Self Study Meeting, October 7, 2020, On Meditation

Self Study Meeting

October 7, 2020

Zoom online               Present: 9

This was the make-up meeting for one that had to be postponed on October 4 due to technical difficulties. The topic was meditation in daily life, which was introduced by Mukesh’s presentation on Saturday and also through readings from The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti. Participants had read the December 22 – 31 selections from the book ahead of time and were well prepared to discuss what they had read. Nine people were present for the online gathering which began with a guided meditation looking at the mind’s capacity to be quiet and at rest when nothing is required from it. Participants reported an interesting variety of insights into the nature of thought’s habitual need to be in movement. This led seamlessly into an investigation of what had seemed most interesting and significant in the readings, with an exploration of various aspects of “meditation” as Krishnamurti approaches it. Time and timelessness, effortlessness, emptiness, self-understanding, the need for energy and “hard work” were some of the topics explored. Participants seemed to be very much present and interested in the ongoing inquiry. It was shared by some that Krishnamurti sometimes appears to contradict himself from one statement to the next and it was suggested that we need to look for ourselves and make our own discoveries without depending on any authority to give us answers. In fact the questions may be more important than any answers.