Apr
14
Looking into the Mirror of Relationship
Online eventDate and Time
April 14 - 18 2025 PDT
Location
Online event
Co-ordinator
Krishnamurti Center Ojai
About This Event
Inquiry begins with relationship. We cannot investigate clearly together unless we look first at our relationship together as a group and as individuals. Since we already assume we are in relationship with others, we necessarily feel no urgency to look into that mirror.
But are we actually in relationship with others? Or are we connected to each other through expectations, images, selfish desires and gratification? You fulfil me, I have a feeling of possession or control, as do you with me. Is this relationship or is it self interest?
In our in depth study program we shall be looking into the mirror of the relationships in our lives, as well as into the actual relationships happening in real time, with others, in the group. Can we look into this mirror directly without avoiding what we see? Can we see through the illusions that we project in place of real relating?
Can we give all our energy to find out if there is a totally new kind of relationship with others; and indeed with the whole of life as we know it?
“There is no living without relationship” J. Krishnamurti
Daily online sessions: 10:00 am-12:30 pm PACIFIC TIME
These sessions will be recorded and made available to the participants only for further personal study for 2 weeks after the last session.
Facilitator Jackie McInley founded and ran an independent Krishnamurti centre called Open Door in Southern France from 2004 until 2013 – hosting monthly inquiry weekends and annual international gatherings in French and English. She organized an experimental David Bohm bi-monthly dialogue meeting for 4 years in a local market town, and later a Krishnamurti dialogue group in the city of Toulouse. A former self-employed foreign language and theatre teacher by profession (schools, higher education and business), she now organizes and facilitates inquiry events, gatherings and retreats in a variety of countries and cultures internationally. Jackie does not follow any particular spiritual teaching but is deeply interested in the investigative talks & dialogues of J. Krishnamurti as a mirror and friend to her own constant inner inquiry.
But are we actually in relationship with others? Or are we connected to each other through expectations, images, selfish desires and gratification? You fulfil me, I have a feeling of possession or control, as do you with me. Is this relationship or is it self interest?
In our in depth study program we shall be looking into the mirror of the relationships in our lives, as well as into the actual relationships happening in real time, with others, in the group. Can we look into this mirror directly without avoiding what we see? Can we see through the illusions that we project in place of real relating?
Can we give all our energy to find out if there is a totally new kind of relationship with others; and indeed with the whole of life as we know it?
“There is no living without relationship” J. Krishnamurti
Daily online sessions: 10:00 am-12:30 pm PACIFIC TIME
These sessions will be recorded and made available to the participants only for further personal study for 2 weeks after the last session.
Facilitator Jackie McInley founded and ran an independent Krishnamurti centre called Open Door in Southern France from 2004 until 2013 – hosting monthly inquiry weekends and annual international gatherings in French and English. She organized an experimental David Bohm bi-monthly dialogue meeting for 4 years in a local market town, and later a Krishnamurti dialogue group in the city of Toulouse. A former self-employed foreign language and theatre teacher by profession (schools, higher education and business), she now organizes and facilitates inquiry events, gatherings and retreats in a variety of countries and cultures internationally. Jackie does not follow any particular spiritual teaching but is deeply interested in the investigative talks & dialogues of J. Krishnamurti as a mirror and friend to her own constant inner inquiry.