Oct
13
Death and Rebirth Beyond Time
Krishnamurti Retreat, 1130 McAndrew Rd, Ojai, California, 93023, United StatesDate and Time
October 13 - 20 2024 PDT
Location
Krishnamurti Retreat, 1130 McAndrew Rd Ojai, California, 93023 United States View Map
Co-ordinator
Krishnamurti Center Ojai
About This Event
A Unique Inspirational In-Person 8-day Intensive Retreat
Exploring the Powerful Core Transformational Teachings of J. Krishnamurti
Krishnamurti describes psychological Death as the transformation out of the conditioned, conflictual and limited, me-centered consciousness, and suggests that Rebirth is an unburdening of the mind, a falling away of past accumulations, a stepping out of time into the timeless living present beyond fear and the frustrations of endless seeking.
Krishnamurti made it emphatically clear that all of us human beings must give ourselves the opportunity to be reborn anew, to free the mind of every form of distortion, including conflict, fear, anxiety, confusion and belief, all of which rob us of the capacity for complete freedom and rebirth of the mind.
The 8-day Death and Rebirth Beyond Time Intensive Retreat, facilitated by Richard and Deborah, is an in-person, shared interactive exploration into the limitations of our present day human consciousness.
Richard and Deborah offer 12 participants the opportunity each October, to cast off the psychological burdens that act as resistance to the dynamic flow of life. When the mind is in psychological resistance, we cannot meet life with freshness and clarity. This Retreat was created to help us renew and refresh our energy, and reignite the spark that brings joy in just being alive.
We will penetrate into the human psyche to reveal the hidden patterns of thought that suppress and trap our life energy; discovering for ourselves whatever is no longer vital or essential, that no longer carries the living quality of ‘aliveness’.
By exposing these destructive habitual patterns of thought and belief, we can potentially free ourselves from this crisis of endless conflict and psychological suffering, which threatens our very existence on this extraordinary planet earth.
During our daily dialogical excursions together, we are journeying into the mystery of being alive, illuminating the darkest regions of the mind, to bring light and clarity, as we uncover the original mind that has never been contaminated by thought, has never been touched by sorrow, self-pity or hurt of any kind.
As we explore together, Richard and Deborah encourage participants to discover the penetrating awareness of ‘listening and seeing’ as an open door to a timeless and boundless perceptual dimension that gives rise to ‘insight’, a new way of living and being.
This Intensive Retreat takes place at the beautiful mountain-ringed Krishnamurti Center campus, nestled in the spiritually alive Ojai Valley in California, the perfect location for our in-depth explorations.
Please join us for this unique and inspiring exploration into freedom, to find out for ourselves if it is possible for a rebirth of the mind to flower here and now.
Facilitators Richard Waxberg and Deborah Kerner live in Ojai, California. They moved here in 2004 by invitation to create and begin facilitating the Explorations into Freedom Intensive Retreats for the Krishnamurti Foundation of America. They offer two 8-day retreats each year at the Krishnamurti Center in Ojai, in June and October. They have also facilitated retreats in British Columbia, Canada and in Denmark.
They are both practicing artists. Richard studies and plays the Japanese Shakuhachi flute. Deborah is also a published poet. Both Richard and Deborah had successful careers in New York City as graphic designers. Richard taught art and design, aesthetics and art history at the prestigious Parsons School of Design.
They left their lives in New York City to begin a new spiritual life, taking up the challenge Krishnamurti proposed of stepping ‘out of time’, stepping out of the ‘me-centered’ paradigm of consciousness. Their journey took them to Ojai, California to study Krishnamurti’s teachings, and to India to teach for a full school year several art and design courses at the Rishi Valley School in rural Andra Pradesh, a school based on Krishnamurti’s teachings located near his birthplace.
During their year of teaching at the Rishi Valley School, Richard and Deborah traveled to 4 Krishnamurti schools throughout India, to participate in dialogues with teachers and staff on what it means for students to experience an education based on Krishnamurti’s teachings.
As part of their earlier spiritual work, they studied Native American shamanic practices for 12 years with 3 traditional Native American elders before discovering the profound life-changing teachings of J.Krishnamurti. It was during these studies that they learned the importance of gathering, storing and releasing energy as an essential part of spiritually transformational work.
