Literature Review - J. Krishnamurti and all that is awareness

Jko. (2017, October 30). The Art of Listening. Retrieved from https://www.jkrishnamurti.orgcontent/art-listening

“Hearing is doing nothing to stop seeing. But if I listen to you completely without a single interference of thought or ideation or mentation, just listen to that, the miracle has taken place. Which is my total attention absolves me, my mind, from all the statement. Therefore my mind is extraordinarily free to act.”

JK talks about the importance of listening in the education realm. The act of learning, listening, seeing and action is one – and if we ignore even one of the areas is not addressed then the whole movement is incomplete. The deep attention that is needed in every moment is what makes learning complete.

http://www.journal.kfionline.org/issue-17/not-different-in-kind-exploration-into-the-teacher-student-relationship

Stumbled upon this essay as I was looking at the one J. Krishnmamurti school journal I had, the universe is a very giving one is all that I can say. The entire essay is a rumination of what happens within teachers when they teach.  The inner-workings of the process is what she lays bare and questions it - in terms of impact (can we measure and what are we measuring) and working within the structure of a defined student-teacher relationship (which really, never goes away).

The poignancy of the questions really connected with my current state of mind  and the struggle that I seem to be working out. Her thinking gave me a reference point of what I want to build in myself and facilitators.  Her entire essay almost is what a final exam would look like if I ran a facilitators workshop which had an exam.The living with the constant questioning, awareness of one's practice is what I really want to be able to build and grow.  All in all, a great input for what I see as an outcome, without it being prescriptive or one solution/outcome for all.She ends her essay by saying, 'It requires her to step out of the safety of her institutional armour, so that teacher and student may then, together, begin to learn about living.’