The Urgency of Change Dialogue Group Meeting, November 21, 2021
The Urgency of Change Dialogue Group Meeting
Sunday, November 21, 2021
Zoom Online
Unfortunately this meeting was affected by technical difficulties in getting the gathering started on Zoom. It took me (David) about forty-five minutes after the official start time to get the meeting running. I don’t know what the problem was but hope to clear it up for the next meeting I facilitate. Five members of the group were extremely patient and waited while I did all I could to get things working. I later saw that other group members had been emailing me during that time and realized I could probably have kept in touch with them by email and they might have been able to join the meeting once the technology was operative. That seemed too complicated for me while the confusion was happening, as my computer skills leave much to be desired, so I just remained hopeful that people would make a number of attempts to log in and soon would be able to gain access once I’d fixed things at my end (if possible) and those who were present had begun the dialogue.
As it turned out, when we were able to start the meeting forty-five minutes late there were six of us present. One more joined us near the end of the meeting. I appreciate the willingness to stay with the process displayed by those who stayed and understand completely that it was frustrating for those who were unable to make any connection due to the technical challenges.
The plan for the session had been to look carefully at the selected chapter entitled “Belief” in the Krishnamurti book The Urgency of Change and then to explore a number of issues related to belief that were not dealt with in the book, particularly beliefs related to our sense of identity. Are limiting ideas we have about ourselves given relevance and power through our belief in them? Are ideas about the “unknown” merely forms of belief without substance? Does the belief in security lead to a constant searching for something that doesn’t exist? And what is real security, if there is such a thing? How is fear related to these issues? These and other questions were to be investigated.
Once we got the meeting underway we did actually explore all of the proposed questions and other questions as well that arose during our communications, such as the quality of inquiry that must be present in us in order to truly undergo a transformation. It ended up being a relevant and very meaningful dialogue, in spite of the earlier confusion and difficulties. And the dialogue went on for about the usual length of time. It was an unexpectedly interesting and valuable experience for at least some of us – and maybe for all.
