A note on the Dialogue Centre

J Krishnamurti Dialogue Centre conducts dialogues on a regular basis. These dialogues have day to day human problems as their basis. The purpose of these dialogues is to dig deep into ourselves and see if we can come upon fresh insights on our common human problems. Surely, the teachings of Krishnamurti are there in the backdrop, but the attempt is to articulate and inquire from the personal experience perspective than from the accumulated book knowledge. 

Always open to serious thinkers.

What dialogue is not? & what dialogue is? 

My take

Pradeep

What dialogue is not?

• Dialogue is not a casual conversation.
• Dialogue is not psychological counseling or psychotherapy, where you unload your burden of life to the professional in front of you and seek advice.
• Dialogue is not a soliloquy or a monologue, where you share your past experiences or future plans unhindered.
• Dialogue is not about showing off your knowledge, book or otherwise.
• Dialogue is not about indulging in arguments, trying to dominate one another or trying to be the star of the morning or afternoon or evening.
• Dialogue is not about talking things from a safe distance and forever avoiding one’s own daily life and responsibility.
• Dialogue is not about exchanging opinions on politics, films, business, religions or societal trends.
• Dialogue is not about transferring of information and knowledge from one to another.
• Dialogue is not to let a word pass by without feeling it fully.
• Dialogue is not rushing through something to get at somewhere.
• Dialogue is not a forward, expansive movement.
• Dialogue doesn’t start with a pre-conceived plan of action.

What dialogue is?

• Dialogue is a process that attempts to explore our psychological realm and get at the facts in a collaborative manner.
• Dialogue is an attempt to understand the workings of one’s mind, where friends try to help each other in understanding.
• Day to day problems form the basis of dialogue as there is a disenchantment with the established approaches.
• Dialogue is an attempt to discover the truth of one’s own problems, one’s own suffering.
• Dialogue is speaking what you completely feel, which involves being serious.
• Dialogue neither begins with an assumption nor does it stop with a conclusion, in fact it questions the very assumptions we hold and the very conclusions we form.
• Dialogue is a movement involving the peeling of inward layers in the attempt to get to the core facts of one’s existence.
• Dialogue is being totally objective - even about one’s own subjectivity.