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Adam Pallant, grandson of Mary Lutyens, has signed a film rights contract with Warner Brothers for use of the biography of Krishnamurti.
Merchant Ivory, the production company, is currently working on the script. Evelyne Blau is acting as consultant to the director and the producer.
Blau produced the documentary With a Silent Mind in 1990 (directed by Michael Mendizza), and is the author of Krishnamurti: 100 Years (1995).
- From the latest Krishnamurti Foundation Trust, Spring Newsletter, 2008. Note: This movie allegedly will only cover his life
up until the dissolution of the Order of the Star in 1929 - Source: Administrator of the KFA Dialogue Forum.
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Mary Zimbalist died quietly in her home in Ojai on June 17th, 2008.
She was born in 1915 and first heard Krishnamurti speak in a public talk he gave in Ojai, California in 1944.
After a career as a model and actress, and marriage to film producer Sam Zimbalist, producer of the movie Ben Hur, Mary began to work
for Krishnamurti following the death of her husband in 1958. She became a trusted advisor and close friend and was active in the founding of the
Oak Grove School, Ojai, California, and Brockwood Park School and Center, Hampshire, England.
- From The Challenge Of Change: The e-Newsletter of the Krishnamurti Foundation of America, June, 2008.
Note: Mary Zimbalist has allegedly written a book about her life with Krishnamurti but stated that it not be made public until 75 years
have elapsed from the date of her death - Source (paraphrased): Administrator of the KFA Dialogue Forum, August 26, 2008.
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Cash-strapped Krishnamurti Foundation Regroups - Major management restructure at the KFA in Ojai, due to the financial downturn's impact on the current
endowment, mentioning new roles for Mark Lee and Troy Sumrall, the newly appointed top administrator; VenturaCounty Star, July 7, 2009.
True education means going past religion - A brief article on the shattering of all doctrinal religions and the challenge to education worldwide,
by Joshua Minton, Columbus Books Examiner, examiner.com, June 22, 2009 (Includes YouTube 2-video set: The Real Revolution).
A Meditation on Ambition - An article on desire, quoting Commentaries on Living, 3d Series; Pavel Somov, Ph.D., The Huffington Post, May 8, 2009.
Enlightenment Therapy - An accomplished Zen Master undergoes extended psychotherapy from a psychoanalyst versed in Buddhism,
Zen and Freud, who had read Krishnamurti during his formative studies; Chip Brown, The New York Times Magazine, April 23, 2009.
75th Anniversary of Rajghat Besant School - Second oldest school of the Krishnamurti Foundation India, the celebration occurred
on March 14 and 15; The Times of India, Report from Varanasi, March 13, 2009.
The Third Mind: Asian Culture's Influence on the West - Briefly mentioning the influences of Theosophy and Krishnamurti (inter alia) on US artists,
notably Jackson Pollock, at the Guggenheim Exhibition of Abstract Expressionist painting; Ariella Budick, Financial Times, February 12, 2009.
The Krishnamurti Mercedes Roadster, The Green Beauty, looking for a new owner - The KFA is offering his car as a premium giveaway for a donor
who makes a major gift to the Foundation in its current fundraising drive (contact KFA's Mark Lee); Navin Doshi, IndiaPost.com, January 27, 2009.
Mind set: Change is constant - An article on the constancy of change at all levels of existence, paraphrasing Krishnamurti's views on radical change
that can only occur outside of the boundaries of thought; by Narayani Ganesh, The Times of India, December 29, 2008.
Helping India's Poor Get a Leg Up - Article on former banker turned philanthropist Nachiket Mor, an alumnus of Brockwood Park School,
now heading a nonprofit Foundation dispensing microloans to India's poor; BusinessWeek, Special Report, November 24, 2008.
J. Krishnamurti: The Man, The Message And You Two-day awareness programme organized by the KFI in Mumbai, in October 2008; attended by
notable figures, at which a documentary ("The Seer Who Walks Alone"), by film maker G. Aravindan, was screened to attendees - IndiaPRwire.com.
