Krishnamurti Study Session, April 21, 2108
This week’s text for study was from The First and Last Freedom by J. Krishnamurti, Q & A # 27, “On Naming.” We had finished half way through the chapter in our previous meeting. The focus is on the process of naming a feeling or an emotion and thereby reducing it to an abstraction. K invites us to be aware that we are usually looking from a “centre” which names and evaluates every experience and keeps us stuck in concepts and rigid ideas about ourselves and reality. When the process of naming is understood through observation, then the mind can perceive from silence and see things as they actually are. Then there is no longer a centre apart from thought. This opens the door to the “eternal.”
There were three of us in attendance. We went back and forth from the text to group inquiry of what was read and found the explorations to be interesting and fruitful. We looked into the question of what remains when we no longer identify as a centre or separate self and felt our way into actual experience as much as possible.