Retreat Center
Sawasdee!
(Welcome!)
The Quest
Foundation which runs the Stream Garden Retreat Center was started
with personal funds. A strong base has been established but, as
is the case with most endeavours of this nature, financial independence is
essential in order to ensure that the intention of the foundation is not
compromised. The center is currently running at a financial deficit
and is dire need of donations. Any donated monies will be used to
cover the current operating shortfall but also to start a creation of
an endowment fund to assure future self-sufficiency. Other avenues
for raising funds are also being investigated, see for example the Guided Group Tour section.
Apart from the day to day running of the center, other activities are
being initiated in Thailand with the ultimate end of bringing people into
contact with the Teachings. The Quest Foundation is a
non-profit, tax-exempt charitable trust whose present and planned
activities include:
Arranging for the public distribution of Krishnamurti's
books, video cassettes, and audio cassettes throughout Thailand
and other parts of Southeast Asia. Maintaining the day to day activities of the Stream
Garden Retreat Center. Arranging for the translation of the Krishnmurti
material into Thai. Establishing
Krishnamurti Information Centers and Libraries elsewhere in
Thailand. Arranging local and international
gatherings.
Krishnamurti once
said, in referring to the difficulty of getting suitable teachers for
the schools founded in his name, that a major difficulty
was that , "those who are devoted (to the Teachings) don't
devote (to the oganisational effort) and those who aren't devoted,
devote." This is understandable given the radical nature of the
Teachings themselves, but even those who are carrying on their own
solitary experiment must appreciate the vital importance of making the teachings passively available
to those who, but for this effort, would not have the opportunity
to find these jewels. Any donation, no matter how small, will make a difference.
So then, If you see the importance of there being places like
Stream Garden in the world and are in a position to help, please send your
donation to the Quest Foundation:
The Quest Foundation OR directly to the following bank account: Account No. 593-004731-0 For our American supporters, you can send your tax-deductible donation
ear-marked for Stream Garden to: Ange Gardien
Foundation email: kinfonet@kinfonet.org
"Then the questioner wants to know how, earning so little, he is to
live what we are talking about. Now, first of all, the earning of a
livelihood is not only the problem of the man who earns little, but it is
also yours and mine, is it not? You may have a little more money, you may
be well off, have a better job, a better position, a bigger bank account;
but it is also your problem and mine, because this society is what all of
us have created. Until we three - you, I and another - really understand
relationship, we cannot bring about revolution in society. The man who has
no food in his stomach obviously cannot find reality, he must first be
fed; but the man whose stomach is full, surely it is his immediate
responsibility to see that there is a fundamental revolution in society,
that things do not go on as they are. To think, to feel out all these
problems is much more the responsibility of those who have time, who have
leisure, than it is of the man who earns little and has such a struggle to
make both ends meet, who has no time and is worn out by this rotten,
exploiting society. So, it is you and I, those of us who have a little
more time and leisure, who must go into these problems completely - which
does not mean that we have to become professional talkers, offering one
system as a substitute for another. It is for you and I who have time, who
have leisure for thought, to seek out the way of a new society, a new
culture." J. Krishnamurti, Bombay, India 1950
M.5 Ban
Tungjang, T. Patong, Hadyai
Songkhla
90230 Thailand
email: streamgarden@kinfonet.org
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