When I think I already know the topic of my inquiry well, can I really discover anything new? Is inquiry a discovery that is alive in the present moment? Or, is group exploration merely a casual re-discovery?
What is real inquiry?
Is there a very different way of communicating with each other in dialogue that goes beyond a mere exchange of repetitive collective assumptions? Is there a listening that opens the relationship between us, with the topic, and with life itself?
Can we look at something so that it is completely new to us and can something I have never seen before, be revealed?
BEAUMONT-LA-FERRIÈRE Burgundy village in rural France
When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learned without experiencing it.
J. Krishnamurti
PROGRAM ACTIVITIES
Creative Study – daily dialogue circle
One-to-one dialogue in breakout groups
Journaling
Quiet time
Walking in nature
Video/ Text extracts of Krishnamurti
Time for spontaneous and informal exchange between participants
Space for relaxing, eating together and enjoying the international company of new and old friends
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
ALL MEALS ARE VEGETARIAN & HOMECOOKED
8:30 – Breakfast 9:30 to 12:30 – Creative dialogue.
13:00 to 15:00 – Lunch and free time 15:00 to 16:00 – Krishnamurti video 16:30 to 17:30 – Walk in nature 18:00 to 19:15 – Creative self inquiry session 19:30 – Dinner
In case of financial difficulties, partial time unavailability, handicap, please contact us for a solution.
PROGRAM LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION
The retreat will be in both French & English. The facilitator and the organisers of La Maison are all bi-lingual, so they will be speaking in both French and English when and wherever necessary.
A bi-lingual inquiry retreat can be a wonderful opportunity to practice speaking another language. However help with understanding and communication will be available at all times.
LA MAISON – RETREAT CENTRE
ARRIVALS
🗓️ DATES : Wednesday 4th September to Sunday 8th September 2024
🏡 VENUE : La Maison, Beaumont la Ferrière. Burgundy region in France
TRAVEL TO THE RETREAT
International participants welcome from abroad & from within France
✈️ International Flights 👉 Paris, France
Ⓜ️ Metro trains from Paris Airports 👉 Paris Bercy Station (45 min)
🚇 Direct train from Station in Paris Paris Bercy 👉 Local Station: La Charite sur Loire (2 hr)
🚘 La Maison’s Welcome Pick-Up from La Charité Sur Loire will bring you comfortably to 👉 your destination (15 min)
WHO FOR?
For everyone. No prerequisite. Open Door inquiry is inspired but not led by the writings, talks & conversations of J. Krishnamurti and of David Bohm
“To inquire and to learn is the function of the mind, By learning I do not mean the mere cultivation of memory or the accumulation of knowledge, but the capacity to think clearly and sanely without illusion, to start from facts and not from beliefs and ideals.”
“By giving a name to something, we have merely put it into a category and we think we have understood it; we don’t look at it more closely. If we do not give it a name, however, we are forced to look at it. That is we approach the flower or whatever it is with a newness, with a new quality of examination; we look at it as though we had never looked at it before.”
ARRIVALS
TRAVEL TO THE RETREAT
WHO FOR?
FACILITATOR
PLEASE CONTACT LA MAISON RETREAT CENTRE – FOR MORE INFORMATION AND BOOKINGS
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