August 30, 2021
IN ONESELF LIES THE WHOLE WORLD
Joyeeta is Assistant Teacher, English and Education, at Nikunjapur High School in Bankura. She reflects on how her deep admiration and love for the works of both J Krishnamurti (K) and Tagore has led to a better understanding of both. K has become so much clearer to me and I keep discovering his teachings in different ways. Read on. I attended an online Bengali Dialogue program on15th August. I would like to share some of my
July 15, 2021
SPAIN, IRAN, JAPAN……MY JOURNEY HAS BEEN EXCITING!
Hyuga Amir describes the huge diversity in his life journey. His father was Iranian and mother Spanish. He spent some years in both Spain and Iran. How did he finally land up making Japan his home? How did he connect with the teachings of Krishnamurti? This is an extraordinary story. Spain, Iran, Japan………from a very young age I have been in contact with distant cultures and places and raised in many different environments. My childhood
July 1, 2021
THE TREE: A KIDS’ PLAY
Gautam shares an intriguing kid’s play. It resonates the beauty of a J Krishnamurti quote: ‘the very nature of intelligence is sensitivity and this sensitivity is love’. This ‘conversation’ between the branches of a tree, a bird and the tree itself is so beautiful. The play reveals a sensitivity that is touching and has a lesson for humanity. Trees, animals, rivers, the earth may not be able to articulate their feelings but if we don’t
June 29, 2021
MIRROR IN THE REPORT CARD?
Sudeshna Sinha is an experienced educator. She explores a crisis in education which she says is not being addressed. Children face so many fears and insecurities and yet the education system has done very little to help children deal with their psychological issues. Why? What can be done?Today we can easily teach our children Maths, Science or Geography, Robotics or even Yoga and Coding whether online or offline. But what about how to deal with
June 25, 2021
CAN HUMANITY CHANGE?
A lovely short film. ‘Tashi and the monk’. Just under 40 minutes. On a remote mountaintop, a brave social experiment is taking place. Committed to raising children with love and compassion, former Buddhist monk Lobsang Phuntsok attempts to heal his own childhood abandonment. He does this by adopting 85 unwanted children and growing them as a family at Jhamtse Gatsal, a remote children’s community in the foothills of the Himalayas. The film follows Jhamtse’s newest
Lovely thought, connected so nicely by Joyeeta. Thx
Nicely relate & combine both the Icons.
Really motivate in broadening or awakening our narrow self.
Translation (essence) of Tagore is also beautiful.