Krishnamurti Study Session at the Centre, May 19, 2018

Krishnamurti Study Session
Saturday, May 19, 2018

Five participants gathered at the Krishnamurti Educational Centre in Metchosin to study Q & A # 29, “Truth and Lie”, in the book The First and Last Freedom by J. Krishnamurti. It was a lovely day, enabling us to sit on the grass in front of the main building. The question posed to K was “How does truth, as you have said, when repeated, become a lie? Why is it wrong to lie? Is this not a profound and subtle problem on all the levels of our existence?” In responding, K begins with the first question and later moves on to the second. “Merely repeating certain ideas is not reality”, he points out. There is a radical difference between thought and direct experiencing and “one must be aware of oneself in the process of repetition, of habits, or words, of sensations. That awareness gives on an extraordinary freedom, so that there can be a renewal, a constant experiencing, a newness.”
As a group we explored the details and subtleties of K’s unravelling of the issue, going into his pointing that we not think in terms of the opposite but, rather, see what is actually happening. This has its own action on what is. There was a presence and intensity in the group which gave real substance to the inquiry.