."