Normal relationships, whether they are casual friendships or romantic love, are the pursuit of beings who are essentially alone.
What is real relationship? Visionary relationship is a response to the mystery of loss, mortality, isolation. It is recognition that we are on parallel paths, building a common visionary world. Relationship means mutuality. It requires more than a simple exchange. It means that we know something about each other. Relationship means that we are no longer alone in the world.
Get started
Watch the four 1 minute video clips. (4 minutes)
Review a few of the Perspectives. (10 minutes)
Take a look at the Visionary Friendship Contract. (10 minutes)
Review a few of the Perspectives. (10 minutes)
Required:
J. Krishnamurti, Commentaries on Living (4 pages)
Alan Watts, Why the Chosen Ones Walk Alone (10 minutes only)
J. Krishnamurti, Commentaries on Living (4 pages)
Alan Watts, Why the Chosen Ones Walk Alone (10 minutes only)
Take a look at the Visionary Friendship Contract. (10 minutes)
Meeting
– We'll read aloud several insights about relationship, including Martin Buber’s I-you relationship, and Jiddu Krishnamurti's view that an ambitious person cannot love. (20 minutes)
– Active, guided meditation (Reflect) on the nature of our existing relationships. (20 minutes)
– Review the Visionary Friendship Contract. (20 minutes)
– Discuss the possibility of creating an Alternative Valentine's Day. (20 minutes)
– Active, guided meditation (Reflect) on the nature of our existing relationships. (20 minutes)
– Review the Visionary Friendship Contract. (20 minutes)
– Discuss the possibility of creating an Alternative Valentine's Day. (20 minutes)
Action
Meetings and Public Actions to introduce the public to Alternative Valentine's Day.
Insights
“To meet somebody with the same intensity, with the same sense of time, and with the same passion – that is love.” The Mirror of Relationship (3 minutes)
