Krishnamurti Study Session at KECC, December 16

Krishnamurti Study Session
Saturday, December 16, 2017

We continued with our study of J. Krishnamurti’s book The First and Last Freedom. Five people were present as we looked at the Q & A section 21 “On Sex.” The questioner asked how we can deal with the problem that sex seems to create in our lives. In response, K asks “Why is it that everything we touch we turn into a problem?” It was a good question for group inquiry. A little later in the text K says, “sex becomes an extraordinarily complex and difficult problem so long as you do not understand the mind which thinks about the problem.” He opens the question up to involve the way we live and the contradictions in our daily lives, pointing out that sex becomes a problem when there is no love.
The chapter provided a good deal of material for discussion and exploration of various questions related to the nature of thought, why sex is given such importance in our society, and how the issues around it may really be an expression of a general tendency of the mind to create endless problems and confusion. It was a good session, with authentic inquiry into ourselves and the human condition.