A School in Ojai
The world at war
Chamberlain resigns:
Churchill becomes Prime Minister
of England
Battle of Britain
Lescaux Caves discovered in
France; neolithic paintings
United Nations chartered
Germany occupies Denmark
and Norway, invades Holland,
Belgium and Luxembourg
Italy declares war on Britain
and France
Churchill speech “blood, toil,
tears and sweat”
Germans occupy Paris
The British bomb Reichstag building
Germans bomb London
Marshal Petain: Vichy Regime
Frank Sinatra opens at Paramount
Penicillin used
Atlantic Charter
Germany invades Russia
German battleship “Bismark” sunk
Krishnamurti remains in Ojai until 1946 – the longest period in one place during his adult life
He began twice weekly discussions in the Oak Grove as well as twice weekly meetings in Hollywood
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
USA declares war
Hitler invades Yugoslavia and
Greece
Manhattan Project begins
atomic research
Germany invades Russia
Joe DiMaggio:
sets major league record
Orson Welles films: “Citizen Kane”
John Huston films:
“The Maltese Falcon”
Lend Lease Act passed
Xerographic machine
The British attack Italy
Dunkirk evacuated
France surrenders
Battle of Britain
Italy invades Greece
Continued seeing Aldous Huxley, his wife, Gerald Heard and others
Huxley asked K why he didn’t write. That may have lead to the later publication of Commentaries on Living
Allies land in Africa
Millions of Jews murdered in
gas chambers in Germany
Japan captures Bataan,
Corregidor, Philippines
Japan captures Singapore,
Java, Rangoon
Gandhi in nonviolent campaign
demands independence for India
Japanese forces land on Aleutian
Islands
Rommel in Egypt
Tobruk (Libya) falls
Battle of Stalingrad
USA sends Japanese Americans
(‘Niseis’) to internment camps
Enrico Fermi splits atom
Bing Crosby: “White Christmas”
“Casablanca:” Bogart – Bergman
“Everybody Goes to Ricks”
Singapore surrenders
Bomber attacks Tokyo
Battle of the Coral Sea
Philippines surrender
1,000 aircraft raid on Cologne
Battle of Midway
Lifelong interest in education leads to the purchase of land adjacent to the Oak Grove – a school was founded: Huxley, Rosalind Rajagopal and Krishnamurti are trustees
Hitler orders “scorched earth policy”
Big Three meet in Tehran
Italy surrenders
Infantile paralysis epidemic
The Zoot Suit popular in U.S.
Casablanca Conference:
Churchill and Roosevelt
Surrender at Stalingrad
Bombing of Germany
Warsaw Ghetto massacre
Battles of Kursk and Palermo
Quebec Conference
Allies land in Italy
U.S. recaptures Aleutians
Race riots break out in
major U.S. cities
USA captures Rome;
Allies land in France
Nazis surrender Paris
Roosevelt elected for 4th term
Vietnam: independence from
France – Ho Chi Minh
USA defeats Japanese Navy
Battle of the Bulge (Ardennes)
D Day – Normandy, France, 700 ships, 4,000 landing craft
Romania declares war
Russians invade Norway
Antoine de St. Exupery dies
Kathleen Windsor:
“Forever Amber”
Japan: Premier Tojo and
cabinet resign
Bing Crosby: “Going My Way”
US Troops land at Anzio
Russia crosses Polish border
Rome liberated
Battle of the Philippine Sea
Bretton Woods Conference
Southern France invaded
Paris liberated
Philippines liberated
B-29 raids on Japan
Warsaw Uprising
End of 900 day siege of Leningrad
Aldous Huxley encouraged Krishnamurti to write the book Commentaries on Living, which consists of a series of dialogues with ordinary human beings whom Krishnamurti met in different parts of the world. Set in India, Europe and America, against a variety of landscapes, the encounters recorded here are both intense and illuminating.
Commentaries on Living represents a new genre of writing – a blend of lyrical descriptions of nature, philosophical reflections and psychological insights, all informed by a deeply religious sensibility and couched in lucid, absorbing prose.
An educational community was envisioned by Annie Besant, which later took the form of a secondary school that was founded by Guido Ferrando, Aldous Huxley, J. Krishnamurti, and Rosalind Rajagopal. The school is on 520 acres of land that was bought in 1927 by Besant. It opened on October 1, 1946 as the Happy Valley School with Dr. Ferrando serving as the first Head of School.
Krishnamurti’s continuous statements against the war brought him under scrutiny of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI. During the Talks at Ojai, agents mingled with the crowd taking notes and keeping him under observation. He was asked why he took long solitary walks and if he met anyone during them. Surveillance was discontinued after it was determined that Krishnamurti was not dangerous. However, he continued to say such things as “War is a spectacular expression of our daily conduct.”
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem. This freedom gives the ease of full attention; the mind is not distracted by any secondary issues. As long as there is conflict with or opposition to the problem, there can be no understanding of it; for this conflict is a distraction. There is understanding only when there is communion, and communion is impossible as long as there is resistance or contention, fear or acceptance. One must establish right relationship with the problem, which is the beginning of understanding.
Excerpt from Commentaries on Living Part 1
“Woke up this morning, rather early, with a sense of a mind that had penetrated into unknown depths. It was as though the mind itself was going into itself, deeply and widely and the journey seemed to have been without movement. And there was this experience of immensity in abundance and a richness that was incorruptible.
It’s strange that though every experience, state, is utterly different, it is still the same movement; though it seems to change, it is still the changeless.”
