Krishnamurti Study Group

  Krishnamurti Study Group Saturday, August 20, 2016      Three of us gathered to look into Chapter 18 of The First and Last Freedom by J. Krishnamurti entitled “Self-Deception”. He points out that the basic factor of self-deception is the desire to “be something in this world or the world hereafter.” As a group we inquired, as we progressed through the chapter, into the meaning of self-deception in our own lives. We discussed how the mind tends to have completely contradictory desires and intentions without realizing how it works against itself and against clear seeing and action. The belief in the reality of a separate identity was looked into, along with the challenge of facing and ending the identification with the thought-created “me”. It seemed to be a meaningful exploration into some important issues in our own and in human consciousness.