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Krishnamurti Book Study Session
March 3rd, 2019
KECC

In David’s absence this session was facilitated by Rick Mickelson, whose report follows.
In Attendance—Seven participants: Rick M, Rick R, Bill, Laurie, Angelique, Katherine, and a woman staying in the Gatehouse who did not sign the Guest Book.
Today we read the passages from J. Krishnamurti’s text The Book of Life for January 6th (Listening Without Effort) and January 7th (Listening to Yourself). These meditations sparked profound sharing in the group, covering many topics which included:
1. Resistance—Why do we resist doing what we must do?
2. Listening—How did K’s words transmit shifts in the quality of our listening today?
3. Meditation Practice—Why are both formal and informal meditational practices helpful to us in our ongoing search for experiential truth?
4. Truth—What is truth and how do we listen for it?
5. Spiritual Authorities—How do beliefs in the teaching of authorities like Billy Graham or Catholic priests lead us astray; that is to say, lead us away from our own experience?
6. Addictions—How is it that seeing the whole process of our addictive behaviors leads to the “falling away” of harmful habits, compulsions and obsessions?
We opened the meeting with a few minutes of silence then took a tea break at the mid-point of the session. We added another period of silence as the clock approached 1 pm and then ended the meeting. It was announced that David will be back for the next scheduled K Book Study

Krishnamurti Study Session
Sunday, February 3, 2019
Krishnamurti Educational Centre of Canada

The session was facilitated by Laurie Sthamaan in David’s abscence. Her report follows. “Three of us met today to read the meditation (Jan 4) “Listening Without Thought” in J. Krishnamurti’s The Book of Life. We had a most lively and invigorating dialogue, going into it deeply, together, listening and learning. We inquired if the brain can see the movement of thought, including the ongoing intense suffering that is the human condition, and open to the aliveness that is love, which is beyond the brain, the illusion of the “me”, and which can cause transformation.”

Krishnamurti Study Session
Sunday, January 20, 2019
At Krishnamurti Educational Centre of Canada

Seven participants were in attendance for this Sunday morning session at the Centre in Metchosin. We began the study of the Krishnamurti text, The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti. The first selections for the month of January focus on the theme of listening and challenge us to put aside our projections and desires so that real perception of what is can be taking place. K’s guidance is simple and direct in these passages, lending themselves to quiet contemplation. Periods of silence were interspersed with the readings and then some group dialogue on the meaning and significance of what was read and discovered in contemplation. It was a very good start to the new phase of the K study program.

Report for the Rupert Spira Session—January 13^th, 2019

Chapter 23—The Open, Empty, Transparent Body

In Attendance—Rick, Katherine, Charlene, Jim

In this morning’s audio, Rupert took us deep into the body in a profound contemplation meant to reveal that our experience, if we stay with it, shows us the way to realization. It is the realization that there is nothing there, inside or outside of us, but Pure Knowing, modulating itself as sensations, thoughts, feelings or perceptions.

If we take a stand as this Pure Knowing, he says, all we will know is that, our Self, the light of Pure Knowing, never ceases to be itself; never being, knowing or becoming anything other than itself.

This aligns with Krishnamurti’s teaching that the observer is the observed.

Krishnamurti Study Session
Sunday, January 6, 2019
Krishnamurti Educational Centre of Canada

Six people were in attendance for this morning session. The chapter for study was Q & A # 38 from J. Krishnamurti’s book The First and Last Freedom, entitled “On Transformation”. The questioner asked Krishnamurti “What do you mean by transformation?” K begins by affirming that there is obviously a critical need for a radical revolution given the state of the world. The difference in his approach is that the revolution must not be based on an idea, as has always been the case in the past – and which has never been effective. We usually think that a transformation must be a kind of ultimate event, but in this way we miss the actuality of seeing “what is” in the now, in this very moment, and being with it fully. The truth liberates, and truth is in perception of the false as the false from moment to moment. This perception releases the energy of love, without which revolution has no meaning.
As we read through the text questions and observations were raised in exploration of K’s concepts and the intention to directly understand what is being pointed to. The dialogue was focused and insightful, inviting a deeper understanding in the participants, who confirmed that the inquiry had been beneficial. We have now completed our study of this particular text and will move on to a group reading of The Book of Life, a collection of daily quotations from Krishnamurti’s talks and writings. The meetings are on a drop-in basis and all are welcome to attend at any time.