Ben is a mature student at Brockwood. Mature Students are young adults who come to Brockwood out of their own interest in order to study Krishnamurti’s teachings within the context of the School. Their contribution is to participate with staff and students in the life of the School and to contribute to the atmosphere of Brockwood with their own serious inquiry. They are junior colleagues of the staff and work 20 hours a week in return for free board and accommodation. Here follows Ben’s reflections on living at Brockwood:
Tempus Fugit -
Time Flies. Or does it flee? Flee from our efforts to capture it, to pin down a moment in memory, or hold on to a passing experience. Inevitably our efforts to grasp this ephemeral, fleeting and ever-elusive thing (surely not a thing at all, but a construct) are frustrated. And still we persist, like naughty children who just will not be told.
T.S. Eliot begins his Four Quartets:
“Time present & time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.”
Is that to say that what the future holds in store for us here, at Brockwood Park School, is already in some sense germinating now, in our present? And surely what we bring here, as volunteers from all over the world, impinges on what is happening (& how we experience) now?
