Krishnamurti Study Group

  Krishnamurti Study Group Saturday, March 19, 2016 Six people gathered to read and discuss chapter 12 in The First and Last Freedom by J. Krishnamurti. The subject of the chapter was “awareness”. We began with a short guided meditation on being completely with the experience that is present without trying to change anything, then entered into a group inquiry about what was read in the text. K emphasizes that awareness of ourselves must be without judgement or condemnation. We can only understand ourselves when we look without bias or prejudgment, being passively aware and open to the way we are rather than actively and willfully attempting to figure ourselves out or transform ourselves. This awareness is choiceless but creates a space wherein intelligent responses to life free of the limitations of thought and the past can occur. As we looked into these issues there was ongoing insight into them and there seemed to be real understanding.