Can Time End?: Giving the whole of ourselves to explore time in every moment (2nd session)

November 8th-12th KFA Retreat 

CAN TIME END? 

Chapter 4 Ending of Time

What constitutes our self-centred mind and how is this egocentric activity experienced by each one of us? Is Self necessary and felt as “natural” in our lives and relationships? Can we, together, go into this inherent illusion of coherence and rationality in ourselves and question the very foundations of our conditioned thinking? 

Not only are we avoiding the depth of these questions in our everyday lives, we seem unable to break away from the tremendous momentum and apparent mechanical inevitability of our mind’s actual movement. 

In the second part of our online exploration of The Ending of Time we shall be looking into this crucial question of our-Selves. How is this Self perceived? How does it “hold together” in our thoughts? What is the relationship of thinking to self? In what way is time involved? Does the impression of a perpetual Self keep the whole field of human conditioning in place?

In this process - since we are the living manifestation of this self-centred action - one must observe with an attention that cannot be prepared or stand separate from the questions we are actually exploring. Together, listening to each other, letting go of our prior conclusions and insights, let us explore these questions as one mind.

This form of K inspired dialogue demands the energy of a serious participant. Nevertheless dialogue benefits - and indeed can only flourish - from a spirit of kind affection, relaxation and good humour with each other. We warmly welcome all ages, cultural backgrounds and varying knowledge of K’s work. Exchanging and relating across so called difference and imagined separation - in friendship and affection - is perhaps the “first and last step” of this form of dialogue and inquiry.

We will meet each day for a 2 1/2-hour session that will include but not be limited to discussion/dialogue, some short video clips and short excerpts from texts. Daily online sessions
9:30am-12:00pm PACIFIC TIME

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 organises and facilitates inquiry events, gatherings and retreats in a variety of countries and cultures around the world. She also visits, facilitates dialogues and gives talks in the Krishnamurti Foundations, centres & schools in USA, UK and India.

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.