“There are three essential things in the awakening of intelligence: The art of listening, to communicate not only verbally but non-verbally exactly what you mean, and you listen without distortion; that is the art of listening. The art of seeing is to observe clearly without a direction, without motive, without any form of desire, but merely to observe. And then there is the art of learning, which means registering all the things that are necessary for skillful action, and not registering any psychological responses, any psychological reactions so that the brain is employing itself where function, skill are necessary through knowledge and the brain is free not to register. This is very arduous, to be so totally aware that you only register what is necessary and absolutely not register anything which is not necessary.”
“You are the accumulated result of the many thousand centuries of man, his hopes and desires, his guilts and anxieties, his beliefs and gods, his fulfilments and frustrations; you are all that and more additions made to it in recent times. Learning about all this, deep down and on the surface, is not mere verbal or intellectual statements of the obvious, the conclusions. Learning is the experiencing of these facts, emotionally and directly; to come into contact with them not theoretically, verbally, but actually, like a hungry man.”
J. Krishnamurti
Every living being has to learn to survive. After survival, he has to keep learning in order to unfold all his potential, his capabilities and possibilities. Since there is no limit to human potential, there is no ending to learning. Thus, life is a movement in learning. We usually learn in terms of accumulation of knowledge. But is there a non-accumulative learning? What is the need for such a learning? A human being cannot survive properly without understanding himself. How does one understand oneself? Learning is possible only through observation and listening. What is observing without the observer? What is listening with the heart? What is awareness? What is attention? Insight is understanding in the deepest sense. How does insight happen? What is perception and action emerging out of that perception? All these and many more questions will be explored in this workshop. The intent is to unfold one’s potential to learn, to observe and to listen. By the end of this workshop, it is expected that the participant will be fairly able to observe his daily life situations and at least endeavour to seek their right resolution.