February 6-12

Krotona Courtyard

We returned from Ojai on Saturday and got back to Indralaya on Sunday. The workshop on ‘cultivating virtue’ was well received. It was a busy time, and good to see many friends and connect with Krotona, which feels like a second home to us. All in all, it was a great week.

Less than an hour after arriving who should we see but David Christensen, who was also visiting from the NW and was showing some friends around the grounds.

Fritz Kunz & friends (that’s Fritz with the hat and mohair sweater)

The following incidental remarks about Indralaya come from the transcript of a talk that Indralaya co-founder Fritz Kunz gave in Seattle in 1958. The talk is titled “The Path - Its Natural Background” and included some insights on virtue that were referred to during the Krotona workshop. The transcript was prepared by Jen Edington.

There (at Indralaya) amid beautiful surroundings, where nothing has been killed for years and years, and where families have (spent time) together on the whole with wonderful amity, affection, and mutuality, and in terms of quiet, inner quiet given by trees that have been loved personally for years. I give you my word on this. Loved as much as animals, (these) individual trees.

There’s a kind of serenity and depth which those who have visited in right terms don’t fail to feel....I’d like to ask you where in the Theosophical Society you find people of advanced years, of middle years, young married people, children of all ages in goodly numbers, all studying the theosophical philosophy out of doors. Where do you find that? Not many places. You really are happy people to have something like that.

Fritz Kunz speaking at Madrona Point

Some 43 years later, much of what Fritz said still rings true, wouldn’t you agree?