Krishnamurti Study Session, December 15, 2019

Krishnamurti Study Session
Sunday, December 15, 2019
At KECC

There were just two of us present for this Sunday morning meeting. The book we are studying is The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti, and the selection was the January 31 entry entitled “Relationship is a Mirror”. Self-knowledge, K says, “comes into being when we are aware of ourselves in relationship, which show what we are from moment to moment.” If we can look at ourselves with “full attention”, without judgement or evaluation, then we will see that the mind can free itself of its conditioning and discover what is beyond the field of thought. And freedom lies only beyond: it is not within the realm of thought.
We explored deeply what K is saying in this chapter and touched on related aspects of self-observation which we have experienced in our process of self-discovery. What is “full attention”, and what prevents it from being present? What supports it? How is freedom “entirely different” from functioning within the field of thought? These and other questions kept us exploring and sharing for two hours.