Inquiry Sunday at the Centre

Inquiry Sunday Sunday, May 22, 2016 In the morning session six people listened to an audio presentation of Adyashanti speaking about “True Love”. He started of my mentioning that it was unfortunate that in our society there are very few words to describe love, which has many different aspects. In Greek culture, love was divided into different categories. Adya focused on “agape” or selfless love as being “true love” and the wanting to fill a lack in oneself through another person or activity as being a lesser form of love which can never be whole. The love which comes from Being has the quality of wholeness. He also touched on the mystery of love and of the connection that can happen between people. In the afternoon, we watched three question and answer sessions with Krishnamurti. The participants were given the choice of questions from a fairly lengthy list and agreed on “Is there a question that will end all questions?’ K took a surprising direction by exploring whether experience is necessary at all in our spiritual search, and asserted at the end of the fifteen minute discourse that the original question had been answered. The next question seemed to flow from the previous on in a natural way. The choice was “What is the art of questioning?” The gist of the session and discussion was that a question can be held in consciousness without looking for a quick answer but allowing the question to reveal its various aspects. K has often said that the answer is in the question itself. A third question was looked into, “Can thought be aware of itself as it arises?” Throughout the afternoon, the group discussed the points raised by K as well as insights and perceptions from the participants themselves.