Inquiry Sunday at KECC

Inquiry Sunday

Sunday, January 22, 2017

Nine people were present on Sunday morning for a video presentation of Mooji guiding a seeker through the process of self-inquiry. The particular interaction had been chosen because of its clarity and depth in dealing with the subject of looking into one’s own nature and thought processes. An intelligent and careful inquiry can reveal false assumptions being believed by “the mind” and obscuring the knowing of our pure Being. Are we not the awareness which perceives everything that arises, no matter what it is? Everything that we perceive is arising in a field of pure awareness which is what we essentially are. It needs no effort or practice to be realized, only the immediate looking at what is here as the ground of all experience. The participants were asked to put into one sentence the essence of what they had understood, something that could be easily remembered and “practiced”. The sharing that followed was interesting and very much to the point.

The afternoon session involved looking at some video clips of Krishnamurti answering questions from the audience at some of his talks. The first question was, “Is suffering necessary to make us face the necessity to change?” K explored the common assumption that suffering is noble and spiritual and went into the deeper causes of our suffering and the possibility of freedom from it. The second question we looked at was “What is enlightenment?’ K explored the issue from a few different perspectives, including enlightenment as understanding an aspect of our lives as well as understanding ourselves very deeply. He also asked who is to claim enlightenment and questioned the validity of such claims. The three participants who had stayed for the afternoon session engaged in some discussion of the questions, K’s responses to them and our own understanding of the issues.