The courses below are being offered through Cassava Bread, Inc., a 501(c)(3) organization that promotes EMDR, Mindfulness and Focusing in developing countries by training eligible person to help create deeper connections within their local communities and promote healing spaces that help others.

In The Book of Life, Daily Meditations by Jiddu Krishnamurti (JK), the meditations are dedicated to listening inwardly. Each Wednesday during the year we will listen in a felt-sense way to the implicit. We will consider many meditations on a wide range of topics which varies from: listening, action, attachment, passion, words, violence, sorrow, truth, mind, time, love and aloneness.
It is suggested to bring a journal or notebook to write or sketch something that may arise from your felt sense. No pre-purchase of any material is necessary, however if you insist The Book of Life can be purchased from sites like World of Books, Discover Books or JK’s foundation KFA.org Handouts will be made available. There will be time for reflections and focusing partnership interactions – any level of Focusing proficiency is welcome.
An excerpt from the Introduction of The Book of Life, in Krishnamurti’s words:
“The story of mankind is in you, the vast experience, the deep-rooted fears, anxieties, sorrow, pleasure and all the beliefs that man has accumulated throughout the millennia. You are that book.”
“Truth cannot be accumulated. What is accumulated is always being destroyed; it withers away. Truth can never wither because it can only be found from moment to moment in every thought, in every relationship, in every word, in every gesture, in a smile, in tears. And if you and I can find that and live it—the very living is the finding of it—then we shall not become propagandists; we shall be creative human beings—not perfect human beings, but creative human beings, which is vastly different.”
“Why has life, everyday existence, become such a torture? We may go to church, follow some leader, political or religious, but the daily life is always a turmoil; though there are certain periods which are occasionally joyful, happy, there is always a cloud of darkness about our life. And these two friends, as we are, you and the speaker, are talking over together in a friendly manner, perhaps with affection, with care, with concern, whether it is at all possible to live our daily life without a single problem.”
Is it possible?