Self-Inquiry with Eric Hassett, May 18, 2025

Self-Inquiry Meeting
On-site Dialogue with Eric Hassett
May 18, 2025

On Sunday, May 18th, from 3pm to 4:30pm, a dialogue with ten participants and myself took place on the lush green grass outside the Main House near the swimming pool. It was a beautiful day with plenty of sunshine.

A Krishnamurti quote from the KECC handout titled “Self-Inquiry Meetings” was read:

I think before we begin it should be made clear what we mean by discussion.
To me it is a process of discovery through exposing oneself to the fact. That is, in
discussion I discover myself, the habit of my thought, the way I proceed to think,
my reactions, the way I reason, not only intellectually but inwardly… I feel that if
we could be serious for an hour or so and really fathom, delve into ourselves as
much as we can, we should be able to release, not through any action of will, a
certain sense of energy that is awake all the time, which is beyond thought.”

It was suggested that the dialogue is an opportunity not just for intellectual discussion but also to ‘look’ at the actuality of our daily lives to which Krishnamurti pointed and to ‘do’ what he urged us to do when he said “Do it, sirs!” because such action, when taken, should, as the above quote says, “…release, not through any action of will, a certain energy that is awake all the time, which is beyond thought.”

In connection with this possibility, the group proceeded to discuss awareness, the observer and the observed, psychological time, conditioning, and the ending of the ‘me’. By and large, there seemed to be genuine ‘looking’ taking place, along with self-observation. As the saying goes, “people were truly listening to people truly speaking.”

Eric