Death: Looking Together Into the Unknown

You are going to die—that is, die to everything you know, your body, your mind, the things that you have built up. So you say, “Is that all? Is all my life to end in death?” All the things you have done, the service, the books, the knowledge, the experiences, the pleasures, the affection, the family, all end in death. That is facing you. Either you die to them now, or you die inevitably when the time comes.
-Krishnamurti, Bombay, India, l965

Why do we fear death? Is it because we are so seldom in the unknown that the great unknown is terrifying? Do our attempts to create psychological security increase our fears? We have countless ways of distracting from death, what happens when we truly look at it?

Krishnamurti says we must die every day, every moment. Is such a thing possible? Memory creates continuity, and our reactions arise instantaneously and reverberate in the body. Is it possible to end things completely? How would that come about? Is there a genuine dying to each moment that is not suppression or escape?

We will meet each day for a 3-hour session that will include but not be limited to discussion/dialogue, some short video clips and short excerpts from texts.

Daily online afternoon sessions
2:30pm-5:30pm PACIFIC TIME

Facilitators:
Kathy Franklin and Terry O’Connor are retired psychotherapists who found Krishnamurti’s teachings invaluable in their work.  They have hosted a dialogue in their home since 1992, and have organized the annual Memorial Day Krishnamurti Dialogue and Gathering in Maryland since it began in 1995.