They continue studying and exploring current scientific studies and observations on human consciousness that reflect Krishnamurti’s profound message of transformation, freedom, and love.
Exploring the Powerful Core Transformational Teachings of J. Krishnamurti
Krishnamurti describes psychological Death as the transformation out of the conditioned, conflictual and limited, me-centered consciousness, and suggests that Rebirth is an unburdening of the mind, a falling away of past accumulations, a stepping out of time into the timeless living present beyond fear and the frustrations of endless seeking.
Krishnamurti made it emphatically clear that all of us human beings must give ourselves the opportunity to be reborn anew, to free the mind of every form of distortion, including conflict, fear, anxiety, confusion and belief, all of which rob us of the capacity for complete freedom and rebirth of the mind.
The 8-day Death and Rebirth Beyond Time Intensive Retreat, facilitated by Richard and Deborah, is an in-person, shared interactive exploration into the limitations of our present day human consciousness.
Richard and Deborah offer 12 participants the opportunity each October, to cast off the psychological burdens that act as resistance to the dynamic flow of life. When the mind is in psychological resistance, we cannot meet life with freshness and clarity. This Retreat was created to help us renew and refresh our energy, and reignite the spark that brings joy in just being alive.
We will penetrate into the human psyche to reveal the hidden patterns of thought that suppress and trap our life energy; discovering for ourselves whatever is no longer vital or essential, that no longer carries the living quality of ‘aliveness’.
By exposing these destructive habitual patterns of thought and belief, we can potentially free ourselves from this crisis of endless conflict and psychological suffering, which threatens our very existence on this extraordinary planet earth.
During our daily dialogical excursions together, we are journeying into the mystery of being alive, illuminating the darkest regions of the mind, to bring light and clarity, as we uncover the original mind that has never been contaminated by thought, has never been touched by sorrow, self-pity or hurt of any kind.
As we explore together, Richard and Deborah encourage participants to discover the penetrating awareness of ‘listening and seeing’ as an open door to a timeless and boundless perceptual dimension that gives rise to ‘insight’, a new way of living and being.
This Intensive Retreat takes place at the beautiful mountain-ringed Krishnamurti Center campus, nestled in the spiritually alive Ojai Valley in California, the perfect location for our in-depth explorations.
Please join us for this unique and inspiring exploration into freedom, to find out for ourselves if it is possible for a rebirth of the mind to flower here and now.
Facilitators Richard Waxberg and Deborah Kerner live in Ojai, California. They moved here in 2004 by invitation to create and begin facilitating the Explorations into Freedom Intensive Retreats for the Krishnamurti Foundation of America. They offer two 8-day retreats each year at the Krishnamurti Center in Ojai, in June and October. They have also facilitated retreats in British Columbia, Canada and in Denmark.
They are both practicing artists. Richard studies and plays the Japanese Shakuhachi flute. Deborah is also a published poet. Both Richard and Deborah had successful careers in New York City as graphic designers. Richard taught art and design, aesthetics and art history at the prestigious Parsons School of Design.
They left their lives in New York City to begin a new spiritual life, taking up the challenge Krishnamurti proposed of stepping ‘out of time’, stepping out of the ‘me-centered’ paradigm of consciousness. Their journey took them to Ojai, California to study Krishnamurti’s teachings, and to India to teach for a full school year several art and design courses at the Rishi Valley School in rural Andra Pradesh, a school based on Krishnamurti’s teachings located near his birthplace.
During their year of teaching at the Rishi Valley School, Richard and Deborah traveled to 4 Krishnamurti schools throughout India, to participate in dialogues with teachers and staff on what it means for students to experience an education based on Krishnamurti’s teachings.
As part of their earlier spiritual work, they studied Native American shamanic practices for 12 years with 3 traditional Native American elders before discovering the profound life-changing teachings of J.Krishnamurti. It was during these studies that they learned the importance of gathering, storing and releasing energy as an essential part of spiritually transformational work.
They continue studying and exploring current scientific studies and observations on human consciousness that reflect Krishnamurti’s profound message of transformation, freedom, and love.