Gandhis revisit Jiddu Legacy - The Times of India, Chennai, article touching briefly on the historical ties of Krishnamurti to the Gandhi family, as well
as a 'reconnaissance mission' to Rishi Valley School by Rahul Gandhi and his sister as trustees of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation. The purpose
of the visit was to learn about the School's education system in preparation for the Foundation opening its own schools across India; August 29, 2008.
The Observer and Krishnamurti's Teaching - Meditations (Spirituality) Column, by Martin LeFevre,
non-academic religious and political philosopher; Scoop.co: Independent News, New Zealand, August 27, 2008.
Empty - Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition - Article on a Beijing Fine Arts exhibition dealing with the escape from the emptiness within,
citing the Krishnamurti line: "Fear comes only when I am trying to escape from it". Exhibition runs from August 6 - September 6, 2008.
'Hard Rain' exhibit opens at United Nations Headquarters on 5 May - A photo essay by Mark Richards,
including his commentary as well as other commentaries by Krishnamurti & David Bohm et al, to coincide with
the latest session of the Commission on Sustainable Development, at the UN headquarters in New York, running 5 to 16 May, 2008.
"The Mind of Krishnamurti" Exhibit, San Diego State University will host the traveling exhibit “The Mind of Krishnamurti:
World Citizen, World Teacher” in partnership with the Departments of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Common Experience,
and the Krishnamurti Foundation of America; focusing on his views on education, running from April 1 to May 23, 2008.
Living in goodness as a basis for society - Pacific Daily News, Guam, April 2, 2008.
Comment and quotes from "This Light in Oneself", by A. Gaffar Peang-Meth, Ph.D.
Of Art and Men - Ventura County Reporter, March 13, 2008.
An article on the ceramist Beatrice Wood in Ojai, along with her devotion to Krishnamurti, with mentions of Rajagopal, Rosalind and Radha Sloss.
We Went: The Psychology of Blink - Seattlest.com Website, March 6, 2008.
Reports on a talk on Implicit Associations given by Dr Anthony Greenwald at the University of Washington, wherein a student
asked the lecturer if he was aware how his research related to the teachings of Krishnamurti, to which the lecturer responded he didn't know.
"The deflated young man who asked the Krishnamurti question had nowhere to go and slunk back to his seat. Very sad. Typical Eurocentric bias."
Lecture on Life of JK - The Hindu, Fenruary 23, 2008.
Reports on a recent lecture by K biographer Dr. Christine Williams at the University of Madras.
Entitled ‘Researching the life of Jiddu Krishnamurti’, she states the philosopher influenced such theoretical titans
as Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes, as well as that of the psychology pioneer Carl Jung;
she had also found a thick FBI file on the man during her research. She states he has had a 'profound and lasting impact on world thought'.
The KFI working to popularise 'the message' - The Hindu, January 26, 2008.
Mentions the Clintons visit to the Oak Grove School in California, and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez quoting from the talks.
"The teachings still valid" - The Hindu, January 27, 2008.
Mary Cadogan and David Skitt from the KFT in England deliver annual lectures at Vasanta Vihar, Chennai.
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Eckhart Tolle's 10-week webcasts with Oprah on Oprah.com,
that ran from March 3 to May 5, 2008. These discussions are derived from Tolle's new book on spirituality:
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, which addresses some of the major themes contained in the talks.
(See: Krishnamurti, Eckhart Tolle, and the Koan)
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Contributed Summations of the Talks, Compiled by: Pradeep Apte
NOW OR NEVER
INTELLIGENCE
YOURSELF
TO LIVE WITH DEATH
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Two free e-books written by Dr Gordon Coates:
"Wanterfall: A practical approach to the
understanding and healing of the emotions of everyday life";
"Notes on Communication: A few thoughts about the way we interact with the people we meet"
Discussing verbal and non-verbal communication
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"It is very important to understand desire. If that is not completely understood, the subtlety of desire is immense and therefore it has ... immense possibilities of illusion. Desire ... must come to a complete end. That is, the mind, the brain, must be absolutely pure - not pure as no sex, no ugly thoughts - but the brain must be completely empty of knowledge."
(Pupul Jayakar Biography: Chapter 35, 'One Touched the Source'
- page 393; ellipses added)
(Pupul Jayakar Biography: Chapter 35, 'One Touched the Source'
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Is there something that continues after death?
