The Urgency of Change Dialogue Group, October 13, 2020

The Urgency of Change Dialogue Group

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Zoom online

 

Five participants were able to attend this weekday meeting of the group which has now been functioning for nine months. We have been using the Krishnamurti book The Urgency of Change to focus our inquiry and to keep us close to K’s teachings as we explore our own consciousness. The meeting started with a reminder that there are at least two levels at which the dialogue can be taking place. The first is the level of intellectual understanding, which is often where people begin and which is probably necessary. K has pointed out that the teachings come alive in the moment to moment attention we give to the movements of thought that are creating our reality. This is a second level of engagement in dialogue wherein we are choicelessly aware of our processes of thought and feeling as we interact in relationship with each other. This awareness can open a space for insight and the experiencing of a state of being less identified with thought and more free to simply “be”, with access to the qualities of Beingness such as peace, joy, and love. The dialogue progressed within that context and seemed to be quite effortlessly grounded in Presence and cooperative exploration.

The chapter of “choice” for the meeting was “Morality”. K makes the distinction between social morality, usually motivated by fear, and authentic “virtue”, which is spontaneous compassion and love emerging from our understanding of ourselves and the patterns of the “self”. Questions such as “What is goodness?” and “What is the true flowering of the individual?” were also part of the dialogue. We touched briefly on the topic of the next chapter, “Suicide”, and will probably continue to explore it further in our next meeting. The participants in this meeting expressed an appreciation of the quality of attention that we had been able to bring forth, which in turn created enjoyment.