Krishnamurti Study Session, August 18, 2019

Krishnamurti Study Session

Sunday, August 18, 2019

At KECC

The material for study this session was from The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti. Bill ran the meeting in my (David’s) absence and shared a brief report. Five people were in attendance as the January 22 entry entitled “Can I Rely on My Experience” was looked into, followed by the January 23 entry, “Self-Knowledge is a Process.” Krishnamurti questions whether our experience can be reliable given that it is conditioned by limited interpretations, ideas, and beliefs which we have assumed to be true without any deep understanding. Reality can only be known, K suggests, when there is an observation without the past and without “the analyzer.” The second selection focused on the significance of being aware in our daily relationships and the challenge of being alert to our responses and reactions. Group discussion of the pointings led to some exploration of “projection” and a number of issues related to self-knowledge which were found to be of interest as they arose in the reading and dialogue.