Krishnamurti, Raj Ghat
After volunteering today I went down river to Raj Ghat Fort to the Krishnamurti Foundation. What a beautiful place and so peaceful. In his life time Krishnamurti spent a lot of time here giving talks holding dialogues, reflecting and meditating.; I think his presence can still be felt there. After being shown around by a member of staff, who was a true gentle man, I had lunch and the staff and bought some books written by Krishnamurti on meditation and the nature of the self. This land of the foundation is also rumoured to be on the same road where the Buddha walked from Bodhgaya, after his enlightenment to Sarnath where he give his first teaching. The land is on a high bank and used to be a fort in the time of the British rule it is also next to where the Assi river (the Ganga) and the Varuna river meet (a tributary that flows into the Ganga). In Hindu belief places where rivers meet have a special spiritual quality/power. There is also a Vishnu temple next door and a Hindu ashram across the Varuna. So this land had a long spiritual history and some of the trees there were just huge. I spent the afternoon under a beautifully huge,old Bodhi Tree, overlooking the Ganga. It leaves and branches sheilded me from the hot sun and hung in front of me like a veil with the sunlight sparking on the water below; quite magical. Anyway I attempted to meditate for a wee while and just take in the sounds and feel of the place and then read Krishnamutri's thoughts on human perception and interaction with nature. His writing, to me at least, are so beautiful and so clear, no dogma and he truly makes the reader question life, perception, emotions all of it and he is so right on. He, like the Buddha, provokes the reader to dive into their own mind; question existence, question our messy, uncontrollable minds and question how our projections of mind effect our the environment, society and each other. He seems to nudge the reader in the direction of getting to the core of what being alive in the moment truly is, so that we can come to our own realizations.
I am looking forward to reading more of his works and if you fancy here is the web site for more info on this amazing teacher.
http://www.kfionline.org/foundations/kfi
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| A young Krishnamurti |
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| view from under the bodhi tree at Raj Ghat |
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| retreat cottage |
After volunteering today I went down river to Raj Ghat Fort to the Krishnamurti Foundation. What a beautiful place and so peaceful. In his life time Krishnamurti spent a lot of time here giving talks holding dialogues, reflecting and meditating.; I think his presence can still be felt there. After being shown around by a member of staff, who was a true gentle man, I had lunch and the staff and bought some books written by Krishnamurti on meditation and the nature of the self. This land of the foundation is also rumoured to be on the same road where the Buddha walked from Bodhgaya, after his enlightenment to Sarnath where he give his first teaching. The land is on a high bank and used to be a fort in the time of the British rule it is also next to where the Assi river (the Ganga) and the Varuna river meet (a tributary that flows into the Ganga). In Hindu belief places where rivers meet have a special spiritual quality/power. There is also a Vishnu temple next door and a Hindu ashram across the Varuna. So this land had a long spiritual history and some of the trees there were just huge. I spent the afternoon under a beautifully huge,old Bodhi Tree, overlooking the Ganga. It leaves and branches sheilded me from the hot sun and hung in front of me like a veil with the sunlight sparking on the water below; quite magical. Anyway I attempted to meditate for a wee while and just take in the sounds and feel of the place and then read Krishnamutri's thoughts on human perception and interaction with nature. His writing, to me at least, are so beautiful and so clear, no dogma and he truly makes the reader question life, perception, emotions all of it and he is so right on. He, like the Buddha, provokes the reader to dive into their own mind; question existence, question our messy, uncontrollable minds and question how our projections of mind effect our the environment, society and each other. He seems to nudge the reader in the direction of getting to the core of what being alive in the moment truly is, so that we can come to our own realizations.
I am looking forward to reading more of his works and if you fancy here is the web site for more info on this amazing teacher.
http://www.kfionline.org/foundations/kfi
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