The Anatomy of Insight
Online in-depth program
Monday, August 4 - Friday, August 8, 2025
Program Fee: $100
https://krishnamurticenter.org/the-anatomy-of-insight/
What is the birthplace of Insight, where you see inside? It’s dark in there but you can see. How? What is the anatomy of insight? Remember Krishnamurti’s statement, “In the light of silence, all problems are dissolved” and his challenge “Can the mind be quiet?” Is silence the light in the darkness? Is this where the energy of consciousness and its content merge, become one movement, rather than there being a thinker and a thought, two movements? What then do we mean by silence?
Consider the thinker as noise, both thinking and experiencing thought with its reactions, the fragmentation that creates a dimension of time/thought, a duality of me and my thoughts. Now consider a dimension of the living present, which is one movement, self-aware at a level beyond self-created content. Any old awareness can be aware of the content, the story of what you are thinking, because that is what thinking does, it is aware of itself as its content, it experiences itself and reacts to itself. But is there an awareness of the movement of thought that has all other intricacies in it, that takes you outside of the story, that reveals thinking’s motivation, its flimsiness as just a movement rather than the actual content? Can we see behind the curtain as it were?
When the kind of observation of which Krishnamurti speaks is present – observation without any interference whatsoever, which can be referenced as being ‘silent’ – that awareness is aware of what is taking place in consciousness whether it is filled with content or if it is empty. When we are birthing this ability to see what is in the living present, what is is usually the movement of thought; but is there plenty to see/be beyond the content of consciousness that we refer to as thought? Most people quote Krishnamurti as saying “Consciousness is its content,” but the full quote on that is “Consciousness, as we know it, is its content.” The nexus of consciousness and its content, where they become one movement that is capable of self-awareness, appears to be represented by the word silence. So, again, what is that silence? And what exists, and does not exist, in silence?
Daily online sessions: 2:30 pm-5:30 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 John Duncan’s interaction with Krishnamurti and his teachings began in 1984 when he saw public talks in Ojai. From then on he attended many dialogue retreats and events at the foundation until he moved to Ojai in 1999 and began working at the KFA. His work as proofreader for the Krishnamurti Publications was an invaluable scholarship in which he interacted with Krishnamurti talks and dialogues spanning over six decades of Krishnamurti’s teaching life, including the 17 volumes of the Collected Works. He has been leading dialogues on Tuesdays and Saturdays for several years and looks forward to introducing Krishnamurti and his teachings in a clear and dynamic fashion.
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