The courses below are being offered through Cassava Bread, Inc., a 501(c)(3) organization that promotes EMDR, Mindfulness and Focusing in developing countries by training eligible persons to help create deeper connections within their local communities and promote healing spaces that help others.
Join us today (Wednesday) at 1pm est. for our final Focusing-Oriented Contemplative Meditation on Crossing Philosophers Jiddu Krishnamurti and Eugene Gendlin. We will read a meditation on Meditating from JK’s Book Of Life, pause, sense into its meaning, and practice simple Focusing skills either alone or in partnerships.
Since this group will not continue in the same form going forward, I want to thank ALL 134 registrants and ALL participants for attending, pausing and sensing into the Anatomy of a Pause. Whatever you take away from this crossing of these paths and minds, if I can be supportive of it in the future or perhaps what these sessions have meant to you, let me know: kati@cassavabread.org
Recently we’ve had the pleasure of listening to JK on the Book of Life https://youtu.be/sip9Fiai3dM?feature=shared and Gendlin on Implicit Intricacy https://youtu.be/IO12WC9hB5o?feature=shared
As you continue your time here (on the planet), let’s continue to pause and consider the body and mind as one and it’s impact on our immediate environment – as one entity – we are nature, aren’t we?
As the passage on March 20th reads: “The world is not something separate from you and me; the world, society, is the relationship that we establish or seek to establish between each other. So you and I are the problem, and not the world, because the world is the projection of ourselves, and to understand the world we must understand ourselves. That world is not separate from us; we are the world, and our problems are the world’s problems.”
Thank you again, it was good being with you in this way and sharing this space with you for 2024. This is the most I have consecutively meditated in my life and I am walking away from this space changed, more attuned with myself, more relationally oriented and perhaps a slightly more attuned listener.
Thank you.
With warmth and respect,
Kati
In The Book of Life, Daily Meditations by Jiddu Krishnamurti (JK), the meditations are dedicated to listening inwardly. Each Wednesday during the year we will listen in a felt-sense way to the implicit. We will consider many meditations on a wide range of topics which varies from: listening, action, attachment, passion, words, violence, sorrow, truth, mind, time, love and aloneness.
It is suggested to bring a journal or notebook to write or sketch something that may arise from your felt sense. No pre-purchase of any material is necessary, however if you insist The Book of Life can be purchased from sites like World of Books, Discover Books or JK’s foundation KFA.org Handouts will be made available. There will be time for reflections and focusing partnership interactions – any level of Focusing proficiency is welcome.
An excerpt from the Introduction of The Book of Life, in Krishnamurti’s words:
“The story of mankind is in you, the vast experience, the deep-rooted fears, anxieties, sorrow, pleasure and all the beliefs that man has accumulated throughout the millennia. You are that book.”
“Truth cannot be accumulated. What is accumulated is always being destroyed; it withers away. Truth can never wither because it can only be found from moment to moment in every thought, in every relationship, in every word, in every gesture, in a smile, in tears. And if you and I can find that and live it—the very living is the finding of it—then we shall not become propagandists; we shall be creative human beings—not perfect human beings, but creative human beings, which is vastly different.”
“Why has life, everyday existence, become such a torture? We may go to church, follow some leader, political or religious, but the daily life is always a turmoil; though there are certain periods which are occasionally joyful, happy, there is always a cloud of darkness about our life. And these two friends, as we are, you and the speaker, are talking over together in a friendly manner, perhaps with affection, with care, with concern, whether it is at all possible to live our daily life without a single problem.”
Is it possible?
Cassava Bread, Inc.
is a 501(c)(3) non-profit.
Donations to
CBI are tax-exempt.
EIN# 85-1724645
Cassava Bread, Inc.
is a 501(c)(3) non-profit.
Donations to
CBI are tax-exempt.
EIN# 85-1724645
