Self-inquiry, July 23, 2023

Self-inquiry with Mukesh Gupta

Sunday, July 23, 2023

Krishnamurti Educational Centre of Canada

Metchosin, BC

 

There were seven of us present for this afternoon session at the Krishnamurti Educational Educational Centre of Canada in Metchosin, BC. We began with a silent meditation which seemed to take us deeply into an alert and attentive state. The meeting was then opened to any important questions participants might have and one person expressed a desire to explore the qualities of order and disorder. Presumably by understanding the meanings of both words the concepts might become more clearly comprehended. This led into a detailed and in-depth inquiry about the subtleties in their relative meanings, similarities, and differences which gave many of us a deeper understanding of their place in Krishnamurti’s teachings and their possibly misunderstood elements. For Krishnamurti, active self-knowledge – or his version of meditation – seemed to be the basis of understanding oneself, for which the intention to know oneself was the beginning. One must begin by wanting to know oneself and then observing one’s moment – to – moment thoughts and feelings. Many finer points in this process were shared and looked into as we moved through the meeting. As usual, Mukesh guided us skillfully through the communications which sought to uncover ever deeper aspects of the questions that were arising to be explored.