Krishnamurti Study Session, April 26, 2020

Krishnamurti Study Session
Sunday, April 26, 2020

This was the second online meeting of the K Study Group. Nine people participated in the two-hour session, logging in from as far away as Dubai and across Canada. This group has been using The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti as a stimulus for inquiry into the nature of our own consciousness and the possibility of freedom from the limitations of the egoic self. The text for study this week was the February 12 selection entitled “The Screen of Belief”, wherein K discusses belief as a way of escaping from the fact of what we are.
We began with a guided meditation on being aware of our thoughts, images, feelings, and sensations. We read through the selection, had a short period of silence, then participants were invited to share what had impressed them about the reading. There were many deep and penetrating observations about the passage along with questions about more personal issues causing confusion and lack of clarity for participants. The conversation spontaneously flowed into investigating some of the points in the chapter before tackling the personal issues shared. There was a focus on the central significance of noticing, or being choicelessly aware of, whatever arises in consciousness and the power of such awareness. It was acknowledged by most at the end of the session that, although not by any means all of the personal issues had been addressed, there was a sense that, through the inquiry, an energetic shift had taken place which produced a greater ease, peacefulness, lightness, and joy as well as a quality of attention which was more sensitive and aware of the wholeness of Being.