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when that would do, and inviting us, at the same time, to take the
existential leap beyond the boundaries of our own making. It is an
ongoing, moment-by-moment invitation. It is not in high heaven,
or even deep in earth. It is exactly where we are. And, it is who
we are.
This congruence of perception and identity, this ‘ever-newness’
of the entity, is in itself a step beyond time. We are prone to think
even of the timeless in terms of time—as something remote, ethe-
real, impossible—whereas it may not be like that at all: it may be
closer than our own breath. The very ‘push’ of thought may take
us past it.
Other than stating what it is not, the timeless has no relationship
to time. It simply is. And, as it is, it is also what is—the underlay,
the source, of consciousness as well as its substance in daily life.
There is not the source and the content: all is one. Our sense of
the ‘new dharma’ depends on this perception, which may make it
difficult if the terms are not clear.
After years of travelling and ‘experiments in living’ which
included a variety of communities—alternatives, quite common at
the time, to the bourgeois nuclear family—I arrived at Brockwood
Park in 1975. Krishnamurti didn’t like the word community which,
to him, implied exclusivity. But community speaks to communica-
tion and, at a deeper level, communion. This obviously lay at the
heart of Brockwood’s intentions.
Between May and November Krishnaji spoke with us—once a
week with the staff, once a week with the students, and once a week
with the community at large. Since there was some vague idea of
incorporating adults, it was originally called the Krishnamurti
Education Centre, but the exigencies of a growing student body
quickly ensured that it became a school, that it established itself
in the world as a school. All new enterprises, businesses, founda-
tions face the possibility of not surviving, and it is thanks to the

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