Inquiry Sunday at the Centre

Inquiry Sunday
December 3, 2017

For our morning session we showed part of a talk by Jac O’Keefe at a recent Science and Nonduality Conference in Italy and a full talk given at SAND in San Francisco. The first talk, entitled “Trust and Spirituality”, dealt with the importance of trusting one’s own intuition and insight rather than giving authority to a teacher, book, or other source of information. We are all unique, with different issues and conditioning, and will have different experiences of the unfolding of our true nature. Noone can actually know what is the truth of our experience except ourselves. The second talk focused largely on the state of nondual teaching as Jac sees it. She questions the perspective of those who bypass the need to be fully with our conditioning and our emotional life, particularly with the use of concepts which tend to explain everything away. She also wonders if there should not be some way of evaluating the effectiveness of teachers in producing an awakening in their students. A number of teachers in the audience were very supportive of the necessity of facing our conditioning directly. The sound quality of the video was unfortunately not very good, but it gave some interesting material for group discussion amongst the four people in attendance.
In the afternoon we looked at a number of videos produced by the Krishnamurti Foundation of America with the intention of appealing to young people, and they therefore presented the teachings in a more modern context. Titles included “Understanding Yourself and the World,” “Who Am I?” and “Revolt.” They presented some of the basics of K’s teachings in a straightforward manner which we felt was quite interesting and useful.