From Delusion to Awakening with GP Walsh, March 26 – 28, 2021
From Delusion to Awakening
With GP Walsh
March 26 – 28, 2021
Zoom Online
This was the third time GP has given a presentation at the Krishnamurti Educational Centre of Canada and the first one online. GP is a spiritual teacher from New York, now living in Seattle. He has been teaching inquiry and self-awareness for over thirty years and is the founder of the MasterHEART Institute and the creator of Inner Reconciliation. GP’s website explains the central points of his teaching. The path to awakening is twofold: the path of inquiry or wisdom and the path of compassion or heart. Both are necessary in order to both know the reality of your true being and to live it in everyday life. We are always our true self, but we do need to have our own unique personal realization of it. And it doesn’t stop there. Once the awakening begins to dawn we can begin to integrate that inspiration and wisdom into every detail of our lives. Thus we become the living truth.GP offers satsangs or contemplative gatherings every week on his website.
Thirty-seven people in total were in attendance for the three-day workshop entitled “From Delusion to Awakening”. Each of the three sessions was two hours in length and included a talk followed by a Q & A period. GP opened the first session on Friday morning with an acknowledgement of J. Krishnamurti’s status as a “giant” in the world of spirituality and a guided meditation in honour of K’s famous statement that “Truth is a pathless land.” He then discussed the essential points of self-inquiry as he understands it. Questions he asks include “Who am I?”, “Am I an object?”, “How can I know myself directly as the pure subject?”, “Can I know myself first-hand and not just as others see me?”, “What is Presence or Being made of?”, “What is ego: is it a thing? A problem?”
GP pointed out that we are learning to distinguish between what is true and what is false. Self-inquiry brings us to the point where there is no self-referencing. You are the ultimate without any definition – and not an object of perception. The truth is that which is not subject to perception, the one unchanging element. Using guided meditations and clear expositions, GP explored various aspects of the self-knowledge process, the end of which, he asserted, was the disappearance of all questions. Questions from the participants arose, however, in response to the talks and were dealt with in a skillful manner that involved an ever-deepening investigation of the issue being explored. Some of the ideas were no doubt challenging to participants but at the same time were of great value.
