J. Krishnamurti on Study Centres

 You are carrying a jewel with you. You are watching all the time or it will get lost... As I see it, a Study Cetre has become a necessity because that is the place where the treasure is... From that treasure you can draw. You can draw your strength, your energy, your sustenance, nourishment and so on... Here is something that is sacred... and from that everything flows.


 This place must be of great beauty with trees, birds and quietness, for beauty is truth and truth is goodness and love. The external beauty, external tranquillity, silence, may affect the inner tranquillity, but the environment must in no way influence the inner beauty. Beauty can only be when the self is not; the environment, which must have great wonder, must in no way be an absorbing factor like a toy with a child. Here, there are no toys - but inner depth, substance and integrity that is not put together by thought.


First of all I want to be quiet... for the first couple of days... then I would go into the library and say, "This is a study... therefore I have to study what K is talking about..."
If you are sensitive you realise there is something here which is different from your home, and totally different from going to a discussion somewhere. Then you begin to study, and not only you but all the people living here are studying, seeing, questioning. And everyone actually listening with his whole being will naturally bring about a religious atmosphere.



By reading, by listening to the tape, by seeing the videos, I begin to absorb... I would have to be sensitive enough to receive. And I would like - at lunch, or when walking or being with others in the sitting room - to discuss... So it will be a moving thing.
 
Physically there must be sensitivity. Physical sensitivity cannot possibly take place when there is smoking, drinking, eating meat. The sensitivity of the body must be maintained. That is absolutely essential.

(Quotations from discussions with Krishnamurti about the Study Centres)

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