“That energy comes into being when thought – as experience, as knowledge, as the ego, the centre, the self, the `me’ which is creating its own energy, volition, with its sorrows, miseries, and all the rest of it – is dissolved. When that centre is dissipated then there is that energy, that power which is love.”
“Strangely death and love always go together; they never separate. You can’t love without death; you can’t embrace without death being there. Where love is there is also death, they are inseparable.”
“Compassion is supreme intelligence, it is not my intelligence or your intelligence, it is totally objective, and yet you can love another. That is the beauty of it.”
“Without love there is no freedom; without love, freedom is merely an idea which has no value at all. So it is only for those who understand and break away from inner dependence, and who therefore know what love is, that there can be freedom; and it is they alone who will bring about a new civilization, a different world.”
“There is love only when there is the ending of sorrow. Love cannot exist within the circle, or within the field of sorrow.”
“We’re asking, what is love? And we’re saying that the negation of what is not love in daily life, every moment of your life, the negation, to put aside what is not love, then out of that negation comes the positive thing called love. You understand?”
J. Krishnamurti
We use the word love in many different ways. Desire, attachment, sexual attraction, pleasure, sentimentality, etc. are considered as love. Also, the word love is used in many different contexts, e.g. love of the country, love for a person, love of art, music, cooking, love for God, etc. Love is also divided into various categories like carnal love, platonic love, divine love, etc. But actually, what is love? Are our notions of love really love? What relationship does love have with thought and feeling? How does one come upon true love? Krishnamurti says that only by negating what love is not, you can come to what love is. So, what is negation? Is love blind or it has its own intelligence? In what way beauty and freedom are related to love? What have suffering and death got to do with love? What is the energy of love; how can it operate in our daily life? Understanding the quality and energy of love and to explore in what way it can be part of our life is the intent of this workshop. It is expected that the participants will at least understand what love is not and drop their wrong notions about love. Various selections from Krishnamurti’s works relevant to the theme of this workshop will be provided as a reading material to each participant. Also links to the relevant videos of Krishnamurti will be provided. Each participant is expected to devote these two days fully to the study in order to benefit maximum from this workshop.