Krishnamurti Study Session at the Centre, December 2, 2018

Krishnamurti Study Session
Sunday, December 2, 2018
Krishnamurti Educational Centre of Canada

The reading for this week was Q & A #37 in J. Krishnamurti’s The First and Last Freedom: “On the Confusion of the Mind.” The questioner asks, “I have listened to all your talks and I have read all your books. Most earnestly I ask you, what can be the purpose of my life if, as you say, all thought has to cease, all knowledge to be suppressed, all memory lost? How do you relate that state of being, whatever it may be according to you, to the world in which we live? What relation has such a being to our sad and painful existence?” Krishnamurti then goes into the importance of self-knowledge and self understanding which can open the door to the “other”, to the reality of love. Surely, he proposes, the meaning and purpose of existence is to go beyond the self-centred activity of the mind.
Our small group of three participants explored the subtleties of K’s responses to the question and shared a movement into a deeper sense of the truth that is being pointed to, with significant insights and perceptions. Our next meeting will be looking into the final chapter of the book. Our next text for study will be The Book of Life, a collection of daily meditations, which we will take up in the New Year.