The world at war
Chamberlain resigns:
Churchill becomes Prime Minister
of England
Battle of Britain
Lescaux Caves discovered in
France; neolithic paintings
United Nations chartered
Germany occupies Denmark
and Norway, invades Holland,
Belgium and Luxembourg
Italy declares war on Britain
and France
Churchill speech “blood, toil,
tears and sweat”
Germans occupy Paris
The British bomb Reichstag building
Germans bomb London
Marshal Petain: Vichy Regime
Frank Sinatra opens at Paramount
Penicillin used
Atlantic Charter
Germany invades Russia
German battleship “Bismark” sunk
Krishnamurti remains in Ojai until 1946 – the longest period in one place during his adult life
He began twice weekly discussions in the Oak Grove as well as twice weekly meetings in Hollywood
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
USA declares war
Hitler invades Yugoslavia and
Greece
Manhattan Project begins
atomic research
Germany invades Russia
Joe DiMaggio:
sets major league record
Orson Welles films: “Citizen Kane”
John Huston films:
“The Maltese Falcon”
Lend Lease Act passed
Xerographic machine
The British attack Italy
Dunkirk evacuated
France surrenders
Battle of Britain
Italy invades Greece
Aldous Huxley encouraged Krishnamurti to write the book Commentaries on Living, which consists of a series of dialogues with ordinary human beings whom Krishnamurti met in different parts of the world. Set in India, Europe and America, against a variety of landscapes, the encounters recorded here are both intense and illuminating.
Commentaries on Living represents a new genre of writing – a blend of lyrical descriptions of nature, philosophical reflections and psychological insights, all informed by a deeply religious sensibility and couched in lucid, absorbing prose.
Continued seeing Aldous Huxley, his wife, Gerald Heard and others
Huxley asked K why he didn’t write. That may have lead to the later publication of Commentaries on Living
Allies land in Africa
Millions of Jews murdered in
gas chambers in Germany
Japan captures Bataan,
Corregidor, Philippines
Japan captures Singapore,
Java, Rangoon
Gandhi in nonviolent campaign
demands independence for India
Japanese forces land on Aleutian
Islands
Rommel in Egypt
Tobruk (Libya) falls
Battle of Stalingrad
USA sends Japanese Americans
(‘Niseis’) to internment camps
Enrico Fermi splits atom
Bing Crosby: “White Christmas”
“Casablanca:” Bogart – Bergman
“Everybody Goes to Ricks”
Singapore surrenders
Bomber attacks Tokyo
Battle of the Coral Sea
Philippines surrender
1,000 aircraft raid on Cologne
Battle of Midway
An educational community was envisioned by Annie Besant, which later took the form of a secondary school that was founded by Guido Ferrando, Aldous Huxley, J. Krishnamurti, and Rosalind Rajagopal. The school is on 520 acres of land that was bought in 1927 by Besant. It opened on October 1, 1946 as the Happy Valley School with Dr. Ferrando serving as the first Head of School.
Krishnamurti’s continuous statements against the war brought him under scrutiny of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI. During the Talks at Ojai, agents mingled with the crowd taking notes and keeping him under observation. He was asked why he took long solitary walks and if he met anyone during them. Surveillance was discontinued after it was determined that Krishnamurti was not dangerous. However, he continued to say such things as “War is a spectacular expression of our daily conduct.”
Lifelong interest in education leads to the purchase of land adjacent to the Oak Grove – a school was founded: Huxley, Rosalind Rajagopal and Krishnamurti are trustees
Hitler orders “scorched earth policy”
Big Three meet in Tehran
Italy surrenders
Infantile paralysis epidemic
The Zoot Suit popular in U.S.
Casablanca Conference:
Churchill and Roosevelt
Surrender at Stalingrad
Bombing of Germany
Warsaw Ghetto massacre
Battles of Kursk and Palermo
Quebec Conference
Allies land in Italy
U.S. recaptures Aleutians
Race riots break out in
major U.S. cities
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem. This freedom gives the ease of full attention; the mind is not distracted by any secondary issues. As long as there is conflict with or opposition to the problem, there can be no understanding of it; for this conflict is a distraction. There is understanding only when there is communion, and communion is impossible as long as there is resistance or contention, fear or acceptance. One must establish right relationship with the problem, which is the beginning of understanding.
Excerpt from Commentaries on Living Part 1
USA captures Rome;
Allies land in France
Nazis surrender Paris
Roosevelt elected for 4th term
Vietnam: independence from
France – Ho Chi Minh
USA defeats Japanese Navy
Battle of the Bulge (Ardennes)
D Day – Normandy, France, 700 ships, 4,000 landing craft
Romania declares war
Russians invade Norway
Antoine de St. Exupery dies
Kathleen Windsor:
“Forever Amber”
Japan: Premier Tojo and
cabinet resign
Bing Crosby: “Going My Way”
US Troops land at Anzio
Russia crosses Polish border
Rome liberated
Battle of the Philippine Sea
Bretton Woods Conference
Southern France invaded
Paris liberated
Philippines liberated
B-29 raids on Japan
Warsaw Uprising
End of 900 day siege of Leningrad
“Woke up this morning, rather early, with a sense of a mind that had penetrated into unknown depths. It was as though the mind itself was going into itself, deeply and widely and the journey seemed to have been without movement. And there was this experience of immensity in abundance and a richness that was incorruptible.
It’s strange that though every experience, state, is utterly different, it is still the same movement; though it seems to change, it is still the changeless.”