Krishnamurti Study Group

Krishnamurti Study Group Saturday, September 20, 2014 Six participants came together to sit outside on a lovely afternoon and continue the study of chapter 15 in Freedom From the Known.   The chapter deals with the topics of experience, satisfaction, duality, and meditation.  Krishnamurti speaks of what is not meditation in the first place and then explores the kind of attention and awareness in one’s daily life that he calls real meditation:  “Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong but just to watch it and move with it.  In that watching you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling.  And out of this awareness comes silence.”    Meditation is a state of complete attention, which cannot be taught by anyone but is perhaps the greatest art in life.  It can be going on at any time or place and it opens the possibility of knowing love. A group discussion was interspersed with the reading of the text, with some exploration of quite subtle aspects of how thought creates the duality of observer and observed, subject and object.  Other subjects of investigation were brought up by participants and, as often happens, the group was fully immersed in the discussion when the session was brought to a close.  There remains one chapter to be studied in this book and then we will move on to examine the text The First and Last Freedom.