We continued our inquiry from the last session into the whole topic of consciousness. Is consciousness the description of a dimension far beyond what we can possibly comprehend; or is consciousness the term used for our conscious and unconscious living state which has been conditioned over time? Is the field of consciousness built from a […]
In this second session of the six-part series on The Urgency of Change (1970), we took up the theme of ‘Awareness’, which covered the chapter of that title and the related chapters ‘Perception’, ‘Seeing the Whole’, ‘Discipline’ and ‘Learning’. The presentation explored Krishnamurti’s teachings about awareness, perception, discipline and learning. Beginning at the superficial sensory […]
Three new friends joined our dialogue meeting: they were asked if they would open the session with possible questions to the group. In turn the group then expressed what they felt was the general approach in this group. It emerged that we were understanding Krishnamurti but also experimenting with direct observation that might reveal itself […]
In this first session of the six-part series on The Urgency of Change (1970), we took up the theme of ‘How to Live in this World’, which covered the chapter of that title and the related chapters ‘Conflict’, ‘The Individual and the Community’, ‘Suicide’ and ‘Order’. How to live in this world is a question […]
The overall theme of our dialogue session was the duality of consciousness. What exactly is that duality and one of the group asked whether the separation between observer and observed is real. Is the understanding of this duality an abstraction of the mind: in other words a mental description of duality; or, can the nature […]
We began with the directive to stay within the fertile realm of self inquiry (and resist drifting toward group therapy or therapeutic interventions on each other). We did this by reminding ourselves: “Whenever any of us feel tempted to do an intervention on another participant (such as inviting them to consider something OUR way instead […]
The dialogue session began with questions around being watched by others which includes an impression of self-consciousness. This led us to consider the difference between self-consciousness and self-awareness. When we say we are watching ourselves or others, is there a sense of a “watcher” present? Are we judging ourselves or are we attempting to figure […]
This was the first dialogue of our online series and we began, not by introducing ourselves, but by introducing our possible overall intentions for the series. Why do we want to “explore ourselves”; and what drew us to this title? One participant put forward that our intention was to know the truth about ourselves which […]
We began by asking about sorrow and its relationship to love and suffering. Some wondered if life was intrinsically flavoured with suffering or if these were perhaps not intrinsically linked. A differentiation was made between suffering (as unnecessary) and pain (which is inevitable). K’s notion of psychological suffering versus other types was explored. It was […]
We began by discussing the various aspects that reinforce the illusion of our apparent continuation of self in relation to “choiceless awareness”. A question arose about human will and “determination” in regard to the freedom to do or not do something. We explored through personal experience how this creates a resistance or a tension, which […]