The Paradox of Change | David Moody

Followed by Q&A with Karen Hesli, Nandini Patnaik and David Moody.

You are watching the 36th annual May Gathering at the Krishnamurti Center in Ojai, California. Links to our programs and to all of J. Krishnamurti's work can be found at kfa.org.

We have chosen a theme that we feel is extremely relevant to the issues that face our shared world-- The Urgency of Change. This is also the title of a book that was published 50 years ago, and the topics it touches upon are as striking now as they were then.

There is this fact of disorder. There is no doubt about it; it is an actual fact. The traditional approach to this fact is to analyze it, to try to discover the cause of it and overcome the cause, or else to invent its opposite and battle towards that. This is the traditional approach with its disciplines, drills, controls, suppressions, sublimations. Man has done this for thousands upon thousands of years; it has led nowhere. Can we abandon this approach completely and look at the problem entirely differently – that is, not try to go beyond it, or resolve it, or overcome it, or escape from it? Can the mind do this?
Krishnamurti, The Urgency of Change

The focus of this gathering is to have speakers, panels, and dialogues aiming at exploring what this theme means and to look at it in a wide context.