Shibumi
Shibumi is a school that will start in Bangalore, in June 2008. The deepest concern of the school is to bring up children who are free, responsible and concerned with the whole of life. At Shibumi, we are exploring a totally different kind of education which creates the freedom to bring about clarity in the mind. From this direct sense of what it means to be free, all else must flow.
"A school is a place of leisure where the educator and the one to be
educated are both learning. This is the central fact of the school: to learn. We do not mean
by leisure having time to oneself, though that is also necessary; it does not mean taking a
book and sitting under a tree, or in your bedroom, reading casually. It does not mean a placid state of mind; it certainly does not mean being idle or using time for day-dreaming. Leisure
means a mind that is not constantly occupied with something, with a problem, with some
enjoyment, with some sensory pleasure. Leisure implies a mind that has infinite time to
observe: observe what is happening around one and what is happening within oneself; to have
leisure to listen, to see clearly. Leisure implies freedom, which is generally translated as
doing as one desires, which is what human beings are doing anyhow, causing a great deal of
mischief, misery and confusion. Leisure implies a quiet mind, no motive and so no direction.
This is leisure and it is only in this state that the mind can learn, not only science,
history, mathematics but also about oneself”
-J. Krishnamurti
The group consists of teachers who have taught at the J. Krishnamurti schools for several years, and young people who have been students at these schools and have decided to make education their vocation.
To learn more about Shibumi, do start by reading about our Educational Philosophy.