Can the self be transcended?
What does this statement mean: 'The Observer is the Observed'?
What is Consciousness?
Are the talks simple to understand or are they too complex?
Can any importance be attached to the man behind the talks?
Can the concept of psychological time be ended in the mind?
What role can a koan play in an experience of enlightenment?
Krishnamurti & Tolle - What are the correlations, if any?
Krishnamurti & Jeff Foster - Are there real parallels between them?
Have we ever had an insight into the nature of the mind of thought?
Is it possible for the mind to empty itself of all thought?
Is the self real or only an insubstantial thing?
Why won't people change when they see that things are going wrong?
Can we live in the present or are we condemned to always live in the past?
Is resistance to the fact the root cause of all psychic pain?
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Why have only a few been transformed in human history?
"... [T]he difficulty is society is so strong, the temptations of the young person who wants to be with other young children who are already corrupt, who have already, you know, have accepted all the nonsense of society, and it becomes extremely difficult to bring up a child who will not yield to the tremendous weight of society."
(Fifth Question & Answer Meeting, Saanen, July 1980; ellipsis added)
Society is ruled by inertia, which is also often called the status quo, or vested interests. Inertia itself is mass public acceptance, cultural conditioning at its height. Things are - simply because things are, by tradition. In the corporate world, jobs and the drive for profit prevent and stifle many innovations and/or major technological solutions from taking place. Then, once firmly established, institutions, corporate structures and social systems are practically impossible to dismantle - such as the profit-principle, royalty, the nation-state system, Constitutions, the Catholic and Anglican churches, parliamentary democracy, traditional education, the class system, global organizations like the UN, the World Bank and the IMF - to name just a few. This is the establishment - which is the conditioning of the human mind.
It is the burdensome weight that society carries, which exerts its power from early childhood. The vast majority of the public want all these things to continue, for they revere past traditions as they give them great comfort and security. (Authorities and politicians involved in law and order are afraid of major change, for this will mean they would lose control of the public.)
The underlying principle is that what has 'worked' in the past will continue to work. This is despite all the glaring issues that confront society on an ongoing basis, which are glossed over. All people who advocate major change, radical reform, are carefully marginalized and then what they have said is cleverly shunted aside and forgotten. It doesn't matter what their stature is or was in history.
This is the major reason why there are so few true iconoclasts in all of history: Jesus, the Buddha, Socrates, Krishnamurti.
See: (Stifling a universal fuel source - thorium (YouTube video) - related article: Obama could kill fossil fuels overnight with a nuclear dash for thorium, by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, International Business Editor, London Telegraph, August 29, 2010.)
(Fifth Question & Answer Meeting, Saanen, July 1980; ellipsis added)
Society is ruled by inertia, which is also often called the status quo, or vested interests. Inertia itself is mass public acceptance, cultural conditioning at its height. Things are - simply because things are, by tradition. In the corporate world, jobs and the drive for profit prevent and stifle many innovations and/or major technological solutions from taking place. Then, once firmly established, institutions, corporate structures and social systems are practically impossible to dismantle - such as the profit-principle, royalty, the nation-state system, Constitutions, the Catholic and Anglican churches, parliamentary democracy, traditional education, the class system, global organizations like the UN, the World Bank and the IMF - to name just a few. This is the establishment - which is the conditioning of the human mind.
It is the burdensome weight that society carries, which exerts its power from early childhood. The vast majority of the public want all these things to continue, for they revere past traditions as they give them great comfort and security. (Authorities and politicians involved in law and order are afraid of major change, for this will mean they would lose control of the public.)
The underlying principle is that what has 'worked' in the past will continue to work. This is despite all the glaring issues that confront society on an ongoing basis, which are glossed over. All people who advocate major change, radical reform, are carefully marginalized and then what they have said is cleverly shunted aside and forgotten. It doesn't matter what their stature is or was in history.
This is the major reason why there are so few true iconoclasts in all of history: Jesus, the Buddha, Socrates, Krishnamurti.
See: (Stifling a universal fuel source - thorium (YouTube video) - related article: Obama could kill fossil fuels overnight with a nuclear dash for thorium, by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, International Business Editor, London Telegraph, August 29, 2010.)
