The real question is whether you are alive before death

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

Osho

Zen-leshringur á laugardaginn

 

Laugardaginn 23. febrúar nk. kl. 10:00-11:00 mun Gunnlaugur Már Pétursson kynna fyrir okkur þýðingar sínar á stuttum leiðbeiningum fyrir zazen iðkendur úr bókinni Cultivating the Empty Field eftir kínverska zen meistarann Hongzhi. Þetta er einstaklega áhugavert efni, enda hafa leshringirnir hingað til aðallega verið um texta eftir seinni tíma kennara, en Hongzhi er meistari frá 11.öld, „gullöld“ Zen hefðarinnar í Kína, og þar að auki var hann í miklum metum hjá Eihei Dogen, stofnanda Soto Zen hefðarinnar, sem kallaði hann oftsinnis „hinn forna Búdda“.

Athugið að það er enginn aðgangseyrir á leshringinn og allir eru velkomnir.

 

www.zen.is

Segist tvisvar hafa farið ,,yfir"

 

,, ... tók loforð um að segja ekki neitt um það..."

Sjá hér: http://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2013/02/19/segist_tvisvar_hafa_farid_yfir/

Dagskrá Lífspekifélagsins um helgina - Skammtaeðlisfræði og hugleiðing

22. feb. föstudagur kl 20:00

Gylfi Aðalsteinsson: Skammtaeðlisfræði og heimsmynd

trúarbragða. Er samkvæmni milli kenninga skammtaeðlisfræði

(Quantum physics) og heimsmyndar fornra trúarbragða

23. feb. laugardagur

kl. 15:30 Hugleiðing/íhugun

Kl. 16:00 Kaffi

Kl. 16:30 Vilhjálmur Hjaltalín Jónsson leiðir hugleiðingu og umræður

www.lifspekifelagid.is

 

Truth as no path

We have been told that all paths lead to truth. You have a path as a Hindu and someone else has a path as a Christian and another as a Muslim, and they all meet at the same door- which is, when you look at it, so obviously absurd. Truth as no path, and that is the beauty of truth, it is living.

Krishnamurti - Freedom from the Known

Krishnamurti um menntun

 

It is becoming more and more important in a world that is destructive and degenerative that there should be a place, an oasis, where one can learn a way of living that is whole, sane and intelligent.

Education in the modern world has been concerned with the cultivation not of inteligence, but intellect, of memory and its skills. In this process little occurs beyond passsing information from the teacher to the taught, the leader to the follower, bringing about a superficial and mechanical way of life. In this there is little human relationship.

Surely a school is a place where one learns about the totality, the wholeness of life. Academic excellence is absolutly necessary, but a school includes much more than that. It is a place where both the teacher and the taught explore not only the outer world, the world of knowledge, but also their own thinking, their own behaviour. From this they begin to discover their own conditioning and how it distorts their thinking. [...]

A school is a place where one learns the importance of knowledge and its limitations. It is a place where one learns to observe the world, not from any particular point of view or conclusion. One learns to look at the whole of man's endeavour, his search for beauty, his search for truth and for a way of living without conflict. Conflict is the very essence of violence. So far education has not been concerned with this, but in this school our intent is to understand actuality and its action without any preconceived ideals, theories, or beliefs which bring about a contradictory attitude towards existence.[...]

The whole movement of inquiry into knowledge, into oneself, into the possibility of something beyond knowledge, brings about naturally a psychological revolution, and from this comes inevitably a totally different order in human relationship, which is society.  The intelligent understanding of all this can bring about a pofound change in the consciousness of mankind.

 

J. Krishnamurti - Ojai, 1984

Lífspekifélagið um helgina - Óhefðbundnar lækningar og markmið

15. feb .föstudagur kl 20:00

Fræðslumynd: Óhefðbundnar lækningar.

16. feb. laugardagur  

kl 15:30 hugleiðing/íhugun
kl 16:00 kaffi
16:30: Birgir Bjarnasson fjallar um markmið.

www.lifspekifelagid.is

 

Kriya yoga námskeið í júní 2013

 

Swami Mangalananda Giri verður með námskeið í kriya yoga helgina 14. - 16. júní 2013.

 

www.kriya.org

 

www.kriyayoga.is

Segðu já! Fyrirlestur um zen á laugardaginn

 

Laugardaginn 9. febrúar kl. 09:15 - 10:15 verður Helga Kimyo með fyrirlestur um Zen sem fengið hefur nafnið Segðu já! Hefðbundin morgundagskrá hefst kl. 08:00 með zazen hugleiðslu en það er einnig hægt að koma inn kl. 09.15 og hlýða á fyrirlesturinn. Allir velkomnir og aðgangur ókeypis.

 

www.zen.is

Religions have made self-knowledge very mystical, abstract, and far away

Religions have made self-knowledge very mystical, abstract, and far away, but if you look at it more closely, you will see that self-knowledge is very simple and demands simple attention in relationship and it is essential if there is to be a fundamental revolution in the structure of society.

J. Krishnamurti