Krishnamurti Study Session, January 6, 2018

Krishnamurti Study Session
Saturday, January 6, 2018

Six participants gathered to explore J. Krishnamurti’s book The First and Last Freedom, Q & A # 22. The chapter was entitled “On Love.” It began with a question put to Krishnamurti, “What do you mean by love?” K. responds by saying that we would find out what love is by first seeing what it is not. In his usual style of negation, he strips away all the conventional concepts about love, fundamentally saying that love is not of the mind and that all projections of thought are not love. “Love is the unknown …. What we are going to do is … look at the known, and when that is looked at purely, without condemnation, the mind becomes free from the known; then we shall know what love is… It is only when there is love that all our problems can be solved, and then we shall know its bliss and its happiness.”
The material in the text gave the group plenty to grapple with in the discussion that accompanied the reading and we had a very interesting investigation of the topic. There were a couple of newcomers along with some of the more regular attendees, all of whom were most welcome.