Inquiry Sunday on Love

  Inquiry Sunday June 1, 2014     In the afternoon session of our Inquiry Sunday on June 1 eight people attended the showing of Krishnamurti speaking on “Love:  The Flame Without Smoke”.   It was a half hour video in the Evelyn Blau series “Beyond Myth and Tradition”.   The main thrust of K’s treatment of the subject was that to find out what love is we have to “negate” everything in us that is not love.  What remains is the “perfume” of love or compassion.   Love, in the sense that K is speaking of it,  is not personal,  not a phenomenon happening between a “me” and a “you”.   It is something much vaster and more significant. The video was followed by a short silence and an animated dialogue which revealed that people have varying ideas about love based on their different experiences and thoughts.   It seems the value of such group inquiry is not in coming to some agreement on a conceptual level but more in what the questioning process  may reveal to each one of us about ourselves, our assumptions, and our unexamined beliefs.  It seems more important to keep the questioning alive in oneself than to come to some conclusion in thought.  This can leave the door open to deeper insight or direct seeing.